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Both Your Houses
In Both Your Houses, systems scientist and Iranian-born American scholar Massoud Amin turns four decades of work on how complex systems fail toward the deadliest cascade of our time: the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States.
He traces the chain of decisions that made each step inevitable to those who made it and inexplicable to those who paid for it: the 1953 coup, the destruction of the JCPOA after eight IAEA certifications of compliance, the deliberate engineering of economic collapse (later admitted under oath before the Senate), and the bombing of a diplomatic breakthrough just three nights after Oman announced it, including the killing of 168 girls of Minab who were in school that morning.
The book keeps civilians at the center of the story and asks the questions most accounts avoid: What was the war really about? Who paid for it? What did diplomacy almost achieve? Grounded in public record, historical depth, and lived witness, Both Your Houses, is a moral and structural reckoning with what happens when power, under any flag, stops answering to human dignity.
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Coyote and the Thunderbird
Two mythological beasts, Trickster Coyote and a ’56 Thunderbird, race and chase across America, from an abandoned gold mine lair filled with scuffling coyote pups in the Sierra Nevada to a lonely fishing hole on the Continental Divide to the Presidency of the United States, along the way singing with Rose and the Res Girls, winning a Cleveland Indians game, shuffling off to Buffalo, scheming big business in the canyons of New York City, driving the Girl of his Dreams to Wall Street in Cusco, Peru, and scuba diving to an exotic beach in the Virgin islands, to the Black Hills radiating power to the earth’s enticing curves, Coyote Woman managing all.
Contemporary mythology at its best.
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Maude
Maude is a warm, vivid memoir of friendship, memory, and the hidden lives that shape us. Set against the cultural upheaval of Dinkytown and the University of Minnesota in the late 1960s and after, Helen Electrie Lindsay brings to life a vanished world of boardinghouses, antiwar protests, students, immigrants, old money in decline, and the intimate rituals of coffee, conversation, recipes, and trust.
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Minnesota’s Phoenix
Minnesota’s Phoenix is the first comprehensive history of Sun Country Airlines—the hometown carrier built from the wreckage of a fallen giant. Drawn from exclusive interviews, original news coverage, and artifacts preserved by Sun Country employees themselves, this is a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of how an unlikely startup fought its way into the skies.
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Counterfeit Poles
In Counterfeit Poles: A Story of Survival Under Nazi Occupation, Nathan Drew recounts how he and his wife Helen stayed alive in occupied Poland by posing as Christians, moving through Warsaw with forged identities while working with the underground and living one mistake away from death. The memoir begins with the destruction of Jewish life in Łomża and follows Nathan through terror, escape, false papers, betrayal, hunger, and the daily calculations required to survive in Nazi-controlled Europe. The book also preserves his determination to name the dead and remember them not as statistics, but as people.
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The Integrity Compass
In an era of AI, automation, cyber risk, and brittle infrastructure, technical excellence isn’t enough. The Integrity Compass is a practical guide to ethical decision-making for engineers, technologists, managers, policymakers, and students facing complexity and pressure. Blending lived experience with usable frameworks, it shows how to map risk, identify stakeholders, test assumptions, and spot “quiet” choices before they become headlines. Case studies and letters from real dilemmas make integrity actionable—especially when incentives and power push the other way.
Amin presents a compelling argument, bolstered by global case studies and his remarkable personal journey.
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Rolling Pigeons
A successful businessman, devout husband and father, and most importantly, the town of Gilmore’s legendary star pitcher, Sy Todd, is a 63-year-old pillar of this colorful rural midwestern community and is respected and liked by all. Two weeks before being inducted into the County Baseball Hall of Fame, he inexplicably begins to falter. Is it a nascent streak of lechery brought on by a troubled marriage, a fear of aging into a life unfulfilled? Or is it something deeper that the usually steadfast Sy, for once in his life, cannot control. Rolling Pigeons is named after a colorful breed of pigeon selected for its inclination to inexplicably tumble or roll in the air. As a hobby, Sy is raising a coop full of these oddball birds, which become a strong metaphor for his own incomprehensible actions.
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Humming the Blues / Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada)
English
A usurper has attacked the temples of Ur and Uruk and the priestly poet Enheduanna prays for help from Inanna, the god who has disappeared into the Land of No Return. “If you were here, Inanna, you’d surround that big man in the sky,” Enheduanna cries. This collection of poems is a jazz poetry rendition of ancient Iraqi pictographs pressed into clay thousands of years ago by Enheduanna, the first person in history—female or male—to sign her own text.
Spanish
Un usurpador ha atacado los templos de Ur y Uruk, y la poeta sacerdotal Enheduanna ora por la ayuda de Inanna, la deidad que ha desaparecido en la Tierra sin Retorno. Enheduana suplica: “Si estuvieras aquí Inanna, rodearías a ese hombre grande en el cielo”. Esta colección de poemas es una versión poética al estilo del jazz de pictografías iraquíes antiguas estampadas en arcilla por Enheduana hace miles de años. Históricamente, fue la primera persona—hombre o mujer—que firmó su propio texto escrito.
Crucial to be read in our times.
—Diane Wolkstein, Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer -
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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Greetings from Bullhead Country
Greetings From Bullhead Country is a collection of narrative poems set in a Minnesota small town in the 1960s and 70s, capturing family, neighborhood, and memory as the world shifts. Scott Vetch follows a curious boy learning from farming grandparents shaped by hard seasons and suburban parents navigating cultural change. With humor and insight, the poems offer vivid portraits, family lore, and quiet turning points—an honest, tender look at how love, hardship, and everyday rituals form who we become.
Always just this side of lawless.
—Fizz Kizer -
Pivotal Moments
When life jolts you, stalls you, or whispers that something has to change, what comes next? In Pivotal Moments, best-selling author Jill Konrath offers practical strategies, candid stories, and real-life examples to help you get unstuck, uncover hidden opportunities, reduce fear, and move forward with clarity. Whether you’re starting over or reaching for more, this book helps you turn uncertainty into momentum.
This book doesn’t just inspire, it equips.
—Shari Levitin, LinkedIn Top Voice, author of Heart and Sell -
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 -
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 -
James Madison’s Religion
James Madison’s Religion reveals how Madison’s private convictions shaped America’s public liberty. Drawing on letters, debates, and overlooked manuscripts, it traces his journey from Anglican Virginia and Presbyterian schooling through Enlightenment influence to the Constitutional Convention, showing how his conscience-first philosophy became the blueprint for the First Amendment. Madison saw pluralism as strength and state control of religion as a path to oppression. Blending biography, intellectual history, and political analysis, the book explores his debates with Jefferson and Hamilton, why the amendment’s wording mattered, and how his “theology of liberty” still informs today’s fights over belief, speech, and the public square.
