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Books & Authors
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The Library joins public broadcasting network PBS in a special online presentation – a conversation with acclaimed writer Kali Fajardo-Anst...
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At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
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Stephanie Powell Watts' first novel is a story about the things in our past that haunt us, that continue to call and constrain us from movin...
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A lot of Black kids, Gabriel Bump says, are just trying to live their lives – fall in love, go to school, not do their homework –...
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In a discussion of his new book The People, No, Kansas City-born author and political commentator Thomas Frank...
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In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu...
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The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...
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Germany’s defeat in World War II was inevitable by late 1943, but Adolf Hitler supposedly had an audacious plan for softening the final terms: disp...
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We’ve been beguiled over the past decade by a romanticized, Silicon Valley-inspired take on entrepreneurship, glorifying its practitioners as darin...
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Can the U.S. and other coronavirus-ravaged countries take a cue from individuals in crisis and follow their own 12-step path to recovery?...