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3 powerful new poetry collections Three new poetry collections celebrate verse 鈥� and life 鈥� in rich and varied voices.
Toni Morrison discusses 'skin privilege' in recent interviews about 'God Help the Child'In one interview Morrison said that "when a white teenager is shot in the back by a cop running away ... we'll know something about race."
'This Present Moment' shares poet, environmentalist Gary Snyder's personal insightsSnyder's new work focuses on the here and now.
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'The Little Prince': An upcoming adaptation gets another trailerThe new adaptation of the classic book includes the voice work of actors Jeff Bridges, Marion Cotillard, and James Franco.
4 extremely funny audiobooks With mud, rain, taxes, and chilly nights, the spring can sometimes be quite cruel. So let鈥檚 have a laugh. All titles were downloaded from www.audible.com.- How much do you know about French literature? Try our quiz!
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Banned Books Week 2015 will center on young adult titles'These are the books that speak most immediately to young people, dealing with many of the difficult issues that arise in their own lives, or in the lives of their friends,'聽Judith Platt, chair of the Banned Books Week national committee, said of challenged YA books.
'Swan Song 1945' illustrates war-time suffering using ordinary German voicesAs part of a 35-year project, Walter Kempowski brought together bits and pieces of German diaries, letters, and autobiographies.
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Queen Victoria's children's book will be released this summerThe Royal Collection Trust will publish a children's story written by the monarch when she was a young girl.
We always knew it 鈥� 'Harry Potter' books really do cast spellsBritish scientists say their research confirms that emotion-charged passages in 'Harry Potter' books have significant impact on the brains of readers.
Jon Krakauer's 'Missoula,' about alleged campus rape, draws critical praiseReviewers are calling the book 'meticulously reported' and 'the right book at the right time.'
Bestselling books the week of 4/26/15, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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'In Montmartre' tells a compulsively readable story of 20th-century artSue Roe travels to Paris to track the birth of modernist art 鈥� one of the most interesting tales in all of art history.
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev: What were they thinking?Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen suggests that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have seen terrorism as 'a shortcut to greatness.' As a terrorist, 'You can go from being a nobody to declaring war on a great country,' says Gessen.
'A Wrinkle in Time': A cut passage is publishedFans of the classic science fiction novel recently got a look at a section of the book that was taken out before publication. 'Wrinkle' won the Newbery Medal.
Pulitzer Prize 2015 winners include 'All the Light We Cannot See,' 'The Sixth Extinction'Monitor staff named 'Light' as one of the best books of 2014.
'Natchez Burning' author Greg Iles discusses 'The Bone Tree,' the twist-filled sequelIles's new book, 'The Bone Tree,' includes an investigation into the JFK assassination. 'If Oswald did not act alone, then I would say there鈥檚 a 95% chance that a conspiracy of the size and type that I laid out in this book is the most likely thing to have happened,' Iles says.