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Becoming by Michelle Obama Gets Young Readers Edition | Book Pulse

Feb. 4, 2021 | Mary Bakija

Penguin Random House will publish a young readers edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama on March 2. The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born and Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson lead the NYT Best Sellers and the USA Today Best-Selling Books lists. The 2021 United States Artists Fellows were announced, and among those honored are 8 writers, including Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Danez Smith, and Ocean Vuong. A new podcast about library workers, librarypunk, has launched. Former Baltimore Ravens player Jason Brown discusses Centered: Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters on The Today Show.

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Let's Get Back to the Party is a "Poignant and Poetic" Debut Novel!

Provocative and moving this debut novel recounts the two protagonists mirrored struggles with generational envy, cultural identity, the traumas of history, and, is an intimate and complex look at gay life.

“A gorgeously written meditation on being a gay man in America now . . . Raw and captivating.”—BookPage

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