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You don't have to be a complete nerd to love this novel ... but it helps

You don't have to be a complete nerd to love this novel ... but it helps

Carrie Vaughn is a veteran science fiction and fantasy author who puts her years in the scene to good use in this rollicking tale about a high-tech fantasy theme park (think “Westworld”) gone wrong.
by Jason Heller

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A woman is committed to an asylum for thinking in 'The Woman They Could Not Silence'

A woman is committed to an asylum for thinking in 'The Woman They Could Not Silence'

In a new book, “The Radium Girls” author Kate Moore follows the struggles of Elizabeth Packard who, locked up by her husband in 1860 for having opinions and voicing them, finds she's not the only one.
by Annalisa Quinn

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From poverty to Stanford, memoir tells a physicist's remarkable tale

From poverty to Stanford, memoir tells a physicist's remarkable tale

“A Quantum Life” is an important book to help understand the institutional hurdles that have kept science mostly white and male — and how the fire of inquiry can take root in a heart and lift it up.
by Adam Frank

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Ibram X. Kendi recommends 6 books to help your kids understand race

Ibram X. Kendi recommends 6 books to help your kids understand race

Ibram X. Kendi has been reading a lot of books about "the human rainbow" to his daughter — so we asked him to recommend some books kids can read to gain a better understanding of race in America.
by Steve Inskeep

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Author Michelle Singletary on managing your money during times of crisis

Author Michelle Singletary on managing your money during times of crisis

Host Angela Davis talks to Michelle Singletary, award-winning author, Washington Post columnist and frequent commentator on CNN and other national news networks about her latest book, “What to Do With Your Money When Crisis Hits.” 
by Angela Davis

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A fresh look at the intent of the Second Amendment

A fresh look at the intent of the Second Amendment

In her new book, historian Carol Anderson says the Second Amendment is more about keeping guns away from Black people than enshrining a right to bear arms in the U.S. Constitution.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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A Father's Day gift from Meghan to Harry is now a kids' book

A Father's Day gift from Meghan to Harry is now a kids' book

For Prince Harry's first Father's Day, the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan, got him a bench — and wrote a poem about the moments she hoped her husband and their son would share together there. It’s now the basis for a children's book.
by Samantha Balaban

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