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Book News: Kim Jong Un Reportedly Gave 'Mein Kampf' As Gifts
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:56:00 -0400
Also: The folly of marathon readings; Tom Wolfe has a new book; VICE apologizes for tasteless photo spread.
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A Family's Secrets And Sorrows Surface In 'Heatwave'
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:00:00 -0400
Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, Instructions for a Heatwave, follows a troubled Irish Catholic family in London over the course of four scorching July days in 1976. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Heatwave is a beautiful book about "the importance of forgiving those you love."
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Reader Advisory: 'Shining Girls' Is Gruesome But Gripping
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:00:00 -0400
Lauren Beukes' new thriller The Shining Girls traces a time-traveling serial killer as he jumps through the decades, pursued by the only one of his victims to survive. Critic Alan Cheuse calls the book "a frightening journey in time and punishment."
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Books Your Kid Might Give Up Video Games To Read
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:00 -0400
It's finally summer and for many kids that means swimming, video games and vacations. But a lot of parents hope their kids will to do some extra reading during the break. Host Michel Martin is joined by three moms in the literary world with summer book suggestions
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Book News: VICE Draws Ire By Staging Female Author Suicides
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:14:00 -0400
The anonymous book sculptor of Edinburgh strikes again; the childhood drawings of E.E. Cummings; Jonathan Franzen on literary sexism.
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The Funny (Touching, Fascinating) Pages: 5 Comics For Summer
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:00 -0400
When's the last time you read a comic book? Here are five for summer, covering everything from tiny Finnish critters to Viennese punk rockers and musings on Anna Wintour. Writer Myla Goldberg says they represent a golden age in comic art.
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Spy Reporter Works Her 'Sources' To Write A Thriller
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:08:00 -0400
Mary Louise Kelly used to cover national security for NPR, but lately she's turned her attention to fiction. Her new novel, Anonymous Sources, draws on Kelly's own reporting experiences, including things she couldn't say when she was a journalist.
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Digital Scrapbook Collects Rock-Star Authors' Memories
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:41:00 -0400
If any story screams out for a multimedia e-book treatment, it's the tale of The Rock Bottom Remainders, a small band of best-selling authors — including Amy Tan, Dave Barry and Stephen King — who yowled out rock standards. Hard Listening is a digital scrapbook about their years as musicians.
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A Deceptively Simple Tale Of Magic And Peril In 'Ocean'
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:00:00 -0400
Neil Gaiman's latest, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is the story of an artist who returns to his childhood home and recalls a magical struggle he was involved in as a young boy. Reviewer Annalee Newitz says the book balances "frenetic action with wistful self-knowledge."
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'Cows Save The Planet': Soil's Secrets For Saving The Earth
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:45:00 -0400
Journalist Judith Schwartz believes that the key to addressing carbon issues and climate change lies beneath our feet. In her book Cows Save The Planet, she argues that proper management of soil could solve a long list of environmental problems.
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WWII 'Deserters': Stories Of Men Who Left The Front Lines
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:42:00 -0400
In his new book, journalist Charles Glass explores the little-known history of thousands of American and British soldiers who deserted during World War II. Glass describes how the strain of war can push a soldier to the breaking point — and how the line between courage and cowardice is never simple.
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In 'TransAtlantic,' The Flight Is Almost Too Smooth
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:42:00 -0400
Colum McCann won the National Book Award for his 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin, about a high-wire artist. Critic Maureen Corrigan says McCann's new novel, TransAtlantic, also has its head in the clouds.
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Book News: 'Tweet,' 'Geekery' Make The Oxford English Dictionary
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:31:00 -0400
Also: Judy Blume gets her own holiday; Michael Chabon considers the superhero costume; the best books coming out this week.
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June 17-23: 1980s Edinburgh, 1590s Venice And A Study Of Dishonesty
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:00:00 -0400
In softcover fiction, Irvine Welsh gives us a prequel to Trainspotting, and Regina O'Melveny tells the story of a 16th-century Renaissance woman. In nonfiction, Dan Ariely discovers what keeps us dishonest.
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In Neville's Thrillers, Belfast's Violent Past Still Burns
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:57:00 -0400
The capital of Northern Ireland is no longer the city of snipers that it was before the Good Friday Agreement, but novelist Stuart Neville still draws inspiration from the decades of violence. In The Ghosts of Belfast, he examines the shattered life of an IRA killer in the aftermath of The Troubles.
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