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REVIEW: 'No Visible Bruises,' by Rachel Louise Snyder
NONFICTION: Award-winning book exposes the myths of domestic violence through moving in-depth portraits.
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Review: 'Ghosts of Gold Mountain,' by Gordon H. Chang
NONFICTION: This groundbreaking book pieces together the lives of the thousands of Chinese workers who built the transcontinental railroad.
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Review: 'D-Day Girls,' by Sarah Rose
NONFICTION: During World War II, Britain deployed French-speaking women as spies in the F Section to arm the resistance.
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Review: 'Orange World and Other Stories,' by Karen Russell
FICTION: The marvelous mixes with the everyday in eight startling short stories.
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Review: 'Walking: One Step at a Time,' by Erling Kagge
NONFICTION: A noted writer explores the transformative experience of taking a walk.
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Review: 'Biloxi,' by Mary Miller
FICTION: "Biloxi" ponders the question whether it's possible to change in late middle age.
Stage & Arts
Agnostic Minneapolis painter gives the Old Testament a colorful, surreal new look
Struggling for a subject, an agnostic Minneapolis painter found his purpose in the King James Bible.
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Review: 'The Queen,' by Josh Levin
NONFICTION: The woman who was used as the poster child for welfare fraud in the 1970s had a grim and complicated life story.
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Review: 'The Heartland: An American History,' by Kristin Hoganson
NONFICTION: A scholar debunks claims the Midwest is insulated and isolated in its people and policies.
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Review: 'Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, With Baseball on the Brink,' by Kevin Cook
NONFICTION: After nine innings, the score was tied at 22-22.
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Review: 'Lanny,' by Max Porter
FICTION: Max Porter's second novel takes a dark, mythical excursion into an English village centering on a lad named Lanny.
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Review: Revealing 'a small genocide' in Mexico
NONFICTION: Julián Herbert explores roots and repercussions of the deaths of more than 300 Chinese immigrants in 1911.
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Review: 'Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide,' by Tony Horwitz
NONFICTION: The author of "Confederates in the Attic" travels through the South, following a path set by a journalist 160 years before.
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