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Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. –Barbara Tuchman
The R&W Book Club is a place for us to talk about books—with each other and, from time to time, with the authors of featured titles. We’ll read fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We encourage your suggestions for authors and books to include. There are a few limitations on what we’ll consider: books must be by living authors, have broad audience appeal, and be readily available at libraries, bookstores or via download. If you’d like to suggest authors or titles, go here. If you’d like your local book club or library included in our email early-notification group, go here.
recent book club posts
- Small is beautiful…and not so small
- Writers under every rock
- Far Alaska, a new novel by Mason Smith
- What will teens in your family be reading this summer?
- What should I read after Game of Thrones?–a conversation on fantasy
- Why do so many Great Books have lousy leading ladies?
- Terry Tempest Williams interview audio
- Poet George Bilgere, author of “The White Museum”
- Siobhan Fallon: When the title tells the story
- Remembering — and hopefully reading — Iain Banks
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Books at NCPR
- "Soup-er" book includes recipes from Lake Placid(Jun 18, 2013) The author of a new book of soup recipes from sixty ski resort towns around the country will be in Lake Placid for a book party on Thursday. Jennie Iverson's Ski Town Soups includes a chili recipe from The Cottage Cafe and a tomato/basil soup recipe from Simply Gourmet market and deli in Lake Placid. Iverson will sign copies of her book a […]
- Book Review: The Purchase(Jun 18, 2013) Each year Canada's Council for the Arts awards the Governor General's Literary Awards to the best books of the year. The winning novel for 2012, The Purchase, chronicles what happens when a Quaker man in Virginia "accidentally" buys a slave. The author, Linda Spalding, born and raised in Kansas, has lived in Canada for 30 y […]
- Books: "Strong Deaf"(Jun 14, 2013) Novelist Lynn McElfresh says her favorite place to write is in the Thousand Islands, at her family cottage on Grennell Island. Two sisters share the pages in her new book for young readers, Strong Deaf. The younger sister, Jade, is the only one in her family who can hear. Our book reviewer, Betsy Kepes, spoke with McElfresh from her winter hom […]
Books at NPR
- A Family's Secrets And Sorrows Surface In 'Heatwave' June 19, 2013Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, Instructions for a Heatwave, follows a troubled Irish Catholic family in London over the course of four scorching July days in 1976. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Heatwave is a beautiful book about "the importance of forgiving those you love." […]
- Books Your Kid Might Give Up Video Games To Read June 18, 2013It's finally summer and for many kids that means swimming, video games and vacations. But a lot of parents hope their kids will to do some extra reading during the break. Host Michel Martin is joined by three moms in the literary world with summer book suggestions […]
- Book News: VICE Draws Ire By Staging Female Author Suicides June 18, 2013The anonymous book sculptor of Edinburgh strikes again; the childhood drawings of E.E. Cummings; Jonathan Franzen on literary sexism. […]
- The Funny (Touching, Fascinating) Pages: 5 Comics For Summer June 18, 2013When's the last time you read a comic book? Here are five for summer, covering everything from tiny Finnish critters to Viennese punk rockers and musings on Anna Wintour. Writer Myla Goldberg says they represent a golden age in comic art. […]
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