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The B&N Podcast: Malcolm Gladwell on Why We Get Each Other Wrong

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The B&N Podcast: Malcolm Gladwell on Why We Get Each Other Wrong

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Do you think you can look someone in the eye and tell if they're lying to you? Malcolm Gladwell talks about how trust, mistrust and myths about both are shaping our society.
The B&N Podcast: Ibram X. Kendi and the Call to Be an Antiracist

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The B&N Podcast: Ibram X. Kendi and the Call to Be an Antiracist

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The National Book Award-winning author of "Stamped from the Beginning" returns with a galvanizing new work that blends memoir, analysis, and a charge to America.
The B&N Podcast: Kiese Laymon and Shane Bauer on Writing with a Mission

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The B&N Podcast: Kiese Laymon and Shane Bauer on Writing with a Mission

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A conversation with two celebrated young writers about the challenges of their work, and the urgency of telling true stories in America today.
The B&N Podcast Live at Comic Con: Writing a World on Fire

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The B&N Podcast Live at Comic Con: Writing a World on Fire

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Our all-star panel at this year's San Diego Comic Con talks about the uncertain and exciting borderland where their imaginations and reality collide.
The B&N Podcast: Melinda Gates on How to Change the World

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The B&N Podcast: Melinda Gates on How to Change the World

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The philanthropist and author joins us to talk about "The Moment of Lift," and why she's convinced the secret to changing the world lies in unlocking the talents and power of half of its...
The B&N Podcast: David Brooks on the Dinner that Changed Everything

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The B&N Podcast: David Brooks on the Dinner that Changed Everything

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The bestselling author and New York Times columnist opens up about his quest to find meaning in community and the "radical" change that prompted his new book.
The B&N Podcast: Preet Bharara Makes Justice a Verb

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The B&N Podcast: Preet Bharara Makes Justice a Verb

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The prosecutor turned podcaster talks about why the adversarial world of the courtroom offers fascinating and valuable lessons for life well outside the law's domain....
The B&N Podcast: Everyone Talks to Alex Kotlowitz

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The B&N Podcast: Everyone Talks to Alex Kotlowitz

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The author of "There Are No Children Here" returns with "An American Summer," a portrait in stories of a community plagued by gun violence.
The Border

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The Border

By DON WINSLOW

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Don Winslow concludes the epic drug-trade trilogy he began in "The Power of the Dog," and his stories have never seemed more timely.
The B&N Podcast: Jodi Picoult

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The B&N Podcast: Jodi Picoult

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The bestselling writer joins us to talk about her new novel "A Spark of Light" -- and why this was the story that she had to tell in reverse.
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By BETH MACY

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At ground zero of the opiod crisis, a journalist looks at the devastation across communities and families -- and how it happened.
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

By FRANCISCO CANTÚ

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A former border patrol agent offers a lyrical and timely memoir on the contradictions and cruelties of the crossing between Mexico and the United States.
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