Even though the Real Pirates exhibition at the Science Museum of Minnesota is closing this weekend, it's still all about pirates. The Children's Theater's production of The Buccaneers starts in September, and it's never too early to start preparing for International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th). So here are a couple of books to help you stay in the piratical mood!
Try the rousing, revisionist pirate history Under the...
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Sunday's local newspapers contained a plethora of books to put on your to-read list. Here are a few of those titles!
The Pioneer Press focused on a couple of local authors who are making appearances in bookstores around town this week: Trickster's Point by William Kent Krueger, The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber, and Evel Knievel Days: A Novel by Pauls Toutonghi.
Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway and the Road to Roughneck Grace by...
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With To Rome With Love opening, it’s a great time to revisit Woody Allen’s past travelogues through Europe.
Formerly devoted to chronicling the city of New York (but primarily the lives of New Yorkers), Allen is now taking moviegoers on a lovely trip through Europe. Most recently is Midnight in Paris, Allen’s romantic comedy in which Owen Wilson’s character travels back through time to 1920s Paris. Look for The Avengers' Loki (Tom Hiddleston) as local boy F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Here's the rundown on the books in our local newspapers!
The Pioneer Press devoted their Sunday Life section to wonderful, in-depth coverage of the Minnesota State Fair, so no books were featured this week.
At the Star Tribune, some of the titles covered in their Books section included One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper (fiction), Trickster's Point--the new Cork O'...
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Two books, both with similar titles and with historical New York City settings, are getting a lot of buzz this summer.
"The first time Cora heard the name Louise Brooks, she was parked outside the Wichita Library in a Model-T Ford, waiting for the rain to stop." So opens Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone, a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.
In the memoir The Receptionist, subtitled An Education at the...
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