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"Books We Love" is NPR's list of our favorite 2021 reads. Here we present four suggestions from the romance genre.

You know about Black Friday, but Small Business Saturday is also promoted as a means for smaller businesses to make up for the sales they lost during the pandemic.

For entertainment, Thanksgiving Weekend is the official start of the Christmas holiday season. However, with COVID still being an influence, things are different this year. For one thing, most venues have policies that demand you show either proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test for entry. Also, at many places you need to wear a mask inside.

I cannot stop thinking about Aaron Rodgers. I know the story is now old and gone, and he’s back on the field, and he’s allegedly paid the price – a whopping $14,650 – but, well, he lied, and in a big way.

Montreal's newly famous music scene is abuzz with rock 'n' roll energy in two languages: French and English. There are hot, undiscovered bands aplenty. But is there really a "Montreal sound?"

I’ve said this many times before, but it bears repeating. I do not like golf. I don’t like to watch it, and I really don’t like playing. There’s a long list of reasons for that, most routed in the fact that it’s slow and intensely boring. And if you’re not good at, which to be clear I am not, it’s like forcing yourself to take a calculus exam over and over again – and to spend a lot of money for that privilege.

Jean Thompson's novel follows an insecure young woman as she's drawn into a clique of poets. The Poet's House is a story about the corrosive power of shame and the primal fear of sounding stupid.

Twenty years have passed, and many of the actors who played the angsty adolescents in John Hughes' classic coming-of-age films now have teens of their own. Actress Ally Sheedy, director Howard Deutch and author Susannah Gora talk about why Hughes' films still resonate with new generations of teens.

Eva Hornung's novel Dog Boy is based on the true story of a young boy in Moscow who lived with a pack of dogs for two years.

Unable to break out of the local music scene, Scottish rappers Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd adopted American accents and new identities as the rap group Silibil 'N Brains. In his book California Schemin', Bain tells the story of how an elaborate lie led to a $350,000 record deal and falling apart after five years of pretending he was someone else.