University of Minnesota Press
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Minnesota’s Natural Heritage: Second Edition
$49.95 Read moreThe definitive work on Minnesota’s natural history and ecology–updated, expanded, and copiously illustrated to account for profound changes to the state’s natural landscape over the past twenty-five
- Author: Tester, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1517903572
- Language: English
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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi
$18.95 Add to cartAn exploration of the winter wonders and entangled histories of Scandinavia’s northernmost landscapes–now back in print with a new afterword by the author
After many years of travel in the Nordic c
- Author: Sjoholm, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915147
- Language: English
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Vacationland
$16.95 Read moreOn a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge–only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl sh
- Author: Stonich, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2013
- ISBN10: 816687668
- Language: English
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The Streel: A Deadwood Mystery
$15.95 Add to cartWomen Writing the West WILLA Award Finalist
From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nin- Author: Logue, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1517908604
- Language: English
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Marguerite Duras: Writing
$16.95 Add to cartWriting, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0816677530
- Language: English
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Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway
$21.95 Read moreA collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calli
- Author: Kittelsen, Theodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1517911397
- Language: English
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Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
$19.95 Read moreA fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsroman
Gustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517914132
- Language: English
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Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence
$17.95 Read moreThe second volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century
As Norway mov- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1517911605
- Language: English
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
$18.95 Add to cartBetween its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolu
- Author: Nelson, Alondra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0816676496
- Language: English
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Too Much Sea for Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale
$24.95 Read moreShipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicle- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1517912849
- Language: English
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The Road Back to Sweetgrass
$14.95 Read moreSet in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their coming of age and the inte
- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 081669916X
- Language: English
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On the Wandering Paths
$19.95 Read moreA walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present–more than 425,000 copies sold in France
After a free-climbing a
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Tesson, Sylvain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 1517912814
- Language: English
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Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows
$17.95 Add to cartThe initial volume in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway–the first new English translation in nearly a century
As a child, Olav Audunss n is given by his dyin- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 151791048X
- Language: English
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Olav Audunssøn: III. Crossroads
$17.95 Read moreThe third volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s epic story of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in the first English translation in nearly a century
In the early fo
- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913349
- Language: English
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
$19.95 Read moreWinner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction
Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany marrie
The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 13, 2004
- ISBN10: 0816645248
- Language: English
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We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World
$18.95 Read moreA brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota
In this significant collection, Indigenou
- Author: Holbrook, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1517912210
- Language: English
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Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota: The Complete Guide to Species Identification
$39.95 Read moreThe definitive field guide for understanding and identifying ferns and lycophytes in Minnesota
Rapid advances in DNA studies have given scientists new understandings of ferns and lycophytes, making b
- Author: Smith, Welby R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914663
- Language: English
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The Singing Wilderness
$15.95 Read moreThe Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson’s first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume es… [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
- Author: Olson, Sigurd F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0816629927
- Language: English
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Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe
$21.95 Read moreThe story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village–and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore
“We do this because telling where you are from is just as important as … [more below]
- Author: Drouillard, Staci Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1517903408
- Language: English
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Begin with a Bee
$17.95 Add to cartA Chicago Public Library’s Best Informational Books for Younger Readers selection
Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees- Author: Ketchum, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1517908043
- Language: English
