The Best of NPR Books 4-3

This week: Does your cat have what it takes to become an internet celebrity?  Plus Bette Midler's memoirs, an overview of the year's best new short science fiction and fantasy, great bedtime books for children and parents, and a graphic novel celebrating the legendary Harlem Hellfighters. View this email in your browser update preferences

Scratch That: One Cat's Struggle With Internet Stardom How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity might be the year's first essential new book. NPR's Renita Jablonski picks up the book, and her cat, to see if he has what it takes to be a star on the Web. Read this story Code Switch The Harlem Hellfighters: Fighting Racism In The Trenches Of WWI The Harlem Hellfighters broke barriers as the first African-American infantry unit to fight in World War I. Their story is retold in a new graphic novel written by Max Brooks, author of World War Z. Read this story Author Interviews In Early Memoir, Bette Midler Adorned The Truth In Sequins "There's a lot of embroidery in this book ... " Midler says. "It's all lies, except for like 10 percent." A new edition of A View From a Broad, originally published in 1980, is out this week. Read this story Books 3 Bedtime Picture Books That Won't Put Parents To Sleep Librarian Margaret Willison offers tips for making repetitive reading more enjoyable, from choosing books with detailed illustrations to using word tricks. Read this story Book News & Features We Read The Year's Best New Sci-Fi — So You Don't Have To The Campbell Award honors new writers in sci-fi and fantasy; this year's Campbellian Anthology features 111 authors and more than 860,000 words — and blogger K. Tempest Bradford has read all of them. Read this story

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