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  The Christian Science Monitor

  

  5 days ago

  What can a library card get you? Try a popcorn maker or ukulele.

  csmonitor.com - Roy Rivenburg

  The first clue to this library’s offbeat lending habits sits inside a tall glass display case near the entrance. Sprinkled amid storybooks, atlases, …

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  The Christian Science Monitor

  

  6 days ago

  Where the Nile began: The perilous journey to seek the river’s source

  csmonitor.com - David Conrads

  An expedition to discover the Nile River’s origin was the “Holy Grail” of 19th-century exploration, as Candice Millard’s “River of the Gods” shows. It …

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  The Christian Science Monitor

  

  Mohsin Hamid’s novel ‘The Last White Man’ imagines a post-racial world

  csmonitor.com - Heller McAlpin

  British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid explores a provocative question: Can white supremacy persist, if no one is white any longer? Mohsin Hamid …

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  The Christian Science Monitor

  

  Survival tale ‘The Wall’ pits a woman against strange forces

  csmonitor.com - Erin Douglass

  Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer’s survival novel tells the story of a woman trapped behind a strange, impenetrable wall in a Bavarian …

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  The Christian Science Monitor

  

  Bracing cultural criticism flows from the pen of Elaine Castillo

  csmonitor.com - Terry Hong

  Provocative and pointed literary criticism in “How to Read Now: Essays” challenges people to become better, smarter, less Euro-centric …

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  The Christian Science Monitor

  

  How Sasha Alsberg stays true to herself in the romance genre

  csmonitor.com - Aubrey Hawke

  Sasha Alsberg, who has a half-million followers on social media, explains how she stays true to herself and how she wrote her novel “Breaking …