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#7: Space Atlas: A Voyage of Discovery for Young Astronauts

Amazon Top Ten - Fri, 04/07/2017 - 7:54pm

Space Atlas: A Voyage of Discovery for Young Astronauts
Jiri Dusek (Author), Jan Pisala (Author), Tomas Tuma (Illustrator)
(6)

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'Tell Me How It Ends' Offers A Moving, Humane Portrait Of Child Migrants

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 04/06/2017 - 12:07pm

Valeria Luiselli's new book is based on her experiences working as an interpreter for Central American child migrants seeking entry to the U.S. Critic John Powers calls it "fair minded and expansive."

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'The Hello Girls' Chronicles The Women Who Fought For America — And For Recognition

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 04/06/2017 - 10:00am

A book published today, the 100th anniversary of America's entry into World War I, tells the story of "America's First Women Soldiers" who served as switchboard operators in the field.

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Rich, Colorful 'Afar' Reimagines The Magical Girl

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 04/06/2017 - 7:00am

Leila del Duca and Kit Seaton's new novel follows a young girl in a richly-imagined North Africa-flavored fantasy world, who discovers she has the power to dream herself into different bodies.

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'What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky' Is Defiantly, Electrically Original

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 04/05/2017 - 7:00am

Lesley Nneka Arimah's remarkable debut collection is both cohesive and varied at the same time. Grounded both in the U.S. and Nigeria, it's full of sly humor, genuine emotion and occasional horror.

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#9: Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 04/04/2017 - 10:45am

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
William H. McRaven (Author)

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'Foxlowe' Is A Delicious Slice Of Darkness

NPR Book Reviews - Tue, 04/04/2017 - 7:00am

Eleanor Wasserberg's debut novel is not for the faint of heart — this tale of a cultishly evil group called the Family who live in a mansion on the English moors is unrelentingly cruel and eerie.

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#7: Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 04/04/2017 - 1:43am

Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
Dave Asprey (Author)
(2)
Release Date: April 4, 2017

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Find Your Way Across This Misty, Mysterious 'Frontier'

NPR Book Reviews - Sun, 04/02/2017 - 7:00am

Can Xue's book is hard to describe, much less explain — there's a town, and a mountain, and a poplar grove, and a host of people just trying to connect in a world of absent-minded strangeness.

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'Ship Beyond Time' Sails Through The Centuries

NPR Book Reviews - Sat, 04/01/2017 - 10:00am

Heidi Heilig's duology, The Girl From Everywhere and the new The Ship Beyond Time, follows a girl who travels between worlds and times on her father's tall ship, trying to save her mother's life.

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'Luna: Wolf Moon' Is A Howling Good Read

NPR Book Reviews - Sat, 04/01/2017 - 7:00am

No one builds worlds like Ian McDonald. In Luna: Wolf Moon, he gives us a lunar colony ruled by five brutal, powerful dynasties, orbiting an Earth wracked by scarcity wars and political squabbling.

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#8: Thirteen Reasons Why

Amazon Top Ten - Sat, 04/01/2017 - 1:25am

Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher (Author)
(3450)

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#2: Dynamic Aging: Simple Exercises for Whole-Body Mobility

Amazon Top Ten - Fri, 03/31/2017 - 1:22pm

Dynamic Aging: Simple Exercises for Whole-Body Mobility
Katy Bowman (Author), Joan Virginia Allen (Author)
(12)

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Incendiary 'Report' Exposes Business-Suited Torturers

NPR Book Reviews - Fri, 03/31/2017 - 7:00am

Ernie Colón and Sid Jacobson, who previously adapted the 9/11 Commission Report as a graphic novel, set their sights on the Senate's 2014 report on the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

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'Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve' Crunches The (Literary) Numbers

NPR Book Reviews - Fri, 03/31/2017 - 5:07am

In his new book, statistician Ben Blatt loads thousands of books, new and old, into a vast database and uncovers intriguing patterns in how our favorite authors write.

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#10: It: A Novel

Amazon Top Ten - Wed, 03/29/2017 - 10:18pm

It: A Novel
Stephen King (Author)
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'One Of The Boys' Tells The Story Of A Corrosive Father-Son Relationship

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 03/29/2017 - 1:19pm

Daniel Magariel's debut novel explores the fierce love a 12-year-old boy has for his abusive father. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a "slim, deeply affecting and brutal story."

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Celebrating A Glorious Life Of Excess In 'A Really Big Lunch'

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 03/29/2017 - 7:00am

Jim Harrison lived as he wrote — vividly. One year after his death, a new collection of his essays on food, wine, writing and aging brings him roaring back in all his immoderate brilliance.

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#4: Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 03/28/2017 - 10:15pm

Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back
Izabella Wentz PharmD (Author)
(65)

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#3: Old School: Life in the Sane Lane

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 03/28/2017 - 1:13pm

Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
Bill O'Reilly (Author), Bruce Feirstein (Author)
(3)

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