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Julia Child, Jane Austen, and sleuths of a certain ageIn need of some armchair travel? Curl up with spring鈥檚 new mysteries where adventure abounds in San Francisco, Paris, and England.
鈥楥urveball鈥�: When spiritual skepticism leads to sturdier faithWhen his long-held religious assumptions no longer held up, Peter Enns took a deep dive into 海角大神ity. He surfaced with a more expansive faith, chronicled in 鈥淐urveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming.鈥澛犅�
Nyani Nkrumah on racism: 鈥業t鈥檚 so difficult to break these chains鈥�Nyani Nkrumah explores racism and colorism in her debut novel, 鈥淲ade in the Water.鈥� Her findings upend traditional thinking on the topic.
How an MIT scientist paved the way for women in scienceIn 1999, women in science celebrated a major victory when MIT admitted to gender discrimination and became a pacesetter for equality. Kate Zernike recounts the inspiring story in, 鈥淭he Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science.鈥�
How virtuosos are made: Behind the mystery of masteryBy trying to learn to draw, dance, and drive, New Yorker Editor Adam Gopnik unlocks the secret to learning, and mastering, a new skill in 鈥淭he Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery.鈥澛�
Matthew Desmond has a message: US poverty is immoralWhy does the richest country in the world have so much poverty? Matthew Desmond argues that ending poverty in the United States is a moral choice.
Romance author Emily Henry: Rom-com 鈥榟elps you believe in life again鈥�Romance novels are often denigrated, but author Emily Henry makes a case for a genre based on hope. She says, 鈥淚t鈥檚 something that ... helps you believe in life again.鈥澛�
10 best books of April: The courage to look under the surfaceThe reading life is an inspired one. And this month鈥檚 books bring empathy, courage, insight, and a new work highlighting an extraordinary life that should never have been forgotten.
Are you there book lovers? It鈥檚 me, Margaret.What makes a young adult novel that deals honestly with puberty endure across generations of women?聽
With April showers, poetry flowers: Three vibrant collectionsCelebrate National Poetry Month with three vibrant new books of poems that broaden and deepen the landscape of poetry.
Reviving woolly mammoths and a mom鈥檚 relationship with her daughtersWomen in science are trending in fiction as well as nonfiction. In the novel 鈥淭he Last Animal,鈥� a paleobiologist and her teenage daughters travel to Siberia to revive woolly mammoths.聽
National Poetry Month: This library quenches the thirst for verseNational Poetry Month comes once a year, but the Sims Poetry Library in diverse South Los Angeles provides access to the joy of verse every day.
Brilliant, prescient, troubled: The man behind Cold War containmentAs the architect of U.S. Cold War policy toward the Soviet Union, George F. Kennan believed his ideas had been badly misinterpreted. A powerful new biography probes a complex and often tormented man.聽
Sci-fi novel 鈥楥old People鈥� explores ethics of human bioengineeringAfter aliens banish humans to Antarctica, scientists develop a new breed of children who are super-adapted to frigid conditions in Tom Rob Smith鈥檚 dystopian novel 鈥淐old People.鈥澛犅�
Grief and resilience: Lessons from Emerson, Thoreau, and JamesThe three 19th-century American thinkers transmuted grief and loss into works of great power and eloquence, which speak to modern-day audiences.聽
Two white abolitionists discover Black family members. Complexity ensues.Kerri K. Greenidge explores the complicated legacy of the Grimkes, white abolitionist sisters whose Black nephews were subjected to their aunts鈥� conflicting motives and expectations.聽
The case for cancel culture: A millennial journalist鈥檚 takeIn 鈥淭he Case for Cancel Culture: How this Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All,鈥澛爉illennial journalist Ernest Owens argues that without cancel culture, marginalized people don鈥檛 have a voice.聽
Protecting female protesters during Egypt鈥檚 Arab Spring revolutionActivist Yasmin El-Rifae helped rescue women from sexual assault during Arab Spring protests in Egypt. She talks about her book 鈥淩adius,鈥� which confronts the issue of women鈥檚 safety.聽聽
鈥榃ilderness Tales鈥� unfolds short stories with a sense of placeCollected stories about the wild, uncharted frontiers of North America expand to include everything from classic nature tales to dystopian climate fiction.聽
First Black presidential candidate: How Shirley Chisholm paved the wayShirley Chisholm blazed the trail for generations of Black Americans in politics. A new biography takes a deeper look at the 鈥渂rilliant strategist, inventive intellectual, and flawed human.鈥澛�
