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What's a true summer 'beach read'?

What's a true summer 'beach read'?

Summer officially started last week, so Kerri Miller is asking:  What’s a true “beach read”?
by Kerri Miller

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Young love shines in the dark in this new story collection

Young love shines in the dark in this new story collection

Six best-selling Black YA authors pooled their talents for “Blackout,” a collection of linked stories about teens navigating life, love, and just getting to a party during a New York City blackout.
by Denny S. Bryce

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What resilience looks like for a queer Guyanese Indian poet

What resilience looks like for a queer Guyanese Indian poet

"Antiman" is a slur for gay men — poet Rajiv Mohabir reclaims it in his new memoir, which mixes poetry, song and prose in an investigation of his sexuality and his Guyanese Indian heritage.
by Jeevika Verma

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Forgiveness is a super power in Graham Norton's new novel

Forgiveness is a super power in Graham Norton's new novel

British talk show host Graham Norton is also an accomplished novelist — his latest, “Home Stretch,” follows the people of a small Irish town after a fatal car accident upends everyone's lives.
by Petra Mayer

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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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