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News Articles: book

The cover of Kin, a new novel by author Tayari Jones.

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  • Arts & Culture News

In her return to Atlanta, Tayari Jones' new novel 'Kin' explores family and friendship

Bestselling author and Emory professor Tayari Jones discusses how coming home to Atlanta reshaped her writing.

February 25, 2026
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By:
  • Pamela Kirkland
Searching the stacks at a Miami-Dade Public Library on July 19, 2023, in Miami.

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  • Book News & Features

Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

December 29, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Book Reviews

Joan Didion leaves one more piece of writing to faithful fans

Didion's book is an intimate chronicle of the author's struggle to help her daughter, even if it meant digging into her own long-unexamined neuroses.

April 22, 2025
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By:
  • Heller McAlpin

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  • Book Reviews

After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs

Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • John Powers
Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks

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  • Book Reviews

Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief

Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.

February 18, 2025
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By:
  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book News & Features

'The First State of Being' and 'Chooch Helped' win top children's book awards

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Killer Mike

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New book chronicles the origins and politics of rap duo Run The Jewels

Run The Jewels has built a cult following by capturing the discontent of the poor and the oppressed. A new book looks at the music the duo has created and the political landscape from which it emerged.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Neesha Powell-Ingabire is the author of the memoir, 'Come By Here'.

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  • Books

Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire reflects on her Geechee roots in new memoir

A new memoir by Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire is a reflection on slavery’s impact on the Georgia coast, her Geechee heritage, and the Geechee culture that exists today.

December 17, 2024
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Comedian and author Kate McKinnon with the cover of her new book.

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  • Books

Kate McKinnon's new middle-grade mystery is for all her fellow misfits

The SNL star says her new book is part of what she calls her “private mission to give a wink and a nod” to young people who might feel “different” — like she did — growing up.

October 04, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair

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  • Health

In 'The Unexpected,' Emily Oster tackles the emotional toll of difficult pregnancies

The economist made a name for herself using data to challenge the accepted rules of pregnancy. Now, she's returning to the topic with a book on how to navigate its complications.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Detrow
Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1917..

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  • News

New biography dives into the troubled life of literary 'genius' Carson McCullers

A new biography of renowned writer and Georgia native Carson McCullers takes a deep dive into the author's troubled life and brilliant mind.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Peter Biello
An illustration from his book <em>Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows</em>, by illustrator Rachel Moss. It depicts Juleus Ghunta and his teacher described in his Unsung Hero story.

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  • National

Growing up, he struggled to read. Then a young teacher saw his potential

Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up, he could barely read. That was until a teacher saw his potential.

April 15, 2024
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By:
  • Laura Kwerel and
  • Brigid McCarthy
Alexandra Tanner's debut novel centers two sisters in their 20s struggling with the love, anxieties and truths that they hold about each other.

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  • Books

'Worry' is a disturbing and honest picture of what it's like to be in your 20s

Alexandra Tanner's debut novel, Worry, centers two sisters in their 20s struggling with the love, anxieties and truths that they hold about each other.

March 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • and 1 more
A wildfire burns south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, near Highway 63 on Saturday, May 7, 2016. A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize.

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  • Book News & Features

The story of a devastating wildfire that reads 'like a thriller' wins U.K. book prize

John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World was awarded Britain's leading nonfiction book prize on Thursday in London.

November 17, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The Beastie Boys, as illustrated by Anny Yi in the children's book, "What Is Hip-Hop?" by Eric Morse

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  • Music Features

Atlanta Jazz Festival's Kids Zone promotes reading with giveaway of 'What is Hip-Hop'?

Hip-hop has been many things in its half century of existence, and "suitable for children" probably isn't what immediately comes to mind. But one book challenges that perception.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Sonia Murray
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