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Nonfiction: Spend Some Time With the Winklevii

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By DAVID ENRICH
Ben Mezrich’s “Bitcoin Billionaires” focuses on Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who used their Facebook windfall to buy up a lot of the cryptocurrency.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: A Chinese Millennial Looks Back on Her Life

Monday, May 20, 2019 - 5:25pm
By JEFFREY WASSERSTROM
In her memoir, “Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China,” Karoline Kan personalizes the great changes occurring in her country.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: The Last Time a Wall Went Up to Keep Out Immigrants

Monday, May 20, 2019 - 5:12pm
By LINDA GORDON
In “The Guarded Gate” Daniel Okrent explores the 1920s nativist and eugenicist movements that led to the 1924 law practically shutting down immigration to America.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: The Life and Crimes of America’s Original ‘Welfare Queen’

Monday, May 20, 2019 - 4:07pm
By SAM DOLNICK
In his new book, “The Queen,” Josh Levin reveals that Linda Taylor was a scammer of epic proportions, a kidnapper and possibly even a murderer.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


An Author Goes 'Spying On The South' 160 Years After Frederick Law Olmsted

Monday, May 20, 2019 - 2:51pm
By Maureen Corrigan

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Tony Horwitz retraces the path of the famed Central Park architect — and discovers a deep cultural divide along the way.

(Image credit: Beth Novey/NPR)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Love Goes Global In These 3 May Romances

Monday, May 20, 2019 - 7:00am
By Maya Rodale

This month, we're bringing you stories from around the world, featuring royals and regular boys and girls who risk it all for their happy ever after — from Vietnam to California to Scotland.

(Image credit: G.P. Putnam's Sons)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Nonfiction: Exploring the Soul of the South

Monday, May 20, 2019 - 5:00am
By JOHN M. BARRY
In “Spying on the South,” Tony Horwitz recreates a trip taken by Frederick Law Olmsted in the early 1850s.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'There's Something About Sweetie' — Something Irrepressibly Joyous

Sunday, May 19, 2019 - 10:00am
By Alethea Kontis

Sandhya Menon's followup to her hit young adult novel When Dimple Met Rishi follows a young woman with a big voice, a big personality — and to her family's dismay (though not her own), a big body.

(Image credit: Beth Novey/NPR)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Buckle Up For This 'Million Mile Road Trip'

Sunday, May 19, 2019 - 7:00am
By Jason Sheehan

We're trying not to make the "long, strange trip" joke about Rudy Rucker's new novel, but it's about three teens in a beat-up purple wagon with a dark energy motor, traveling across dimensions, so ...

(Image credit: Night Shade)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Language Has Magic In 'The Candle And The Flame'

Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 10:00am
By Caitlyn Paxson

Nafiza Azad creates a fantastical yet believable Silk Road city in her new young adult novel, building a world of humans and djinns, spices and sounds, woven through with Urdu, Arabic and Hindi.

(Image credit: Scholastic)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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