New Titles - Spring 2008

Riding Shotgun Women Write About Their Mothers edited by Kathryn Kysar With honesty and extraordinary self-knowledge, twenty-one accomplished authors illuminate the mother-daughter relationship—intimate, complicated, loving, flawed—with humor and clarity. More Info

Suburban World The Norling Photos by Brad Zellar An amateur photographer’s astonishing collection of images that showcase the often unexpected psyche of a developing American suburb in the 1950s and ’60s. More Info

Blueberry Summers Growing Up at the Lake by Curtiss Anderson A charming boyhood memoir, featuring the antics of three generations of a large Norwegian Lutheran clan at their family cabin in Minnesota lake country. More Info

The Lyncher in Me A Search for Redemption in the Face of History by Warren Read The powerful true story of one man’s shocking family discovery, an exhaustive search for meaning, and a poignant and remarkable path to understanding, balance, and healing. More Info

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Reaching Past the Wire A Nurse at Abu Ghraib by Deanna Germain, Lieutenant Colonel, USAR (Ret.) with Connie Lounsbury A seasoned military nurse offers a startling account of the conditions, the people, the promises of life inside Abu Ghraib. More Info

The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling Captivating Stories of growing up, traveling the world, and relying on the strangeness of others will bring Kling fans to their feet and a fresh audience to its knees--bowled over by laughter. More Info

Beware of Cat And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier by Vincent Wyckoff With humor and depth, letter carrier Wyckoff reveals the rhythms, secrets, and surprises of the thriving community that comprises his postal route. More Info

Crossing Hoffa A Teamster's Story by Steven J. Harper A forthright teamster faces off with Jimmy Hoffa in this true saga of corruption, betrayal, intrigue, and courage. More Info

Spirit Car Journey to a Dakota Past by Diane Wilson A child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother’s hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family’s powerful Native American past. More Info

Answering 911 Life in the Hot Seat by Caroline Burau A rookie 911 operator writes with humor, empathy, and amazing candor of the demanding job that changed her forever. More Info

Sweet Land New and Selected Stories by Will Weaver Now an indie film, coming soon to theaters. More Info

Red Earth, White Earth by Will Weaver Will Weaver’s lauded first novel—now in paperback! More Info

A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland A coming of age odyssey of one of the great American regionalist writers. More Info

A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland The Pulitzer Prize winning sequel to A Son of the Middle Border. More Info

Dial M The Murder of Carol Thompson by William Swanson A haunting re-creation of the brutal death of an American housewife, the conviction of her husband, and the family trial at which their children determined for themselves how their father should be charged. More Info

Lost in the Wild Danger and Survival in the North Woods by Cary J. Griffith True survival odysseys of two wilderness trekkers who entered the woods in search of tranquility but found something else entirely. More Info

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The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A Memoir by Nicole Lea Helget Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the county road with semi trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways. More Info  |   Read an Excerpt

Wanda Gág: A Storybook Artist by Gwenyth Swain Famous for her elegantly written and whimsically illustrated children's books Millions of Cats, The Funny Thing, Snippy and Snappy, and Tales from Grimm, Wanda Gág (1893-1946) lived a life not unlike that of the characters in the German fairy tales that her grandparents told her as a girl. More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays by John Hildebrand In places as remote as Alaska's north slope and as familiar as a midwestern family farm there are tensions that exist between nature and the people who define a given land as home. People drawn to the wilderness are often moved to save it or resist it, depending on their desire for adventure or comfort, tradition or change, sustainability or profit. In sixteen elegant essays, award-winning writer and naturalist John Hildebrand takes a clear-eyed look at how these forces move and change the people and the land. More Info

Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street Richard Lingeman In this definitive biography, Richard Lingeman presents an empathetic, absorbing, and balanced portrait of an eccentric alcoholic-workaholic whose novels and stories exploded shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and realism. Drawing on newly uncovered correspondence, diaries, and criticism, Lingeman gives new life to this prairie Mercutio out of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. More Info

The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis Edited by Sally E. Parry Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, applied subversive satire and razor wit in his portrayals of American life. Among the best of Lewis's works were short stories that he wrote for the popular magazines of the day. The finest of these stories are collected in this volume, acerbic tales set in Minnesota that reflect his favorite themes: local boosterism, the plight of strong women, native fascism, the grip of materialism. Two of these stories have never been published, and six have not been reprinted since they first appeared. More Info

Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos from the Speed Graphic Era by Larry Millett Foreward by John Sandford Endlessly fascinating photographs of sensational images (automobile accidents, fires, murders, and social events) that were captured for the front pages of city newspapers during the Speed Graphic era (1930s-1950s). More Info

The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Editied by Patricia Hampl & Dave Page Introduction by Patricia Hampl A selection of the best of Fitzgerald's St. Paul stories—some virtually unknown, others classics of short fiction, all featuring his keen social insight, glib sophistication, and breathtaking lyricism. More Info

A Country Doctor's Chronicle: Further Tales from the North Woods by Roger A. MacDonald, M.D. A charming collection of vignettes—some hopeful, some heartbreaking—that offer a unique look at a bygone era of twentieth-century rural America. More Info

Potato City: Nature, History, and Community in the Age of Sprawl by Sue Leaf Beneath the veneer of a developing American suburb lie the hidden stories—historical, biological, and ecological—that make it a wondrous and unique place. More Info

Little Crow: Leader of the Dakota by Gwenyth Swain A compelling biography for young readers that traces the life of the Dakota leader Taoyateduta (Little Crow) and his role in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

Dred and Harriet Scott: A Family's Struggle for Freedom by Gwenyth Swain A biography for young readers that humanizes the people behind the famous Dred Scott Decision. More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City by Ashley Shelby The gripping, true-life story of one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history and its effect on one city and its citizens. More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir by Joel Turnipseed A young man's coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Gulf War. "The best dispatch so far from the Middle East desert battleground." -- Alec Wilkinson More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

Forgetting Ireland by Bridget Connelly Following mysterious clues to her family's suppressed past, Connelly uncovers a town's forgotten history and an epic tale of Irish immigrants on the American frontier. More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

River Journey by Clarence Jonk Introduction by William Least Heat-Moon A small classic of travel writing and an indelible portrait of a young man coming of age during the Great Depression. More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town Edited by Richard O. Davies, Joseph A. Amato & David R. Pichaske The dynamic Midwestern small town--from its idyllic beginnings to its imminent decline--explored and celebrated in thirty-four selections of cultural history, fiction, and poetry, both classic and contemporary. More Info   |   Read an Excerpt

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