Home improvement guides offered by Cedar Rapids Library
Melia Tatman highlights library resources for DIY home projects before winter. Highlights include How Your House Works Trade Secrets and The Big Book of Hacks with step by step diagrams and money saving advice.
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Lungs Full of Noise by Tessa Mellas at Cedar Rapids event
Rob Cline reviews Tessa Mellas debut collection Lungs Full of Noise winner of the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Event details show Mellas reading at Barnes & Noble Cedar Rapids October 12 at 7 p.m. Free admission and Iowa City Book Festival participation noted.
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Iowa
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers
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The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent review and reflections
A review notes Kent’s The Outcasts blends Western action with a deeper look at independence and pursuit of a better life. Lucinda a brassy whore and Nathan a Texas state policeman drive parallel tale threads, balanced to reveal moral struggles, then converge powerfully.
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Kathleen Kent
Texas
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Lucinda
Nathan
Texas Rangers
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Local Best-Sellers and New Releases Listed
A bookstore display lists recent titles including Enon by Harding The Value of Debt by Andersar A Marker to Measure Drift by Maksik Zealot by Asian Local Souls by Gurganus Bleeding Edge by Pynchon The Real Cause for Your Absence by Bauer How Does It Feel to Be a Bayoumi Old Man River by Schneider Dissident Gardens by Lethem at Prairie Lights Books.
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Gurganus
Bleeding Edge
Pynchon
Bauer
Ahe Bayoumi
Old Man River
Schneider
Lethem
National bestsellers and notable non fiction list
A catalog of top selling fiction and nonfiction titles with authors and publishers. Highlights include The Longest Ride The Final Cut Deadly Heat and Lean In among others, noting rankings and publication details from Publisher's Weekly.
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Grafton
DeMille
Coulter
Bleeding Edge
Pynchon
Cassier
Perry LO
Galbraith
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New Bo Books
Prairie Lights
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Book Club
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Prairie Lights Books
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Robert
Levir
Grand Theft Auto V Ltd
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Sandberg
Perimutter
Duck Commander
Publisher's Weekly
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