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The end of another year means another giant stack of books you missed during the past 12 months. Nancy Pearl, our favorite librarian, stops by to share recommendations that should keep old, young and 'tween readers content.

David Coleman Headley of Chicago is charged with conducting extensive surveillance on potential targets in Mumbai before last year's terrorist attacks. Headley, a U.S. citizen, changed his name in 2006. Prosecutors say that is so he could pass in India for an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani. Stories about Headley's involvement in the attacks have been circulating in India for weeks.

About one-third of African-American women who get breast cancer are younger than 50, as compared with only one-fifth of white American breast-cancer patients. Health professionals recommend separate guidelines for African-American women: they should get mammograms before age 50 and more frequently.

About one-third of African-American women who get breast cancer are younger than 50, as compared with only one-fifth of white American breast-cancer patients. Health professionals recommend separate guidelines for African-American women: they should get mammograms before age 50 and more frequently.

Correspondent Susan Stamberg gathers recommendations for the season's best books from booksellers Rona Brinlee, Daniel Goldin and Lucia Silva. Their selections include comics about philosophy, novels about building families, and a box set that dives into the process of writing.

Republicans had accused President Obama of dithering rather than deciding how things should go in Afghanistan. The president took three months and convened many top-level meetings to consider strategy and troop levels. While there is support for the increased troop level, they do not think Obama should have set a timetable for withdrawing.

Producer Jack Perry and White worked together until the singer's death in 2003. Perry recently compiled and produced a four-disc retrospective box set spanning White's career, titled Unlimited. NPR's Steve Inskeep recently spoke with Perry about the late soul singer.

Food writer Nigella Lawson knows that the holiday season can be overstuffed with planning and decorating. She offers Renee Montagne two recipes — chocolate chip chili and a Christmas-y rocky road — to help keep things warm and simple.

The audiobook is here to stay — in one form or another. And that's fine with author Neil Gaiman, who has loved hearing stories since his childhood days. Gaiman talks to writer David Sedaris and reader Martin Jarvis about what makes a great audiobook — and a great reader.

"There is a history in all men's lives," William Shakespeare wrote, and there are few better places to find out about his life and legacy than the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Host Scott Simon visits the library with Weekend Edition's literary detective, Paul Collins, for a look into the vaults that hold early Shakespeare folios.