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    February 6, 2018
    Copies of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” for sale at the Duluth Barnes & Noble store in 2015. News Tribune file photo
    Duluth schools remove 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Huckleberry Finn' from curriculum due to racial slur
    The novels "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" will no longer be required reading in the Duluth school district...
    news/educationFebruary 6, 2018 - 8:04pm
    December 29, 2017
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    Yas it is: Dictionaries add pop culture terms from 2017
    FARGO — Last year many pop culture stars, including Last Week's Tonight's John Oliver, used a slang term that first emerged on the internet...
    entertainment/booksDecember 29, 2017 - 9:05am
    November 5, 2017
    Gail Francis of Duluth stands alongside a monument marking the end of the 2,700-mile Pacific Crest Trail, which she hiked in 2012. She has written a book about her hike titled "Bliss(ters) -- How I Walked from Mexico to Canada one summer." Gail Francis photo
    "Bliss(ters)," the book: Duluth woman writes about 2,700-mile hike the year she turned 40
    Ultimately, Duluth's Gail Francis couldn't think of any good reasons not to hike across America. The year was 2012. She had a good job as an...
    sports/outdoorsNovember 5, 2017 - 6:00am
    October 15, 2017
    Hardware store-grade pair of mallard decoys manufactured at the Walter Evans Decoy Factory in Wisconsin. (Andy Schoneich collection)
    Book brings decoy history to life
    GRAND FORKS—Andy Schoneich isn't a duck hunter, but he loves wildlife and does the occasional woodcarving when he gets the time. Developing...
    sportsOctober 15, 2017 - 9:54am
    September 25, 2017
    The hometown launch of the Johnsons' latest book is Saturday, Sept. 23 at Beagle and Wolf Books.
    Little Minnesota in World War II: Book honors brave men from smallest, rural towns
    PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — Small-town Minnesota farm boys were highly sought after by the U.S. military during World War II. Drawing from photos,...
    newsSeptember 25, 2017 - 2:37pm
    July 19, 2017
    British writer JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books, poses during the launch of new online website Pottermore in London, England on June 23, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/File Photo
    Two new Harry Potter books to be released in October
    The Hogwarts universe is set to expand by an additional two new Harry Potter books, published in conjunction with a British Library event, in...
    entertainmentJuly 19, 2017 - 1:50pm
    July 4, 2017
    "In Their Honor: WDAY Honor Flight 2007-2017" is for sale in the lobbies of The Forum, WDAY-TV and WDAZ-TV starting July 5th or online at WDAY.com.
    WDAY Honor Flight book is a keepsake of memories, stories and photos
    FARGO — Over the past 10 years, I've been asked a lot of questions about the WDAY Honor Flight — the project that sends World War...
    newsJuly 4, 2017 - 8:45am
    July 2, 2017
    Always in season/ Mike Jacobs: Wrens work their way into folklore
    The other day, I got a package from Babe Belzer of Cando, N.D. Inside was a book she had written. The book's heroine is a wren named Winifred...
    newsJuly 2, 2017 - 7:57am
    May 25, 2017
    Amy Thielen in her home kitchen. William Hereford/ Special to Forum News Service
    Park Rapids woman serves up second helping of food stories with memoir
    FARGO—"What's cool about cooking is that it has a military structure but is completely driven by creativity. It attracts a certain kind...
    newsMay 25, 2017 - 6:54am
    April 1, 2017
    Book cover for "Ten Plants that Changed Minnesota" (Minnesota Historical Society Press, $29.95). The book takes its list from a 2012 conference of experts convened by the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Courtesy photo / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    These 10 plants changed Minnesota forever
    ST. PAUL — Top 10 list: Most important Minnesota plants. Ever. Go. There's a new book out that takes a stab at it. "Ten Plants that Changed...
    newsApril 1, 2017 - 7:55am
    March 17, 2017
    Louise Erdrich talks at the National Book Awards reading at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., in 2013. Sheldon Green / Special to Forum News Service
    ND-raised author Erdrich wins National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction
    NEW YORK—Louise Erdrich has won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for her 15th novel, "LaRose," joining winners in...
    newsMarch 17, 2017 - 1:29pm
    December 18, 2016
    Seventh grader Marah Purdy (from left), eighth grader Marah Hennings and sixth grader Marco Ramos join Chad Nixon at Burger King on Nov. 9 after the students were rewarded with lunch for reaching one million words. (Special to the Daily Globe)
    Becoming bookworms
    WORTHINGTON — Worthington Middle School teachers are giving their students an extra push to become more engaged readers through the Million...
    news/educationDecember 18, 2016 - 8:31pm
    May 25, 2016
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    A little light reading
    LUVERNE — The Luverne Convention & Visitors Bureau, in partnership with Blue Mounds State Park, has teamed up to create a Little Free Library...
    newsMay 25, 2016 - 8:50pm
    February 1, 2016
    Sanford Worthington hosts book fair
    WORTHINGTON — Sanford Worthington Medical Center will host the Books Are Fun book fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the hospital lobby. Books Are Fun (a Reader’s Digest Company) is the world’s leading display marketer of books and gifts. For more information, contact the...
    newsFebruary 1, 2016 - 9:31pm
    Book sale coming up at local library
    WORTHINGTON — The Fall Book Sale will begin Wednesday and continue through Oct. 10 at the Nobles County Library, 407 12th St., Worthington. The sale will be in the library conference room on the lower level during normal library hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; 8 a.m....
    newsOctober 1, 2015 - 9:23pm
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