Three-Minute Fiction Reading: 'Plum Baby'
Sat, 18 May 2013 16:41:08 -0400
NPR's Susan Stamberg reads an excerpt of one of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. She reads Plum Baby by Carmiel Banasky of Portland, Ore.
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'Waiting To Be Heard' No More, Amanda Knox Speaks Out
Sat, 18 May 2013 16:41:00 -0400
Less than two months into her study abroad program in Italy, Amanda Knox was accused and eventually convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher. After her conviction was overturned, Knox returned home to Seattle — and now faces a potential retrial. Knox tells her story in a new memoir.
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Dan Brown: 'Inferno' Is 'The Book That I Would Want To Read'
Sat, 18 May 2013 05:13:00 -0400
Dan Brown, author of the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, is back with his first novel in four years. Inferno follows academic hero Robert Langdon on a chase through Italy as he attempts to avert a biological catastrophe.
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'That's That': A Memoir Of Loving And Leaving Northern Ireland
Sat, 18 May 2013 05:13:00 -0400
Colin Broderick's new memoir, That's That, chronicles his childhood in Northern Ireland during the modern-day "Troubles." Broderick says growing up in what was essentially a war zone seemed normal to him at the time.
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Author Elliott Holt Says: 'Go West, Young Woman'
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400
In this Q&A, author Elliott Holt discusses her six favorite novels about expatriates. She also talks about what it's like to be in your 20s, and the importance of travel and exploration.
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Plum Baby
Sat, 18 May 2013 06:19:00 -0400
There isn't enough time in this world to grow your own tree. That tree is a plum baby still, never mind it's tall as the house those men are taking from us. It grew up with me.
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'Picture Cook': Drawings Are The Key Ingredients In These Recipes
Fri, 17 May 2013 14:45:00 -0400
Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook offers 50 illustrated recipe "blueprints" for basic meals — from simple snacks to more hefty dishes like eggplant Parmesan. She hopes they'll inspire any level of cook to improvise in the kitchen.
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Resetting the Theory of Time
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
Generations of physicists have claimed that time is an illusion. But not all agree. In his book Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that time exists--and he says time is key to understanding the evolution of the universe.
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Insects May Be The Taste Of The Next Generation, Report Says
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says insects offer a huge potential for improving the world's food security. Peter Menzel, co-author of Man Eating Bugs, describes some insect-based cuisine and the western aversion to creepy-crawly snacks.
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When Great Scientists Got It Wrong
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
In Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein, astrophysicist Mario Livio explores the colossal errors committed by scientific greats, from chemist Linus Pauling's botched model of DNA, to Charles Darwin's failure to understand genetics--the very mechanism of natural selection.
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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of May 16, 2013
Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400
At No. 14, Mark Bittman's VB6 recommends eating a vegan diet until dinnertime.
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NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 16, 2013
Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400
The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.
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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of May 16, 2013
Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400
Appearing at No. 12, Paul French explores a British schoolgirl's murder in Midnight In Peking.
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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of May 16, 2013
Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400
Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in Charlaine Harris' Dead Ever After. It debuts at No. 4.
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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of May 16, 2013
Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400
Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel's tale of Anne Boleyn, arrives on the paperback list at No. 9.
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