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Review: 'Difficult Women,' by Roxane Gay
FICTION: Roxane Gay's stories reveal trauma and chauvinism.
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Review: 'The Private Lives of the Tudors,' by Tracy Borman
NONFICTION: If you think life is tough for celebrities today, try being a Tudor monarch.
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Review: 'His Father's Son,' by Tim Brady
NONFICTION: In "His Father's Son," Ted Roosevelt Jr. tries to live up to his famous father's legend.
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Review: 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,' by Brad Ricca
NONFICTION: A true-crime tale of an early 20th-century lawyer who fought for women and immigrants.
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Review: 'Everything You Want Me to Be,' by Mindy Mejia
FICTION: When a teenage girl's body is found in an old barn, the teacher she has a crush on becomes a suspect.
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Review: 'Words on the Move,' by John McWhorter
NONFICTION: There literally ain't nothing wrong with awful, and other observations about the "meaning creep" of the English language.
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An exclusive Christmas story by bestselling Minnesota author Judith Guest
The author of "Ordinary People" relates "The Tale of the Misplaced Pudding Pot."
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As Robert Bly turns 90, here is one of his early poems: 'Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River'
Minnesota poet Robert Bly turned 90 on Dec. 23. Here is a poem from his first collection, "Silence in the Snowy Fields," published in 1962.
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Review: 'Naming Thy Name,' by Elaine Scarry
NONFICTION: Elaine Scarry reinterprets Shakespeare's sonnets through the lens of his enduring passion for poet Henry Constable.
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Review: 'The Jane Austen Writers' Club,' by Rebecca Smith
NONFICTION: Beloved novelist's "five-times-great-niece" mines stories for advice, revisits favorites.
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Review: 'In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper,' edited by Lawrence Block
NONFICTION: A collection of 17 short stories based on the paintings of Edward Hopper.
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Review: 'Christmas Days,' by Jeanette Winterson
FICTION: From ghost stories to Nativity myths, Jeanette Winterson serves up bewitching seasonal tales and recipes.
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Review: 'War Diaries,' by Astrid Lindgren
NONFICTION: In empathetic entries, writer Astrid Lindgren guides readers through a Scandinavian view of WWII.
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