Kerry Casey

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Kerry Casey's Not Overly Poetic Poems

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Ryan Jacobson

Wisconsin

Ghost Stories from the Land of 10,000 Lakes

What college is Minnesota's most legendary haunted place? How has a haunted hutch predicted several people's deaths? Who received a letter written by a ghost? This incomparable collection features only the scariest, most surprising Minnesota ghost stories. From the author's own ghostly encounter to a family terrorized by a fiendish toy, the book's 21 tales are reportedly true! Best of all, they were written with a campfire in mind, so they're perfect for sharing aloud.

Minnesota Hauntings

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Around the Shores of Lake Superior is an ideal trip planner and a unique guide to the region. Margaret Beattie Bogue evokes the richness of local history and highlights hundreds of landmarks and points of interest that surround the lake. Grand Portage, Fort William Historical Park, the Agawa Canyon Pictographs, Isle Royale, and the Pictured Rocks and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores are just a few of the many sites featured, each with a short descriptive history, directions, and contact information. In keeping with the guide's easy-to-follow organization, all sites are keyed to a foldout map pocketed in the book's back cover. and human history of the region - the Ojibwe presence, French exploration, industry on and around the lake, and the impact of this history on the natural environment. With more than 200 color and black-and-white images, this updated and greatly expanded second edition will enrich the appreciation of the region for both visitors and residents of the upper Great Lakes.

The book is in good condition, with minimal wear to the spine. Some light creases on the spine but no break. Pages are clean and unmarked. The book comes with a folded paper map to be used as a travel guide. Published in 1979.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

A guide to historic sites

Around the Shores of Lake Superior

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This beautiful coffee table style book is about the history of the Episcopal Cathedral in Faribault, Minnesota. Full of photos, original material, and great stories.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

An Episcopal Community for Mission

The First Cathedral

Florida

Growing up life on a Minnesota farm 1922 to 1940

Kao Kalia Yang

A Hmong Family Memoir

In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family's story after her grandmother's death,The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang's tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard.

Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her family's captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp.

When she was six years old, Yang's family immigrated to America, and she evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community have finally found a voice.

Together with her sister,Kao Kalia Yang is the founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently screenedThe Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees. Visit her website at www.kaokaliayang.com.

The Latehomecomer

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Scott Carlson

A Heady History

The Twin Cities witnessed a recent explosion of craft beer breweries and brewpubs, but the region's beer history reaches back generations. The Minneapolis Brewing Company introduced the iconic Grain Belt beer in 1893, and it remains a local favorite. Fur trapper and bootlegger Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant established a St. Paul tavern along the banks of the Mississippi River in the early 1800s. The area has been home to some of the best-known beer brands in America, from Hamm's and Schmidt's to Yoerg's and Olympia. Today, microbreweries such as Bad Weather Brewing, Summit Brewing and more than fifty others are forging new avenues. Join author Scott Carlson as he offers an intriguing history and guide to Twin Cities beer.

Twin Cities Beer

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John Sandford

Ohio

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review). At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . . and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among this group of wildly impassioned, diametrically opposed zealots lurks a killer, and it will be up to Virgil to sort the murderer from the mere maniacs.

Bloody Genius

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William Kent Krueger

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “expansive, atmospheric American saga” (Entertainment Weekly) This Tender Land. On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results of the autopsy, vicious rumors begin to circulate that the killer must be Noah Bluestone, a Native American WWII veteran who has recently returned to Jewel with a Japanese wife. As suspicions and accusations mount and the town teeters on the edge of more violence, Dern struggles not only to find the truth of Quinn’s murder but also put to rest the demons from his own past. Caught up in the torrent of anger that sweeps through Jewel are a war widow and her adolescent son, the intrepid publisher of the local newspaper, an aging deputy, and a crusading female lawyer, all of whom struggle with their own tragic histories and harbor secrets that Quinn’s death threatens to expose. Both a complex, spellbinding mystery and a masterful portrait of midcentury American life from an author of novels “as big-hearted as they come” (Parade), The River We Remember is an unflinching look at the wounds left by the wars we fight abroad and at home, a moving exploration of the ways in which we seek to heal, and a testament to the enduring power of the stories we tell about the places we call home.

The River We Remember

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Candace Simar

Trade paperback. Pages are clean and tight with no spine creasing. Book 2 of 4. 

A Novel of the Minnesota Uprising

The Sioux Uprising of 1862, the largest Indian war in U.S. history, was over by that fall--or so the government declared. For Gust and Serena, newlyweds and fresh immigrants from Iowa, settling into their farm at Pomme de Terre was challenging as Indian raids continued in the western part of Minnesota. In their camps Sioux men, women, and children also were challenged--by promises by the government that were not met, supplies that failed to come, and starvation.

Pomme de Terre

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Paul I. Wellman

Missouri

The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains

Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota, involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces—all being ezed out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. There is never a quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle, Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers (notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men, women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal consequence.

Death on the Prairie

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Cynthia Hartwick

Indiana

Minnesota, 1983

The Mostly Methodist Club met Saturday morning year-round, but was at its best in autumn and winter, when it helped steel the ladies for the Sundays their men spent watching TV sports with eyes glazed like so many holiday hams...

The mostly-married, mostly-middle-aged members of the Mostly Methodist Club (Deborah Cohen made it "Mostly") were used to swapping recipes, not stock tips. They'd taken few risks in their lives, and had even fewer adventures.

But when a pink-haired young rebel named Skye found her way into the group, things changed. The ladies had already begun looking into investment opportunities, after realizing that their retirement earnings would barely keep them in Burpee seeds and baking powder. But it was Skye who tipped them off to a struggling new company that might be worth sinking a few dollars into. A company that was developing some interesting new technology. A company run by a man named Bill Gates...

Ladies with Options

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Tim O'Brien

This is signed by the author. There is a long inscription as shown in the pics when this was given as a gift in the past.

Oregon

"On a lake deep in Minnesota's north woods, John and Kathy Wade are trying to reassemble their lives. John, a rising political star, has just suffered a devastating electoral defeat. Kathy attempts to comfort her husband, but soon it becomes apparent that something is horribly wrong between them, that they have hidden too much from each other." "Then one day Kathy vanishes. Their boat is gone - did she drown or is she lost? Or did she flee, disappearing into a new life? As a massive search gets under way, the possibilities multiply in terrifying directions. Uncovering the truth requires an investigation of Wade's life, and gradually we come to see that he is a sorcerer lost inside his own magic, a Houdini capable of escaping everything but the chains of his darkest secret."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

(Signed) In the Lake of the Woods

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Garrison Keillor

California

During the summer of 1956, fourteen-year-old geek Gary struggles with the hormonal pains and obsessions of puberty as he experiences a passionate devotion to his rebellious cousin Kate and pursues his dream of becoming a writer, but when Kate gets into trouble with the local basketball star, Gary is forced to deal with the first pangs of a broken heart. 250,000 first printing.

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956

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Dido Kotile

The Lonely Path tells the story of Sami, a Kenyan immigrant to the US who faces tribulations that not only put his life at risk but the lives of his family as well. As he struggles to get permanent legal residence in the States, he faces the hardships of fraud, marital distrust, and family adversity. Hope arrives in the form of Kumar, a fellow immigrant who works at the same restaurant as Sami. Kumar introduces Sami to Jasmine, a woman who will soon spin his world upside down. To win a coveted green card, Kumar suggests that Sami divorce his wife and marry Jasmine "temporarily." Despite the objections of his wife, Sami reluctantly agrees, and as their lives hang in the balance, he must make the right choices to ensure his family's success.

The Lonely Path

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Sheila O'Connor

Bookstore pricing sticker on the back, read once, no underlining or dogearing! This is an unexpectedly fantastic novel based on lots of artifacts and historical documents. Smoke-free pet-friendly home

A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions

Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Women's Studies. Criminal Justice Studies. In an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, novelist Sheila O'Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent girls for "immorality" in the first half of the twentieth century, O'Connor follows young V from her early work as a nightclub entertainer to her subsequent six-year state school sentence for an unplanned pregnancy. As V struggles to survive within a system only nominally committed to rescue and reform, she endures injustices that will change the course of her life and the lives of her descendants. Inspired by O'Connor's research on her unknown maternal grandmother and the long-term effects of intergenerational trauma, Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions is a poignant excavation of familial and national history that remains disturbingly relevant�a harrowing story of exploitation and erasure, and the infinite ways in which girls, past and present, are punished for crimes they didn't commit. O'Connor's collage novel offers an engaging balance between illuminating a shameful and hidden chapter of American history and captivating the reader with the vivid and unforgettable character of V.

Evidence of V

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In the National Book Award longlist book This Side of Wild, Newbery Honor–winning author Gary Paulsen shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion

This side of wild 

Jenna Blum

New York

A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside, returning to Germany to reopen the wounds of her own life--as well as that of her mother--as a child living in Nazi Germany. Reprint.

Those Who Save Us

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Paul Douglas

The Minnesota Weather Book

Prairie Skies

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George Rekela

From the North Stars to the Wild

"The NHL Expansion of 1967 and how it impacted the Twin Cities, specifically with the city being awarded a franchise (Minnesota North Stars), that teams' relocation to Dallas and the expansion of the Minnesota Wild"--

A History of Professional Hockey in Minnesota

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Iowa

A Fuchsia, Minnesota Mystery

Granny may be retired as Fuchsia, Minnesota's one-woman undercover sleuth for the Fuchsia Police Department, but that doesn't mean she still doesn't need a trusty weapon. Her weapon of choice? A pink snow shovel. When Granny runs over a dead body with her snowmobile, she unwittingly sets off a chain of events that involves mislabeled corpses, empty graves, and stolen money--lots of it Who's at the bottom of this years old crime? Granny has an idea, but she has little time to investigate, when in just days she's scheduled to marry the love of her life, Franklin Gatsby, in a post-Christmas ceremony. So, Granny decides to enlist the help of her friends and neighbors. Add in Christmas holiday excitement and the arrival of Granny's family, who are all there for her wedding, and mayhem ensues. Of course, Granny can always count on her many furry friends to provide her with moral support, but it's quite possible that Granny--that is, Hermiony Vidalia Criony Fiddlestadt--has a secret or two of her own, which may very well be revealed as GRANNY SNOWS A SNEAK.

Granny Snows a Sneak

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Crackers and Milk

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Joan M. Drury

Silent words by Joan and Drury. Tyler I had to lean over my mother putting my ear right next to her mouth in order to hear her. her breath was hot against my skin and had to stay still of medicine decay and death. a smell that was to stay with me for weeks after she died. go home to Minnesota shake this skeletons in the closet it's time for the truth. was her mother's last words to equity in her ears Tyler Jones San Francisco Bay's newspaper columnist amateur sleuth introduced and the other side of silence journeys to the family home in northern Minnesota. Tyler directed to find the truth has no inkling what truth is she is supposed to search for and this I caught idolic Haven perched on the edge of Lake superior. one starley truth she uncovers is that she is deeply attached to this landscape of her childhood and ancestry. is Tyler text you fulfill her mother's deathbed wish she, she on Earth's layer after layer of half truce Legends lies accumulate over the years that passed down through the generations biting some members of the community to a conspiracy of silence. she explores the meaning of family in its many guys's the complexity of human nature regarding our notions of good and bad and Lacks to which the living will go to protect their dead there are bodies of course but the real mystery is silence words is about to about the secret that hides and festers in the families history and hearts. silent words is a kind of book I love with richly portrayed characters wonderful dialogue setting so it vitally and it made me want to summer house down the road at best of all one of those intriguing valley secrets no best of all Tyler Jones and utterly believable witty appealing sleuth. intelligent independent Tyler Jones is at it again Joe jewelry we use a fascinated tale of women coming to terms with the death of her mother and truth of her old family. the Lake Superior study is fresh and beautiful detailed and the characters are memorable thoroughly enjoyable read Ellen Hart Robert's wine

Journalist Tyler Jones, a lesbian amateur sleuth travels to the shores of Lake Superior where she has been directed by her dying mother to "find the truth." She has no idea what truth she is supposed to find. There are bodies, of course, but the real mystery is the secrets that hide and fester in family histories.

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Kerry Casey

Kerry Casey's Not Overly Poetic Poems

Ryan Jacobson

Minnesota Hauntings

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Around the Shores of Lake Superior

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The First Cathedral

Bruce Laingen

Growing up life on a Minnesota farm 1922 to 1940

Kao Kalia Yang

The Latehomecomer

Scott Carlson

Twin Cities Beer

John Sandford

Bloody Genius

William Kent Krueger

The River We Remember

Candace Simar

Pomme de Terre

Paul I. Wellman

Death on the Prairie

Cynthia Hartwick

Ladies with Options

Tim O'Brien

(Signed) In the Lake of the Woods

Garrison Keillor

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956

Dido Kotile

The Lonely Path

Sheila O'Connor

Evidence of V

Gary Paulsen

This side of wild

Jenna Blum

Those Who Save Us

Paul Douglas

Prairie Skies

George Rekela

A History of Professional Hockey in Minnesota

Julie Seedorf

Granny Snows a Sneak

Arlene Nelson

Crackers and Milk

Jenna Blum

Those Who Save Us

Joan M. Drury

Silent Words