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Animal Month on Big Books and Bold Ideas wouldn’t be complete without an encore presentation of a conversation host Kerri Miller had last year with award-winning science journalist Ed Yong. His book, “An Immense World,” looks at how different animals see the world, based on their unique sensory abilities.

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir “Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.”

Evelyn Bauer of Papercuts Bookshop recommends “The Poetics of Wrongness” by poet Rachel Zucker. She challenges outdated paradigms of motherhood, feminism and poetics.

Animal Month continues on Big Books and Bold Ideas. This week, host Kerri Miller talks with veterinarian Karen Fine. Her new book, “The Other Family Doctor,” is a tribute to the furry, fuzzy, feathery and sometimes scaly creatures we include as members of the family.

Animal Month continues on Big Books and Bold Ideas. This week’s blast from the past is a 2006 conversation host Kerri Miller had with underwater wildlife photographer David Doubilet.

The latest novel by Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld may center on a weekend late night live comedy show, but it delves deep into the human condition.

Briana Loewinsohn's graphic novel presents a fully developed internal, and external, landscape without leaning heavily on words. It's a sophisticated exploration of the weight adults carry around.

The novel is a fairly direct retelling of “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens, set in the 1980s in Appalachia — familiar territory for rural Kentucky-born Kingsolver.

April is Animal Month on Big Books and Bold Ideas, a series of conversations about our relationship with animals and our shared space in this world. We begin with an animal whose history and presence is entwined with the human psyche — wolves.

Two local artists — author Lynette Reini-Grandell and musician Venus de Mars — share their story of transitioning, resilience, and advocacy, now captured in a new memoir, “Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story,” out now from Minnesota Historical Society Press.