Road to Yasukuni author signs debut in Cedar Rapids
Robert Joseph Bevenour, 85, a Cedar Rapids retiree, signs copies of Road to Yasukuni at Barnes & Noble 333 Collins Rd NE Cedar Rapids from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The novel, printed by Wheatmark and sold at Amazon Prairie Lights and Barnes & Noble, follows two young men one American one Japanese during World War II.
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Iowa City
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Local Best Sellers Update in Diverse Genres
Prairie Lights Books lists top titles across fiction and non fiction. Notable entries include The Keillor Reader by Keillor The Noble Hustle by Whitehead Capital in the Twenty First Century by Piketty and The Wahls Protocol by Wahls with others like The Fault in Our Stars and The Empathy Exams.
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Keillor Reader
Keillor
Mead
Piketty
Whitehead
Samuelson
Chase
Wahls
Best-Selling Books Listing from Publisher's Weekly
A summarized list of top fiction and non-fiction titles including Unlucky 13 by Patterson et al, Field of Prey by Sandford, The Goldfinch by Tartt, Natchez Burning by Lies, The Skin Collector, The Kill Switch, Chestnut Street, and more. Also features non-fiction stands Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Piketty, Finding Me by Knight, Think Like a Freak by Levitt and Dubner, and other popular titles from Publisher's Weekly.
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Piketty
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Geithner
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Picture books span near and far in May selections
Guest columnist Jacqueline Briggs Martin highlights five picture books. The First Strawberries retold by Joseph Bruchac with art by Anna Vojtech teaches kindness through Cherokee lore. Grandfather Gandhi by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus shows channeling anger into growth with Evan Turk illustrations. The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water by Gemma Marino offers preschool humor on being different. Bad Bye Good Bye by Deborah Underwood with Jonathan Bean depicts moving and new friendships. Martin, of Mount Vernon, has published 17 children’s books including The Chirru of High Tibet.
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Joseph Bruchac
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Bethany Hegedus
Arun
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North South
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Jonathan Bean
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Mount Vernon
Chiru
Tibet
The Unwitting Reviews a Chilling Private Public Split
Rob Cline discusses Ellen Feldman’s The Unwitting, a 286 page novel set around Kennedy’s assassination that follows Nell Benjamin as she navigates a left wing life during the Cold War. The narrative centers on Nell and her husband Charlie, a magazine editor, and explores secret loyalties, marriage, and the gap between private and public selves.
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