Geographic Orientation/Minnesota
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The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
$16.95 Read moreThe story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters–now in paperback
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers–hard-dr
- Author: Shiffer, James Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1517916593
- Language: English
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Minnesota’s Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul’s Unsaintly Pioneer
$25.00 Add to cartOn September 27, 1839, the battered body of a middle-aged Irishman was found by some Dakota Indian boys. The corpse washed up along the Mississippi River shore, about seven miles downstream from Fort … [more below]
- Author: Brueggemann, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: November 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1592985351
- Language: English
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The Legend of Minnesota
$17.95 Read moreThe definition of the word “Minnesota” is known to most as the Dakotah word for “sky-tinted waters.” However, in her research about the origin of the state’s name, acclaimed author and native Minnesot… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 158536262X
- Language: English
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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Literary Center Award, and the Dayton Literary Pea- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 125013188X
- Language: English
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Danger at Snow Hill
$7.99 Read moreSomething is lurking in the woods
Is it a dog? A wolf? Or maybe even a bear? Whatever it is, it’s causing a lot of trouble in Pembrook — scaring kids and getting into the garbage. Dog Watch is on- Series: Dog Watch #3
- Author: Casanova, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 068986812X
- Language: English
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A Popular History of Minnesota
$22.95 Add to cartWhat do Paul Bunyan, Charles Lindbergh, and Jesse Ventura have in common? Minnesota, of course In A Popular History of Minnesota, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of the state’s remark… [more below]
- Author: Risjord, Norman K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0873515323
- Language: English
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Erik vs. Everything
$9.99 Add to cartCan a worrier really become a warrior? Nine-year-old Erik Sheepflattener’s life motto is Avoid Stuff, despite his family’s attempts to bring out his inner Viking. In this outrageously quirky, “funny a
- Author: Uss, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0063290820
- Language: English
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The Settlers: The Emigrant Novels: Book III
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #03
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513215
- Language: English
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Fudge Cupcake Murder
$18.95 Add to cartBakery owner Hannah Swensen just can’t keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose . . .… [more below]
- Series: Hannah Swensen Mystery #5
- Author: Fluke, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1496714032
- Language: English
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Ghost of Spirit Bear
$9.99 Add to cartIn award-winning author Ben Mikaelsen’s riveting sequel to the acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller Touching Spirit Bear, readers will be captivated by what Booklist calls a “hugely satisfying resolutio
- Series: Spirit Bear #2
- Author: Mikaelsen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 006009009X
- Language: English
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Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong
$14.95 Read moreAward-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
Long before there was a Duluth, Minnesota, the- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1517911931
- Language: English
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A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Nichols, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 1994
- ISBN10: 0816624283
- Language: English
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Trouble in Pembrook
$6.99 Add to cartPembrook dogs are on the case
A ripped down sign, a broken fire hydrant, and now Tundra, the alpha dog of Pembrook, is missing There’s trouble brewing in this quiet Minnesota town, and none of the- Series: Dog Watch #1
- Author: Casanova, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0689868103
- Language: English
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The Lost Forest
$17.95 Read moreThe story of a forest “lost” by a surveying error–and all the flora and fauna to be found there
A forest, of course, doesn’t need a map to know where to grow. But people need a map to find it. And in
- Author: Root, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 816697965
- Language: English
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Dog-Napped!
$8.99 Add to cartDogs have gone missing
Fall is not Kito’s favorite time of year — too many strange smells and spooky sightings. All of it makes Kito nervous: Something bad is going to happen. At the fire hydran- Series: Dog Watch #2
- Author: Casanova, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0689868111
- Language: English
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Nordeast Minneapolis: A History
$31.99 Add to cartWhat began as the boom site for the mid-nineteenth-century Upper Midwest lumber industry quickly grew into the town of St. Anthony. In 1872, St. Anthony was annexed by its neighbor, Minneapolis, but t… [more below]
- Author: Day, Holly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: February 23 2015
- ISBN10: 154021236X
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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The Creaky Knees Guide Northern California, 2nd Edition: The 80 Best Easy Hikes
$19.95 Add to cartExplore the beauty of Northern California’s natural landscape with this guide to 80 of the best easy-to-walk day hikes located throughout Northern California.
From hikes just outside of San Francisco- Series: Creaky Knees
- Author: Brown, Ann Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1632173581
- Language: English
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Fort Snelling at Bdote Updated Edition: A Brief History
$14.95 Add to cartFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluf… [more below]
- Author: DeCarlo, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341719
- Language: English
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Butterflies of the North Woods: Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan
$18.95 Add to cartThis is your guide to all 120 species of butterflies of the North Woods. Features include easy-to-use red bar phenograms, a phenology flight chart, habitat guide and binocular buying guide. The innova… [more below]
- Series: Naturalist
- Author: Weber, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0967379350
- Language: English
