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Review: 'French Like Moi,' by Scott Carpenter

NONFICTION: A Carleton College professor spends a year in Paris, with charming results.
June 26, 2020
Scott Dominic Carpenter
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Review: 'A House in the Mountains,' by Caroline Moorehead

NONFICTION: The last book in the Resistance quartet highlights the work of intrepid women partisans in Italy.
January 24, 2020
Caroline Moorehead photo by Daisy Heath
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Review: 'Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting,' by Anna Quindlen

NONFICTION: Anna Quindlen's latest book savors the passage to grandparenthood.
April 19, 2019
Anna Quindlen
Photo by Maria Krovatin
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'Pride and Prejudice' redo takes readers to Pakistan

FICTION: Jane Austen's classic returns in a delightful remake with a Muslim family in 2001.
January 25, 2019
Soniah Kamal
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Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading? Readers weigh in

Audiobooks have their fans and detractors. Here's what folks had to say.
August 11, 2018
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Review: 'Fly Girls' by Keith O'Brien

Nonfiction: Female pilots of the 1920s and '30s fought dangers and sexism.
August 3, 2018
May 30, 1937 Mrs. Louise Thaden, winner of the Bendix and Harmon Trophies last year, beside the plane in which she set a new speed record for women at the air show held at the Lambert - St. Louis Airport here May 29, when she flew a 100-kilometer (62.5-mile0 course at a speed of 197.9 miles an hour. The former record was 175 miles an hour, held by Amelia Earhart. June 4, 1937 Minneapolis Star Library; Wide World Photo
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Review: 'Mary B.,' by Katherine J. Chen

Fiction: The overlooked sister in "Pride and Prejudice" gets her due.
July 25, 2018
The Bennet sisters in a 1980 Masterpiece Theater version of "Pride and Prejudice": Mary (Teresa Peake-Jones), Elizabeth (Elizabeth Garvie), Jane (Sabina Franklyn) and Kitty (Clare Higgins).
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Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading?

Some folks think hearing someone else read a book is "cheating." What do you think?
June 1, 2018
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Books

Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading? Readers weigh in

Audiobooks have their fans and detractors. Here's what folks had to say.
August 11, 2018
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Books

Review: 'Fly Girls' by Keith O'Brien

Nonfiction: Female pilots of the 1920s and '30s fought dangers and sexism.
August 3, 2018
May 30, 1937 Mrs. Louise Thaden, winner of the Bendix and Harmon Trophies last year, beside the plane in which she set a new speed record for women at the air show held at the Lambert - St. Louis Airport here May 29, when she flew a 100-kilometer (62.5-mile0 course at a speed of 197.9 miles an hour. The former record was 175 miles an hour, held by Amelia Earhart. June 4, 1937 Minneapolis Star Library; Wide World Photo
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Review: 'Mary B.,' by Katherine J. Chen

Fiction: The overlooked sister in "Pride and Prejudice" gets her due.
July 25, 2018
The Bennet sisters in a 1980 Masterpiece Theater version of "Pride and Prejudice": Mary (Teresa Peake-Jones), Elizabeth (Elizabeth Garvie), Jane (Sabina Franklyn) and Kitty (Clare Higgins).
Books

Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading?

Some folks think hearing someone else read a book is "cheating." What do you think?
June 1, 2018
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