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Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum

Rachel Barenbaum

From New Hampshire Public Radio and the PEN/ Faulkner Foundation, Check This Out is a literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.

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Ep. 147 NHPR Addie E. Citchens: DOMINION

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2025/10/25

A Southern Black family drama unfolds as long-held secrets about a beloved son surface, shaking the foundation of a Mississippi town.

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50:20

Ep. 146 NHPR Xenobe Purvis: THE HOUNDING

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2025/10/18

Based on a strange historical anecdote, this novel tells the story of five sisters in18th-century England whose neighbors become convinced they’re turning into dogs.

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49:52

Ep. 145 NHPR Ruben Reyes and Zibby Ownens: ARCHIVE OF...

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2025/10/11

With Ruben we see a genre-blending, speculative historical novel about revolution and empire, following two families across alternate timelines of the Salvadoran civil war. Plus, a look into the publishing world with Zibby Owens.

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45:16

Ep. 144 Jennifer L. Armentrout: THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD...

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2025/10/04

“Romantasy” titles from indie presses, along with their enormous fan bases on BookTok, are reshaping the publishing landscape. Jennifer Armentrout is proving that the next giant of fiction doesn’t need a giant publisher. This is the sixth book in the Blood and Ash series- all published by a tiny Indie press that is taking publishing by storm.

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50:04

Ep. 143 NHPR Maria Reva: ENDLING

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2025/09/27

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey involving kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail.

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50:00

Ep. 142 NHPR Lucas Schaefer: THE SLIP

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2025/06/21

A novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.

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50:11

Ep. 141 NHPR Aaron John Curtis: OLD SCHOOL INDIAN

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2025/06/14

A coming-of-middle-age novel full of humor and grief. When Abe Jacobs is faced with an unthinkable diagnosis, he follows his fragile hope for a cure to the Mohawk Rez where he grew up. In his family’s hands, Abe just might find hope.

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50:11

Ep. 140 NHPR Rob Franklin: GREAT BLACK HOPE

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2025/06/07

A young Stanford graduate caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.

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49:34

Ep. 139 NHPR Emma Pattee: TILT

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2025/05/31

Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. All she can do is try to walk home. We follow her journey across a transformed city as she reflects on her life and re-considers hope for the future.

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49:27

Ep. 138 NHPR Jemima Wei: THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER

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2025/05/24

In this debut novel, two sisters are betrayed and violently estranged. They must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love and home versus the outside world. An exploration of family bonds in a story of sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

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49:53

Ep. 137 NHPR Colwill Brown: WE PRETTY PIECES OF FLESH

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2025/05/17

A coming of age novel about working-class female friendship, set in the schoolyards, nightclubs, and alleyways of a gritty, post-industrial town in Yorkshire, England. Three girls are inseparable, their friendship as indestructible as they are, but as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.

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49:37

Ep. 136 NHPR Sameer Pandya: OUR BEAUTIFUL BOYS

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2025/05/10

Three star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student. Their secrets, and the secrets of their parents, threaten to shatter their entire community in a novel of race, class, and privilege.

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49:58

Ep. 135 NHPR Tova Mirvis: WE WOULD NEVER

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2025/05/03

Inspired by a true story, “We Would Never” is a gripping murder mystery and an intimate family drama. It explores the issues of loyalty, betrayal, and the blurred line between protecting and forsaking the ones we love most.

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50:01

Ep 134 NHPR Julie Iromuanya: SEASON OF LIGHT

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2025/04/26

When 276 schoolgirls are abducted from their school in Nigeria, a Florida-based lawyer and former POW of the Nigerian Civil War is consumed by memories of his younger sister who went missing during that conflict. “A Season of Light” explores the shaky promise of the immigrant American dream and a family struggling with intergenerational trauma.

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50:02

Ep. 133 NHPR Callan Wink: BEARTOOTH

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2025/04/19

Two brothers are living off the grid on the edge of Yellowstone. In dire straits and desperate for money, they accept a dangerous proposition that permanently alters their lives and their relationship to each other.

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48:16

Ep. 132 NHPR Olivia Wolfgang-Smith: MUTUAL INTEREST

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2025/04/12

A novel about marriage and ambition, sexuality and secrecy, and the true costs of building an empire. “Mutual Interest” explores the lives of “three queer misfits turned business titans” during the Gilded Age with immersive period detail and compelling emotional stakes.

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49:45

Ep. 131 NHPR Karissa Chen: HOMESEEKING

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2025/04/05

“Homeseeking” follows Haiwen and Suchi, two separated lovers through six decades of Chinese history. War, famine, and opportunity take them from Hong Kong, to Taiwan, New York, and LA. This debut novel is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance and time.

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Ep. 130 NHPR Alison Espach: THE WEDDING PEOPLE

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2024/12/30

It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn, the only guest who isn’t there for the big event.A novel about depression, love, the ways women make themselves small, and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

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49:56

Ep. 129 NHPR Yael Van der Wouden: THE SAFEKEEP

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2024/12/21

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this is a story of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961. An exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.

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Ep. 128 NHPR NH Librarians Recommend Their Favorite...

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2024/12/15

A special Check This Out episode featuring three librarians from around the state chatting about their favorite books of the year and offering suggestions for this holiday reading season. We also discuss how librarians feel about audiobooks — does it count as reading? Plus, the explosion of "Young Adult" titles and whether the name should be changed, how libraries decide which books to put on their shelves, and the pros and cons of self-publishing.

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