Books
October 27, 2017
Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James

Review: 'The Man From the Train,' by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James

NONFICTION: A father-daughter team tackles a 100-year-old murder mystery.
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October 27, 2017
Isabel Allende
Photo by Lori Bara

Review: 'In the Midst of Winter,' by Isabel Allende

FICTION: A crash in a blizzard changes three complicated lives.
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October 27, 2017
Double-decker buses circle the Prince Albert statue at Holborn Circus in London, England, in the smog at night on Dec. 6, 1952. The heavy smog, caused

Review: 'Death in the Air,' by Kate Winkler Dawson, recounts deadly London fog and a serial killer

NONFICTION: A parallel look at the 1952 smog that killed 12,000 people and a serial killer who murdered eight.
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October 27, 2017
Lose yourself in a book.

3 books by Minnesota writers tackle tricky problems of growing up

MIDDLE GRADE: Three books by Minnesota writers tackle the tricky problems of growing up.
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October 26, 2017
Sherman Alexie.

Carnegie Medal finalists include Sherman Alexie memoir and Booker-winning "Bardo"

National Book Award shortlisted "Killers of the Flower Moon" also on list.
Books
October 24, 2017

New York Times bestsellers

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October 24, 2017

Review: 'Border,' by Kapka Kassabova

NONFICTION: A Bulgarian native's travelogue reveals borderland's ghosts and history.
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October 23, 2017
"Marvel Legacy" #1 features a wraparound cover with most of Marvel's major characters. Variants have a lenticular cover, the sort of expensive gimmick

Can 'Legacy' save Marvel's sales slump?

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October 23, 2017

REVIEWS: 'The Last Ballad,' by Wiley Cash, and 'The Locals,' by Jonathan Dee

Books
October 20, 2017

Review: 'Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby,' by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden

NONFICTION: "Bible Nation" explores Hobby Lobby's antiquities collection and proselytizing fervor.
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October 20, 2017
Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has brought African-American studies into the mainstream.CHRIS PIZZELLO • Invision
Henry Louis Gates

Review: '100 Amazing Facts About the Negro,' by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

NONFICTION: Henry Louis Gates Jr. unearths surprising truths about the complex history of the black diaspora.
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October 20, 2017
Linda LeGarde Grover.

Review: 'Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year,' by Linda LeGarde Grover

NONFICTION: An elder and UMD professor offers humorous and insightful dispatches from Duluth.
Books
October 20, 2017
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera chuckles at a remark made by his friend, fellow poet Ray Gonzalez, at the Twin Cities Book Festival on O

BOOKMARK: Twin Cities Book Festival was filled with words and laughter

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October 20, 2017

Review: 'Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China,' by Xiaolu Guo

NONFICTION: Born into a Chinese peasant family, a writer and filmmaker escaped to the urban wilds of the Western world despite enormous obstacles.
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October 20, 2017

Review: 'The Future Is History,' by Masha Gessen

NONFICTION: Journalist Masha Gessen issues a loud protest against complacency.
Books
October 19, 2017

An excerpt from Ron Chernow's 'Grant'

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October 19, 2017

Review: 'Subtle Variations,' by Miriam Karmel

FICTION: Family connections fill Minneapolis writer's debut collection of stories.
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October 17, 2017

New York Times bestsellers

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October 16, 2017

Review: 'Who Reads Poetry,' edited by Fred Sasaki and Don Share

NONFICTION: People share their experiences with poetry in this collection of essays.
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October 16, 2017

Reviews: 'Murder Book,' by Frank F. Weber, and 'Do Not Become Alarmed,' by Maile Meloy

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