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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A character driven narrative suffused with the stark beauty of Minnesota's Northshore. Rich in story-telling and steeped in the legends and grandeur of Lake Superior, Black Otter Bay is a subtly suspenseful cabin (or anywhere) must-read."--Amazon.com
Author
Series
Snowglobe connections volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mesmerized by a snow globe containing a little girl with hair the color of her own, Cassandra Higgins recalls memories of her beloved Grandpa Wonky, the stray she rescued as a child, and her relationship with her mother.
6) Freedom
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
Author
Series
Tucker family volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A source of strength for her neighbors and friends, midwife Rachel Watkins finds herself intensely drawn to a disfigured veteran who does odd jobs around the house, an enigmatic stranger who seems mysterious yet very familiar.
Author
Series
Max Rupert and Joe Talbert volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota. Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town's residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers...
Author
Publisher
Midwest Villages & Voices
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems by Kevin Fitzpatrick. The poems are mainly rural in character, and revolve around a hobby farm run by Fitzpatrick's partner, the ever-industrious Tina. The poet himself, however, continues living in the city, and one section in the book is devoted to city life.
Author
Publisher
CreatSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
c 2012
Language
English
Description
For Clarence, a two-year-old Minnesota boy, the terrible twos were terrible. His mother was killed in an auto accident, boiling water scalded his arm, and a rooster nearly pecked out one of his eyes. Things weren’t much better at six. Tumbling into a stream, a broken bottle pierced his elbow and doctors contemplated amputating the arm. At eight, his luck changed. During a summer at an Ojibwe Indian camp, he took on a new identity as White Eagle,...
Author
Publisher
Nodin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This collection takes its title from the introductory essay, in which the author describes the house where he and his wife, Hilary, have lived for more than thirty years, near a parkland corridor running for several miles on the western edge of Minneapolis. The essays that follow describe day-to-day events at home-the seasons, the sky, the garden, the passing deer, the trees, the birds, and the sounds of the night-and forays into town to farmers'...
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