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What’s Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster Grand Central hide caption
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Two Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In ‘What’s Mine And Yours’
Penguin Random House
Britain’s MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In ‘Slough House’
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Tenzin Kalsang’s in-person story times in Tibetan and English on were held at the Williamsburgh branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system. Brooklyn Public Library’s Facebook Page/Screenshot hide caption
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Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time
Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster
‘It’s Hard To Leave Him’: ‘Sympathizer’ Spy Story Continues In ‘The Committed’
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
Photographers Make Kids’ Wildest Dreams Come To Life
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen Doucleff Avid Reader Press hide caption
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Avid Reader Press
‘Hunt, Gather, Parent’ Offers Lessons Collected Around The World
Nanjala Nyabola is an academic, traveler, and collector of guidebooks, some of which are pictured here. Nanjala Nyabola hide caption
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Nanjala Nyabola
Rewriting The Travel Guidebook With Nanjala Nyabola
Penguin Random House
A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In ‘Two Truths And A Lie’
Tim O’Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. “The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war,” he says. “I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there.” Courtesy of Gravitas Ventures hide caption
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Tim O’Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam
Ballantine Books
Poet and author Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured above in 1960, was born on March 24, 1919. AP hide caption
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa, by Matthew Gavin Frank Liveright hide caption
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Liveright
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America’s Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World, by Joby Warrick Doubleday hide caption
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Doubleday
‘Red Line’ Examines Syria’s Use Of Chemical Weapons, And The World’s Discovery Of It
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Book Concierge: Nonfiction Recommendations
Copper Canyon Press
‘Popular Longing’ Digs Into Everything We’d Rather Leave Unsaid
Nubia: Real One, by L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith DC Comics hide caption
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DC Comics
Walker Books
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Joelle Avelino
