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Nancy Pearl Scours The Shelves For Books You Might Have Missed

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By NPR Staff

Published June 21, 2013 at 3:05 AM EDT

If you'd like your summer reading to take you beyond the beaten path, librarian Nancy Pearl is here to help. NPR's go-to books guru joins us regularly to reveal "under the radar" reads — books she thinks deserve more attention than they've been getting. Pearl talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about some of the titles she picked out for the summer reading season.

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