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'Mom Genes' aims to examine biological transformations of motherhood

'Mom Genes' aims to examine biological transformations of motherhood

Abigail Tucker's descriptions of how radically women may change at the time of motherhood — and, as an extension, how this might affect their ability to focus on other things — gets pretty harrowing.
by Barbara J. King

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Witches Steeped in Gold' is a Jamaican-inspired YA fantasy   

Ask a Bookseller: 'Witches Steeped in Gold' is a Jamaican-inspired YA fantasy   

Kalima Desuze of Café con Libros in Brooklyn, N.Y., recommends a Jamaican-inspired YA fantasy novel that just hit the shelves on April 20: “Witches Steeped in Gold” by debut author Ciannon Smart.
by Emily Bright

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Comic: Bringing the library home during the pandemic

Comic: Bringing the library home during the pandemic

It's been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: educate students in entirely new ways, amid the backdrop of a global pandemic. This week takes us to a librarian and a bus driver.
by Eda Uzunlar

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Cheap, legal and everywhere: How food companies get us 'hooked' on junk

Cheap, legal and everywhere: How food companies get us 'hooked' on junk

Reporter Michael Moss says processed foods can be as alluring in some ways as cocaine or cigarettes. His new book explains how companies keep us snacking by appealing to nostalgia and brain chemistry.
by Dave Davies

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Embarrassed by your parents? 'Watercress' explores that universal kid experience

Embarrassed by your parents? 'Watercress' explores that universal kid experience

In the new book “Watercress,” a girl is initially ashamed when her immigrant parents stop the car to forage for watercress by the side of the road — until she learns more about her family's history in China.
by Samantha Balaban

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'Curb' uses poetry to scrub at the wounds of Anti-Asian racism

'Curb' uses poetry to scrub at the wounds of Anti-Asian racism

Divya Victor's new book is a compilation of poems, memories, histories and essays, considering domestic terrorism against Asian Americans, in urgent words that spill out on the page like blood.
by Jenny Bhatt

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On Netflix, Leigh Bardugo's 'Shadow and Bone' celebrates a diverse Grishaverse

On Netflix, Leigh Bardugo's 'Shadow and Bone' celebrates a diverse Grishaverse

"I never want people to feel like fantasy and romance and magic and adventure belong to just one kind of person," the fantasy author says. A new Netflix series is adapted from her works.
by Michel Martin and Kalyani Saxena

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