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鈥楪oodnight Moon鈥�: 75 years in the great green roomDecades after its first publication, Margaret Wise Brown鈥檚 classic children鈥檚 book 鈥淕oodnight Moon鈥� still brings families together.
A voice that wouldn鈥檛 be ignored: Nellie Bly and the pursuit of truthA novel about journalist Nellie Bly expands on the facts about her courageous efforts to expose abuses in a mental health facility for women.聽
Speaking whale? Scientists are working on it.Humankind may be closer to communicating with whales than we think, writes Tom Mustill in 鈥淗ow To Speak Whale.鈥�
Sound advice: Audiobooks to thrill, delight, and spread hopeA quartet of outstanding audiobooks features the work of Simu Liu, Andy Weir, Louise Erdrich, and Anne Tyler. Their stories are laced with humor.
鈥業 put the students first鈥�: A public school librarian on book bansAs some parents push book bans, scrutiny extends to school staff. Yet school librarians like Martha Hickson defend their responsibility to students.
Truth be told: The 10 best books of August highlight honestyThe 10 best books of August convey the human desire for truth and justice, leavened by empathy and compassion.聽
Jim Thorpe ran track and played football. He tried to outrun racism.As a talented, multisport athlete, Jim Thorpe, a Native American, faced prejudice and condescension聽because of his race.
Can 鈥榚motional outsourcing鈥� fix failing romantic relationships?A summer beach read with humor and depth, 鈥淭he Fixer Upper鈥� asks, 鈥淲hat if women could outsource the emotional burden of 鈥榝ixing鈥� their partners?鈥澛�
The dedicated women behind the world鈥檚 first general-purpose computerKathy Kleiman writes a lively tribute to the female mathematicians who calculated ballistics trajectories for the U.S. military during World War II.聽
The best thing since Babe Ruth? How Shohei Ohtani is making history.Babe Ruth was renowned for both his hitting and pitching. Now, young baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani from Japan is following in the Babe鈥檚 footsteps.聽
A modern-day Huck Finn travels the Mississippi on a flatboatNo one thought journalist Rinker Buck would succeed in taking a flatboat from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. He proves them wrong in 鈥淟ife on the Mississippi.鈥�
Cover StoryWhat can a library card get you? Try a popcorn maker or ukulele.Public libraries, among America鈥檚 oldest institutions, find new relevance in shelves stocked with everything from telescopes to cheese warmers.聽
Where the Nile began: The perilous journey to seek the river鈥檚 sourceAn expedition to discover the Nile River鈥檚 origin was the 鈥淗oly Grail鈥� of 19th-century exploration, as聽Candice Millard鈥檚 鈥淩iver of the Gods鈥� shows.聽
Mohsin Hamid鈥檚 novel 鈥楾he Last White Man鈥� imagines a post-racial worldBritish Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid explores a provocative question: Can white supremacy persist, if no one is white any longer?聽
Survival tale 鈥楾he Wall鈥� pits a woman against strange forcesAustrian writer Marlen Haushofer鈥檚 survival novel tells the story of a woman trapped behind a strange, impenetrable wall in a Bavarian forest.聽
Bracing cultural criticism flows from the pen of Elaine CastilloProvocative and pointed literary criticism in 鈥淗ow to Read Now: Essays鈥� challenges people to become better, smarter, less Euro-centric readers.
How Sasha Alsberg stays true to herself in the romance genreSasha Alsberg, who has a half-million followers on social media, explains how she stays true to herself and how she wrote her novel 鈥淏reaking Time.鈥�
How 鈥楤ull Durham鈥� went from long shot to movie classicDirector Ron Shelton鈥檚聽鈥淭he Church of Baseball鈥� tells聽the story behind his most famous film 鈥� one of the most popular sports movies of all time.聽
Singer, dancer, pilot, spy: Josephine Baker鈥檚 wartime careerFame gave Josephine Baker a cover for espionage during World War II, when her frequent tours enabled her to smuggle secrets out of occupied France.聽
Giving Black women in pop music their due: Q&A with author of 鈥楽hine Bright鈥�Journalist and super fan Danyel Smith champions the role of Black women in pop music in 鈥淪hine Bright,鈥� which combines memoir with music history.聽
