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			<title><![CDATA[NPR: Book Tour Podcast]]></title>

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Each week, NPR&#039;s Book Tour presents leading contemporary authors of both fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their current work.
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Copyright 2008 NPR - For Personal Use Only
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:23:57 GMT</pubDate>

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<title><![CDATA[Comic John Hodgman Shares 'More Information']]></title>
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In More Information Than You Require, the follow-up to the best-selling The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman offers another compilation of false facts and trivia.
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<title><![CDATA[Challenging The Stereotypes Of Modern Iran]]></title>
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In The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American writer and the grandson of an ayatollah, travels behind "Persian walls" to provide a revealing look at modern Iran.
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:55:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Ghost Train' Retraces Theroux's Past Journeys]]></title>
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More than 30 years after documenting a trip through Europe, the Middle East and Asia in The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux re-creates the voyage in Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:25:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Part 4 of Toni Morrison: A Mother, A Stranger, 'A Mercy']]></title>
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Writer Toni Morrison reads the final part of an excerpt from her new novel, A Mercy, and discusses the book with NPR's Lynn Neary.
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:03:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Part 3 of Toni Morrison: A Mother, A Stranger, 'A Mercy']]></title>
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In the third of a four-part series, author Toni Morrison continues reading a pivotal episode of her new novel, A Mercy.
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:23:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Part II of Toni Morrison: A Mother, A Stranger, 'A Mercy']]></title>
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In the second of a four-part series, Nobel Laueate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison reads from her new novel, A Mercy.
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:32:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Toni Morrison: A Mother, A Stranger, 'A Mercy']]></title>
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In this special, four-part reading, Toni Morrison presents a pivotal episode from her new novel, A Mercy. The book explores the repercussions of an enslaved mother's desperate act: she casts off her daughter to save her.
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:03:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Junot Diaz Reads From His 'Wondrous' Tale]]></title>
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Author Junot Diaz won a Pulitzer Prize this year for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the story of an overweight, lovesick "ghetto nerd."
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:13:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Crime That Created The Man Of Steel]]></title>
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Brad Meltzer's latest thriller, The Book of Lies, melds together two well-known tales of familial tragedy and redemption. Cain and Abel, meet Superman.
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:54:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Goldengrove' Traces The Contours Of Grief]]></title>
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Nico, the 13-year-old narrator of Francine Prose's new novel, struggles to deal with the loss of her older sister. With her parents barely able to cope, Nico must navigate grief and growing up alone.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:53:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Imagining The Life Of The President's Wife]]></title>
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American Wife follows the life of a demure school librarian who becomes first lady of the United States. The novel, inspired by the life of Laura Bush, is the third from Curtis Sittenfeld.
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:44:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beauty, The Beast And A Dantean Journey]]></title>
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Andrew Davidson's debut novel, The Gargoyle, tells the love story of a burn victim and a mysterious sculptress who claims they first met 700 years earlier.
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:13:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Being Young And Arab In Post-Sept. 11 America]]></title>
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In his new book, How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Moustafa Bayoumi profiles seven young Brooklyn residents of Arab and Muslim heritage, detailing the obstacles they've faced since Sept. 11.
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:03:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Breena Clarke Stitches A Slavery-Era Saga]]></title>
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In her second novel, Stand the Storm, Breena Clarke provides a glimpse into a little-known side of the nation's capital and one of its most iconic enclaves.
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:45:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Poking Fun At The 'Stuff White People Like']]></title>
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In a new book based on his popular blog, Christian Lander tracks the trends and tendencies of white people, from fair-trade organic coffee to vintage T-shirts.
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Writer Ethan Canin Tackles The American Dream]]></title>
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America America is an ambitious, old-fashioned novel about politics, power and class in a small, upstate New York town. The Nixon-era tale is Canin's sixth book.
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:55:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Age Of American Self-Loathing]]></title>
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NPR's Dick Meyer contends that, despite living in a time of relative peace and prosperity, Americans are "morally and existentially tired." In his new book, Why We Hate Us, Meyer diagnoses the problem.
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:51:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ann Patchett's Tale of Two Families]]></title>
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Set over a period of 24 hours, Run explores themes of family, race and identity. The book is Patchett's first novel since the acclaimed Bel Canto.
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:46:52 GMT</pubDate>
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