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Kids, Kids, Kids
It has been a terrific year for young people’s literature. This week, The Center’s expert children’s bookseller, Ann Rollins...
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A Cabinet of Curiosities
The holiday festivities are beginning but there are still 2022 books we don’t want to miss. Here we highlight voices from Spain, Canada and...
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Food, Glorious Food!
With Thanksgiving coming this week and more holidays around the corner, most of us are thinking about the wonderful food we are going to cook and eat
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Empathetic Literature
This week we hear from writers who bring the world to us with passion and compassion in fiction and nonfiction. In addition to including new books...
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It's So Emotional
This grouping taps into emotional relationships—with family, friends, faith, food and life itself. We hear from a prolific Southern American...
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Prize-Worthy Fiction
There are four authors this week who have been recently acknowledged by the prestigious Booker Prize. The fifth is a special treat—a previously...
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What's on Your Mind?
Three works of literary nonfiction are in the spotlight this week, along with a prize-winning Scandinavian writer who has been gaining a deserved...
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Fall's Harvest
This week we offer an epic novel of the American South, stories that illuminate the absurdity of contemporary life, a glimpse into the making...
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Creature Discomforts
Often, getting out of your comfort zone enhances the pleasures of reading. This week two oversized creatures are featured, as well as (possibly)...
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Whale of a Tale
A ‘whale of a story’ means a great amount of a good thing and this week we have five novels that fit the description, including two featuring whales