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Twin Cities writers honored with American Library Association Youth Media Awards
Brenda J. Child, Junauda Petrus and Dawn Quigley are honored for their debut novels for young people.
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Review: "The Open Heart Club," by Gabriel Brownstein
NONFICTION: A captivating account of the daredevil Minnesota pioneers of open-heart surgery.
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Marlon James, Kao Kalia Yang among finalists for Minnesota Book Award
Veteran writers Marlon James, Kao Kalia Yang, Bao Phi and David Treuer are among those in the running for the annual awards.
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Review: 'Run Me to Earth,' by Paul Yoon
FICTION: A coming-of-age story set during the Vietnam War traces the fates of a group of young people from Laos.
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Review: 'The Truants,' by Kate Weinberg
FICTION: A gripping debut about friends who fall under the spell of their maverick teacher.
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Review: 'Children of the Land,' by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
NONFICTION: A moving memoir of life as an undocumented immigrant.
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Review: 'A House in the Mountains,' by Caroline Moorehead
NONFICTION: The last book in the Resistance quartet highlights the work of intrepid women partisans in Italy.
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REVIEW: 'Race Against Time,' by Jerry Mitchell
NONFICTION: An investigative journalist digs into unsolved murders in the 1960s South.
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Marlon James trash-talks dead writers in new podcast
The Minnesota writer and his editor discuss their favorite--and least-favorite--dead authors.
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Review: 'How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish,' edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
NONFICTION: How Yiddish words have crept into the American vernacular.
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Review: 'The Sweet Indifference of the World,' by Peter Stamm
FICTION: An entrancing tale about a writer haunted by his past self.
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Review: 'A Long Petal of the Sea,' by Isabel Allende
FICTION: A family's flight from the bloody Spanish Civil War to a new life in Chile forms the arc of this powerful novel.
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