Many recent novels have melded stories from the past and the present – “Orphan Train,” “The Storyteller” and “Calling me …
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Many recent novels have melded stories from the past and the present – “Orphan Train,” “The Storyteller” and “Calling me …
‘Silence Once Begun,” the latest novel from Jesse Ball, explores the fictional Narito Disappearances of 1977, where eight solitary people …
1. “The Chase” Evanovich 2. “Divergent” Roth 3. “Minecraft: Essential Handbook” Scholastic 4. “The Homesman: A Novel” Swarthout 5. “Private …
Just a page into Gina Frangello’s “A Life in Men” (Algonquin Books, 417 pages, $14.95), Nix, one of a pair …
Herbert Hoover, the only Iowan to be elected a U.S. president, is a bit of a “political orphan,” says George …
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Marion will release a children’s book – “Opie’s Great Adventure: The Little Pipe Organ” – …
Water flows through the heart of Julene Bair’s “The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning” (Viking, 278 pages, …
1. “Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival” Strub 2. “The Bill from My Father” Cooper 3. …
Chris Abani’s brilliant new murder mystery “The Secret History of Las Vegas” is chock full of the crime, bodies, and …
In Karen Russell’s novel, “Swamplandia!,” which was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize (no fiction prize was given that …
Mathew Klickstein hates inauthenticity. Not too long ago, he said, is when television was real. And great. “The early ’90s …
What happens when a PB&J sandwich and a hummus pita divide best friends and instigates an all-school food fight? Or …
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