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Top 10 NPR Book Picks from 2021 |
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Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies
by Derek DelGaudio
The creator of In & Of Itself describes how he became aware that he was raised by con artist parents and had played a role in a major deception, a realization that challenged him to reevaluate his sense of morality.
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China Room
by Sunjeev Sahota
In 1929 rural Punjab, Mehar and her new sisters-in-law are locked at work in the family’s “china room,” while trying to figure out which of three brothers is her new husband, setting off events that impact a descendent in 1999.
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The Chosen and the Beautiful
by Nghi Vo
Treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, Jordan Baker, queer and Asian, has the world of illusion, magic and mystery at her fingertips but the most important doors remain closed to her until she can figure out a way to open them.
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Goldenrod: Poems
by Maggie Smith
The award-winning poet and best-selling author of Keep Moving offers a new collection of poems that explore the actions of daily life and reflect on parenthood, solitude, love and memory.
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No Gods, No Monsters
by Cadwell Turnbull
When creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, setting off a chain of seemingly unrelated events, people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase and protests erupt globally—until the world finds out what has frightened the monsters out of the dark.
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On Fragile Waves
by E. Lily Yu
Growing up on their parents’ mythical stories about the opportunities of Australia, a girl and her brother travel from war-torn Pakistan through temporary homes in Indonesia and Nauru, before government indifference challenges their dreams.
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Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
by Alexis J. Hall
Rosaline Palmer is just barely holding her life together. Her paycheck might as well be parchment paper, her house is falling apart, and help from her parents is always served with a generous slice of disappointment and judgment. And the cherry on top? Now her daughter's school is charging all sorts of outlandish extra fees for trips that Rosaline can't afford. But where there's a whisk there's a way. . . and Rosaline has just landed a place on the nation's favorite baking show. Winning the prize money could change everything, but more than collapsing trifles stand between Rosaline and sweet, sweet victory.
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Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem
by Kliph Nesteroff
From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy.
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
by Natsuko Imamura
Exploring envy, loneliness, power dynamics and the vulnerability of unmarried women, this novel of suspense follows the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan as she becomes dangerously obsessed with the Woman in the Purple Skirt, whom she befriends in an attempt to get close to her.
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