Kismet Poe is a former goth, high school senior and beautiful brainiac. In her, farmwife Winnie Geist finds the angel who calms her son, Gary, the...
Book Club
“Out of the Pods” Keeps Listeners in the Know
Since its debut five years ago, Love is Blind has become a reality TV phenomenon as it asks the question of whether people can fall in love sight...
Finding Voice Through Art in “What Lolo Wants”
Minnesota author Cristina Oxtra’s debut picture book stars a Filipina child and her grandfather whose connection extends beyond spoken words. Maria...
A Collection of Firsts in “Neighbors and Other Stories”
Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver is populated with the people of the Jim Crow South after World War II. In Oliver’s stories, the reader...
“Can’t Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie Like Our Mama!”
On first reading, this picture book is the story of Minnesota twins, making sweet potato pie with mama. They shop at the farmers market—and they...
“Doorman Wanted”
When Henry Franken’s father dies from a heart attack, it tears an emotional hole into his life. His widowed father had raised him. As a boy, Henry...
“The Find” Explores the Irony of the Iron Range
Debut novel explores an exciting discovery and the tumult that follows. Timothy Duff remembers it well. “November 2010, a couple days before...
Edina Podcasts Are Fan Favorites
Podcasters create programming gems for your listening pleasure. At a time when multitasking has become a way of life, it can feel as though any and...
“Beneath” Explores Hidden Feelings
“Finn was in a horrible mood. Grandpa wanted to talk about it. Finn did not.” So begins this lovely, poignant picture book, which centers around a...
Moving Heaven and Earth
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store weaves history, extraordinary language, gripping plot and characters that have depth and humanity into a book...
“Our Pool” Celebrates Community, Family and Keeping Cool
To celebrate the last full month of summer, what could be better than a trip to Our Pool? This bright and joyful picture book by author/illustrator...
Author Explores Work, Motherhood and the Myth of Perfection
Kimberly Kupiecki has built a life and career around the intersection of science, nature and technology. Growing up in Windsor, Ontario, she was...
“The Museum of Failures” Explores Family Secrets
In Thrity Umrigrar’s new release, The Museum of Failures, advertising executive Remy Wadia travels to Mumbai, India, from the United States to adopt...
Nature Brings Fairytale to Life
Who can resist a duckling on a book cover? Not this reader! But this is an unusual duckling indeed. Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons...
Author Pallavi Sharma Dixit Releases Debut Novel
Edison is an intricate love letter to childhood and heritage. Edison, New Jersey, is a borough 30 minutes outside of New York City. It’s famous for...
Forgiveness, Grace and Sacrifice in Novel “Absolution”
Decades ago, I met Alice McDermott after a talk that she gave about being an Irish American writer. She was delightful and pragmatic. That Night had...
Feel the Rhythm With “Everything a Drum”
In this bouncy read aloud picture book from Minneapolis author Sarah Warren, a happy toddler makes everything in his home into a drum. “Ta-tum! Tum!...
Prizewinning and Thought Provoking
Last fall, one of my book clubs read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; it won one of two Pulitzer Prizes given for fiction in 2023. Damon...
Beloved Edina Reads Writing Contest Returns
It’s that time of year again where local authors of poetry and prose dust off their pens, pencils and keyboards and write for the chance of prizes...
Love is in the Air
It’s a wedding extravaganza, and you’re invited! This anthology for young adult readers is packed with romance across eight short stories of Desi...
