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'It's a great adventure story,' says singer Rickie Lee Jones of her new memoir
A colorful cast of characters populates the hipster pop star's new memoir.
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Review: 'Sound Like Trapped Thunder,' by Jessica Lind Peterson
Nonfiction: A sparkling collection of essays about animals and humans.
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Review: 'Philip Roth: The Biography,' by Blake Bailey
NONFICTION: Biography devotes far more space to the author's marriages and sex life than to his literary legacy.
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Review: 'The Five Wounds,' by Kirstin Valdez Quade
FICTION: This vibrant novel showcases one man's road to redemption.
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Review: 'The Wild Silence,' by Raynor Winn
NONFICTION: Both sequel and prequel to "The Salt Path," Raynor Winn's new memoir is about the power of nature.
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Review: 'A Most Remarkable Creature,' by Jonathan Meiburg
NONFICTION: A fascinating look at the striated caracara, an endangered bird of prey.
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Alexs Pate is this year's Kay Sexton Award recipient
The writer, educator and mentor has devoted his life to teaching, writing and correcting racial imbalances in literature and classrooms.
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Brooks: Lil Nas X satanic panic disrupts Minnesota launch of children's book
Sheletta Brundidge tells how song inspired autistic son's journey to speech.
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Review: 'The Leave-Takers,' by Steven Wingate
FICTION: Amid much death, a troubled couple create a life worth fighting for.
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Larry McMurtry, novelist of the American West, dies at 84
In "Lonesome Dove," "The Last Picture Show" and dozens more novels and screenplays, he offered unromantic depictions of a long mythologized region.
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Review: 'Libertie,' by Kaitlyn Greenidge
FICTION: Examining the dichotomies of slavery and freedom, body and spirit, duty and forgiveness.
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Review: 'Firekeeper's Daughter,' by Angeline Boulley
YOUNG ADULT: A young Native woman gets entangled in a romance and an FBI probe amid a meth epidemic.
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