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5 Under-The-Radar Reads From Librarian Nancy Pearl

By NPR Staff

Published December 19, 2014 at 4:00 AM EST

<a href="http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2014/" target="_blank"><strong>NPR's Book Concierge:</strong> Browse more than 250 standout titles from 2014 selected by NPR staff and critics, including Nancy Pearl</a>. — **NPR's Book Concierge:** Browse more than 250 standout titles from 2014 selected by NPR staff and critics, including Nancy Pearl.

Librarian Nancy Pearl occasionally joins Morning Edition to talk about books she loves that you might not have heard of. As she tells NPR's Steve Inskeep, her latest batch of under-the-radar reads includes some older books as well some new ones.

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