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Fur Bearers
An updated, ingenious werewolf saga blending Gangs of New York grit with classic wolf-man horror. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, two city-bred werewolf clans wage a bloody war, risking centuries of secrecy once maintained through five-year feeding frenzies. As battles escalate and bodies pile up, humans near the awful truth: werewolves live among them—and they’re hungry.
The way a werewolf book should be written
—Michael, verified review on Amazon -
Fur Bearers: The Montana Saga
Butch and a handful of werewolves survive the clan war—only to face a worse enemy: the police and FBI now know they exist. Hunted and desperate, they flee toward Montana, hoping to rebuild their pack in peace. Instead, they collide with an ancient force that considers werewolves sworn enemies. To avoid extinction, they’ll need every scrap of courage and cunning.
these werewolves can kick butt
—Michael, verified review on Amazon -
Gardeners of the Universe
In Peterson’s debut sci-fi novel Gardeners of the Universe, three children are born with engineered genetic ‘gifts’ that will reshape humanity. Rianne sparks biological revolutions, Dan creates sentient computers, and Sarah becomes the world’s most trusted voice in an age of dissonance. As their families navigate disruptive technologies and global catastrophe, humanity accelerates toward augmentation and genetic change. Watching from the shadows are the Torae—ancient alien “Gardeners” seeking to create new universes—who quietly entangle the trio in their designs.
A fluid, grand-canvas, perapetetic future-history adventure.
—KIRKUS REVIEWS -
John Ross
Thirteen-year-old John Ross leaves Scotland for Africa to earn money for his mother’s medical treatment. Shipwrecked, hunted, and captured by Zulu warriors, he is brought before Shaka—who offers respect instead of death. To survive, John must learn a new language, navigate unfamiliar customs, and prove his courage, forging friendships and discovering who he is in this true-based historical adventure.
Touching and exciting at the same time
—Gabriel Rio -
Research and Rescue
Twelve-year-old Temerity has lost everything—family, home, safety. Gifted with the sacred ability to communicate with certain animals, she tries to replace what’s gone and reclaim her worth but starts in the wrong direction. When danger follows, she must survive with her gift before rebuilding fragile ties with humans. It will take courage to face loneliness and choose hope.
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Return of the Manitous
Winter returns to Minnesota’s Lake Superior North Shore—bringing bitter cold, darkness, and danger. When a close family friend disappears, siblings BJ Maki and Charley suspect foul play and start hunting for clues. Their new Ojibwe neighbor, Amy, knows how painfully common disappearances can be. As strange men snoop around the Reservation and windigos from Native lore slip into town—even the high school—the kids realize trust is fragile. Dark forces threaten the land and its people, and getting closer to the truth may make them the next victims.
a book to inspire young people to get outside, to watch their environment and pay attention to their communities
—S. Human, verified review on Amazon -
Sangre Cove
Born in the Bible Belt, Maria knows she’s different—gifted with powers few would understand. After her father is murdered, her family fractures and her mother turns to drink, leaving Maria to face a centuries-old Tonkawa–Apache feud. Protected by an alpha-led wolfpack and a fierce eagle, she uncovers dark ancestral secrets and embraces her destiny as the last healer of her tribe.
Sangre Cove was an addictive read
—Moore F. on Amazon -
Shades of a Warrior
Ninth-grader BJ Maki knows there is an evil presence on a killing spree in the hills above his Lake Superior home. And, thanks to strange messages he has been receiving, he knows that the Red Hand Warrior can help protect his family and community. But what he doesn’t know—until he climbs out of a mysterious cave—is that the warrior he is supposed to find lives five hundred years in the past.
The voice of Vision Quest
–Will Weaver, author of Memory Boy and Power & Light -
Statera
MAY YOU BLAZE OR BURN
To restore the balance of the world, every twelve years humans are chosen for the Equilibrium. Nothing is known about the Ceremony. Except one ultimatum.
No one ever returns.
When the totalitarian state known as FORTE forces Aurora and Lukas to participate, they expect to die for the cause. But inside the Equilibrium, they’ll discover that some fates are worse than death.
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The Beechwood Flute
The Beechwood Flute is a coming-of-age tale of courage and conscience. Seventeen-year-old Kiran longs to be a warrior to avenge his father and brother, but his gift is music. When fear causes him to fail and his sister is taken by Savages, guilt drives him into the forest on a harsh quest of servitude and suffering. Along the way he uncovers truths about his fractured family and faces a choice that challenges everything he believes.
Deserves to be a classic.
—CM Kerley, author of The Hummingbird’s Tear -
The Graveyard Gang
Fear is everywhere—real and imagined—and fourteen-year-old Donny Hansen is determined it won’t ruin his life. But in the summer of 1978, bully Swade Percival and his hulking sidekick stalk Donny and his three best friends everywhere they go. In the vein of Stranger Things and Stephen King’s The Body, The Graveyard Gang blends boyhood bonding with a mystery only kids can solve.
immersive and engaging story
—Kayeff on Amazon -
Those Who Can’t
New teacher Dave Legnagyszerűbb is determined to thrive at Maple Valley High, convinced education can transform even indifferent students and hard-nosed administrators. But the suburban school hides a secret magnet program for gifted students on a covert vocational track. Nina Dos Santos Pandlay works to keep her brilliance invisible. When Mr. L—her favorite teacher—realizes he was hired by mistake, the stakes shift fast, and homework becomes the least of their worries.
captures the essence of the first year of teaching and the loneliness and doubts that come with it
—Allison A., verified review on Amazon -
Thunder Birds
When war erupts on the Minnesota frontier, childhood ends in a single terrible season. Thunder Birds follows white and Dakota boys and girls whose lives are shattered by the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, sparked by hunger, broken treaties, and betrayal. Through young eyes on both sides, neighbors become enemies—yet friendship and hope endure. Grounded in extensive research and featuring leaders like Little Crow, Henry Sibley, and Alexander Ramsey, the novel blends history with character-driven emotion for readers, classrooms, and book clubs.
Although written for young adults, Barnes’ thoughtful, accurate, well-crafted story will engage readers of any age.
—Susan Thurston, award-winning author of Sister of Grendel -
Twisting Trails
Twisting Trails is a young adult historical adventure set on Minnesota’s northwest frontier during the fur trade (1831–1837). Alexander Whitney, a fictional Fort Snelling soldier, and Angelique Reaume, a Métis girl with Ojibwe and French-Canadian roots, meet and form a bond amid real history and famous figures of the era. Their travels range from Fort Snelling to Lake Itasca, maple sugar camps and wild rice beds, the Red River Trail bison hunt, and the Dakota pipestone quarry—culminating in Mendota during the Treaty of 1837 negotiations.
brilliantly synthesizes a compelling fictional adventure story with nonfictional historical personalities and events
—Haderslev. Review on Amazon -
Water Wheels
Water Wheels is historical fiction following two immigrant teens in 1870s Minnesota. Halvor Dahl, the son of poor Norwegian Lutheran farmers in the Cannon River valley, and Emelia Meier, daughter of German Catholic merchants in St. Paul, meet and set off on adventures across the state by train, steamboat, and buggy. They face blizzards, fires, crimes, swarms of insects, and a comet while witnessing sweeping social and political change. Along the way they cross paths with figures like James J. Hill, Theodore Hamm, John Pillsbury, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Jesse James.
gives the reader insight into early farming and early merchant life from 1868 to 1882
—Barbara Parrish, review on Amazon
