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MINNESOTA BEST-SELLERS

About once a month, we'll ask two booksellers — one independent and one chain — for current best-sellers. The specific booksellers will change every month.

BARNES & NOBLE
3225 West 69th Street, Edina
TOP 10 FICTION
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
3. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Pursuit Of Honor by Vince Flynn
5. U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
6. Ford County by John Grisham
7. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
8. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
9. I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
10. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

TOP 10 NONFICTION
1. Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
2. Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
3. Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt
4. Drink This: Wine Made Simple by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
5. Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
6. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
7. True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy
8. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
9. Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn by Kevin Kling
10. Weird Minnesota by Eric Dregni

COMMON GOOD BOOKS
165 Western Ave North, St. Paul
TOP 10 FICTION
1. A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor
2. Pilgrims by Garrison Keillor
3. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Total Oblivion, More or Less by Alan Deniro
5. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
6. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
7. The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
8. Let the Great World Spin by C. McCann
9. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell
10. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

TOP 10 NONFICTION
1. Paris Photos, Paris Walks by Peter O'Toole
2. Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn by Kevin Kling
3. Drink This: Wine Made Simple by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
4. St Paul Almanac
5. Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
6. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do by Michael Sandel
7. The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper by Lynne Rosetto Kasper
8. The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones
9. Women, Work, & the Art of Savoir Faire by Mireille Guiliano
10. Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr

 

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    James Bettendorf: free spirit

    By Dara Syrkin, The Loft Literary Center | Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 7:40 pm

    His colleagues call him a free spirit. Generous and caring. A mature, solid, well-rounded person. Someone who puts everything he's got into what he's doing. And certainly no one can accuse James Bettendorf of retiring in his retirement. A math teacher to kids and an educator of educators, Jim is educating himself about poems and their impact.

    Jim taught mathematics and worked in education for more than 30 years. "Math and poetry are similar," he says. "Math is an art, a creative thing. And being able to approach math in different ways in the teaching process, to reach all kids, feeds that creativity. Teachers have to be like swallows."

    Teachers also have to bend with change. "Kids themselves haven't changed that much," says Jim, "but they're exposed to so much. Today's children have a much bigger frame of reference than children in decades past.

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