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REVIEW: 'Once in a Blue Moon Lodge,' by Lorna Landvik
FICTION: Twenty-two years after "Patty Jane's House of Curl," Lorna Landvik revisits her plucky crew of talented misfits and smitten lovers in a heartwarming stand-alone sequel.
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Marvel under fire after 'X-Men' artist hides Islamist, anti-Semitic references
Publisher Marvel Comics says it is taking disciplinary action against an artist who secretly inserted Islamist and Anti-Semitic references in an issue of its "X-Men: Gold" comic book series.
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"Redemption's Run," by Jane Fredericksen, is this year's summer serial
The novel is set in Bayfield, Wis., and is the story of a girl who is trying to find her father. It is aimed at both young adults and adults.
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Minnesota Book Award winners include Kao Kalia Yang, Sun Yung Shin, Peter Geye, Shawn Otto
Surprises abound as newbie winners nudge venerable writers in several categories.
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Marlon James in conversation: "All the people I believe in believe in books."
The hour-long discussion between Marlon James and Lisa Lucas at the Guthrie Theater was the second of the Loft Literary Center's new "Big Ideas" initiative.
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REVIEW: 'The Impossible Fairy Tale,' by Han Yujoo, translated by Janet Hong
FICTION: Storytelling is at the heart of Han Yujoo's unsettling, multilayered novel.
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REVIEW: 'The Long Dry,' by Cynan Jones
FICTION: Cynan Jones' "The Long Dry" finds poetry and gallows humor in the story of a Welsh farmer.
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REVIEW: 'American War,' by Omar El Akkad
FICTION: North and South are at it again in this dark fable about war and occupation.
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In 'The Accusation,' tales of the fearful, betrayed lives of North Koreans
FICTION: An author living in North Korea wrote still relevant short stories in 1980s and '90s.
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Wild Rumpus named Bookstore of the Year by Publishers Weekly
This is the first time Publishers Weekly has given the award to a children's bookstore.
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REVIEW: 'What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky,' by Lesley Nneka Arimah
FICTION: Lesley Arimah's stories examine the lives of Nigerian women.
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REVIEW: 'White Birch, Red Hawthorn,' by Nora Murphy
NONFICTION: Time with American Indians makes an Irish-American rethink her claims to land.
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REVIEW: 'The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America,' by Frances FitzGerald
NONFICTION: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald chronicles the rise — and maybe the fall — of America's evangelicals.
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Around the Region
- Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' tops list of most criticized library books for third straight year
- Top publisher teams with top maker of bilingual materials
- Nothing compares: Sinead O'Connor memoir coming out in June
- For Japan's star poet Tanikawa, it's fun, not work, at 90
- Aliu lands book deal on how he confronted racism in hockey
- Chris Hillman's musical life from Byrds to Burritos and more
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- Chicago 7-year-old raises money for hospital's pandemic gear
- Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump's presidency
- Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
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- Review: 'The History of Bees,' by Maja Lunde, is about chemistry, both agricultural and familial
- In book-loving Minnesota, Independent Bookstore Day lasts 5 days. Here's what indie shops recommend.
- Spring's hot gift book features gorgeous found-nature photos
- Of course you love your pooch but 'Dogland' wonders if she loves you back
- 'Devil in the White City' author Erik Larson returns with 'The Demon of Unrest'
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