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Illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and the advent of space tourism creates a deadly backdrop for a murder investigation when birder Bob White finds a famous Winter Texan dead in one of the Rio Grande Valleys World Birding Centers during his January escape from Minnesotas deep-freeze.

Vices are outlawed in Cloquet in 1918 except on the Island. There, loggers can have the time of their lives with drink, women of the night, and poker games. When the city is threatened by fire, the virtuous citizens of Cloquet have to overcome their prejudice in order to survive.

A young man is found beaten to death, the most sacred areas of a Catholic church are desecrated, a sabotaged railroad track leads to a deadly derailment, and a Jewish holocaust survivor is hung in effigy. All happen in too short a time span to say they are not related, andDeidre Johnsonis broughtout of retirement to solve the crimes. Suspect groups are identified,and a process of elimination begins, ending in alife-altering experience forher.Preying in Two Harborsis the fourthbook of the Two Harbors mystery series written by Dennis Herschbach.

History and Hauntings of the Halloween Capital takes a look into why the small village of Anoka, Minnesota, has been declared to be The Halloween Capital of the World.

The long-awaited second book in the Minnesota's Lost Towns series is now available. Travel along as we visit and learn about more than 125 central Minnesota locations. The book covers twenty-six of Minnesota's central corridor counties, from east to west. Read how the towns were created, how they developed and lived, and why they died. Discover the people and places of Minnesota's past. Filled with tales and photos, the book is a fun and educational read for anyone who loves history or a good story.

A thought-provoking collection of essays and poems that explore memory, the meaning of place, and sacred space.

Henry, Dylan, and Arla land the perfect summer job bringing supplies by boat to the cabins on Rainy Lake. Gold is still waiting to be discovered, but now they can fish and search for the River of Gold mine as they make their rounds. But exploring the islands turns dangerous. Someone is hiding a crime, and Henry, Dylan, and Arla can't run fast enough.

"Author Gary W. Barfknecht jokes that his baby-boom boyhood home in Virginia, Minnesota, wasn't exactly at the end of the world. But he could see it from there. With energetic style and sly wit, this son and grandson of miners paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of his daily life in the harsh, frigid, isolated strip of mineral wealth known as the Mesabi Iron Range. His entertaining, enlightening, compelling, sometimes poignant true stories and journal-type entries bring to life the unique challenges and pleasures of growing up in what he describes as essentially a small, insular foreign country, with its own culture, language, and one-of-a-kind terrain"--Page 4 of cover.

"In the aftermath of the Wounded Knee massacre, a young Lakota warrior stands trial for murder in Sioux Falls, the 1891 Divorce Capitol of America. Plenty Horses admits to shooting the army lieutenant, but he claims it was an act of war. Laura, a beautiful New York socialite escaping an unhappy marriage, and Morgan, a former member of the Seventh Cavalry haunted by his memories of Wounded Knee, form an unlikely team, exposing the forces looking to execute Plenty Horses. The culture of the West, the politics and racism of the day, and a sense of justice for native people clash, with the fate of a young Lakota warrior at stake." --P. [4] of cover

Best-selling author, artist, and wilderness guide Douglas Wood here presents his personal recipe for being truly alivefor arriving at the ground beneath your feet and feeling at home in the universe. Warm, witty, and wise, with a rare knack for getting to the heart of things in two words rather than two thousand, Breathe the Wind, Drink the Rain is a guidebook to that most elusive destination of all. Yourself.

The history hidden in the story of our borders. How those borders were formed. What deals were struck. Why Minnesota looks like it does.

Sex, drugs, and rock & roll have reached the smallest towns on the plains. Two brothers growing up on a ranch in the Dakotas are caught in the midst of it. The older brother and golden boy of the family, Jake, returns from Vietnam damaged by his experience and the family struggles to cope with the aftermath. Jake lives a wild and destructive life and younger brother, Peter, is both repelled and attracted by it. When Peter betrays Jake and destroys his relationship with the one woman who may be able to save him, Jake embarks on a drug-crazed bank robbery and lands in prison. Peter is launched on his own quixotic journey and has a series of luckless relationships with women before becoming a monk at St. Johns Abbey. The novel traces the intersecting lives of both brothers carrying the guilt of the past and ultimately finding peace and redemption. The story spans five generations as the past is linked to the future and takes us from Germany and Russia to the Dakota prairies and Minnesota.

Henry Wilder is excited to spend the whole summer at the family cabin, Wilders Edge. Cousin Dylans new scheme to find gold at an old mine sounds good at first, but goes dangerously wrong. An eighty year old mystery on Rainy Lake unfolds enticing Henry, Dylan and their friend, Arla into a hunt that pulls a dangerous game into the present.

Palmer and Ellie Knutson are on vacation in London, England, when they are rudely interrupted by not one, but two murders. Palmer is once again on the case, using a Minnesota nice attitude and good ol' intution to solve the Unicorn murders. What could possibly go wrong?

THE WHOLE FOREST FOR A BACKYARD: A Gunflint Trail Wilderness Memoir. It is mostly about his growing up years in the 1950s and 1960s at the resort his parents owned 32 miles into the boreal forest from the town of Grand Marais, Minnesota. The book reflects the perspective of a small, free-range boy with a large imagination reared in one of our nation's most cherished wilderness areas. It also reflects fully the bearing this wilderness has had since that boy has grown. Far more than a sentimental journey into the past, this memoir is a story of triumphs, tragedies, and transitions, which reveals in full the cathartic powers of nature. The lessons presented are all the more relevant today. Our need to reconnect with the wild has never been greater.

Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: The Mysteries of the Hooked X is the third book in a series that investigates the origin and meaning of a mysterious symbol originally found on the five fiercely debated medieval North American rune stones. That research led forensic geologist Scott Wolter on a world-wide search that resulted in several explosive discoveries, including the stunning realization that the Hooked X symbolizes an ideological thread that weaves through at least 3,800 years of human history. This amazing story involves some of the most important figures in world history, including the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, the biblical Jesus, the medieval Cistercians and Knights Templar, numerous Native American tribes, Freemasonry, and the founding fathers of the United States, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. This book introduces several new mysterious artifacts and sites in North America along with exciting new scientific geological research using the latest technology, which allowed Wolter to reach definitive conclusions about the authenticity of these and many other controversial artifacts. Some of these artifacts provide conclusive evidence that changes not only North American history in a profound way, but demands a thorough rewrite of world history.Wolter brings the reader along on his investigations and presents his case using his proven and enjoyable narrative style along with over 280 black-and-white images, and 40 color photographs to introduce these artifacts and sites and illustrate his points. After the fun, Wolter distills the evidence down to his findings of fact, his interpretations of the facts, and finally presents his conclusions in a convincing scientific way that is irrefutable.

A plot to kill Lincoln that reaches far beyond John Wilkes Booth, into the Masons, the Catholic Church, and Knights of the Golden Circle. This is the fourth book in the Uprising series.

In a post-9/11 world, terrorists want Americans to believe that anywhere in the continent can be hit at anytime. The ore docks at Two Harbors, Minnesota, are vulnerable.

The System is the story of Amanda Danscher, a young woman who accepts a position as a child protection social worker. She quickly becomes embroiled in a case against their Minnesota towns former champion hockey player and favorite son, Chuck Thomas, who will do anything to buck the system rather than work with itincluding whatever it takes to get Amanda out of his way. Luckily Amanda reconnects with Jacob, a new county attorney who has the means to help and protect her, but no clue how to break down her own defenses.Set against the backdrop of the always messy and complex world of child protection, The System is ultimately about familyand a young womans discovery that there are all kinds of family and many places that can be called home.

Tasker, from an alternate reality Duluth, Minnesota, comes to our dimension to seek help from a Map Maker and a Runner to save his world.

Minnesota Loons is a breathtaking pictorial journey showcasing the state bird of Minnesota.

1873 Minnesota. Evan and Inga Jacobson struggle to raise their family in the midst of bank failures, grasshoppers and lingering effects of the 1862 Uprising. Harsh economic realities force them to relocate to Otter Tail County where they must begin again in a hostile environment. Ragna Larson, their foster daughter, grows up haunted by her missing sister, Birdie. Though both girls were kidnapped by the Sioux during the Uprising, only one returned. Ragna must make peace with the past before she can move forward with her life. Evan and Inga must do the same.

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.

Joliet Girl is a deep and complex pleasure, like a rainstorm or a saxophone playing the tone of a lost afternoon. Tolf writes of childhood's grip on our lives, of loyalty, disappointment, and most beautifully, the particular joy that is laughter between sisters. This intense love has its echo in the power of these oldest bonds to break us, too. I felt I'd been allowed to slip in the back door of a life, watching how sisters, not so different from my own, lose one another and find their way. Francine Tolf writes with fierce, inquiring love and honesty, but it is the poetry in these pages her observant eye and the beauty of her languagethat gives this memoir resonance and haunting power. -Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery

Practices are a little like a classroomyoure teaching, says John Gagliardi. Since 1953, John, as head football coach at Saint Johns University, has been teaching young men how to play winning football. His classroom has been the beautiful natural bowl of Clemens Stadium. His college teams have won 471 games, 63 more than those of his closest rival.

"Endlessly Fascinating.... The ultimate 'I was there' book. I have read many books about Scandinavians coming to America in the turbulent 1860s, but thanks to author Candace Simar, this is the first time I was ever transported from my easy chair right into the book to experience it with them. The images of courage, cruelty, intolerance, discovery, and simple pleasures have stayed with me. This is one book I won't forget." -John Koblas, author Let Them Eat Grass trilogy