Booksellers are thrilled about the title bringing ‘Harry Potter’ readers back
Brie Taralson is 40 but she felt like a “Harry Potter”-loving kid again when she waited for the clock to strike midnight and ...
Review: ‘The Personal Librarian’ author tackles 1920s New York in ‘Harlem Rhapsody’
If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...
Who are the authors Twin Cities area readers can’t get enough of?
You can go down a rabbit hole about the ways in which St. Paul and Minneapolis residents are different. Who really knows who ...
Review: Latest Elinor Lipman comic novel is here to brighten your mood
Elinor Lipman is as reliable as Chex Mix or your favorite afghan. Her comic novels, often noted as the contemporary ...
A Victorian con woman schemes for money and love in zesty novel. She’s not the only one
If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...
Brothers take on a dangerous mission in adventure novel ’Beartooth'
On the back cover of “Beartooth,” a blurb from novelist Junot Diaz compares it to “A Simple Plan,” which is both high praise and a very dangerous game to be playing. “A Simple Plan,” which became a ...
Sugar beets become monstrous on a Minnesota farm in new novel
In Margie Sarsfield's "Beta Vulgaris," a woman who works on a Minnesota beet farm gradually loses touch with reality.