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Features From the Stacks: Harrowing story comes to life in historical fiction In 1846, a large party of emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, for a new life in California. The farther they went, the more perilous their passage became. by Courtney Waters - For the News Tribune Jul. 24 2021 @ 11:05pm In 1846, a large party of emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, for a new life in California. The first part of their journey went more or less as planned with few casualties. The farther they went, however, the more perilous their passage became. The routes at the time took groups of settlers ove...

Genre Games Finalists for the Times Book Prize in mystery/thriller, from top left going clockwise: Rachel Howzell Hall, Christopher Bollen, Ivy Pochoda, Jennifer Hillier and S.A. Cosby. (Jay L. Clendenin / LAT/Sebastien Botella/Darren Blohowiak/S.A. Cosby.) Five of 2020’s best crime writers on where mystery fiction is today A young queer couple runs a high-stakes con game in Venice, Italy. Black and white people in rural Virginia become uneasy allies in a heist gone wrong. A fledgling PI works a case while evading her abusive ex-husband. A child abduction in Seattle reveals fissures in a m...

Allan Wolf Allan Wolf’s novel in verse, “The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices From the Donner Party,” is a finalist for the 2020 Times Book Prize in young adult literature. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In the 1840s, a party of Midwestern migrants making their way to California became snowbound and succumbed to madness, murder and cannibalism. Ever since, many writers have tried to unravel the mysteries of the Donner Party and gotten bogged down as well, stymied by a sprawling narrati...

Blood Red Road meets “The Snow Queen” in this winter-bound Western YA novel following 16-year-old Jorie Harrow, who scavenges dead men outside the Gold Rush town of Shadow Springs, where spring hasn’t come for a generation. Sunny-Side Up by Jacky Davis, illus. by Fiona Woodcock. Greenwillow, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-257307-0. This picture book offers a realistic take on how much emotional stamina can be required to make it through a day gone wrong when the protagonist’s mother leaves for the day. Paris by Phone by Pamela Druckerman, illus. by Benjamin Chaud. Putnam, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-39...

Programs for Adults  Facebook Live, Happy Birthday Beethoven!: Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m.: Paul-André Bempéchat will return to the Facebook Live stage to celebrate Beethoven's birthday! The performance will include Beethoven's:   Sonata in E minor, opus 90 Sonata in A major, opus 101 Sonata in C minor, opus 111  Paul-André Bempéchat is Music Fellow at Harvard's Cabot House. A Juilliard and Sorbonne graduate, he has enjoyed a forty-year performing and teaching career on both sides of the Atlantic. No registration required. Facebook Live, Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band Celebrates Chan...