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Pen Pals with Armistead Maupin

May 17th, 2013 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin has entertained millions, straight and gay, with his stories of swinging San Francisco. His groundbreaking Tales of the City series began as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976 and eventually grew into eight international-bestselling novels, a

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Pen Pals wtih Armistead Maupin

May 16th, 2013 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin has entertained millions, straight and gay, with his stories of swinging San Francisco. His groundbreaking Tales of the City series began as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976 and eventually grew into eight international-bestselling novels, a

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Pen Pals with Dennis Lehane

April 12th, 2013 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN Dennis Lehane is a proven master of both crime and literary fiction. Three of his New York Times bestselling books — Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River— have been adapted into feature films by some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese

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Pen Pals with Dennis Lehane

April 11th, 2013 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN Dennis Lehane is a proven master of both crime and literary fiction. Three of his New York Times bestselling books — Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River— have been adapted into feature films by some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese

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Pen Pals with Roz Chast

March 15th, 2013 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN As a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker since 1979, Roz Chast has made a career of capsulizing in pen the everyday issues of our time: guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, real estate, and much more. Having contributed more than 1,000 cartoons to the magazine

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Pen Pals with Roz Chast

March 14th, 2013 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN As a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker since 1979, Roz Chast has made a career of capsulizing in pen the everyday issues of our time: guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, real estate, and much more. Having contributed more than 1,000 cartoons to the magazine

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First Thursdays Book Club

December 6th, 2012 | Events

Ridgedale Library, 12601 Ridgedale Dr. Minnetonka, MN 55305 Join us for some book club fun! All readers are invited join the Ridgedale Friends group and take part in fun and thought-provoking book discussions at the Ridgedale Library. Come every week or as often as possible. New readers are always welcome. This month’s title for discussion

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Pen Pals with Alice Kaplan

November 30th, 2012 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN Alice Kaplan has spent her life telling stories about France, covering past and present, literature and history, the personal and the political. From her memoir French Lessons, to her looks at World War II and its aftermath in The Collaborator and The Interpreter, to her stunning

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Pen Pals with Alice Kaplan

November 29th, 2012 | Pen Pals

Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN Alice Kaplan has spent her life telling stories about France, covering past and present, literature and history, the personal and the political. From her memoir French Lessons, to her looks at World War II and its aftermath in The Collaborator and The Interpreter, to her stunning

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Northeast Book Club

November 24th, 2012 | Events

Northeast Library, 2200 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418 The Northeast Friends Book Club meets on the fourth Saturday of every month from January to November at 3:30 p.m. at the Northeast Library. Join the club for lively discussions of contemporary titles and the books we should have read in school.  Sponsored by the Friends

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