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Off the Record
Off the Record is an unauthorized, real-time journal of an Army nurse’s year-long tour in Vietnam, written within hours—sometimes minutes—of the events it records. A budding photographer, she includes private images that deepen the immediacy. The diary reveals how combat conditions, weather, cultural divides, and isolation shaped morale and performance, while lives—soldiers, civilians, POWs, and children—were altered or lost. Moving and unflinching, it transports readers to 1967 and the realities of trauma care.
Truly a Pepysian effort!
—Colonel Nickey McCasland, Ret, US Army Nurse Corps -
Ramblings from the Trail
Ramblings from the Trail explores the audacious spirit of Midwest exploration and the surprising connections among people and landscape. At its center is Elizabeth Fries Ellet—namesake of the Minnesota River interpretive trail and famed author of The Women of the Revolutionary War. Her evocative travel writing and nature observations place her alongside Emerson and Thoreau, pioneering an early “walking text” tradition.
allows the reader to explore as Ellet did, fully immersed in a sense of place, its habitat and its history
—–Nancy Tyra-Lukens, Eden Prairie Mayor -
Retrieving Isaac and Jason
In this heartwarming tale, Kai the Minnesota-born yellow Labrador retriever recounts how she and her two dads adopted her human brothers. With her unique canine voice, Kai narrates the arrival of Isaac in 1999, then Jason in 2002. Through her stories, Kai delivers a gift that will lead to both laughter and tears as you follow this dog’s amazing journey to create her own pack.
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Roots of Elvis
Much of what you’ve been told about Elvis’s early years is wrong. The Roots of Elvis argues his true origin was concealed by family and handlers—and reclaims it through new research. It explores how ancestry shaped Elvis, correcting myths and uncovering surprises: Cherokee and Jewish links, an unmarried Presley matriarch with nine children, an unknown great-grandfather, Gladys’s middle-name mystery, a hidden birthplace, and a possible genetic mutation.
tells the true story of one of the greatest icons in the music world
—Pete Carlson, author of Ukrainian Nights -
She Left the Party Early
Life felt nearly perfect: back in the city, walkable pleasures, launched kids, good neighbors, careers on track. Then, one sunny August afternoon, she’s diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Their storybook life becomes a cascade of setbacks, and within months she is gone. She Left the Party Early is a heart-wrenching, heart-warming portrait of death, dying, and grief.
a gut-wrenching story about a wife’s valiant fight
—Erica, Verified review on Amazon -
Sivey
Sivey: An American Hero tells the true story of Salvator “Sivey” Vicchio, a decorated World War I veteran and professional boxer. After surviving Europe’s trenches and earning the Silver Star and two Purple Hearts, he returns home to battle trauma and rebuild his life in the ring. A vivid biography of courage, sacrifice, resilience, and a forgotten warrior’s legacy.
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Sowing Seeds
How did Minnesota—far from either coast—become a literary mecca? Sowing Seeds traces the Twin Cities renaissance of the 1960s and 70s, explaining why institutions like the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Milkweed Editions emerged here, and why Graywolf and Coffee House Press chose to relocate. At the center is poet Robert Bly, whose generosity and vision ignited statewide excitement and built a supportive community, sparking reading series, magazines, small presses, and lasting literary infrastructure.
A handbook for generations of readers and writers who believe that many voices are better than a few.
—Marly Rusoff, founder of The Loft Literary Center -
Standing at the Grave
Weeks before Queen Victoria’s birth, Anna Christina Schmidt is born to a German settler on a Polish noble’s estate. Unlike the Queen, her life is marked only by a moss-covered tombstone and a hollow in the grass. Standing at the Grave tells the true story of a forgotten mother who watched her children leave for America, never expecting their return—and follows their journey from Poland’s Wielkopolska plains to North Dakota’s prairies.
Striking settings, apt descriptions and lively dialogue reveal this family
—Barbara Pieh, Past President, Germanic Genealogical Society -
The Indomitable Elizabeth Fries Ellet – Feminist
Elizabeth Fries Ellet defied “separate spheres,” rejecting a world where men set the rules and women lived within them. Imagine her today, trading quills for keyboards and carriages for planes, producing even more work. Her era’s tools may be gone, but her message endures: women deserve equality—and still fight for it.
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The Inheritance (Yurusha)
As a boy, Elliot Rosen watched his grandfather write and sketch in secret Yiddish journals—then the book vanished after his death. Decades later, it resurfaces through family hands, shadowed by silence and sudden loss. Now married, Elliot takes responsibility to translate it, revealing Yisroel Ayzik Rosen’s remarkable immigrant survival story: tearful, funny, uplifting, and ultimately spiritual.
a story of struggle, hope and faith
—Sheila Klige review on Amazon -
The New Buffalo
The New Buffalo takes readers inside the rise of Indian gaming through Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux leader Leonard Prescott, from reservation poverty to high-stakes battles in Washington. His fight for sovereignty intersects with IGRA, the National Indian Gaming Association, and casinos like Mystic Lake. Drawing on extensive archives and testimony, the book reveals enrollment wars, corruption, federal failures, and states exploiting tribal divisions—framing gaming as modern self-determination.
wonderfully readable, succinct yet superbly informed
—Jim Lenfesty, author of Time Remaining -
The Trumpet Blast
Religious prophecies anticipate a world redeemer, and this book reexamines Ṭáhirih—the Bábí movement’s heroic martyr—as a central herald of that advent. Through analysis of her symbolism of the “veil,” newly uncovered unpublished poetry, and authoritative writings of the Faith she died for, the author argues Ṭáhirih was more than a feminist icon. She is presented as the Trumpeter of the Day of Resurrection, lifting apocalyptic veils and announcing an imminent transformation of human civilization and the coming of the Promised One.
beautifully highlights the life and station of Tahirih, a remarkable historical figure in religion and poetry
—Jehan Rehayem on Amazon -
This Sucks! I Want to Live
When a seizure sent Nick Spooner’s limo-for-hire off the road, he lost both his livelihood and his life expectancy. The terminal diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme turned him to his Facebook page where his voice is heard for two months until his last entry, “It sucks.” There read the extraordinary story of this strong, caring, spiritual human who made himself into the man he became.
Fascinating… how he lived through things beyond my experience
—Judy Handke
