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Books in the National March 2019
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A woman is no man : a novel by Etaf RumThree generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture. A first novel. Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 2, Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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The club by Takis WürgerA U.S. release of an international best-seller follows an outsider's deadly investigation into the dark secrets of a centuries-old, all-male dining club for the privileged elite and social climbers of Cambridge University. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 12
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Kaddish.com by Nathan EnglanderThe award-winning author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank presents a streamlined comic novel about an atheist son's creative refusal to say the requisite Jewish prayer for the dead for his late orthodox father. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Run away by Harlan CobenDiscovering their drug-addicted daughter playing guitar in Central Park, a desperate narrator follows the young woman into a dark and dangerous world of unspeakable evil. By the award-winning author of the Myron Bolitar series. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Where the crawdads sing by Delia OwensViewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces. Featured on CBS Sunday Morning, March 17
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The other Americans by Laila LalamiThe suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant impacts the lives of a diverse cast of characters including his jazz-composer daughter, an undocumented witness and an Iraqi War veteran. By the award-winning author of The Moor's Account. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Miranda in Milan by Katharine DuckettAfter the tempest, after the reunion, after her father drowned his books, Miranda was meant to enter a brave new world. Naples awaited her, and Ferdinand, and a throne. Instead she finds herself in Milan, in her father's castle, surrounded by hostile servants who treat her like a ghost. Whispers cling to her like spiderwebs, whispers that carry her dead mother's name. And though he promised to give away his power, Milan is once again contorting around Prospero's dark arts. Featured on NPR Books, March 24
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The border by Don WinslowPromoted by the DEA after a crucial victory, Art Keller is targeted by the power-hungry traffickers behind an American heroin epidemic. By the best-selling author of The Force. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 3
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Cheer up, Mr. Widdicombe : a novel by Evan JamesAn eccentric family in the Pacific Northwest experience dramas involving their son, who is nursing a broken heart after a trip abroad; their personal assistant, who begins dating a screenwriter; and a gardener who falls for a self-help author. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Devil's daughter : The Ravenels Meet the Wallflowers by Lisa KleypasFalling for a dashing stranger, the daughter of Lord St. Vincent and Evie Jenner is horrified to discover that he is the bully responsible for her late husband's boarding-school misery. By a New York Times best-selling author. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 2
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The old drift by Namwali SerpellThree generations of a cursed family traverse from India and Italy to England and ultimately a fantastical Zambia of the near future, where an interstitial Greek chorus of mosquitoes traces their vibrant human experiences as children, parents and grandparents. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 6
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Save me from dangerous men : a novel by Saul LelchukOperating a private-investigator business from an office above her bookstore, bibliophile and part-time vigilante Nikki Griffin becomes the target of dangerous adversaries when she breaks cover to save a woman's life. Featured in USA Today, March 18
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Gingerbread : a novel by Helen OyeyemiThe award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird draws on the classic fairy-tale element of gingerbread in the story of a British family whose surprising legacy and secret past are tied to a favorite recipe. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 9, Entertainment Weekly, March 18
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The last romantics : a novel by Tara ConklinA fictional poet describes the Connecticut summer when she and her siblings ran wild as the inspiration for her most iconic work. By the New York Times best-selling novel of The House Girl. Featured on Today Show: Read with Jenna, March 6
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The bird king by G. Willow WilsonFatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, and her friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker, risk their lives to escape when the latter is accused of sorcery. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 17
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Stay up with Hugo Best : a novel by Erin SomersA young writers' assistant on a late-night comedy show finds her life and perspectives transformed when she accepts an invitation from the program's enigmatic host to spend a long weekend at his Connecticut mansion. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Minutes of glory, and other stories : And Other Stories by Ngg wa Thiong'oA collection of short stories by the Kenyan writer covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the experience of independence and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States. Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 12
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The altruists : a novel by Andrew RidkerOn the brink of losing the family home, a Midwestern college professor and widower reaches out to his estranged children under the guise of a reconciliation, only to unleash a maelstrom of age-old resentments. Includes one diagram. A first novel. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 10
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Queenie by Candice Carty-WilliamsConstantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be. Featured in USA Today, March 18, Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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The Night Witches by Garth Ennis"As the German Army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against theinvader--but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies above the Eastern front, they will become a legend--known to friend and foe alike as the Night Witches. With casualties mounting and the conflict devouring more and more of her comrades, Lieutenant Anna Kharkova quickly grows from a naive teenager to a hardened combat veteran. The Nazi foe is bad enough, but the terrifying power of her country's secret police makes death in battle almost preferable. Badly wounded andexiled from her own people, Anna begins an odyssey that will take her from the killing fields of World War II to the horrific Soviet punishment camps--and at the top of the world, high above the freezing Arctic Ocean, the Night Witch finds she has one last card to play." Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 16
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The wolf and the watchman : a novel by Niklas Natt och DagA U.S. release of an award-winning first novel finds a disabled ex-soldier and a lawyer with tuberculosis combing the underworld of 18th-century Stockholm to unmask a ruthless murderer before a young workhouse laborer becomes a next victim. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 6
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A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself by William BoyleWhen Lucia discovers that Adrienne is planning to hit the road with her ex-boyfriend Richie, she figures Rena's her only way out of a life on the run with a mother she can't stand. But Richie has massacred a few members of the Brancaccio crime family for a big payday, and he drags even more trouble into the mix in the form of an unhinged enforcer named Crea. The stage is set for an explosion that will propel Rena, Wolfie, and Lucia down a strange path, each woman running from something and unsure what comes next.
A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself is a screwball noir about finding friendship and family where you least expect it, in which William Boyle again draws readers into the familiar--and sometimes frightening--world in the shadows at the edges of New York's neighborhoods. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 5
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The volunteer : a novel by Salvatore ScibonaThe abandonment of a child at an international airport is tied to the Vietnam War experiences of a restless recruit into a clandestine branch of the U.S. government. By the National Book Award finalist author of The End. Featured on NPR Book Review, March 11
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet GramesBelieved cursed in her rugged Italian village, a tough, intelligent teen protects her younger sister during World War II, enduring challenges that transform her views about survival and independence. A first novel. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Make me a city : a novel by Jonathan CarrA fanciful reinterpretation of 19th-century Chicago traces its rise from a frontier settlement to an industrial colossus through the stories of a bombastic speculator, a pioneering woman reporter and the city's unheralded founder. Featured in USA Today, March 18
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Evvie Drake starts over : a novel by Linda Holmes"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button. When Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house, the two make a deal: Dean won't ask about Evvie's late husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken--and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. But before they can find out what might lie ahead, they'll have to wrestle a few demons: the bonds they've broken, the plans they've changed, and the secrets they've kept. They'll need a lot of help, but in life, as in baseball, there's always a chance--right up until the last out". Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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The parade : a novel by Dave EggersSent to oversee the completion of a highway that symbolizes an important armistice between two halves of a war-torn state, two foreign contractors are forced to confront the absurdities and dire consequences of their roles in forging peace. Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 18
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The heavens by Sandra NewmanFalling in love with an otherworldly young woman over their shared progressive ideals, a young activist begins questioning his girlfriend's mental state when she reveals her increasingly pervasive visions about an alternate life in Elizabethan England. Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 2
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Featured on CBS This Morning, March 5
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Featured on CBS This Morning, March 18
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Horizon by Barry Holstun LopezThe National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams presents a lyrical, intellectual account of his world travels and the extraordinary encounters with people, animals and natural elements that shaped his life. Illustrations. Map(s) Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 20
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Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 22
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Losing Earth : a recent history by Nathaniel RichA groundbreaking account of the failures that prevented the world from committing to taking measures against climate change documents key negotiations against the backdrop of 1980s history while explaining what the choices of the past mean for today's world. Featured on NPR Books, March 25
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Funny Man : Mel Brooks by Patrick McGilliganA biography of a comic legend traces his life and career—from his childhood in Williamsburg tenements to becoming an actor, writer, and director responsible for such comedy classics as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an American life by Evan ThomasBased on exclusive interviews and access to archives, an authoritative portrait of America's first female Supreme Court justice includes coverage of her convention-breaking achievements and role in shaping decades of American law. By the best-selling author of Being Nixon. Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 15, CBS This Morning, March 19
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Educated : a memoir by Tara WestoverTraces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond. Featured on Ellen, March 14
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The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story by Cara RobertsonDraws on 20 years of research and recently discovered evidence in a revisionist account of the infamous Lizzie Borden trial that explores professional and public opinions while considering how Gilded Age values and fears influenced the case. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 14
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Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Cleo WadeThe popular social-media lifestyle personality shares creative inspiration and life lessons in a collection of illustrated poetry, mantras and affirmations, including fan favorites and previously unseen selections that explore how to overcome personal roadblocks to love, happiness and courage while spreading kindness to others. Featured on Today Show, March 7
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The path made clear : discovering you life's direction and purpose by Oprah WinfreyThe award-winning global media leader and philanthropist offers a guide for identifying one's purpose and creating a framework for a life that is both successful and meaningful, sharing inspirational quotes by some of today's most influential cultural figures. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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Holy envy : finding God in the faith of others by Barbara Brown TaylorThe award-winning author of An Altar in the World recounts her inspirational discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world's religions to undergraduate students in Baptist rural Georgia. Featured on NPR's Fresh Air, March 11
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Love you hard : a memoir by Abby MaslinThe founder of the Give to Care organization shares the inspiring story of how her husband and she navigated recovery and learned to love again in the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury. Featured on Today Show, March 11
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Spies of no country : secret lives at the birth of Israel by Matti FriedmanA meticulously researched chronicle of the Arab Section, Israel's first spy organization, details how undercover intelligence operatives in 1948 Beirut risked or lost their lives in support of Israeli statehood. By the award-winning author of Pumpkinflowers. Featured in NPR Book Reviews, March 7
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Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, March 4
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The uninhabitable earth : life after warming by David Wallace-Wells"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousandsof homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation". Featured on NPR Books, March 25
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Featured on CBS This Morning, March 4, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, March 20
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Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 13
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How to break up with your phone by Catherine PriceA science journalist describes the negative effects that constant connectivity has on human brains, bodies and relationships and encourages readers to identify goals and priorities in their lives and become more mindful of how they use their phones. Featured on Today Show, March 6
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An American summer : love and death in Chicago by Alex KotlowitzThe award-winning author of There Are No Children Here examines the humanity and brutality of Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods through a series of deeply intimate profiles that illuminate the firsthand realities of gun violence in today's America. Featured on NPR's Fresh Air, March 5
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Survival math : notes on an all-American family by Mitchell S JacksonThe award-winning author of The Residue Years examines the poverty, violence and drug culture impacting the Portland, Oregon community of his youth, examining the large and small cultural forces that shaped his family. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 5
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Sea People : The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina ThompsonExplores the origins of the Polynesian people, attempting to answer the questions about who founded and settled these remote Pacific islands in an era before writing or metal tools. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 13
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The Privileged Poor : How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham JackGetting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how--and why--disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive. The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors--and their coffers--to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to let them in? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. In their first weeks they quickly learn that admission does not mean acceptance. In this bracing and necessary book, Jack documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities, and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others. Featured on NPR's Morning Edition, March 5
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Hungry girl simply 6 : all-natural recipes with 6 ingredients or less by Lisa LillienLillien's 13th Hungry Girl cookbook collects fun, accessible recipes, each requiring six main ingredients. Avoiding excessive amounts of added sugar, starch, and sodium, Lillien creates lighter versions of carb-heavy classics: standouts include mushroom risotto prepared with cauliflower rice, spinach and artichoke z'paghetti (zucchini noodles), cookies and cream banana bites, and apple spice blender muffins. Powerhouse foods also make their way into several meat and poultry dishes, such as beefy cauliflower rice stir-fry, spaghetti squash chicken tetrazzini, and steak and avocado soft tacos. Desserts and baked goods like upside-down cheesecake, personal peach pies, and cannoli crunchers are enticingly on offer, although they often call for a "natural no-calorie sweetener" of one's choice. Alongside these recipes, Lillien generously includes valuable tips for her readers ("For recipes that call for sliced or chopped chicken, cut into your chicken breast before it completely thaws"). With each recipe clocking in under 350 calories per serving and requiring less than 30 minutes of prep time, this will be sure to please busy, health-conscious readers. Review from Publishers Weekly. Featured on Today Show, March 4
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Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 20
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Featured on Late Night with Stephen Colbert, March 18, NPR Book Reviews, March 19
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Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves by F. B. M. de WaalThe influential primatologist and best-selling author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? draws on renowned primate studies in an exploration of animal emotions that touches on such subjects as expressions, animal sentience and free will. Illustrations. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, March 1, NPR's Fresh Air, March 19
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Featured on NPR Book Review, March 4, Entertainment Weekly, March 29
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