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Rick Shefchik
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Amen Corner: A Sam Skarda Mystery
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2007
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9 editions
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Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota
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2015
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3 editions
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Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece
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Green Monster
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2008
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11 editions
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Frozen Tundra
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2010
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2 editions
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Rather See You Dead
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2011
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From Fields to Fairways: Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota
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2012
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Green Monster: A Sam Skarda Mystery: A Sam Skarda Mystery
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Green Monster
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Minneapolis Golf Club - Celebrating 100 Years of Golf Tradition and History
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| Halberstam was not a very good writer - at least, not when this monumentally important book was published. The text is crammed with run-on sentences, redundant observations and unnecessary details. It would probably have been at least as effective at ...more | |
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| A bit chick-litty for a gritty World War II survival tale, but I will freely admit that Hannah got to me during the emotional final scenes. The way she described how everything smelled felt a bit MFA 101, but she created characters you could root for ...more | |
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| Uplifting tribute to a genearation of Americans who lived through the most troubling times of the last century. Many of these vignettes bring a reader near tears as buddies die, lives are upended and families struggle with both the tragic and the unk ...more | |
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| "Sweeping family saga" would be the cliched term for this book that begins prior to World War II and extends through the Vietnam era. There are only a handful of characters who matter in this family, but Ryan is able to make you care about all of the ...more | |
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| I liked this better than "The Underground Railroad" - Whitehead is better when he doesn't try to embellish reality - but it didn't rise above the familiar "sympathetic characters in prison" story. It had an interesting twist at the end, and the descr ...more | |
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| Maybe I should have read the first book in this series first. The conceit of an author tagging along with a gruff, unlikeable cop as he writes about the murder case already seems played out by the second go-round. The murder yarn itself isn't all tha ...more | |
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| Kaplan gets deep into Sinatra's early years to explain all the ambition, boastfulness, blow-ups, insecurities, heartaches and desperation that the public came to expect from this supremely gifted singer. The three most important people in his life we ...more | |
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| The stories and anecdotes in the second half of Kaplan's biography are better-known than those of the first half - and one suspects there were dozens of others that had to be left out for length - but this is the Sinatra that we all remember, and lov ...more | |