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Posted on 5/22/13 at 1:01 AM
EH? PLUS Art in the park and on your coffee table
If you can hardly wait for the Art in Bayfront Park art fair in August, you can get a taste for it in a new book featuring artists from the annual event. The first Art in Bayfront Park artist coffee ...
Posted on 5/22/13 at 12:00 AM
LIVING UNITED Story time at United Day Nursery
One of our goals to ensure children enter school ready to succeed. By regularly reading to children during their preschool years, you provide them with the biggest boost toward a successful education...
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:30 PM
OH LOOK, A SHINY THING! The New Oz Movie
Well, after 28 years they've finally come out with a new Oz movie, and the critics already seem to be jumping all over it with hobnailed boots. Fair enough. I haven't seen it yet, so I have no idea w...
Posted on 3/8/13 at 11:50 AM
REALLY EATING Book Club -- is it really about the books?
My Book Club met at my place last night. I guess the book might be perceived as extraneious, but we did read a book, Shattered Innocence: The Abduction of Jaycee Dugard - The Untold Story by Robert Sc...
Posted on 1/30/13 at 9:04 AM
Herald staff picks: 5 things I love right now
“The Very Best of Travis Tritt”... apple pecan chicken salad... “Justified”... flameless candles... “Silken Prey.”
March 02, 2013
THE LIST: MAYA trio... Art exhibit reception... Read Across America 
The MAYA Trio will perform Sunday at North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks and Monday night in Mayville, N.D.
By Accent Staff Report , February 28, 2013
Couple pens book about life among wolves
Many people see a group of wolves as a threatening mob, but Jim and Jamie Dutcher, who lived with a pack of wolves in Idaho from 1991 to 1996, know better. They see a group of wolves as a close family, they explained in an interview.
By Juliet Eilperin , February 23, 2013
5 books to kick back with on vaycay
It seems everyone is looking for the perfect tale to take on their vacation out of this ice hole. Or maybe we’re just looking for something to distract ourselves from below-zero temperatures and weekly blizzards.
By Heidi Shaffer , February 23, 2013
BOOK NOTES: “Ten Years Later”... “Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love”
In “Ten Years Later,” Hoda Kotb chronicles amazing game-changing events in the lives of six people and then revisits each of those lives a decade later. In “Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love,” Matthew Loglein shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; her untimely death and his reliance on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided.
By Accent Staff Report , February 23, 2013
Marilyn's book to be released this fall
The cover for Herald columnist Marilyn Hagerty’s new book, “Grand Forks: A history of American dining in 100 reviews,” was recently released by HarperCollins.
By Herald Staff Report , February 20, 2013
New U.S. covers commissioned for Harry Potter books
Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that new covers have been commissioned for U.S. trade paperback editions of J.K. Rowling’s blockbuster series.
By Associated Press , February 17, 2013
BOOK NOTES: 'Lincoln's Grave Robbers' ... 'As She Lay Sleeping' ... 'Height'
By Herald Staff Report , February 10, 2013
Wishek, ND, native pens ‘Fellowship of the Sausage Ring’
Ron Vossler grew up in Wishek, N.D., a town well known as a source for the fry sausage and summer sausage made by the Germans from Russia. In “Fellowship of the Sausage Ring: A Meditation on Wascht,” Vossler writes about traveling to his hometown and having sausage with his family.
By Herald Staff Report , February 10, 2013
‘Trapped’: A ripping plot about preserving wild places
“Trapped” by April Christofferson is a timely eco-thriller that shed’s light on some of America’s great endangered natural resources: Our national parks and the endangered species to which they are home.
By Herald Staff Report , February 10, 2013
‘Bridget Jones’ author to publish new novel
Helen Fielding, the British author of the bestselling “Bridget Jones’s Diary” books that were made into successful films has written a new novel that will be released in November, her U.S. publisher said on Tuesday.
By Patricia Reaney and Cynthia Osterman , February 10, 2013
Canadian pens erotic answer to “Fifty Shades” as a dare
Canadian novelist Lisa Gabriele never felt she was especially good at writing sex scenes, but when an editor dared her to write an erotic novel to rival the wildly popular global hit “Fifty Shades of Grey,” she took up the challenge.
By Elaine Lies , February 10, 2013
How did 'Little House' sister really become blind?
Any fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved "Little House" books knows how the author's sister Mary went blind: scarlet fever. But turns out that probably wasn't the cause, medical experts say, upending one of the more dramatic elements in the classic stories.
By Lindsey Tanner , February 04, 2013
BOOK NOTES: “Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat” and more
A look at the new arrivals to the Grand Forks and East Grand Forks libraries
By Herald Staff Report , February 03, 2013
Forgotten Bismarck team broke baseball’s color line
During the Great Depression, in drought stricken Bismarck, one of the most improbable teams in the history of baseball was assembled by one of the sport’s most unlikely champions.
By Herald Staff Report , February 03, 2013
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