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    I Knew Nancy Would Find a Way
    Karen Henry Clark
    • Aug 9, 2018
    • 4 min

    I Knew Nancy Would Find a Way

    Nancy Pearl Writes a Novel, Among Other Things Fair warning: Nancy and I have been friends for 35 years, give or take. If you think that...
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    Memoirs & the People Who Love (or Do Not Love) Them
    Nancy
    • May 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Memoirs & the People Who Love (or Do Not Love) Them

    A good friend shows her feelings about the insane rise in the number of memoirs coming out each month by calling them “me mores.” I can’t...
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    Quotes I love.
    Nancy
    • Mar 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    Quotes I love.

    I’ve just recently begun pulling together all the various quotations about books and reading that I’ve collected over the years. Here...
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    Georgette Heyer
    Nancy
    • Feb 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    Georgette Heyer

    Some of my most beloved books are by Georgette Heyer. Most readers discover her in their teens, often because their grandmother or mother...
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    The Hare with Amber Eyes
    Nancy
    • Jan 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Hare with Amber Eyes

    Every once in a while, I run across a book that has such wide appeal that I can easily imagine giving copies to nearly everyone on my...
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    Tom Hanks - Uncommon Letters
    Nancy
    • Dec 16, 2017
    • 1 min

    Tom Hanks - Uncommon Letters

    The thought of interviewing Tom Hanks in front of an audience of more than 2,000 fans of his had never entered my mind - and believe me,...
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    The Watery Part of the World
    Nancy
    • Nov 27, 2017
    • 1 min

    The Watery Part of the World

    Oh my, it’s hard to describe how happy it makes me to find a novel like The Watery Part of the World by Michael Parker (Algonquin, 2011)...
    1,784 views0 comments
    The Gone-Away World
    Nancy
    • Sep 18, 2017
    • 2 min

    The Gone-Away World

    Way back in 2008, Nick Harkaway published his first novel, The Gone-Away World. This coming January his newest novel, Gnomon, will be...
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    Dark Star Safari
    Nancy
    • Sep 4, 2017
    • 2 min

    Dark Star Safari

    Although Paul Theroux’s The Great Railway Bazaar is one of my all-time favorite books, I stopped reading him when he fell into what...
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    The Manual of Detection
    Nancy
    • Sep 3, 2017
    • 2 min

    The Manual of Detection

    I've been doing a lot of revisiting old favorites while counting down the days until my novel George & LIzzie comes out, and rereading...
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    Design for Dying
    Nancy
    • Jun 30, 2017
    • 1 min

    Design for Dying

    Renee Patrick is the pen name for husband-and-wife team Rosemarie and Vince Keenan. This is their first novel. In 1937, a young woman...
    335 views0 comments
    'I Want The Pages To Turn': Librarian Nancy Pearl's Summer Reading List
    Nancy Pearl
    • Jun 29, 2017
    • 1 min

    'I Want The Pages To Turn': Librarian Nancy Pearl's Summer Reading List

    Check out book reviews from Nancy posted on the NPR Books page.
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    The Towers of Trebizond
    Nancy - Book Lust Rediscovery
    • Nov 9, 2011
    • 1 min

    The Towers of Trebizond

    In the fall of 2004, Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep and I talked about great first lines, and one of the books I cited was Rose...
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    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    Nancy
    • Sep 28, 2011
    • 2 min

    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

    Ben Fountain ’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco, 2012) is a brilliantly conceived first novel that takes place over the course of...
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    The Color of Lightning
    Nancy
    • Aug 8, 2011
    • 3 min

    The Color of Lightning

    In The Color of Lightning, her powerful and moving third novel, Paulette Jiles begins with a real person and, taking the little that is...
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    The Coffins of Little Hope
    Nancy Pearl
    • Jul 19, 2011
    • 1 min

    The Coffins of Little Hope

    Schaffert’s fourth novel, The Coffins of Little Hope (Unbridled Books, 2011) is another triumph of storytelling, featuring quirky...
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    The Broken Shore - Peter Temple
    Nancy
    • Feb 9, 2011
    • 2 min

    The Broken Shore - Peter Temple

    When I was in Australia a few years ago, a fellow librarian and good friend recommended Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore to me. I got a...
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    We Learn Nothing - Tim Kreider
    Nancy Pearl
    • Dec 4, 2010
    • 1 min

    We Learn Nothing - Tim Kreider

    Tim Kreider’s We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons (Free Press, 2012) is a remarkable collection. There were points in every one of them...
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