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Two notable authors selected for All Aberdeen Reads, Common Read

By Elisa Sand 02/17/2026

Two notable authors will visit Aberdeen to discuss their books as part of community-wide reading events. This year’s All Aberdeen……

Loung Ung wrote a book about a significant time in Cambodia’s history not to remember the genocide, but the love……

By Elisa Sand 09/18/2025

Field to Fork: 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, clubhouse at the Brown County Fairgrounds. A meal in celebration of community,……

By Elisa Sand 09/29/2024

Ruta Sepetys is convinced everyone has a story to tell. Her career as an author began by telling her father’s……

By Elisa Sand 09/23/2024

Ruta Sepetys makes a point of looking for underrepresented stories from the past as topics for her novels. That’s why……

By Elisa Sand 02/10/2024

Author Ruta Sepetys will return to campus for Northern State University’s annual Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture…….

By Elisa Sand 10/01/2023

Henrietta Lacks’ name is now well-known in the scientific world. How she would have felt about that will never be……

Northern State University’s fall 2023 Common Read book will be “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. A……