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'Torched' and 'Wildfire Days' look at California's wildfires from the front lines
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Robinne Lee's 'Crash Into Me' portrays middle age as complicated – and sexy
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'Sex Diaries' author says people are becoming more empowered in their relationships
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In 'I Made You Up Inside My Head,' the stories of three strangers become intertwined
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Sen. Raphael Warnock argues that progressives should bring spirituality to politics
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Novels by Ben Reeves and Matt Haig look at life through the eyes of death (literally)
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'The Friend' author Sigrid Nunez is out with a new collection of short stories
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ESPN soccer correspondent Julien Laurens on why Kylian Mbappé is “wired differently”
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Author Tana French on the best summer reading set in Ireland
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Colson Whitehead on 'Cool Machine,' the final in his Harlem Trilogy series
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In 'The Great Wherever' and 'Country People,' city dwellers try out rural life
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Deb Haaland on 'A Voice Like Mine' and her candidacy for governor of New Mexico
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'The Delivery' is a horror novella about a family's mysterious AI assistant
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Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy on why he "stays up at night" worrying about politics
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In Celeste Ng’s new novel 'Our Missing Hearts,' a boy searches for his missing mother
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'The Shampoo Effect,' 'The Revelation of Dionne Daphne' are marked by big surprises
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Mary Beard's 'Talking Classics' examines our obsession with the ancient world
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Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on political censorship in the West
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Mike Pence's 'What Conservatives Believe' critiques the second Trump administration
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Jonathan Jakubowicz says he wanted to write a book Venezuelans couldn't resist
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'Kin' and 'When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky' fictionalize the Jim Crow South
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Eddie Glaude on the tension at the center of America's milestone birthdays
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Revisiting the story of the American Revolution with Rick Atkinson
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'America's Founding Son' documents John Quincy Adams' influential post-presidency
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Norah O'Donnell’s 'We the Women' pays tribute to U.S. history's female heroes
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What to read this summer, according to our NPR colleagues
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Judy Blume says she doesn't miss writing … but she’s very glad she wrote
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In 'Names Have Been Changed,' a criminal on the run confesses her story on a podcast
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A new book argues Elon Musk is the architect of a new world view
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Tom Perrotta’s novel 'Ghost Town' revisits a New Jersey childhood from a bygone era
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New biographies recount how The Rolling Stones and Soundgarden changed rock music
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Laverne Cox on her childhood, 'Walden' and her new memoir 'Transcendent'
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In 'The Jellyfish Problem,' an introverted scientist is called in to help an island
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Sen. Chris Murphy wants the left and right to fix the country’s 'spiritual rot'
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In 'Contrapposto,' the meaning of love and the meaning of art go hand-in-hand
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Two romance books give opposite takes on love, relationships and the absence of both
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In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its future
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'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams'
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R.F. Kuang says there’s 'quite a lot' of herself in 'Katabasis' protagonist Alice
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Theo Baker delves into power and corruption at Stanford in 'How to Rule the World'
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Ann Patchett’s 'Whistler' and 'Tom Lake' are novels written with love in mind
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'A Pair of Aces' is about two women who face down the mob in 1930s New York
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In 'Keeper of My Kin,' Ada Ferrer struggles with being her mother's "chosen one"
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Maggie O'Farrell's novel 'Land' takes readers to a famine-ravaged yet resilient Ireland
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In 'View From the East Wing,' Jill Biden reflects on the debate that changed history
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Two new books ask: What would you do if you encountered alien life?
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'Big Fan' investigates fandom from darts and football to Taylor Swift
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Ben Crump says 'Worse Than a Lie' is a legal thriller wrapped in Black culture
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In 'Mother Tongue,' author Sara Nović examines deaf history, and writes her own
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ABC News' Martha Raddatz on 'The Hero Next Door,' her collection of veterans’ stories
