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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�
From mystery to mastery: March鈥檚 10 best books thrill, intrigue, and satisfyMarch鈥檚 10 best books unfold mysteries both imagined and real, with probing explorations of ethical dilemmas as well as natural wonders.聽聽
First LookBiggest year in book bans leaves librarians exhausted, frustratedMore than 1,200 challenges to bookshelves were recorded in 2022, nearly double from 2021, according to a聽report released by the American Library Association. 鈥淭he last two years have been exhausting, frightening, outrage-inducing,鈥� said an ALA director.
Uyghur author Gulchehra Hoja: 鈥榃e are going to bloom again鈥�Journalist Gulchehra Hoja shares her powerful story of defiance and hope amid what she calls China鈥檚 鈥済enocide鈥� of its Uyghur Muslim population.
A Confederate spy plots to build the South鈥檚 navy with England鈥檚 help鈥淭he Lion and the Fox鈥� tells the history of a Confederate sympathizer dispatched to England to secretly build a fleet of ships, and the U.S. consul in Liverpool who was determined to stop him.聽
New chapter for racially diverse bookstores: Steady growth, wider reachBook-loving dreamers of color are opening an increasing number of new spaces for diverse stories and clientele.