books
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.
Fall is the best time for a very long walk
Redemption
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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.
Review: 'The Man Who Died Twice,' by Richard Osman
FICTION: The four amateur sleuths from the "Thursday Murder Club" return to solve another mystery.
Review: 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' by Anthony Doerr
FICTION: Anthony Doerr's follow-up to his Pulitzer winner is bigger and more ambitious.
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.
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.
Don't Miss: 'When Ghosts Come Home,' by Wiley Cash
Let's face it, some states are more evocative than others — take North Carolina. So many Americans of all ethnicities have ties to its cities…
Review: 'Forever Young: A Memoir,' by Hayley Mills
NONFICTION: Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls after that.
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…
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…
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.
Review: 'Snowflake,' by Louise Nealon
FICTION: This debut novel is a darkly comic coming of age story of a young woman in Ireland.
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…
Review: 'Bewilderment,' by Richard Powers
FICTION: A deeply moving story about an astrobiologist and his young son, anguished by the state of the planet.
Review: 'On Freedom,' by Maggie Nelson
NONFICTION: A timely chance to think about freedom not as a state but a practice.
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.