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Review: 'Akin,' by Emma Donoghue
FICTION: A retired professor and his street-smart 11-year-old great-nephew travel to France in a wise, warm tale.
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Review: 'Middle England,' by Jonathan Coe
FICTION: A very funny satire follows several connected folks through modern upheavals.
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Review: 'Fly Already,' stories by Etgar Keret
FICTION: Etgar Keret finds the humor in situations surreal and heartbreaking, from fatherhood to bro-ish metafictional fables.
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Review: 'Ruby & Roland,' by Faith Sullivan
FICTION: When a strong-minded hired girl falls in love with a married farmer from a small Minnesota town, she has some hard decisions to make.
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Review: 'The Ungrateful Refugee,' by Dina Nayeri
NONFICTION: An Iranian refugee weaves her own miraculous story with those of more recent asylum-seekers.
Books
Bookmark: The joys of shopping for used books
A shopper shares her lessons on the type of books she finds at sales.
Music
Co-author details 'extremely unlikely' story behind new Prince memoir
Dan Piepenbring describes the book as "Prince the raconteur, in a storytelling mode reminiscent of his more narrative songs."
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Books
Club Book announces fall season, with Thrity Umrigar, Nora McInerny and six others
Writers series brings high-powered authors to local libraries.
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Review: 'The Grammarians,' by Cathleen Schine
FICTION: Like its heroines, "Grammarians" revels in words.
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Review: 'Everything Inside: Stories,' by Edwidge Danticat
FICTION: Haitian-Americans yearn, love and make mistakes in Edwidge Danticat's moving new collection.
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Review: 'We Will Tell You Otherwise,' by Beth Mayer
FICTION: Beth Mayer brings humor and strong characters to her debut story collection.
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Review: 'This Tender Land,' by William Kent Krueger
FICTION: In mid-America during the Great Depression, four children band together to form the family each lacks.
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Review: 'March Sisters,' by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado and Jane Smiley
NONFICTION: Past meets present in this rich quartet of essays revisiting the March sisters of "Little Women."
Books
Club Book announces fall schedule, with Nora McInerny, Thrity Umrigar and more
It's free! It's the ultimate book club.
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