Review: 'The Beatryce Prophecy,' by Kate DiCamillo
MIDDLE GRADE: A novel about friendship, fortitude and the power of story.
Review: 'Assembly,' by Natasha Brown
FICTION: This ambitious debut covers a range of cultural, social and emotional territory in perceptive prose.
Review: 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' by Anthony Doerr
FICTION: Anthony Doerr's follow-up to his Pulitzer winner is bigger and more ambitious.
Review: 'The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet,' by Maureen Gibbon
FICTION: A quietly dazzling novel that focuses on the last three years in the life of artist Edouard Manet.
Review: 'Lean Fall Stand,' by Jon McGregor
FICTION: A profoundly affecting story of the lives upended when a man loses his ability to communicate clearly.
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The bench from Kao Kalia Yang's 'A Map into the World' has a new home
St Paul author Kao Kalia Yang's poignant picture book tells the story of her neighbor, Bob. His bench has a new home at the East Side Freedom Library.
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Review: 'The Man Who Died Twice,' by Richard Osman
FICTION: The four amateur sleuths from the "Thursday Murder Club" return to solve another mystery.
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Review: 'Forever Young: A Memoir,' by Hayley Mills
NONFICTION: Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls after that.
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3 new extra-unusual graphic novels to check out
Today's graphic novel review theme: books that are unusual, even by my standards."The Dancing Plague" (Story/art by Gareth Brookes; SelfMadeHero; 192 pages; $20.99): From the…
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REVIEW: 'The Narrowboat Summer,' by Anne Youngson
The Narrowboat SummerBy Anne Youngson. (Flatiron Books, 319 pages, $26.99.) Two middle-aged women, walking toward each other along a towpath near London, hear a dog…
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Review: 'Reeling,' by Sarah Stonich
FICTION: The second novel in Sarah Stonich's planned trilogy tells a tender tale of fishing, fresh air and grief.
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Review: 'Snowflake,' by Louise Nealon
FICTION: This debut novel is a darkly comic coming of age story of a young woman in Ireland.
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Good Read: 'Great Circle,' by Maggie Shipstead
"Great Circle" by Maggie Shipstead is a long read at 589 pages, but one you'll wish would never end — an ambitious, precisely researched novel…
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Review: 'Bewilderment,' by Richard Powers
FICTION: A deeply moving story about an astrobiologist and his young son, anguished by the state of the planet.
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Review: 'On Freedom,' by Maggie Nelson
NONFICTION: A timely chance to think about freedom not as a state but a practice.
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Review: 'The Speckled Beauty,' by Rick Bragg
NONFICTION: An ornery, broken-down, used-up man and an ornery, broken-down, used-up dog find each other.
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Bookmark: The library of a loved one reveals much
For the past two years my husband and I have been rehabbing his childhood home, an old Minnetrista farmhouse. The last inhabitant, my late brother-in-law,…
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The lost manuscript of Kate DiCamillo
Her new book, "The Beatryce Prophecy," sprang from a rediscovered draft that she had abandoned after the death of her beloved mother.
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Long-lost manuscript sparked a new book by famed Minneapolis author Kate DiCamillo
Her new book "The Beatryce Prophecy" sprang from a draft she started and then abandoned after the death of her beloved mother.
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10 most anticipated, must-read books of the fall
'Harlem Shuffle'Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead tells the story of a cash-strapped furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem who turns to shady ways to provide for…
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION1. The Madness of Crowds, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) The 17th book in the "Chief Inspector Gamache" series. Gamache is tasked with providing security for…
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The comic book origins of 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings'
"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" arrived in theaters Sept. 3. If you think he's an odd addition to Marvel's line of superheroes,…
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Review: 'Lieutenant Dangerous,' by Jeff Danziger
Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War MemoirBy Jeff Danziger. (Steerforth Press, 208 pages, $14.95.) There are moments of wry humor in "Lieutenant Dangerous," a memoir by…
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Review: 'Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming,' by Antonio Michael Downing
NONFICTION: A keenly observed memoir about the author's arduous travels in search of himself.
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Review: 'Graceland, At Last,' by Margaret Renkl
NONFICTION: This luminous collection of essays by Margaret Renkl explores American culture, politics and history.
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