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Summary: If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.

Heard on On Point with Anthony Brooks

From WBUR:
06/27/18

Best Summer Books: 2018
Summary: A memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

Heard on Dear Sugars with Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed

From WBUR:
05/11/18

Young & Isolated – With Shirley Manson
Summary: What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Heard on On Point with Anthony Brooks

From WBUR:
06/27/18

Best Summer Books: 2018
Summary: The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup.

Heard on On Point with Anthony Brooks

From WBUR:
06/27/18

Best Summer Books: 2018
Summary: From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an analytical look at how female celebrities are pushing the boundaries of what it means to be an “acceptable” woman.

Seen on WBUR News

From WBUR:
06/24/17

'Too Fat, Too Slutty' Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women
Summary: Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.

Heard on On Point with Anthony Brooks

From WBUR:
06/27/18

Best Summer Books: 2018
Summary: Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life.

Seen on The Artery

From WBUR:
06/27/18

In His Latest Book, Jon Meacham Explores 'The Soul Of America'
Summary: A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris

Heard on Here & Now with Robin Young

From WBUR:
06/27/18

Rebecca Makkai Tells Story Of Chicago AIDS Crisis In 'The Great Believers'
Summary: A handy field guide for the optimum stargazing experience, whether you're travelling, camping, or in your own backyard!

Heard on Here and Now with Robin Young

From WBUR:
07/19/18

Debut Novelist Enters Mind Of Aging Man To Explore Grief And Life's Meaning
Summary: After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be.

Heard on Here & Now with Robin Young

From WBUR:
07/18/18

Stargazing This Summer? Here's How To Point Out Planets And Constellations
Summary: A new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion & disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.

Heard on Here & Now with Robin Young

From WBUR:
07/17/18

1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies
Summary: Alissa Quart examines the lives of many middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children.

Heard on Here & Now with Robin Young

From WBUR:
06/20/2018

How Americans Are Getting 'Squeezed' By High Cost Of Living
Summary: A recount of the gripping story of Flint′s poisoned water through the people affected by it.

Heard on Here & Now with Jeremy Hobson

From WBUR:
07/10/18

How Flint's Water Crisis Happened, And Why It Isn't Over
Summary: A nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips.

Heard on On Point with Ben Brock Johnson

From WBUR:
07/09/18

Are We There Yet? A History Of The Family Road Trip
Summary: A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.

Heard on On Point with Jane Clayson

From WBUR:
07/04/18

The Fallows Take Us On A Journey Through America
Summary: A quest to rediscover America′s other border–the fascinating but little–known northern one.

Heard on Here & Now with Peter O'Dowd

From WBUR:
07/03/18

'Northland' Explores Life Along That 'Other' U.S. Border
Summary: Best-selling author, Pamela Druckerman, investigates life in her 40s, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.

Heard on On Point with Jane Clayson

From WBUR:
06/01/18

What It Means To Be 'Middle-Aged'
Summary: The behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised.

Heard on On Point with Jane Clayson

From WBUR:
05/29/18

With GPS, Are We 'Never Lost Again'?
Summary: The riveting confession of a woman awakened by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Heard on Dear Sugars with Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed

From WBUR:
05/12/18

Rage Is A Red Lesson
Summary: This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till

Heard on On Point with Anthony Brooks

From WBUR:
07/17/18

Reopening The Case Of Emmett Till
Summary: Vicky Beeching, poster girl for evangelical Christianity lived with a debilitating inner battle: she was gay.

Heard on On Point with Anthony Brooks

From WBUR:
06/28/18

Reconciling Faith And Identity In Vicky Beeching's 'Undivided'
Summary: Professor Lynne Murphy explores the fiction & reality of the relationship between British and American English.

Heard on Here & Now with Robin Young

From WBUR:
05/11/18

You Say 'Hoover,' I Say 'Vacuum': A Linguist's Journey Across The Trans-Atlantic English Divide
Summary: A classic coming of age story, "Jane Eyre" is the tale of a poor orphaned girl who comes to live with her aunt at Gateshead Hall.

Heard on Dear Sugars with Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed

From WBUR:
05/11/18

Young & Isolated With Shirley Manson
Summary: The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers.

Heard on Dear Sugars with Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed

From WBUR:
05/11/18

Young & Isolated – With Shirley Manson

Bibliography: *Bookshelf icon by Abir Alward from the Noun Project