Age of Miracles slow coming‑of‑age novel review
Rob Cline reflects on Karen Thompson Walker s The Age of Miracles a coming‑of‑age tale set during a global slowing of Earth's rotation. He notes the understated drama and patient storytelling that heightens the existential questions as time lengthens and daily life shifts. He recalls a Prairie Lights Books reading in Iowa City and praises the novel s quiet power.
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Karen Thompson Walker
Walker
Julia
Prairie Lights Books
S. Dubuque St
Iowa City
Gazette Book Club selects Pride and Prejudice as March focus
The Gazette Book Club picks Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for March in honor of its 200th anniversary. Free events include weekly discussions at Barnes & Noble Cedar Rapids on March 7 14 and 21, a film screening March 28, and an Afternoon Tea with a Jane Austen portrait March 9 in Marion.
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Karen Thompson Walker
Gazette Book Club
Jane Austen
Metro Library Network
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Collins Rd
Cedar Rapids
Pride and Prejudice
Third St
Jane
Melissa Sodeman
Granger House
10Th St
Marion
TheGazette.com
Why We Write Reveals Writers Real Motivations
Los Angeles Times notes in depth the motives behind writing from Didion to Mary Karr and Sara Gruen. Contributors discuss discipline, time, and the drive to leave a mark while balancing craft and finances. The essay collection frames writing as a personal pursuit and professional challenge.
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Oan Didion
New York Times Book Review
Didion
Plume
Meredith Moran
826
National
For
Kids
Susan Orlean
Rick Moody
Jane Smiley
Walter Mosley
Armiste
Jennifer Egan
Dennis Rodman turns to children's book Dennis The Wild Bull
Dennis Rodman writes a kids book cowritten with Dustin Warburton. The tale follows Dennis a bull captured from his family forced into a rodeo pen where he earns acceptance among other bulls. Rodman aims to show children it is okay to be different and still belong.
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York
DenNnis Rodman
Dennis the Wild Bull
Rodman
Madonna
Carmen Electra
Detroit
Chicago
Dustin Warburton
Dennis
National Best Sellers List Newspapers Cite Top Reads
A mixed list of fiction and non fiction titles showing best sellers at Barnes and Noble Cedar Rapids. Notable entries include Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly. The lists mix classic Pride and Prejudice with contemporary thrillers and diet books.
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Steel
Berlin
Patterson/ Sullivan S
Flynn
Light
Jordan
Crais
Saunders
Soulat
Meltzer
Bones
Bradley
Jonasson
Alexander
Austen
Smith
Kinney
Lincoln
America
O'Reilly
Wheel of Time
Roberts
Emeraldalicious
Kann
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Rob Cline
David L. Ulin
Los Angeles Times
Mary Karr
Maran
Kathryn Harrison
Viking Penguin
Viking
Dennis Rodman
Brian Mahoney
Associated Press
Dupaco
Dupaco.com
Zelda” Miyamoto
Smith S. “Francona
Francona
Sotomayer
Kennedy” O'Reilly
Hitmaker
Mottole
Gore
Whitney” Houston
Webb
Osteen
Publishers Weekly
Barnes & Noble
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