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What Minnesota's reading next
One Book One Minnesota has picked "We Are Meant to Rise" for latest statewide reading selection.
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Audiobooks: Titles for many tastes
A posthumous memoir by Michael K. Williams, a new recording of an 18th-century romance and a sweeping African novel.
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Review: 'It Takes a Worried Woman,' by Debra Monroe
NONFICTION; A collection of smart, edgy essays about troubles of our modern world — from climate change to racism to grief.
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Review: 'The Escape Artist,' by Jonathan Freedland
NONFICTION: The harrowing true story of the first Jew to escape from Auschwitz, and his driving need to warn the world about the Holocaust.
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Review: 'The Last Chairlift,' by John Irving
FICTION: John Irving, 80, returns with an epic novel exploring — and recycling — some of his favorite themes.
Review: 'Demon Copperhead,' by Barbara Kingsolver
FICTION: Barbara Kingsolver's latest, and best, re-creates "David Copperfield" in America's Appalachians.
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Review: 'Signal Fires,' by Dani Shapiro
FICTION: A deadly accident, never to be spoken of, underlies this multigenerational story about two East Coast families.
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Tuesday read: 'Abominations,' by Lionel Shriver
NONFICTION: "Abominations" brings together essays and lectures by a novelist who seems to get a kick out of provocation.
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In Celeste Ng's dark new novel 'Our Missing Hearts,' libraries shine a light
Ng will appear at Talking Volumes Oct. 26.
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Review: 'Dinosaurs,' by Lydia Millet
FICTION: A trust-fund orphan tries to do good in a world out of whack, from the finalist for the 2020 National Book Award.
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Review: 'Sinister Graves,' by Marcie R. Rendon
FICTION: The third in the Cash Blackbear series focuses on missing Native women and children.
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Review: 'The River You Touch,' by Chris Dombrowski
NONFICTION: A poet and river guide celebrates family life and the environment in a new memoir.
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Review: 'Hester,' by Laurie Lico Albanese
FICTION: In this retelling of Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter,' a gifted seamstress embroiders color into a society shrouded in its sins.
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Review: 'Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Balls (and Other Lies),' by Elisa Bernick
NONFICTION: A moving memoir by a Minnesota native about her complicated childhood, and her complicated mother.
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