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  • A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit by Noliwe Rooks
    Jul 23 2024

    Happy publication day to A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit by Noliwe Rooks! Listen to editor Scott Moyers share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation.

    Read more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709842/a-passionate-mind-in-relentless-pursuit-by-noliwe-rooks-curated-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/

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    10 mins
  • Other Rivers by Peter Hessler
    Jul 9 2024

    Happy publication day to Other Rivers by Peter Hessler! Listen to editor Scott Moyers share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century.

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    8 mins
  • Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson
    Jul 9 2024

    Happy publication day to Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson! Listen to editor John Burnham Schwartz share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood.

    Read more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738888/anyones-ghost-by-august-thompson/

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    8 mins
  • Frostbite by Nicola Twilley
    Jun 25 2024

    Happy publication day to Frostbite by Nicola Twilley! Listen to editor Ann Godoff share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse.

    Read more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551601/frostbite-by-nicola-twilley/

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    9 mins
  • Night Flyer by Tiya Miles
    Jun 18 2024

    Happy publication day to Night Flyer by Tiya Miles! Listen to editor Scott Moyers share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand.

    Read more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705956/night-flyer-by-tiya-miles-curated-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/

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    8 mins
  • The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
    Jun 11 2024

    Happy publication day to The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne! Listen to editor John Burnham Schwartz share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances.

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    8 mins
  • Brat by Gabriel Smith
    Jun 4 2024

    Happy publication day to Brat by Gabriel Smith! Listen to editor Kiara Barrow share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protagonist grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past.

    Read more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740750/brat-by-gabriel-smith/

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    7 mins
  • The Playbook by James Shapiro
    May 28 2024

    Happy publication day to The Playbook by James Shapiro! Listen to editor Will Heyward share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.

    About the book: A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro.

    Read more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/702390/the-playbook-by-james-shapiro/

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    9 mins