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LeVar Burton has three roles he'll forever be known for: Kunta Kinte on the TV series Roots, Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation and host of Reading Rainbow. Those roles have had profound impacts on people and he now understands, as he puts it, "my job is to be LeVar Burton." He talks to Rachel about the tension of that job, his changing definitions of success and learning to embrace the chaos.
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NPR staff recommend 6 new novels for summer reading: "How to End a Love Story," "Victim," "The Women," "A Short Walk Through a Wide World," "Birding with Benefits" and "Swift River."
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A new program is giving Connecticut residents access to tens of thousands of ebooks and audiobooks. It’s called eGO, and it’s available to library card holders at most libraries, some K-12 schools and 17 of the state’s colleges and universities.
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In what she calls "Books Not Bans," Becka Robbins sends titles to groups that want them in the face of a movement by conservative advocacy groups and lawmakers to ban them from schools and libraries.
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NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks to Catherine Newman about her novel — about a modern family in all its messiness — called "Sandwich."
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We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We've got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and much more.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Zach Williams about his debut short story collection "Beautiful Days."
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After more than two decades dispensing advice in her nationally syndicated "Ask Amy" newspaper column, Amy Dickinson is retiring. NPR's Scott Simon asks her about what she's learned over the years.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with British novelist Sarah Perry - known for "The Essex Serpent." She's out with a new novel, "Enlightenment," about science, faith and love.
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A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.