Host Tayla talks with storyteller and Reading Across Rhode Island honorary co-chair Len Cabral about this year's RARI pick, There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraquib. They also discuss Len's life and work, and the North Providence Summer Basketball League. In the Last Chapter they discuss: What's a genre of book outside of your regular picks that you wish you read more of?
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Books
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraquib
Medgar and Myrlie by Joy-Ann Reid
Browse books by Nikki Giovanni
James by Percival Everett
The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson
Youth Group by Jordan Morris and Bowen McCurdy
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
How the Rabbit Lost His Tail by Len Cabral and Kate DeCarvalho
Anansi's Narrow Waist by Len Cabral and David Diaz
Jump Up and Say! A Collection of Black Storytelling edited by Linda Goss and Clay Goss
Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The First Tycoon by T. J. Stiles
Media
A Complete Unknown (2024)
Wicked (2024)
The Six Triple Eight (2024)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Meet Me at the Court
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