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A Place to Stand
From a Minnesota dairy farm to a pioneering legal career, Karin Wille explores a life of feminism, family, grief, and the freedoms women must continue to defend or risk losing.
Part memoir, part history and part call to courage, this is a powerful story about what women inherit, what they fight to change, and what they refuse to surrender.
—Mikki Morisette, Minnesota Women’s Press -
Mixtape to Mend a Broken World
A formally inventive, deeply musical poetry collection confronting private and public wounds while searching for beauty, connection, resistance, and the possibility of repair.
These poems in their vast variety all have in common a pure rock and roll heart, and even the most grieving never pass up an opportunity to dance.
—Thomas R. Smith, author of Medicine Year and Heaven and Nature -
Stuck on Spin
At the age of twenty-four and a half, a neurodivergent laundromat manager investigates the catastrophic night of his birth and discovers a family history no one could keep sorted.
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Integrity by Design
The architect of the self-healing smart grid turns fifty years of engineering, ethics, and lived history into a practical blueprint for designing a life of integrity, adaptability, and resilience.
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Lobsters at Midnight and Other Confessions of a Backstage Caterer
Lobsters at Midnight and Other Confessions of a Backstage Caterer serves up a backstage pass into the life of a girl who became a caterer to the bands that she first heard coming through her pink translator radio, circa 1960’s.
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Written on the Knee
In these pages the warm heart of a dead man beats again, his passions are re-lived, his pleasures, hardships, and irritations unfold for us as if they were in the present. Such is the immediacy of the writing that it is not at all hard for us to feel that we know the doctor and share his experiences. He was a little person, to be sure, but like so many other worthy people of his generation, he was someone who put his shoulder to the wheel of history and made a difference.
—Louis de Bernières, from the Introduction -
Construction of Mystery
Choosing the right mystery structure is only the beginning. In The Construction of Mystery, Gary Lindberg shows writers how to turn a promising concept into a fair, surprising, emotionally powerful novel. Moving from hidden event through victim, investigator, suspect field, clues, misdirection, pacing, proof, and final revelation, this practical companion provides integrated systems, diagnostic tools, and detailed worksheets for designing, testing, and revising mysteries that work.
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Saving American Health Care
Saving American Health Care describes the origin and evolution of our health care System, revealing the guiding aspirations and remarkable failures that have punctuated our sixty-year journey to our current 5.7 trillion-dollar American health care system. It concludes with the actions needed to return to the ideals that have been the foundation of American health care public policy and law all along: accessibility, quality, altruism, pluralism, information privacy, and individual autonomy. Diehl, who was instrumental in creating in the 1970s, draws on his years of expertise to show us how to bring our health care system back to its core.
The patient-clinician relationship is not incidental to healing—it is its foundation.
—Victor Montori, MD -
Architecture of Mystery
Most mystery-writing guides teach clues, suspects, twists, and suspense. The Architecture of Mystery starts one level deeper: with the structure that makes those elements work. Gary Lindberg identifies seven Mystery Domains and twelve Plot Families, showing writers how to choose the right architecture, understand its reader contract, avoid structural mismatches, and build a mystery that delivers the ending it promises.
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West Bank Stories
Miles Davis once passed Bruce Rubenstein a joint. A young Bob Dylan once recruited him for a ride to the airport. But the real star of these stories is Minneapolis’s West Bank.
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Bartholomew’s Fair
A grieving widower’s aimless escape to Lake Pepin draws him into a haunted mansion, a buried historical crime, and a gothic mystery where the dead refuse to stay silent.
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Resonant Threads
Born in Iran, shaped by revolution, wars, upheavals, and poetry, Amin writes poems that carry the weight of two countries. Resonant Threads opens on a Minneapolis street where federal agents killed two citizens and closes in a winter room where a newborn sleeps against her father’s chest. Between them, the book traces how a conscious human life is built, remembered in persistent threads, and is passed on. Drawing on the Persian classical tradition (Hafez, Rumi, Sa’adi, Ferdowsi, Shamlu) and the witness poets of the twentieth century (Akhmatova, Miłosz, Heaney), the collection is written in a plainspoken, unrhymed, direct voice shaped by two countries, two languages, and a lifetime at the intersection of public duty and private grief.
<em>“Writing in the cadence of clarity, without affectation or embellishment, these poems are rooted in urgent witness, global in graciousness and gratitude, and deeply uplifting in our tremulous moment.”</em>
— Naomi Shihab Nye -
The Talent Thief
What if everything we know about developing talent is backwards? After fifteen years watching kids play in a gym in St. Paul, soccer coach Ted Kroeten discovered that talent isn’t about trying harder—it’s about making others do the work for you. The Talent Thief reveals why play beats practice, how movement functions as language, and what the forty-billion-dollar youth sports industry keeps getting wrong.
Kroeten has provided the framework to revolutionize our sports development system if we have the sense to pay attention.
— Brian McCormick, 20 Hacks for the 24-Hour Athlete -
Day Bring Back the Night
In Day Brings Back the Night, three episodes in a family’s life unfold across decades, each shaped by memory, longing, and the mysteries of love. In 1989, Helen stands at the threshold of a new beginning yet cannot shake the trauma of an oppressively painful past. Years later, Tom and Amanda journey north into Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, where silence, grief, and tenderness open old emotional terrain—and where the wilderness begins to reveal what the family cannot. By 2023, the family returns to the wilderness, drawn together by what has endured and what remains unresolved. Told in three intimate movements, this lyrical and psychologically rich novel explores the afterlife of pain, the bonds between parents and children, and the difficult grace of forgiveness without forgetting.
Duren has composed this novel as a song, a melody that carries from generation to generation the voices, visions, and scars a family has grown up with and will never leave behind.
—Cass Dalglish, novelist, Ring of Lions, and poet, Humming the Blues / Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada) -
Incident in Budapest
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mort Ahrens thinks he is flying to Budapest to profile Svetlana Ivanov, the dazzling Bolshoi ballerina whose fame hides a dangerous secret. Instead, a gray-suited government handler turns the assignment into a covert mission: retrieve intelligence that could expose Russia’s nuclear readiness and help Svetlana defect. In Budapest’s grand opera houses, rooftop bars, and shadowed streets, Mort must separate truth from seduction, patriotism from manipulation, and courage from recklessness. Back home, his brilliant wife Danni is drawn into her own constitutional battle after a violent ICE confrontation, raising the stakes for the family Mort may never see again. Fast, witty, and topical, Incident in Budapest blends espionage, mystery, and family drama.
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Calling the Rain
A young Midwestern woman falls in love, crosses continents, and builds a life in Congo—only to discover how love, politics, family, and history can change everything.
