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Kelly Yang, best known for her middle grade fiction, explores the intersection of race, power, classism and female relationships in THE TAKE.
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Emmanuel Laroche stopped by to talk about A TASTE OF MADAGASCAR: CULINARY RICHES OF THE RED ISLAND, which takes you on a rare sensory journey of the island’s flavors from the world-renowned vanilla beans to the endemic voatsiperifery wild pepper, and more.
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Ruth McKell talks about the healing power of bees, nature, and kittens, as told in HONEY IN HER VEINS, a beautiful fantasy with dark edges that introduces us to Arthur and Eva, two former lovers who grapple with the ghosts of their pasts in more ways than one.
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Justin Feinstein shares YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED: a compulsively readable science fiction novel wrestling with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death…and how to make a really good commercial. It’s an all too plausible near future in which emotionally intelligent AI go up against emotionally stunted humans.
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A woman tests the limits of her so-called amicable divorce when she flies to Paris for the destination wedding of her former sister-in-law, only to butt heads with the deliciously gruff best man. Kate Clayborn chats about THE PARIS MATCH!
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John Chu shares THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE, the exhilarating debut science fiction novel about keeping the universe– and your family– together when it’s falling apart, channeling unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum.
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Nicole Goux & Dave Baker drop by to discuss their delightful comic collaboration PUNK’N HEADS, a raucous and revealing new graphic novel about making music, making mistakes, facing your past, and choosing your future.
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James Gregory returns to the show to discuss GHOST TOWN, his latest novel set in the late 19th-century, exploring ambition, isolation, and connection in the fictional coal mining town of Sulphur Creek, Pennsylvania.
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Donna Jones Alward shares SHIP OF DREAMS, a thoughtful look at the Titanic focusing on the friendship between two women, Hannah and Louisa, as they navigate personal secrets and societal expectations during the ship’s maiden voyage and its tragic aftermath.