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Brit Barron's new book is a guide on maintaining relationships in a polarized world
We live in a time where it can be difficult to maintain good relationships with people with opposing views. While writing her new book, Do You Still Talk to Grandma?, Brit Barron saw everyone around …
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
With 'Mystical Lotería,' Yvette Montoya reimagines a traditional Latino party game
Author Yvette Montoya didn't grow up playing Lotería, but she discovered the classic Latino party game in college. There, she fell in love with Lotería itself, but also the vibrant art and imagery of…
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A parenting book by author Kelley Coleman focuses on the care of disabled children
Parents of disabled children are responsible for navigating a number of complex systems, from educational services and accommodation to medical care. Author Kelley Coleman, whose son has an undiagnos…
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A shocking discovery follows an artist's death in Paula Hawkins' 'The Blue Hour'
Author Paula Hawkins is best known for her 2015 novel The Girl on the Train. Her new book, The Blue Hour, is also a thriller, this time set on a remote but idyllic Scottish island. The novel focuses …
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'Tías and Primas' and 'Linguaphile' are new nonfiction books on family and language
Two new nonfiction books blend research and memoir to explore ideas of family, language and culture. Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's Tías and Primas draws on her experience being raised in a large N…
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'Big Jim and the White Boy,' a new graphic novel, reinterprets a Mark Twain classic
Since its publication in 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been celebrated as one of the great American works of literature. But the novel has also been criticized for how Mark Twain stereotyp…
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Stanley Tucci records 12 months of eating in his food diary 'What I Ate in One Year'
Stanley Tucci of Searching for Italy and The Devil Wears Prada fame loves food—especially the comforting taste of home-cooked Italian cuisine. But in 2017, when Tucci was diagnosed with oral cancer, …
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In Winsome Bingham's 'The Walk,' a community bands together to head to the polls
Author Winsome Bingham was raised in a community that gathered together to vote. But as a kid, she didn't realize how important this practice was to her life. Illustrator E.B. Lewis had a different c…
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Bob Woodward's new book 'War' invites readers into a world of back-channel diplomacy
It's been 50 years since the publication of All the President's Men, but journalist Bob Woodward says he hasn't changed his approach to political reporting. His new book, War, aims to bring readers a…
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'Patriot' is a posthumous memoir by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, died in a Siberian prison this past February–and in his diary entries, Navalny wrote that he knew he might not make it out alive. Those diaries are part…
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