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Northern Oracle is out now!
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      Bibliography Updates
    New entries in criticism:
    Lennard Sillanpaa
    Andrew Grace
    Hilary Virtanen
    Tim Frandy
    New entries in Nonfiction:
    Reino Nikolai Hannula
    Silja J. A. Talvi
    J. B. Hove
        New Entries in Fiction:
    Arline Faro
    Linnea A. Due
    Ernest Hekkanen
    New Entries in Poetry
    Sheila Packa
    Josef Aukee
    K. Alma Peterson
    Lisbeth Holt

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Readers schedule at FinNALA           
Booth at FinnFest 2008, Duluth

  Thursday, July 24
11:00
12:00
 
1:00        
2:00        Donna Salli
3:00        Lisbeth Holt
4:00        
5:00        Beth L. Virtanen
6:00        Jim Johnson

Friday, July 25
10:00        K.Alma Peterson
11:00        Judy Henderson
12:00        Linnea Due
1:00          Borje Vahamaki
2:00          Sheila Packa
3:00          Lauri Anderson
4:00          G. K. Wuori

Saturday, July 26
10:00        Joseph Aukee
11:00        Karl Luntta
12:00        Kirsten Dierking
1:00          Diane Jarvi (Board Meeting)
2:00          Member Meeting
3:00          Steve Lehto
4:00          Suzanne Matson


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Hekkanen's
Of Fire Beyond Hills is out.
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Sheila Packa
Packa's latest work,
The Mother Tongue,
is available on her website:
http://www.sheilapacka.com

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    Josef Aukee, poet
    From the San Francisco Bay area,
    performance poet Josef Karl Aukee

       K. Alma Peterson, poet
       From the Minneapolis-St. Paul  
       metro area

Josef Aukee
K. Alma Peterson
Who's Publishing?
Some Friends

    Lisbeth Holt, poet and travel writer
    from southern Florida will join us.
Who's Reading?
Lisbeth Holt
Check North Wind Books for
Anderson's
Back to Misery Bay
Donna Salli
    Donna Salli’s first play, a glimpse into the
    lives of a fictional Finnish-American
    family, is scheduled to open on
    Halloween night—in Finland.  

    She'll talk about it at the FinNALA Booth

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