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John Grisham, Stacey Abrams and more top authors headed to St. Paul for Talking Volumes

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The popular book events return to St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater starting Sept. 10.

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Tasha Coryell's new novel mixes matchmaking and the macabre

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Jackie Thomas-Kennedy's first novel is 'The Other Wife'

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Paul McCartney performs on day 2 of the 2016 Desert Trip music festival at Empire Polo Field on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, in Indio, Calif.

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Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

Target employees were once again filing out of Target Corporate headquarters in Downtown Minneapolis Wednesday afternoon with boxes of personal belongings after Target Corp. announced they would be laying off about 550 employees who work in the Twin Cities as it continues to wind down its Canadian business.

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Target calls entire commercial unit back to Minneapolis HQ three days a week

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'The Bewitching,' from 'Mexican Gothic' writer, is short on scares

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of "Mexican Gothic" and "Silver Nitrate," is stingy with the fear factor in overly complicated "The Bewitching."
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Review: New book asks if Amelia Earhart’s husband pushed her to make her ill-fated final voyage

Nonfiction: “The Aviator and the Showman” examines Earhart’s relationship to George Putnam.
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FILE - American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses for photos as she arrives in Southampton, England, after her transatlantic flight on the "Friendship" from Burry Point, Wales, June 26, 1928. A leather helmet that Amelia Earhart wore on a flight across the Atlantic in 1928 and later lost in a crowd of fans in Cleveland, sold at auction for $825,000, Heritage Auctions said. (AP Photo/File)

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'Legacy of Ashes' writer Tim Weiner uncovers 'The Mission' at the CIA

The modern day CIA - and its potential future - are discussed with named sources in the National Book Award winner's new novel.
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July 7, 2025
FILE - In this March 3, 2005 file photo, a workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va. President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyberattacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia's meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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An endearing child is the hero of Gary Shteyngart's 'Vera, or Faith'

Humor novelist Gary Shteyngart's "Vera, or Faith" introduces readers to a precocious, lovable little girl and her equally adorable, anxiety-filled world.
AuthoredMarion Winik
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1972 shipwreck is subject of gripping true story 'A Marriage at Sea'

Sophie Elmhirst's debut novel is both a jaw-dropping story of survival in a rubber lifeboat and an insightful portrait of Maralyn and Maurice Bailey's unique bond.
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Review: Meet a sweet, prickly, funny heroine in ‘The Satisfaction Café’

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Review: Minneapolis writer studies Paris, one world expo at a time

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'The Great Gatsby' remixed by authors with new takes on race, gender

A litany of new books take fresh looks at the dynamics in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby."
AuthoredChris Hewitt
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This undated photo provided by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage shows the home where F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in from 1922 through 1924 in the village of Great Neck Estates on Long Island just outside New York City. Fitzgerald is believed to have written "The Great Gatsby" while living in the home. A spokeswoman for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage said Wednesday, May 20, 2015, that the asking price for the manor home that's for sale is just over $3.8 million. She declined to identify

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Bob Dylan has another book coming this fall — an art book

There also is a new audiobook of his 2004 memoir but not the anticipated Volume 2 yet.
June 24, 2025
FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2015 file photo, Bob Dylan accepts the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year award at the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year show in Los Angeles. Dylan's "Tarantula," a stream-of-consciousness work first released in 1971, is finally coming out in audio. Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, that Will Patton is the narrator, reciting such lines as "raggedy ann daughter of brazos and teeth in the necklace." Dylan first wrote "Tarantula" in the mid-1960s, at the heigh

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A female painter breaks the rules in Nell Stevens' 'The Original'

"Briefly, a Delicious Life" author Nell Stevens examines a 19th century art forger who grapples with her relationships to her family, old and new, in "The Original."
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Read about Hamilton's vibrant sister-in-law in Molly Beer's 'Angelica'

History is happening in Molly Beer's biography of the titular Schuyler sister, which explores the life of "Angelica" despite limited documentation.
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Our books editor has the tea on how we choose what to review

Louise Erdrich and Kate DiCamillo are easy calls, but how does the Minnesota Star Tribune books editor choose between the 3 million books published each year?
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Magers and Quinn is one of many bookstores in the Twin Cities that is now closed to customers. Folks can order online and the bookstore is offering alley-side pickup.
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