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Host Debbie Elliott talks with author Jeanne Birdsall, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature, about her book, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy.

After the American invasion of 2003, Looters took advantage of the Iraqi government's collapse to steal priceless antiquities in the Iraq Museum. The new book Thieves of Baghdad chronicles efforts to recover the stolen art.

The gift of beautiful prose, given to someone on the edge of loving words and their arrangements, is an invaluable present, writes commentator and novelist Susan Straight. She shares some of the titles she'll be giving this year.

Sometime today, millions of people will check out of this world and into the world of online games. And many of them will think nothing of pulling out real credit cards to buy virtual gold, swords — even humans.

Like his coal miner father, 'October Sky' author Homer Hickam says his values – to trust in God but rely on oneself – come from deep underground.

Actor Blair Underwood is well-known for his roles on television and the big screen. Now he has a new role as editor, for a new collection of anecdotes and wisdom spoken by young children — words that continue to enlighten adults with their candor and soul.

Chris Elliott, son of the venerable humorist-performer Bob Elliott and a former Late Night with David Letterman gofer-turned-writer, has crafted a mystery-history, tragi-comedy, time-traveling work of literary fiction.

Journalist and comedian Aaron Freeman has a gift for his daughter, and it's in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. It's the gift of love, shared imagination, and peace, it's inspiration he hopes will last a lifetime.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt taught school for 30 years. Relationships formed with 12,000 mostly teenaged students form the basis of a new memoir, Teacher Man. He tells Jacki Lyden about life in the classroom.

Ed Gordon talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch about his new book At Canaan's Edge — the final installment in a trilogy of histories about the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.