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This Valentine’s Day, if you’re looking for a romantic read in the spirit of all the best New York rom-coms, check out In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer.

Tom Rob Smith's debut novel, Child 44, remains to this day one of the best thrillers I have ever read. Exciting, adventuresome, at times disturbing and extraordinarily original, Child 44 is one of those rare debuts that seems impossible to top.

 

“When you go owling, you don’t need words,” reads Owl Moon, a book written in 1988 by Jane Yolen.  Starting on March 8, the Stages Theatre Company will team up with Escalate Dance

Snapping a picture of Tucker was not an easy feat. “He doesn’t sit still much,” says Al Whitaker, the photographer and owner of the 1-year-old Morkie, a Maltese and Yorkshire terrier mix.

Some of us just don’t have a green thumb. The experienced among us point and laugh while we toil in the beating sun watching our efforts lead to nothing—not even a single sprout. That could all change at the annual Spring Garden Fair at the Southshore Center.

College costs are high and rising at a rate of 5 percent per year. According to Christina Boyd, managing director of investments at Merrill Lynch in Wayzata, average annual tuition for a public university in Minnesota is $25,000.

Judy Cyr watched a 1,000-pound slab of granite get hoisted with pulleys into her new screened-in porch. That was followed by two pieces weighing 400 pounds each and a final piece weighing in at 800 pounds.

To further beautify the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Wayzata residents Alfred Harrison and Ingrid Lenz Harrison recently donated more than 20 outdoor sculptures to be displayed along Three-Mile Drive.

Tom Rob Smith's debut novel, Child 44, remains to this day one of the best thrillers I have ever read. Exciting, adventuresome, at times disturbing and extraordinarily original, Child 44 is one of those rare debuts that seems impossible to top.

 

A new language immersion program that opened in September in Minnetonka is having great success in its first year.

Tucked away in Tonka Bay is the home that architect Jack Griswold designed and built in 1956. Griswold constructed a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Scandinavian style with clean lines in which to raise his three daughters.

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