Answering 911 Life in the Hot Seat Augie's Secrets...
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BOREALIS BOOKS
9780873516020 Pub Date: 9/15/07 $16.95 216 pages • Trade Paperback 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 0.9 in T | 1 lb Wt
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
Caroline Burau
A rookie 911 operator writes with humor, empathy, and amazing candor of the demanding job that changed her forever.
9780873519328 Pub Date: 2/15/14 $16.95 224 pages • Trade Paperback 20 b&w photos 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 0.7
Augie's Secrets
Neal Karlen
A treasury of family secrets exposes the seamy underbelly of Minneapolisgangsters, gambling, brothels, and the social life of organized crime.
9780873518260 Pub Date: 9/1/11 $24.95 224 pages • Hardcover 10 b&w photos 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 0.8 in T | 1 lb Wt
Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life
Diane Wilson
Sustained by rich traditions, ceremonies, advocacy, and education, Dakota families are transforming the legacy of colonization and assimilation into a better way of life for their children.
9780873518703 Pub Date: 9/15/12 $24.95 288 pages • Hardcover 17 b&w photos 6 in W | 9 in H | 1.6 in T | 1 lb Wt
Black White Blue: The Assassination of Patrolman Sackett
William Swanson
A white police officer is assassinated in a troubled St. Paul neighborhood. Thirtysix year later, two African American grandfathers are convicted in controversial trials that force a city to relive a contentious past.
9780873515801 Pub Date: 6/15/07 $24.95 248 pages • Hardcover 15 b&w illustrations 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster's Story
Steven J. Harper
A forthright teamster faces off with Jimmy Hoffa in this true saga of corruption, betrayal, intrigue, and courage.
9780873515870 Pub Date: 2/1/07 $14.95 212 pages • Trade Paperback 13 b&w illustrations 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 0.6
Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson
William Swanson
A Haunting recreation of the brutal death of an American housewife, the conviction of her husband, and the family trial at which their children determined for themselves how their father should be charged.
9780873519229 Pub Date: 4/15/14 $18.95 296 pages • Trade Paperback 20 b&w photos 6 in W | 9 in H | 1 in T |
Curiosity's Cats: Writers on Research
Bruce Joshua Miller
Thirteen writersincluding historians, journalists, novelists, a scriptwriter, and moreoffer powerful arguments for the value of handson research.
9780873519526 Pub Date: 10/1/14 $17.95 240 pages • Trade Paperback 40 b&w illustrations, notes
Fractured Land: The Price of Inheriting Oil
Lisa Westberg Peters
With the frenzied fracking boom in North Dakota oil, a family's mineral rights become suddenly valuable, bringing questions and challenges to a daughter who cares about the costs to the land.
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BOREALIS BOOKS
9780873514668 Pub Date: 9/8/03 $23.95 224 pages • Hardcover 5.8 in W | 8.8 in H | 0.9 in T
Language of Blood: A Memoir
Jane Jeong Trenka
A lyrical memoir by a Korean adoptee that expores the many facets of personal and cultural identity.
9780873519137 Pub Date: 9/1/13 $22.95 208 pages • Hardcover 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 0.9 in T | 1 lb Wt
Leaving Rollingstone: A Memoir
Kevin Fenton
Leaving Rollingstone is the story of how a Twin Cities advertising writer and novelist reclaimed the enduring values and surprising vitality of his smalltown Minnesota.
9780873515894 Pub Date: 4/15/07 $17.95 302 pages • Trade Paperback 13 b&w photos, 4 maps 5.5 in W | 8 in H | 1.1 in
Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
Cary J Griffith
True survival odysseys of two wilderness trekkers who entered the woods in search of tranquility but found something else entirely.
9780873518536 Pub Date: 3/1/12 $24.95 224 pages • Hardcover 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 1.1 in T | 1 lb Wt
My Mother Is Now Earth
Mark Anthony Rolo
An isolated northern farm provides the backdrop to a child's searching, empathetic view of his conflicted mother during the last three years of her life.
9780873519908 Pub Date: 10/15/15 $17.95 368 pages • Trade Paperback 27 B&W Photos, 2 Maps, 7 Appendices
North to the Pole
Will Steger, Paul Schurke
On March 7, 1986, the seven men and one woman of the Steger International Polar Expedition set out by dogsled to reach the North Pole. Their spectacular feat of daring, courage, and commitment was deemed by National Geographic to be a “landmark in polar exploration.” The melting of the polar ice cap...
9780873516495 Pub Date: 4/15/09 $27.95 288 pages • Hardcover 24 b&w photos 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 1.2 in T | 1 lb Wt
Opening Goliath: Danger and Discovery in Caving
Cary J. Griffith
Adventure writer Cary Griffith recounts riveting and lifethreatening tales of exploration in the limestone caves of southwestern Minnesota and the manmade caves of St. Paul.
9780873519434 Pub Date: 5/1/14 $17.95 336 pages • Trade Paperback 5.5 in W | 8 in H | 1.1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Scoop: Notes from a Small Ice Cream Shop
Jeff Miller
The chronicle of a couple that do what many only dream ofgiving up hectic city life to become small business owners in a picturesque vacation spot.
9780873517751 Pub Date: 3/1/11 $24.95 224 pages • Hardcover 5.3 in W | 7.8 in H | 0.8 in T | 1 lb Wt
Shelter
Sarah Stonich
A little cabin is both a tie to the past and a promise for the future for a woman seeking to continue a family tradition in Minnesota's north country.
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MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS
9780873519519 Pub Date: 9/1/14 $17.95 384 pages • Trade Paperback 51 b&w photos, index 5.5 in W | 8.3 in H | 1.2
Slouching Toward Fargo: A TwoYear Saga of Sinners and St. Paul Saints at the Bottom of the Bush Leagues with Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie and Me
Neal Karlen
The Casey Awardwinning account of life in the minor leagues, celebrating the game, the characters who love it, and the magic that can happen when a town, a team, and a ball player get a second chance.
9780873517652 Pub Date: 8/1/09 $17.95 232 pages • Trade Paperback 18 b&w photos 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 0.9
Spirit Car: A Journey to a Dakota Past
Diane Wilson
A child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother's hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family's powerful Native American past.
9780873519939 Pub Date: 8/1/15 $16.95 280 pages • Trade Paperback 24 B&W Photos, Index 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 1 in
Stolen From the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
William Swanson
The inside story of the shocking Piper kidnapping: from the abduction and recovery, through the grueling investigation and trials, and into the Pipers' haunted final years.
9780873519472 Pub Date: 10/15/14 $22.95 288 pages • Hardcover 24 b&w photos, index 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
William Swanson
The inside story of the shocking Piper kidnapping: from the abduction and recovery, through the grueling investigation and trials, and into the Pipers' haunted final years.
9780873515887 Pub Date: 3/1/07 $14.95 182 pages • Trade Paperback 5.3 in W | 8 in H | 0.6 in T | 0.5 lb Wt
The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A Memoir
Nicole Lea Helget
A memoir of a rural American girlhood.
9780873518154 Pub Date: 1/15/11 $18.95 240 pages • Trade Paperback 5.5 in W | 8.5 in H | 0.7 in T | 0.5 lb Wt
Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life
Patricia Hampl, Elaine Tyler May, Andre Aciman, Matt Becker, June Cross, Carlos Eire, Helen Epstein, Samuel G. Freedman, Fenton Johnson, Alice Kaplan, Annette Kobak
Fourteen accomplished writers investigate the tantalizing gray area where memory and history intersect.
9780873519885 Pub Date: 10/15/15 $24.95 288 pages • Hardcover 30 B&W photos, notes, index, appendices 6 in W | 9 in H | 1 in T |
Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
de Moll Cathy, Steger Will
An intimate portrait of the remarkable characters and events behind the first nonmechanical crossing of Antarctica.
9780873514392 Pub Date: 9/1/02 $17.95 200 pages • Trade Paperback 5.3 in W | 8 in H | 1.3 in T
While the Locust Slept: A Memoir
Peter Razor
Through transcendent prose, an Ojibwe man chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the 1930s and the brutal farm indenture that followed.
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