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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Sheila Johnson, the first Black female billionaire, about her account of surviving an emotionally abusive marriage. Johnson's new memoir is Walk Through Fire.

Now that Winnie-the-Pooh is in the pubic domain, it's a free-for-all. In Winnie-the-Pooh: The Deforested Edition, the trees have are all gone. The book is by toilet paper company Who Gives A Crap.

Part II of NPR's Juana Summers' conversation with actress Kerry Washington about her new memoir, Thicker Than Water.

Part I of NPR's Juana Summers' conversation with actress Kerry Washington about her new memoir, Thicker Than Water.

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the new measure "long overdue," saying that the banning binge of diversity materials has to come to an end.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to C Pam Zhang about her new novel, Land of Milk and Honey.

Isle McElroy's novel covers a deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another — while also touching on how so much of how we navigate the world depends on how it sees us.

Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says cars are killing animals, while highways cut off them off from their food sources and migration paths. His new book is Crossings.

Set in the near future, C Pam Zhang's atmospheric novel centers on a chef who takes a job at a tech entrepreneur's isolated compound after smog kills most of Earth's plant and animal species.

In a new book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton offers a scathing critique of American politics and economic policy.