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    Nov 22, 2022
    Books We Love is back with a new brand batch of hand-picked titles – here are 400+ of our favorite reads from 2022:
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    Nov 24, 2021
    We are so proud today to bring you Books We Love, NPR’s annual guide to our favorite books of the year. We have dedicated this edition of BWL to our friend and colleague, books editor Petra Mayer, 1974-2021.🧵 1/7
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    Mar 3, 2018
    Dolly Parton Gives The Gift Of Literacy: A Library Of 100 Million Books dlvr.it/QJXTVq
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    Nov 27, 2018
    The #bookconcierge is BACK, with 300+ titles hand-picked by our staffers and critics! Find your new favorite book — or the perfect holiday gift — here:
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    NPR's Book Concierge
    Visit the #bookconcierge, @NPRBooks' guide to 2018's great reads.
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    May 26, 2021
    Awww, no! We are so, SO sad to hear about the death of Eric Carle. buff.ly/3fp4P3L
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    Nov 12, 2018
    Goodbye, Stan Lee, you were a legend -- 'nuff said: buff.ly/2RN50az
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    Dec 5, 2017
    It's here it's here it's HEEEERE! The 2017 #bookconcierge is live with more than 350 of our favorite books of the year. Find your next great read at npr.org/bestbooks!
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    Dec 3, 2019
    It’s the most wonderful time of the year ... 🎵🎵 The NPR #BookConcierge is here, with more than 350 recommendations from our staff and critics!! buff.ly/34FLbJe
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    Nov 15, 2018
    Oxford Dictionaries names "toxic" its word of the year; it's seen a 45% increase in lookups: buff.ly/2RYrpBX
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    Aug 6, 2019
    Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, whose soaring novels were rooted in the realities of black lives, has died at 88: buff.ly/33fq289
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    Aug 18, 2021
    It's here it's here it's HERE!! This year's Summer Reader Poll list, 50 great books celebrating the past decade of sci-fi and fantasy, curated for your reading enjoyment by the best possible judges: @tithenai, @ann_leckie, @TochiTrueStory and @FondaJLee: buff.ly/37WNj2t
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    Feb 21, 2017
    A grad student has discovered a lost 36,000-word novella written by Walt Whitman, published anonymously in 1852.
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    Grad Student Discovers A Lost Novel Written By Walt Whitman
    An ad in a March 1852 edition of The New York Times led Zachary Turpin on an electronic search that uncovered a rags-to-riches novella that Whitman published anonymously.
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    Nov 24, 2021
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    So, please, dive in, and find a new book that you love, in Petra’s honor. ❤️ 7/7
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    Jun 30, 2022
    Surprise! Books We Love is back early this year, with our first-ever summer edition. ☀😎📚 Here are 160+ of NPR staff and critics' recommendations for our favorite books of 2022 (so far): npr.org/bookswelove