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Newbies, mostly, take home Minnesota Book Awards in a night of upsets
Some of the state's best-known writers were shut out on a night of upsets.
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Review: 'Notes From a Young Black Chef,' by Kwame Onwuachi, with Joshua David Stein
NONFICTION: Successes, setbacks and recipes from a young black chef.
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Review: 'A Woman of No Importance,' by Sonia Purnell
NONFICTION: The riveting and sometimes harrowing story of Virginia Hall, the one-legged American spy who confounded the Germans.
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Review: 'A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,' by Ann Beattie
Fiction: A well-meaning but hapless young man drifts until a former teacher shows up with terrible news.
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Review: 'The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper,' by Hallie Rubenhold
NONFICTION: "The Five" offers portraits of five women murdered by Jack the Ripper.
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Review: 'Henry, Himself,' by Stewart O'Nan
FICTION: In this prequel to "Emily, Alone," Stewart O'Nan creates a vivid world inside the head of a taciturn retired suburban man.
Stage & Arts
Hmong saga will be first to be translated to operatic stage
Minnesota Opera is adapting St. Paul writer's memoir "The Song Poet" for young audiences.
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'Lights All Night Long' offers tale of two Russian brothers a world apart
FICTION: Debut novel about a Russian exchange student in Louisiana is part mystery, part coming-of-age story.
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Review: 'The Polyglot Lover,' by Lina Wolff, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel
FICTION: An award-winning Swedish novel about three people whose lives are affected by a handwritten manuscript.
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Review: 'In the Night of Memory' by Linda LeGarde Grover
FICTION: Two sisters, abandoned by their mother, find family all around them.
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Review: 'Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen,' by Mary Norris
NONFICTION: Mary Norris' love for the Greek language and the countryside is infectious.
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Review: 'Hope in the Struggle,' by Josie R. Johnson, with Carolyn Holbrook and Arleta Little
NONFICTION: Josie R. Johnson's memoir is of her own life and also of Minneapolis' tiny but vibrant black community.
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- In book-loving Minnesota, Independent Bookstore Day lasts 5 days. Here's what indie shops recommend.
- In novel, 'The American Daughters' are Black women, fighting to end slavery
- 'Magpie Murders' creator Anthony Horowitz wrote 'Close to Death' and is a (dopey) character in it
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