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Exclusive First Read: You CAN Phone Home Again In 'Landline'
Read an exclusive pre-publication excerpt of Landline, the new novel from Eleanor & Park author Rainbow Rowell. Love, heartache, sitcom success and a magic phone — did we mention the magic...
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Exclusive First Read: Jules Feiffer's 'Kill My Mother'
Read an exclusive pre-publication excerpt of Jules Feiffer's first graphic novel, Kill My Mother. It's a classic noir tale with delightfully strong, flawed female leads and some modern plot...
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Exclusive First Read: 'The Bone Clocks' By David Mitchell
David Mitchell's new novel, The Bone Clocks, mixes fantasy and literary fiction in a decades-spanning saga of ordinary people who get caught up in a war between two factions of ancient...
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Exclusive First Read: Caitlin Moran's 'How To Build A Girl'
Read an exclusive excerpt of Caitlin Moran's rollicking new autobiographical novel about a girl who, after a terrible embarrassment, reinvents herself as a hard-drinking, wild-living music...
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Exclusive First Read: Scott McCloud's 'The Sculptor'
Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud is sometimes called the "Aristotle of comics" for his analysis of the medium. The Sculptor, a meditation on love, art and death, is his first graphic...
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Exclusive First Read: Anna Lyndsey's 'Girl In The Dark'
Anna Lyndsey — a pseudonym — was an ordinary civil servant when she developed a rare disorder: A severe sensitivity to light. She deftly chronicles her shadowy new normal in Girl in the Dark.(Image...
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Exclusive First Read: Erik Larson's 'Dead Wake'
The Devil in the White City author Erik Larson turns his attention to the sinking of the liner Lusitania almost 100 years ago — a turning point that helped bring the United States into World War...
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Exclusive First Read: Naomi Novik's 'Uprooted'
Naomi Novik leaves behind the Napoleonic War setting of her previous books for a new stand-alone tale of a village girl, taken by a mysterious magician, who learns she's more than a match for...
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Exclusive First Read: 'The Shepherd's Crown' By Terry Pratchett
Return to the Discworld one more time in the late author's last novel, about young witch Tiffany Aching. Tiffany faced down the Queen of the Elves in her first adventure — but now the queen is...
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Exclusive First Read: Anthony Marra's 'The Tsar Of Love And Techno'
Read an exclusive excerpt of Anthony Marra's The Tsar of Love and Techno, a collection of nine interconnected stories about the journey of a mysterious painting through modern Russian history.(Image...
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Exclusive First Read: Philip Pullman's 'The Book Of Dust'
Philip Pullman returns to the world of his beloved Dark Materials trilogy in The Book of Dust. We have an exclusive first peek at young protagonist Malcolm, his canoe, and the day his life...
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Hear Margaret Atwood Read From 'The Testaments,' Her Sequel To 'The...
In this recording, exclusive to NPR, Atwood returns to the world of The Handmaid's Tale, reading from her long-awaited sequel. Some 15 years after the first book, it introduces a few new voices.(Image...
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Exclusive 1st Read: Erik Larson's 'The Splendid And The Vile'
The bestselling author of Dead Wake turns his attention to the first year of Winston Churchill's prime ministership, at a moment when Adolf Hitler overtakes France — and England could be next.(Image...
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Exclusive 1st Read: 'The City We Became,' By N.K. Jemisin
N.K. Jemisin's new novel kicks off a trilogy of stories about a world in which great cities can be born into human avatars, who must battle eldritch horrors to defend themselves and their people.(Image...
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Exclusive 1st Read: 'Klara And The Sun,' By Kazuo Ishiguro
We're excited to bring you an exclusive prepublication excerpt of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun, a gentle fable about a world in which androids serve as companions to children.(Image...
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