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If The Daily Show is a cousin to nightly news, and The Colbert Report is a cousin to opinion news, Larry Wilmore suggested his Nightly Show will be a cousin ...

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Lost & FoundbyBrooke Davis Dutton

A 7-year-old teams up with an 87-year-old for an adventure Down Under. Davis whimsical debut novel begins with loss, as a mother grieving over the death of her husband abandons young daughter Millie in an Australian department store. The book soon becomes about finding, as Millie falls in with two octogenarians a nursing home escapee named Karl and Agatha, a grumpy agoraphobic. As this unlikely team progresses around the continent by bus, train and car, the youngster and the oldsters discover a few things about life, family and love.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France byMiranda Richmond Mouillot Crown

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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad byEric Foner Norton

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Dealing with contemporary issues and controversies will be a regular feature of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Standing on the set of his new series, which debuts 11:30 p.m. Monday on Comedy Central the old Colbert Report timeslot Wilmore tells a group of reporters, If The Daily Show and Politically Incorrect had a kid, it would be this show.

Wilmore is known to Comedy Central viewers from his role on The Daily Show.Photo: Comedy Central

Wilmores brand-new set is in the same spot as The Colbert Report on Manhattans far West Side.

On one side, a desk with several chairs invites panel discussion across from a green screen. On the other, there are shelves decorated with old clocks, cameras and typewriters opposite a wall of clocks with jokey time zones such as Pasadena, Obamas Birth Place and Pompeii among others.

Well done and clever, considering that the numbers on the clocks run counterclockwise.

Tall and distinguished in a dark tailored suit, Wilmore, the former Senior Black Correspondent on The Daily Show and, most recently, an executive producer on ABCs hit comedy Black-ish stands apart from his producers Rory Albanese and Amy Ozols and his head writer Robin Thede to talk about the format of his show.

In addition to his trademark deconstructive point of view, he wants to have a mix of real people and glamour people to talk about the issues of the day.

Like many talk show hosts before him, Wilmore says that The Nightly Show, which was created by Jon Stewart, will focus on issues rather than personalities. And there will likely always be a comedian.

This is my barbershop, Wilmore said. No matter how heated it gets, its still a barbershop. I think we may cover the State of the Union address.

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