Showing posts with label npr best books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label npr best books. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Murder in Postscript by Mary Winters

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Amelia's first marriage was not a love match. Her husband knew he was dying and wanted someone to take care of his elderly aunt and niec...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read

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Read goes through the history of MLMs, multi-level-marketing companies. She starts with Rehnburg and Nutrilite, detailing how the man starte...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell

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Magdalena "Maggie" Fishbone is being moved from one orphanage to another. She knocked a boy (who, to be fair, was bullying some yo...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Fair Play by Louise Hegarty with Aoife McMahon, Andrew Wincott

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Abigail is known for her fun murder mystery parties that are thrown on New Year's Eve. A group of friends get together, dress up, and th...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink

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I heard about this book from  NPR's Best Books  and thought, "Why not?" I think I'm like most people, that there are thing...
Friday, November 25, 2022

The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale

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This was one of the books from NPR's Best Books of 2021 . This book main follows Nandor Fodor as he grows up, moves from Hungary to Engl...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Love by Matt de la Pena, Loren Long

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The description of this book on the 2018 NPR Book Concierge  is pretty darn close. There aren't a "zillion" ways depicted to s...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

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January Scaller does not live with either her mother or her father. Instead, she lives with Mr. Locke while her father travels the world, se...