books
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Carl Hiaasen headlines summer/fall Club Book lineup
Poet Li-Young Lee will speak in early June to kick off the series. Updated May. 23, 2013
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REVIEW: "My Foreign Cities,’ by Elizabeth Scarboro.
BOOK REVIEW: The author describes the peaks and valleys of her young marriage to a man with cystic fibrosis.
Full storyFull story Updated May. 22, 2013
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Triumph and tragedy: "Guns at Last Light," by Rick Atkinson
The third book of Rick Atkinson’s World War II trilogy tells the stories of the generals and the GIs in...
Full story Full story Updated May. 18, 2013
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80-year-old is oldest to reach top of Mount Everest
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest on Thursday — although his...
Full story Full story Updated May. 23, 2013
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'New' Pearl Buck novel coming out 4 decades later
The unpublished work, recently discovered in storage, is slated for release in the fall.
Full story Full story Updated 12:39 PM
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St. Paul mystery writer tells a story from the heart
Author William Kent Krueger, known for his Cork O’Connor mysteries, has written “Ordinary Grace.”
Full story Full story Updated 11:41 PM
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Review: "Let the Dark Flower Blossom" by Norah Labiner is an elegant exploration of the power of stories
FICTION: An elegant exploration of the power of stories, wrapped inside a murder mystery.
Full story Full story Updated May. 11, 2013
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The Browser: "Imperial Dreams," "The Stranger"
A quick look at recent releases: "Imperial Dreams," by Tim Gallagher, and "The Stranger," by Camilla Lackberg.
Full story Full story Updated May. 20, 2013
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Harry Potter book with author notes sold for $228K
For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the "Harry Potter" books in the world.
Full story Full story Updated May. 21, 2013
more from books
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Minor-league baseball: At the intersection of hopes and dreams
A transcendent tale of a season with a scruffy minor-league baseball team in a scruffy minor-league town.
Updated May. 18, 2013
- Review: A delightful collection, "E.B. White on Dogs," edited by Martha White
- Review: "Strange Stones: Dispatches from the East and West," by Peter Hessler
- Review: 'And the Mountains Echoed,' by Khaled Hosseini
- New York Times bestellers
- Review: 'The Woman of Porto Pim,' by Antonio Tabucchi
- Review: The story of "Bunker Hill,' vibrantly told by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Review: "Jewelweed,” by David Rhodes
- Childhood innocence and adults' dark deeds fill "On Sal Mal Lane"
- Review: "Pacific" by Tom Drury
- Bookmark: ArtStart finalists to read Mississippi River poems
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Bart Plantega puts Wisconsin yodeling on the map
Bart Plantenga takes a global approach to Swiss “blues.”
Full story Full story Updated May. 17, 2013
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REVIEW: "The Elimination,” by Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille, translated by John Cullen.
BOOK REVIEW: A teenager during the Khmer Rouge era comes back as an adult to confront one of the masterminds...
Full story Full storyUpdated May. 14, 2013
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Seeing Sylvia Plath with fresh regard
A half-century after Sylvia Plath’s suicide, the poet is undergoing an image overhaul.
Full story Full storyUpdated May. 14, 2013
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Legend of F. Scott Fitzgerald lives on
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters – and their highs and lows – resonate nearly a century after the St. Paulite found fame.
Full story Full story Updated May. 9, 2013
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