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In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

The researchers who discovered Lucy were American, and at the time, many of the people working in the field of paleoanthropology were American or European. But that slowly began to change as a new ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...

The researchers who discovered Lucy were American, and at the time, many of the people working in the field of paleoanthropology were American or European. But that slowly began to change as a new ...

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