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'The Emperor of Gladness' is a beautiful novel about hard work and found family

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia.

May 19, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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A filmmaker in Nazi Germany strikes a deal with the devil in 'The Director'

When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann's new novel draws on the true story of German film director G.W. Pabst.

May 08, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Author Eric Puchner's new novel, <em>Dream State,</em> is about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.

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New novel asks: How much can a male friendship take?

Eric Puchner's new novel, Dream State, was just named the latest Oprah book club pick. It's about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.

February 19, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong

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Secrets feed on time in the masterful novel 'Mothers and Sons'

Adam Haslett's compelling novel focuses on the strained relationship between an asylum lawyer and his mother. It's a beautiful appreciation of the all-too-human mess of life.

January 31, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
 <em>Death at the Sign of the Rook</em>

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A light-hearted murder mystery weekend turns deadly in Kate Atkinson's cozy thriller

Death at the Sign of the Rook is an expansive novel that pokes fun of baroque, classic murder mysteries — but also delivers a fully satisfying, all-the-pieces-click-together ending.

September 20, 2024
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  • John Powers
Author Stephen Hundley at GPB's studios in Atlanta.

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In 'Bomb Island' Stephen Hundley crafts a coming-of-age story on a Georgia barrier island

In Bomb Island, a teenager named Fish lives as the adopted son of island-dwellers who make their living running boat tours of the site where a nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped into the ocean decades ago.

May 30, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
<em>Sunshine Nails</em> by Mai Nguyen

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A complex immigrant family story lies beneath the breezy veneer of 'Sunshine Nails'

Mai Nguyen's debut novel centers on the family of Tuyet and Xuan Tran, Vietnamese refugees who settle in Toronto. It simmers with questions about work, class and generational divides.

July 06, 2023
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  • Ilana Masad

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Two new feel-good novels about bookstores celebrate the power of reading

Most novels set in bookshops are heartwarming paeans to bonds forged among readers. The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa are no exception.

July 05, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin
An archival postcard of the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C., where much of the novel <em>Even As We Breathe</em> is set.

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'Even As We Breathe': A First Novel From A Teacher Who Writes For Her Students

The book is a mystery of sorts, set at an upscale North Carolina resort during World War II. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle teaches at a high school with a student population that's 30% Native American.

November 22, 2020
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  • Neda Ulaby
Author Bettye Kearse joined Virginia Prescott for a virtual author talk series presented by the Atlanta History Center. They discussed her new book, "The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family."

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Author Dr. Bettye Kearse Challenges The Narrative Of Her Ancestry - Uncovering 'The Other Madisons'

James Madison was the fourth president of the United States, one of the founders of our country and author of the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution...

July 21, 2020
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jesse Nighswonger
Author Sue Monk Kidd joined Virginia Prescott for a virtual author talk series presented by the Atlanta History Center. They discussed Kidd's new novel, "The Book of Longings."

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Sue Monk Kidd’s 'The Book Of Longings' Imagines The Story Of Jesus’ Wife

Author Sue Monk Kidd was raised in a conventionally Baptist family in Sylvester, Georgia. Her memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter , follows her...

May 08, 2020
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jesse Nighswonger
"My Jasper June" tackles a wide range of issues for a younger audience: homelessness, addiction and domestic abuse.

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Laurel Snyder Explores Grown-Up Realities For Young Readers In 'My Jasper June'

Laurel Snyder has made a career of picture books and middle-grade novels that don't shy away from the facts of life. Her newest novel, My Jasper June ,...

September 05, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jesse Nighswonger

Pregnant And Uninsured In Rural GA: 'When Nighttime Shadows Fall'

Fifty years ago, babies in the U.S. were three times more likely to die before reaching a first birthday. And the problems driving infant and maternal...

January 26, 2018
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Emily Cureton

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