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Review: 'The Sentence is Death,' by Anthony Horowitz
FICTION: Anthony Horowitz's latest murder mystery mashes up fact and fiction.
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Review: 'Mostly Dead Things,' by Kristen Arnett
FICTION: "Mostly Dead Things" is a heartbreaking and weird look at a family in mourning.
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Review: 'Patsy,' by Nicole Dennis-Benn
FICTION: A single mom leaves her child behind to reunite with her friend and lover in the U.S.
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Review: 'City of Girls,' by Elizabeth Gilbert
FICTION: Elizabeth Gilbert's chatty, freewheeling narrator overcomes most obstacles easily in this love song to Manhattan.
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Review: 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous,' by Ocean Vuong
FICTION: In this lyrical novel framed as a letter, a young man makes sense of his relationship with his deeply troubled mother, and falls in love.
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Review: 'The Unpassing,' by Chia-Chia Lin
FICTION: This somber, affecting debut follows a grieving immigrant family's struggles in the Last Frontier.
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A doctor exposes dysfunction in U.S. health care in 'Code Blue'
NONFICTION: "Code Blue" reveals long-standing, intractable problems.
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45 books to keep you reading all summer long
Life slows down in summer. Pull up a lawn chair, pour yourself a cool drink and settle in with one of these 45 mysteries, novels, story collections and books for young adults.
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10 new picture books by Minnesota writers to add to your child's shelf
A fresh crop of 10 picture books by Minnesota writers or illustrators is populated with creatures from the natural world.
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Review: 'Empty Words,' by Mario Levrero, translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott
FICTION: In this satirical novel, a man focuses on formation of letters rather than words.
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