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Video: Alexander McCall Smith On Isabel Dalhousie's Moral Code

Read an Excerpt | Download the Reading Group Guide Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction’s most richly developed amateur...

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Watch a Short Film Based on The Flame Alphabet

Read an Excerpt | Author Q&A In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. When the sound...

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Video: Harry Belafonte Talks About My Song

Read an Excerpt | Read Praise An eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, My Song by Harry Belafonte tells the inspiring story of a startlingly original and...

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Video: Watch Toni Morrison Read From Her New Novel, Home

Read an Excerpt | Download the Reading Group Guide From Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, comes a searing new novel called Home. Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s...

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Video: Jo Baker Discusses Longbourn and Pride and Prejudice

Longbourn is Jo Baker’s unique below-stairs answer to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Taking the plot of the Regency classic as a framework, she imagines the untold stories of the Longbourn...

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Video: The Inspiration Behind Cristina Henríquez’s Unknown Americans Project

Cristina Henríquez’s acclaimed novel The Book of Unknown Americans gives voice to immigrants—people like her father, who came to this country from Panama in 1971—and offers us a new look at what it...

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Cristina Henríquez Talks About Love, Home, and Why She Wants to Break Your Heart

At the center of Cristina Henríquez’s novel The Book of Unknown Americans is a classic story: two teenagers—Mayor and Maribel—fall in love and find in each other a sense of belonging that they’ve never...

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Video: Richard Flanagan on His World–Renowned Novel

Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize, Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a contemporary literary masterpiece that deals with the epic themes of love, war, and truth. NPR’s Alan...

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Thomas Hardy’s Most Independent Heroine Appears in a New Adaptation

Thomas Vinterberg, director of the Academy Award®–nominated film The Hunt, revives Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Far from the Madding Crowd, the story of a proud rural beauty and the three men courting...

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The Fact and Fiction of Back Channel

In Robert Dallek’s authoritative biography of the thirty-fifth president, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963, he discloses Kennedy’s affair with a nineteen-year-old White House intern. The...

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The Hindenburg Soars Once More in Flight of Dreams

Described as “an enthralling nail-biter” by People, Ariel Lawhon’s latest work of historical fiction, Flight of Dreams, packs an emotional punch. Set during the Hindenburg’s final, doomed voyage,...

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The Power of Friendship: A Q&A with Christopher McDougall

Christopher McDougall’s latest book Running with Sherman is pure, feel-good fun. It tells the story of how Chris adopted Sherman, a rescue donkey with a difficult past, and worked with him to overcome...

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