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Coastal Redwood Trees

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The strange underground economy of tree poaching

A new book dives deep into the fascinating criminal world of tree theft and efforts to combat it.

June 28, 2022
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  • Greg Rosalsky
<em>Lapvona</em>, by Ottessa Moshfegh

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  • Book Reviews

Life in the Middles Ages is more gross than engrossing in this ruthless novel

Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona follows the life of Marek, a 13-year-old peasant boy who lives in a cruel world of sadism and stink, cannibalism and self-flagellation.

June 27, 2022
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book Reviews

'Rogues' showcases Patrick Radden Keefe's preternatural gift for reading people

Keefe recognizes that we're all unreliable narrators of our own lives, and writes about his subjects with a keen sense of understanding.

June 27, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Schaub
A kindle e-book reader is pictured at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2015.

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  • Books

Authors are protesting Amazon's e-book policy that allows users to read and return

Authors say readers are exploiting Amazon's seven-day return policy by using Amazon like a library and returning books after reading them.

June 27, 2022
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  • Deanna Schwartz
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Fasten your seat belts, flight attendant-turned-novelist shares stories from the sky

T.J. Newman began writing the hijack thriller Falling while she was a flight attendant. She'd jot down ideas on paper napkins in the quiet moments on red-eye flights. Originally broadcast July 2021.

June 24, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
<em>Learning to Talk</em>

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  • Book Reviews

'Learning To Talk' focuses on growing up in mid-20th-century England

It's a testament to Hilary Mantel's brilliance as an author that even though the moments in these stories are subtle, the book somehow feels epic in its own way.

June 24, 2022
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  • Michael Schaub
Attempts to ban books in school districts around the country have increased in recent years. Now, some states are working on enacting laws to give politicians more power over public libraries.

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  • National

Some states are changing the laws that govern community libraries

At a time of concern about book banning, states are passing laws to tighten control over public libraries. The laws address how libraries are managed and some laws may open librarians to legal action.

June 23, 2022
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  • Jim Zarroli
Fourth-grader Lucy Kramer (foreground) does schoolwork at her home, as her mother, Daisley, helps her younger sister, Meg, who is in kindergarten, in 2020 in San Anselmo, Calif.

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  • Children's Health

Raising kids is 'Essential Labor.' It's also lonely, exhausting and expensive

In her book, author Angela Garbes makes the case that the work of raising children has always been undervalued and undercompensated in the U.S. Then came the pandemic, and everything got harder.

June 22, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
A dolphin's sense of echolocation allows it to coordinate efforts to hunt prey, see "through" other creatures and form three-dimensional shapes using sound.

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  • Animals

The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know

In his new book, An Immense World, science writer Ed Yong explores the diversity of perception in the animal world — including echolocation, magnetic fields and ultraviolet vision.

June 22, 2022
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

'An Immense World' dives deep into the umwelt of animals

Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong writes in a perfect balance of scientific rigor and personal awe as he invites readers to grasp something of how other animals experience the world.

June 21, 2022
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  • Barbara J. King
Julie Andrews sang "The hills are alive" in the film version of <em>The Sound of Music</em>, but Hammerstein's letters reveal that a much bigger Hollywood star had lobbied hard to play Maria.

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  • Books

Oh, what a beautiful archive: Oscar Hammerstein's letters reveal his many sides

A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.

June 20, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Julie Andrews sang "The hills are alive" in the film version of <em>The Sound of Music</em>, but Hammerstein's letters reveal that a much bigger Hollywood star had lobbied hard to play Maria.

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  • Books

Oh, what a beautiful archive: Oscar Hammerstein's letters reveal his many sides

A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.

June 20, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
GPB News NPR

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  • History

'On Juneteenth' historian examines the hope and hostility toward emancipation

Juneteenth celebrates the day slavery ended in Texas, June 19, 1865. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed studies the early American republic and the legacy of slavery. Originally broadcast May 25, 2021.

June 17, 2022
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Books

7 books to help you understand Jan. 6

To help guide you as findings from the Jan. 6 hearings emerge over the next few weeks, NPR has rounded up a list of books about the assault on the U.S. Capitol and the people and groups involved.

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • Maison Tran

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  • Book Reviews

In new edition of classic Watergate expose, Woodward and Bernstein link Nixon, Trump

50 years on, the authors profess amazement that another president came along willing to jettison whatever conscience he had, and whatever respect for the rule of law, in an effort to stay in office.

June 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ron Elving
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