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'12 Strong' action-packed but superficial
The nobility of a mission in Afghanistan gets lost in pyrotechnics.
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Club Book spring lineup includes William Kent Krueger, Laura Lippman and Peter Geye
Anita Shreve, Emily Fridlund among speakers.
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Poet Kevin Young and Marlon James to be in conversation at the Loft
The next in the Loft Literary Center's "big ideas" series will take place March 19.
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Marilyn Brooke Goffstein, children's book author and artist, dies at 77
The author of some 30 books kept writing and telling stories until she died on her 77th birthday.
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Review: 'A State of Freedom,' by Neel Mukherjee
REVIEW: Neel Mukherjee offers a lush, beguiling epic of a chaotic society in transition.
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Review: 'Heart Spring Mountain,' by Robin MacArthur
FICTION: Robin MacArthur's novel is set in Vermont in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
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Review: 'Off the Charts,' by Ann Hulbert
NONFICTION: An empathetic dive into the inner lives of a century of child geniuses.
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REVIEW: 'The Afterlives,' by Thomas Pierce
FICTION: In Thomas Pierce's savvy novel, a banker finds a pathway to life after death.
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5 new mysteries provide thrills and chills on long winter nights
CRIME FICTION: Struggling to find a New Year's resolution you can achieve? Pledge to read one (or all) of these recent releases.
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You, too, can be an artist out in the woods
The Artist at Pine Needles residency program is looking for artists-in-residence who create art about nature.
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Minneapolis poet Bao Phi wins award for best picture book in the country
"A Different Pond" has been highly acclaimed.
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'Weeping Time' recounts largest U.S. slave auction
NONFICTION: The sale of 436 men, women and children in 1859 Georgia tore loved ones apart.
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Review: 'The Music Shop,' by Rachel Joyce
FICTION: Set in London in the 1980s, Rachel Joyce's fifth novel is about the down-and-out owner of a record shop who falls in love with a mysterious woman.
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