|
Minnesota...it's where it's at!
|
 |
|
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Leif Enger's rhapsodic novel about a father raising his three children in 1960s Minnesota is a breathtaking celebration of family, faith, and America's pioneering spirit. Through the voice of eleven-year-old Reuben, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboy stories, Peace Like a River... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Stillwater
Nicole Lea Helget - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage. Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Monkeewrench
P J Tracy
|
|
A New York Times Bestseller Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company create a computer game where the killer is always caught, where the good guys always win. Their games become a nightmare |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Absolute Zero
Chuck Logan
Format: Book
|
|
In the icy jaws of an early winter, three big-city professionals joined Phil Broker on a canoe trip across Minnesota's remotest lake. Nature's unexpected fury battered and nearly killed them.
But it was Man who left one of them worse than dead . . .
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Thief River Falls
Brian Freeman - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Harrowing loss, psychological trauma, and a deadly mystery test the human will to survive in this electrifying novel from award-winning author Brian Freeman.Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Road Back to Sweetgrass
Grover, Linda Legarde
Format: Book
|
|
Set 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 intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Blood Country
Mary Logue
Format: Book
|
|
Police officer Clare Watkins moves with her young daughter to Wisconsin to get away from the past and it's bad memories. But Clare doesn't know that her ten-year-old daughter Meg not only witnessed the hit-and-run accident that killed her father, she had also seen the man who who was driving...and... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dark of the Moon
John Sandford - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Virgil Flowers - tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's - had kicked around a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Land of Dreams
Vidar Sundst?l - Univ Of Minnesota Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl’s critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the rugged... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Life We Bury
Allen Eskens - Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Triple Play
Elizabeth Gunn - Walker
Format: Print book
|
|
Jake Hines is a stubborn detective with a murky past now living outside Minneapolis where the city meets the prairie. He s a little out of place in a place where the winters are long and the men are rugged, but he s got more to worry about than just fitting in. There s a serial killer on the loose... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Bloodline
Jess Lourey
Format: Paperback
|
|
In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fianc back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she's eager to settle down. Lilydale's motto,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich - Harper
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Chronicles of a Radical Hag
Lorna Landvik - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist's half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world The curmudgeon who wrote the column "Ramblin's by Walt" in the Granite Creek Gazette... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
This Tender Land: A Novel
William Kent Krueger - Atria
Format: Hardcover
|
|
INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER! "If you likedWhere the Crawdads Sing,youll loveThis Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come." - Parade The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression..... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
