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Novel by Minneapolis writer Kate DiCamillo to be a musical in London
"The Magician's Elephant" will be staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company for Christmas.
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Review: 'The Professor and the Parson,' by Adam Sisman
NONFICTION: The entertaining true story of a modern-day charlatan who pretended to be a minister, an academic and a worthy husband.
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Review: 'Trans(re)lating House One,' by Poupeh Missaghi
FICTION: In a startling novel, modern-day Tehran lies revealed as a city defined by what is no longer there.
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Review: 'Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes,' by Kathleen West
FICTION: A Minnesota-set high school farce highlights textbook bad behavior.
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Review: 'The Resisters,' by Gish Jen
FICTION: Baseball and a technological dystopia collide in Gish Jen's "The Resisters."
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Review: 'Things in Jars,' by Jess Kidd
Fiction: A rollicking, macabre mystery set in Victorian England.
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Review: 'American Dirt,' by Jeanine Cummins
FICTION: A mother and son make a harrowing journey through Mexico to try to escape a drug kingpin's vendetta.
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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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