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Boundaries Without
An anthology of previously unpublished short stories, selected and edited by Steve McEllistrem and Cynthia Kraack, by authors of Calumet Editions, which includes a mixed genre short story by Ian Graham Leask.
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Brando on Elvis
In 2018, Letters from Elvis revealed Elvis Presley’s correspondence with confidante Carmen Montez, but legal limits prevented full reprints of related letters. Brando on Elvis: In His Own Words lifts those restrictions, presenting the complete, authenticated Marlon Brando letters about Elvis—an intimate account of friendship, trauma, and rupture, with surprising new insight into Elvis’s private life.
This book shows a tremendous amount of heart and courage
—Violet Light -
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.
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Calvin
Calvin: Baseball’s Last Dinosaur traces Calvin Griffith’s rise from poverty, adopted by Hall of Famer Clark Griffith, to owner of the Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins. Spanning the 1920s–1980s, it features friendships with baseball legends and American power brokers as the family-run franchise faces triumphs, scandals, and the corporate takeover of modern sports. With Jon Kerr’s help, Calvin delivers his blunt account of how baseball—and America—changed.
Superb! Must read… for all who love baseball history.
—Ken LeZebnik, publisher, Minneapolis Review of Baseball -
Care Under Fire
For many veterans, Vietnam remains indelible—thanks in part to frontline combat medics like Bill “Doc” Strusinski. In Care Under Fire, Strusinski places readers in the terror of firefights, the exhaustion of relentless patrols, and the anguish of losing friends despite desperate efforts to save them. Medics were targeted and forced to treat the wounded under fire. More than a war memoir, this is the story of a man transformed by the sacred duty of caring for others in combat.
an account not told by the scholars and politicians
—Lawrence Redmond -
Change of Address
She’s only five… and her mother was killed…tracking down an unknown father involves Spencer Manning in murder and drugs as his first case leads him to a Chicagoland racetrack and the mayor’s house…where things are not all as they appear.
My new favorite mystery series!
—Rita Butler on Amazon -
Chief Among Sinners
When a mutilated animal appears on Father Terry O’Reilly’s church steps, he isn’t frightened—until more grisly “gifts” follow. The trail exposes Oakton’s long-buried horrors and draws parishioners into confession. Torn between protecting his flock and honoring the seal of confession, Terry risks spiritual ruin as secrets, sins, and crimes close in.
Fans of Murder on the Orient Express will like this.
—Stuart H. Borken, review on Amazon -
Circus Rex: A Novel
Doctor Buzz signs on as ringmaster of the one-ring Rex Terrestrial, Celestial & Nautical Circus—then steers a ragtag troupe from the Mississippi headwaters to New Orleans. Along the way: alcoholic camels, broken boats, chaotic cooks, and his own crisis of confidence—plus a shot at love if he chooses wisely. Loosely based on the author’s life, this comic novel blends poetic imagery, carny patter, and offbeat humor.
Enjoy the hell out of Loren’s brilliance as a storyteller.
—Hank Roubicek, Professor, Radio Personality, Storyteller and Author -
Cold Justice
In this fifth Spencer Manning mystery, a recent murder may be a brilliant frame-up—and justice arrives in unsettling ways: late, never, or for the wrong crime. P.I. Spencer Manning is offered the highest-profile case of his career by a mobster, forcing him to weigh ethics against truth. As two murders unfold, Spencer is pulled into layers of intrigue and contemporary reckoning, haunted by echoes of Capone-era Chicago and streets once slick with blood.
Wonderful weaving of plot, characters and Chicago history
—Don Hood, verified review on Amazon -
Cold War Cadence
Cold War Cadence: A Military Musician’s Berlin Memoir, 1988–1991 follows Army bandsman Bruce Gleason through the final years of a divided city haunted by Prussian and Nazi echoes. Drawing on meticulous notes, letters, articles, and photos, he captures the daily work of military musicians and the texture of Berlin on the cusp of change. The result is vivid Cold War history, enriched by an entertaining European and Asian travelogue.
a fascinating read for anyone interested in military, cultural, and world history
—Raoul Camus, author of Military Music of the American Revolution -
Confucius in My Cubicle
Confucius lived 2,500 years ago, yet his wisdom still speaks to leadership and humane living. This collection of essays and stories blends his philosophy with modern leadership practice, drawing on the author’s client work and her life as an American businesswoman. Practical, pithy, and profound, it offers fresh insights to strengthen the leader within you.
A truly inspirational book.
—Lakshmi on Amazon -
Copy Desk Murders
Amid 1984 farm foreclosures and protests in southern Minnesota, newspaperman Boston Meade finds his summer intern dead in a ravine. Boston suspects murder tied to a missing piece of evidence and the bones of a Minneapolis detective discovered at a derelict farm. Local leaders shut him down—including his brother, the county sheriff—so Boston pursues the intern’s investigation with only editor Ginger O’Meara, whose trust is fragile. Their hunt exposes a town-wide criminal web and old betrayals.
A strong start to a new mystery series with a fine sense of place.
—KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) -
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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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.
—Eric Utne -
Cross Currents
From a Missouri farm to Paris and across America, Rose Ann Findlen’s memoir traces a life shaped by racism, Vietnam, and national violence. Facing loss and disillusionment, she becomes a professional, mother, and daughter while challenging entrenched male entitlement as part of the first postwar wave of college-educated women. Enhanced with postcards, photos, and newspaper clippings, it evokes an anxious era and reframes it for later generations.
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Crude
Set in North Dakota’s 2014 oil boom, Crude follows a state transformed by shale wealth and outside money—Houston, Dubai, New York—colliding with prairie life. A New York hedge fund games local refiners, crude-fueled political ambition rises, and polluted real estate becomes a battlefield. Ranchers die from toxic fumes; pipelines and profit schemes crisscross the land. Amid the corruption and contamination, the real engine may be scorned love—and revenge taken with brutal precision.
Fascinating!
—Gary Lindberg, author of The Shekinah Legacy
