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#1656: Julia Alvarez’s “Afterlife” | The Book Show
“Afterlife” is the first adult novel in almost 15 years by Julia Alvarez, the bestselling author of In the “Time of the Butterflies” and...
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#1655: Rahm Emanuel’s “The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World” | The Book Show
Rahm Emanuel is a former two-term mayor of Chicago and White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama. In his new book, “The...
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#1654: James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” | The Book Show
James McBride is the author of the National Book Award winning “The Good Lord Bird” and the modern classic “The Color of Water.” His...
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#1653: Jenny Offill’s “Weather” | The Book Show
Jenny Offill’s new novel, “Weather,” is about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without...
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#1652: Paul Krugman’s “Arguing With Zombies” | The Book Show
Nobel Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, is one of the most recognizable and trusted voices on economics and policy today. In his new book “Arguing...
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#1651: Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” | The Book Show
Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer for the New Yorker, is the author the best-selling: “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory...