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Review: 'Simon the Fiddler,' by Paulette Jiles
FICTION: A crackling-good adventure story about a musician in Texas at the end of the Civil War.
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Review: 'Confessions of a Bookseller,' by Shaun Bythell
NONFICTION: The sequel to a small-town bookseller's adventures is entertaining, but cracks appear.
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Review: 'Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr,' edited by Jill Rooney Carr
NONFICTION: The first-rate journalism of a magnetic and plain-spoken Minnesotan.
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Review: 'The Unseen,' by Roy Jacobsen, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
FICTION: "The Unseen" is a nuanced masterpiece of the connections humans have with the land on which they live.
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Review: "Hidden Valley Road," by Robert Kolker
NONFICTION: The true story of one Colorado family's ordeal with schizophrenia.
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Review: 'How Much of These Hills Is Gold,' by C Pam Zhang
FICTION: In this stunning debut, C Pam Zhang tells of Gold Rush days from the point of view of immigrant children.
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Review: 'American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming,' by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
NONFICTION: A Japanese-American city dweller joins a Midwestern farm crew to understand the city-country divide.
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Review: 'Redhead by the Side of the Road,' by Anne Tyler
FICTION: A self-described "tech hermit" finds his tightly controlled life starting to unravel.
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Olympian Jessie Diggins opens the Wordplay virtual book festival — with a workout
Wordplay will host eight online events every week through May 9.
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Minnesota Book Awards moving to YouTube this year
The virtual event is free but viewers are asked to register for the chance to win a set of books.
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Dianne Monson, University of Minnesota education professor and writing mentor, dies at 85
The longtime advocate for children's literature stressed that time spent reading for pleasure was related to gains in reading ability.
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'Scandinavian Humor & Other Myths' author John Louis Anderson dies at 72
In the self-published book's first three months in print, it sold 30,000 copies.
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