Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: Books
- The Browser: "Imperial Dreams," "The Stranger"
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 03:50 PMA quick look at recent releases: "Imperial Dreams," by Tim Gallagher, and "The Stranger," by Camilla Läckberg.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: 'And the Mountains Echoed,' by Khaled Hosseini
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:00 PMFICTION: An Afghan family endures in the face of migration, poverty and war.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "E.B. White on Dogs,” edited by Martha White.
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:00 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - THE BROWSER: "Tapestry of Fortunes,” by Elizabeth Berg, and "A White Wind Blew,” by James Markert
Sunday - 05/12/2013 - 03:00 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: The story of "Bunker Hill,' vibrantly told by Nathaniel Philbrick
Saturday - 05/11/2013 - 06:41 PMThe history of the seminal battle, and the 1775 siege of Boston.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "Pacific,” by Tom Drury.
Saturday - 05/11/2013 - 02:00 AMFICTION: An Iowa boy negotiates a new life in California.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ethan Rutherford launches story collection at Micawber's
Wednesday - 05/08/2013 - 08:14 AMA merry reading, with beer, laughter, and jokes about the book's title.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Lee sues ex-literary agent's son-in-law in NY over copyright
Monday - 05/06/2013 - 10:52 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "Ghost Moth,” by Michele Forbes
Saturday - 05/04/2013 - 03:00 PMA young singer falls into an affair against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "Red Moon,” by Benjamin Percy.
Saturday - 05/04/2013 - 03:00 PMThe treatment of werewolves as second-class citizens brings about a revolution.
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- Review: "Strange Stones: Dispatches from the East and West," by Peter Hessler
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 05:19 PMNONFICTION: Wide-ranging essays, in which Hessler profiles a global basketball star, eats at a rat restaurant and walks the Great Wall of China.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere,” by Lucas Mann.
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:00 PMA transcendent tale of a season with a scruffy minor-league baseball team in a scruffy minor-league town.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Seeing Sylvia Plath with fresh regard
Monday - 05/13/2013 - 01:46 PMSix decades after Sylvia Plath’s suicide, the poet is undergoing an image overhaul.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bookmark: ArtStart finalists to read Mississippi River poems
Saturday - 05/11/2013 - 06:45 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: Childhood innocence and adults' dark deeds fill "On Sal Mal Lane" by Ru Freeman
Saturday - 05/11/2013 - 06:32 PMResidents of a Sri Lankan neighborhood band together during a civil war.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Comic books: 'Hawkeye Vol. 1' hits the mark
Thursday - 05/09/2013 - 02:32 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "The Virtues of Poetry,” by James Longenbach.
Tuesday - 05/07/2013 - 02:33 PMBOOK REVIEW: Essays show us poetry in ways we couldn’t ourselves imagine.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - THE BROWSER: "Silken Prey,’ by John Sandford, and "The House of Special Purpose,’ by John Boyne.
Monday - 05/06/2013 - 07:38 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "Flora,” by Gail Godwin.
Saturday - 05/04/2013 - 03:00 PMFICTION: A precocious young girl is cared for by her country cousin after her grandmother dies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: 'The Peripatetic Coffin,” by Ethan Rutherford.
Saturday - 05/04/2013 - 03:00 PMA fine collection of short stories, linked by human folly, and by the sea.
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- Review: 'Guns at Last Light,' by Rick Atkinson
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 05:13 PMThe third book of Rick Atkinson’s World War II trilogy tells the stories of the generals and the GIs in the Allied armies’ final sweep across Western Europe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: 'The Woman of Porto Pim,' by Antonio Tabucchi
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:00 PMFICTION: This unclassifiable and wildly inventive book will transport readers to an isolated Azores archipelago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "The Elimination,” by Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille, translated by John Cullen.
Tuesday - 05/14/2013 - 03:26 PMBOOK REVIEW: A teenager during the Khmer Rouge era comes back as an adult to confront one of the masterminds of the terror.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: "Jewelweed,” by David Rhodes
Saturday - 05/11/2013 - 06:35 PMFICTION: A recently paroled man struggles to forgive the sins of his past, but is coaxed back to life by flawed, loyal and deeply human characters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: "Let the Dark Flower Blossom" by Norah Labiner is an elegant exploration of the power of stories
Saturday - 05/11/2013 - 06:34 PMFICTION: An elegant exploration of the power of stories, wrapped inside a murder mystery.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Legend of F. Scott Fitzgerald lives on
Wednesday - 05/08/2013 - 04:23 PMF. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters – and their highs and lows – resonate nearly a century after the St. Paulite found fame.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New York Times bestsellers
Tuesday - 05/07/2013 - 02:21 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey,” by Edward Achorn.
Saturday - 05/04/2013 - 03:00 PMNonfiction: Baseball may owe its survival to the 1883 pennant race and those who transformed a failing sport.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - REVIEW: "A Delicate Truth,” by John LeCarré
Saturday - 05/04/2013 - 03:00 PMFICTION: A botched operation, a coverup and a web of intrigue.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Craving green and blooming fragrant things? Head to Gustavus Adolphus
Thursday - 05/02/2013 - 12:10 PMThe college library's annual "Books in Bloom" exhibit features arrangements to complement 30 books -- everything from "Les Miserables" to "Because of Winn Dixie.
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