Book ExcerptHere & Now's bookshelf, which includes excerpts of books that we cover on our show.Barbara Kingsolver takes a Dickensian journey through Appalachia for new novel 'Demon Copperhead'Kingsolver takes Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield" and sets it in modern-day southern Appalachia.Play08:57Nov 18, 2022'All This Could Be Different' explores the immigrant experienceThe National Book Award fiction finalist centers around Sneha, a recent college graduate from India who's making her way in Milwaukee in 2013.Play09:32Nov 16, 2022Advertisement How to make the best corn tortillas at home, according to 'Masa' author Jorge Gaviria"Masa: Techniques, Recipes, and Reflections on a Timeless Staple" tells the history and science behind masa — the corn dough used to create tortillas, tamales, and many other foods —...Play09:42Nov 11, 2022'In Sickness' details how a prominent cancer doc concealed her own illness — even from her husbandBarrett Rollins only discovered his wife's football-sized breast tumor when she collapsed walking to lunch at the Dana Farber Cancer Center where they both worked.Play11:03Nov 10, 2022'Listen World!' profiles Elsie Robinson, the most well-read woman you've probably never heard ofElsie Robinson was one of the most widely read journalists of the early twentieth century, her work reached millions of readers around the country.Play05:52Nov 3, 2022Music legend Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton note history of 'Do Re Mi' in new book"The First Notes: The Story of Do, Re, Mi" tells the story of the 11th-century monk who invented a system of musical notation that we use today.Play11:07Nov 1, 2022Chelsea Manning's memoir reflects on tormented childhood, gender and value of freedom of informationManning's is the tale of someone who believed in truth and freedom of information.Play10:51Oct 31, 2022'Somewhere Sisters' explores identity and the nature-nurture debateThe book tells the story of identical twins who were born in Vietnam. One was adopted by a well-to-do white American family, the other was raised by her maternal aunt.Play09:43Oct 28, 2022Food Network's Kardea Brown showcases her Gullah-Geechee roots in debut cookbookBrown has just published her first cookbook "The Way Home," which celebrates the food of her family and the cuisine of the Sea Islands of Charleston.Play10:50Oct 27, 2022Acclaimed short-story collection 'If I Survive You' explores Jamaican-American immigrant experienceThe stories follow the lives of a family from Jamaica and their American-born son. Play09:22Oct 27, 2022'My hands were shaking': Young girl shares diary from the early days of the war in UkraineAt age 12, Yeva Skalietska's diary has been adapted into a new book called "You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine." Play05:36Oct 25, 2022Iconic cookbook author releases 'Cookie Bible,' her love letter to all things biscuitIt's been nearly 35 years since legendary baker Rose Levy Beranbaum released the iconic "Cake Bible," which quickly became every baker's guide to all things cake.Play09:43Oct 20, 2022What draws us to the music we love? A new book breaks it downThe book explores the seven dimensions of music that hit each listener in their own particular sweet spots in the brain.Play10:42Oct 17, 2022Simplify your holiday baking with sheet pan recipes from Molly Gilbert's new cookbookThe book features the expected birthday cakes — but Gilbert takes them to a new level with the coconut tres leches cake, a chocolate pear cake and a rolled pumpkin...Play09:08Oct 12, 2022Long before 'The Little Mermaid' remake, Black mermaids were swimming through African folkloreStories about mermaids aren't exclusive to Western fairytales. Long before Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" was published in 1837, there were Black mermaids in West African folklore.Play05:48Sep 30, 2022'The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions' helps address unique challengesThe college admissions process can be as stressful as it is long, especially for Black families.Play09:35Sep 23, 2022Andrew Sean Greer gives readers more 'Less' in sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winning novel"Less is Lost" takes his hapless hero Arthur Less on a tour of America.Play11:03Sep 20, 2022New book explores whether whales talk and if we can join the conversationA close encounter with a humpback whale started Mustill on a journey to find out how scientists are attempting to determine how whales and other cetaceans communicate.Play11:07Sep 19, 2022Acclaimed author Ian McEwan mines personal history and world events for new novel 'Lessons'The book follows Roland Baines, a lackluster poet and pianist, from his schoolboy days in the 1960s to when he's an elderly man living in COVID-era Britain.Play09:39Sep 14, 2022U.S. troops who criticize the military may lose their careers, but they retain their honorA new book collects stories of dissent from U.S. service members who criticized military leadership from Vietnam to Afghanistan.Play10:55Sep 7, 2022Next Page
Barbara Kingsolver takes a Dickensian journey through Appalachia for new novel 'Demon Copperhead'Kingsolver takes Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield" and sets it in modern-day southern Appalachia.Play08:57Nov 18, 2022
'All This Could Be Different' explores the immigrant experienceThe National Book Award fiction finalist centers around Sneha, a recent college graduate from India who's making her way in Milwaukee in 2013.Play09:32Nov 16, 2022
How to make the best corn tortillas at home, according to 'Masa' author Jorge Gaviria"Masa: Techniques, Recipes, and Reflections on a Timeless Staple" tells the history and science behind masa — the corn dough used to create tortillas, tamales, and many other foods —...Play09:42Nov 11, 2022
'In Sickness' details how a prominent cancer doc concealed her own illness — even from her husbandBarrett Rollins only discovered his wife's football-sized breast tumor when she collapsed walking to lunch at the Dana Farber Cancer Center where they both worked.Play11:03Nov 10, 2022
'Listen World!' profiles Elsie Robinson, the most well-read woman you've probably never heard ofElsie Robinson was one of the most widely read journalists of the early twentieth century, her work reached millions of readers around the country.Play05:52Nov 3, 2022
Music legend Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton note history of 'Do Re Mi' in new book"The First Notes: The Story of Do, Re, Mi" tells the story of the 11th-century monk who invented a system of musical notation that we use today.Play11:07Nov 1, 2022
Chelsea Manning's memoir reflects on tormented childhood, gender and value of freedom of informationManning's is the tale of someone who believed in truth and freedom of information.Play10:51Oct 31, 2022
'Somewhere Sisters' explores identity and the nature-nurture debateThe book tells the story of identical twins who were born in Vietnam. One was adopted by a well-to-do white American family, the other was raised by her maternal aunt.Play09:43Oct 28, 2022
Food Network's Kardea Brown showcases her Gullah-Geechee roots in debut cookbookBrown has just published her first cookbook "The Way Home," which celebrates the food of her family and the cuisine of the Sea Islands of Charleston.Play10:50Oct 27, 2022
Acclaimed short-story collection 'If I Survive You' explores Jamaican-American immigrant experienceThe stories follow the lives of a family from Jamaica and their American-born son. Play09:22Oct 27, 2022
'My hands were shaking': Young girl shares diary from the early days of the war in UkraineAt age 12, Yeva Skalietska's diary has been adapted into a new book called "You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine." Play05:36Oct 25, 2022
Iconic cookbook author releases 'Cookie Bible,' her love letter to all things biscuitIt's been nearly 35 years since legendary baker Rose Levy Beranbaum released the iconic "Cake Bible," which quickly became every baker's guide to all things cake.Play09:43Oct 20, 2022
What draws us to the music we love? A new book breaks it downThe book explores the seven dimensions of music that hit each listener in their own particular sweet spots in the brain.Play10:42Oct 17, 2022
Simplify your holiday baking with sheet pan recipes from Molly Gilbert's new cookbookThe book features the expected birthday cakes — but Gilbert takes them to a new level with the coconut tres leches cake, a chocolate pear cake and a rolled pumpkin...Play09:08Oct 12, 2022
Long before 'The Little Mermaid' remake, Black mermaids were swimming through African folkloreStories about mermaids aren't exclusive to Western fairytales. Long before Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" was published in 1837, there were Black mermaids in West African folklore.Play05:48Sep 30, 2022
'The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions' helps address unique challengesThe college admissions process can be as stressful as it is long, especially for Black families.Play09:35Sep 23, 2022
Andrew Sean Greer gives readers more 'Less' in sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winning novel"Less is Lost" takes his hapless hero Arthur Less on a tour of America.Play11:03Sep 20, 2022
New book explores whether whales talk and if we can join the conversationA close encounter with a humpback whale started Mustill on a journey to find out how scientists are attempting to determine how whales and other cetaceans communicate.Play11:07Sep 19, 2022
Acclaimed author Ian McEwan mines personal history and world events for new novel 'Lessons'The book follows Roland Baines, a lackluster poet and pianist, from his schoolboy days in the 1960s to when he's an elderly man living in COVID-era Britain.Play09:39Sep 14, 2022
U.S. troops who criticize the military may lose their careers, but they retain their honorA new book collects stories of dissent from U.S. service members who criticized military leadership from Vietnam to Afghanistan.Play10:55Sep 7, 2022
