NPR: "The Only Plane In The Sky" is a powerful tale of 9/11

Posted on 09/11/2019 at 03:57 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It may seem incredible that eighteen years have passed since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. So at this...

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Tagged As: Book reviews, Nonfiction, NPR

Reviews mixed for Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen King new releases

Posted on 09/11/2019 at 12:24 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Malcolm Gladwell and Stephen King both released new books yesterday, though with The Testaments by Margaret Atwood hitting shelves, you...

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Tagged As: Book reviews, Horror, Nonfiction, The Guardian, The New York Times

Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments" finally hits bookshelves

Posted on 09/10/2019 at 08:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Happy release day of The Testaments! We suspect you’re huddled in your favorite reading nook somewhere with your preordered copy,...

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Reviewers have high praise for "The Testaments" so far

Posted on 09/05/2019 at 09:13 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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If you were afraid The Testaments wouldn’t live up to The Handmaid’s Tale , you might be able to exhale...

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Listen to Margaret Atwood read from "The Testaments"

Posted on 09/04/2019 at 09:05 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

NPR has an exclusive recording of Margaret Atwood reading from The Testaments, her upcoming sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. We’ll...

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"Reviving Ophelia" receives an update for its 25th anniversary

Posted on 06/23/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls made a huge splash in the years following its 1994 publication. Now,...

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Read Gloria Vanderbilt's book reviews

Posted on 06/17/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Gloria Vanderbilt, who died today, is well known as a fashion designer, a socialite, an heiress, and the mother of...

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Tagged As: Book reviews, Pop culture, The New York Times

NPR reviews "Siege: Trump Under Fire"

Posted on 05/29/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Debating whether to preorder Michael Wolff’s Siege: Trump Under Fire? Probably not — as NPR’s Ron Elving notes in the...

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He said, she said: Contemporary reviews of "The Great Gatsby"

Posted on 04/11/2019 at 02:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

To our great chagrin, yesterday was the 94th anniversary of The Great Gatsby’s publication, and we didn’t even celebrate it....

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Philip Kerr's last novel is about to come out

Posted on 04/05/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The final novel from thriller author Philip Kerr, who died last year, will hit shelves next week. And while it’s...

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