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Sep 07

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Want to feel connected? There’s a book for that.

By PBS News Hour

Books “make people who are not like us more human,” says Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation. She grew up loving books and their ability to make readers more empathetic to unfamiliar ideas and characters, even when…

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Aug 09

How a flood of antibiotics landed in your chicken

By Nsikan Akpan

In the book "Big Chicken," Maryn McKenna chronicles how humanity went from developing antibiotics to keep healthy to standing on the verge of an onslaught of unstoppable diseases.

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Jun 16

The 7 best books from indie publishers right now

By Elizabeth Flock

Books from independent publishers are often less easily surfaced or visible. Here are 7 terrific books from indie presses you may not know.

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Jun 09

10 things to read when you’re grieving

By Joshua Barajas

The NewsHour asked its staff for recommendations of books or poems that helped them survive a period of loss. In their own words, here are 10 possible reads for someone who's grieving.

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May 26

19 summer books that will keep you up all night reading

By Elizabeth Flock

It’s almost summer -- a time to catch up on missed readings, turn back to old favorites, and discover new ones. For the best summer reads, we turned two authors who own independent bookstores: Louise Erdrich, who owns Birchbark Books…

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May 12

I gave my mom the KFC romance novella. Here’s her review

By Joshua Barajas

She read the whole durn thing.

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Apr 15

The 8 books librarians can’t stop talking about right now

By Elizabeth Flock

For National Library Week, we asked the New York Public Library -- the largest library in the country and one of the most beloved -- what we should be reading right now.

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Apr 09

5 books for troubled times from this indie bookstore in Pakistan

By Elizabeth Flock

"The Last Word," an independent bookseller in Lahore, Pakistan, recommends five books that "celebrate the provocateur, the vilified, and the misunderstood."…

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Mar 03

5 books that will make you think about what it means to be human

By Elizabeth Flock

This week, we went to Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colorado for their thoughts on what to read. Here are five recommendations from the staff, who chose to focus on books that explore joy, inclusivity and the human condition.

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Feb 06

8 books on politics to read right now, from indie bookstore Politics & Prose

By Elizabeth Flock

This week, we went to our local independent bookseller, Politics and Prose, for their thoughts on what to read right now. Here are eight books -- both old and new -- recommended by the P&P staff, who chose to focus…

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