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REVIEW: Lyrical essays on growth
Julie Marie Wade's poetic essays bring readers on a painfully honest but beautiful journey. Updated: 02:26 PM
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Writer Denis Johnson to speak at UM in April
Author of nine novels, Johnson won the National Book Award in 2007 for "Tree of Smoke."
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Tiger Mom has a few regrets
Amy Chua is coming to town to talk about Chinese-American relations and to answer questions about her provocative memoir.
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The Browser: A quick look at recent releases
"Alice in Bed," by Cathleen Schine, and "A Burial at Sea," by Charles Finch
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Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday
He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions — Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist. And it made him a star, mobbed by fans on both sides of the Atlantic.
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FICTION: "The Snow Child," by Eowyn Ivey
An older couple try to tame a child of the wilderness.
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POETRY: "Pitch," by Todd Boss.
St. Paul poet Todd Boss delights with serious play in his resonant second collection.
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FICTION: "No One is Here Except All of Us," by Ramona Ausubel
During the Holocaust, a Romanian village tries to seal itself off from the world.
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THE BOOKMARK: Newspaper accounts of Titanic make riveting reading
With the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic coming up in April, prepare to be inundated with books about the disaster.
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more from books
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FICTION: "The Golden Hour," by Margaret Wurtele
A young woman comes of age in Italy during the occupation, when her family winery is taken over by the Nazis.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2012 - 04:28 PM
- FICTION: "Norumbega Park," by Anthony Giardina
- BIOGRAPHY: "More Room in a Broken Heart," by Stephen Davis.
- A bookmaker, unbound
- Graywolf Press announces winner of its annual Nonfiction Prize.
- Heading to the library? Hill, yeah!
- SHORT STORIES: "Time Between Trains," by Anthony Bukoski
- FICTION: "Heft," by Liz Moore
- National bestsellers for week ended Jan. 21
- Justice League fights hunger in real world
- Minneapolis looking for its next "community reads" title
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NONFICTION: "The Ice Balloon," by Alec Wilkinson
The story of S.A.Andree, who attempted to explore the Arctic from a balloon.
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FICTION: "Jack Holmes & His Friend," by Edmund White
Two men try to navigate a friendship beset by an attraction that is not mutual.
Full story Full storyUpdated: Jan. 28, 2012 - 05:35 PM
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Retelling of old myth has a terrible beauty
A.S. Byatt's retelling of an old Nordic myth is dark and lush and steeped in doom.
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ESSAYS: "Rough Likeness," by Lia Purpura
Eighteen brief pieces from an eclectic, inspired thinker.
Full story Full storyUpdated: Jan. 28, 2012 - 05:35 PM
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