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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 -
Shattered
In the 1970s and 80s, John C. Donahue was hailed as a brilliant, difficult theater visionary, and his Children’s Theatre Company and School (CTC) reached national acclaim. Behind the curtain, however, the institution harbored more than two dozen sexual perpetrators. Donahue’s 1984 arrest for abusing students nearly ended CTC—yet the culture of complicity endured and the full truth was buried. In this memoir, Laura Stearns confronts her own childhood abuse at CTC, unpacks decades of institutional harm, and charts a trauma-informed path toward strength—calling for safer spaces for young artists.
Laura’s writing serves as a flotation device to carry the reader over a tumultuous tale.
—Cordelia Anderson, MA, executive board member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children -
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 -
Simply Amuck
Dreaming of a cozy hobby farm? In Minnesota, it’s less idyll than endurance test: feeding livestock in twenty-below blizzards, sweating through 90-degree, swampy summers, and shoveling seemingly endless manure—because the animals never take a day off. With sharp humor and hard-earned honesty, this book reveals what ‘living off the land’ really costs. You’ll laugh, maybe wince, and keep asking, ‘What in the heck was she thinking?’
loved reading this book cover to cover
—Anita, review on Amazon -
Sinners Choice
Oakton’s secrets run deep—deep enough for an evil beast to hide in plain sight. When it strikes, Kate Adams becomes its target, newly happy after surviving her father’s crimes and her family’s upheavals. As her mother embraces hidden Jewish roots and Oakton’s historic Gold mansion becomes Temple Beth El, the beast’s jealous rage turns lethal.
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Sister of Grendel
In Sister of Grendel, the Beowulf legend is retold through the lone witness to Grendel and his mother’s brutal deaths—and the truth is different. Grendel’s sister, Rehsotis, reveals they are not monsters but Anathians: intelligent, long-lived beings tied to nature, herbal medicine, music, and magic, able to enter human dreams. Nearly extinct, Rehsotis must bridge the perilous divide with humankind, aided by a forsaken monk, a grieving lover, and a trusting child.
…a marvel of storytelling, as well as a haunting miracle of reimagination…
—Neal Karlan, author of This Thing Called Life -
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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Sixty-ninth Street Suicide
After a catastrophic event at seventeen, Sharon Greenwald believes she’ll eventually take her own life—until she survives the attempt. Years of trauma follow: an eating disorder rooted in an abortion, the deaths of her father and best friend, and postpartum depression that fractures new motherhood. After divorce, a small trigger unleashes her long-held plan. When Sharon wakes from a five-day coma, she must face the consequences and her loved ones’ stunned demand: “Why?” Sixty-ninth Street Suicide is a raw, candid exploration of the thoughts that led her there—and the surprising truth behind her answer.
supplies hope for those who are vulnerable
—Ian Graham Leask, author of The Wounded and other stories about sons and fathers -
Smoke Got in My Eyes
Private detective Martin McDonough survives by leaning on his cop connections—until the favors stop paying out. This noir mystery trails him from gangster-ridden 1930s St. Paul, protected by a corrupt police force, to postwar San Francisco, where jazz clubs and the mob share uneasy territory. In McDonough’s world, people get shot—just not by him, if he can help it. Trouble is, the rats won’t cooperate.
the dark tone and feel of the old Bogart noir movies
—Scott on Amazon -
Smoke Screen
Sage Picard returns to northern Minnesota for a semester break, but her artist father is missing, a forest fire is closing in, and her inherited psychic powers have gone silent. A power broker covets her land, and a nighttime attack proves someone is hunting her. As questions mount—about Judd, her father’s protégé, and the disappearance of the husband of beloved “MT”—brash investigator Alex Rogers pushes for answers. A father-daughter game may be the key, if mystic forces awaken in time.
A refreshing approach to combining mysticism with the thriller genre.
—Gary Lindberg, author of The Shekinah Legacy -
Sons of Zadok
CCN correspondent Charlotte Ansari has enraged a clandestine society of assassins—and her Asperger’s son now leads it. Worse, he assigns their top killer to “solve” her. In this second Charlotte Ansari Thriller, Charlotte and her unwitting allies race from New York to Ireland and the Turkish desert, chasing a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the first book—and may cost her everything.
Thrilling, educational, entertaining
—Reader on Amazon -
Souls Speak
This updated second edition of Souls Speak revisits the 1967 disappearance of three boys in Hannibal, Missouri—case that sparked the largest cave search in U.S. history, yet found no trace. A later investigation draws in three psychics who independently point to serial killer John Wayne Gacy as an early suspect. The mystery culminates in a newly discovered deathbed confession that expands Gacy’s known victims—and finally reveals what happened to Hannibal’s missing boys.
a likely resolve to an unsolved mystery
—Mike Daak -
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 -
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.
