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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers.

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1818 - Abraham Verghese - The Covenant of Water | The Book Show

Abraham Verghese is The New York Times-bestselling author of "Cutting for Stone." His latest, "The Covenant of Water," is a stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret known as "the condition."

1817 - Susanna Hoffs - This Bird has Flown |The Book Show

Susanna Hoffs co-founded the pop-rock band The Bangles in 1981 before embarking on a critically acclaimed solo career. Now, she has written a rock and roll rom-com novel entitled "This Bird Has Flown."

1816 – Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry | The Book Show

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1815 - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain Gang All Stars | The Book Show

Bestselling author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the author of the debut novel, "Chain-Gang All-Stars," the story of two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system.

1814 – Charles Frazier – The Tracker | The Book Show

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1812 - John Sayles - Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey | The Book Show

Oscar nominated filmmaker and author John Sayles's new novel, "Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey," spans 13 years, two continents, several wars, and many smoldering, blood-soaked battlefields.

1812 - John Sayles - Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey | The Book Show

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1811 - Owen King - The Curator | The Book Show

Owen King's "The Curator" is a fantasy of illusion and mystery set in an unnamed city in the midst of a revolution where nothing and nobody is as it seems. "The Curator" is an exploration of power, revolution, ghosts, cats, and more.

1810 - Rebecca Makkai - I Have Some Questions for You | The Book Show

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1809 - Thomas Mallon - Up With the Sun | The Book Show

Thomas Mallon's new novel, "Up with The Sun," mixes murder mystery and showbiz history to tell the fictionalized account of the life and untimely death of Dick Kallman.

1808 - Deepti Kapoor - Age of Vice | The Book Sho

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