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Omar’s Choice
Omar’s Choice continues Cathy Sultan’s thriller series into the shadowy rise of ISIS. Omar, now an ISIS member, and John, a CIA operative, ignite a nightmare across Syria. Against a landscape of perpetual war, the novel exposes the brutal consequences—present and future—of Western intervention and “forever wars” in the Middle East.
This book is a rare accomplishment. Bravo!
—Jack Rice, ex-CIA officer -
About Power
Accelerating climate chaos and deepening inequity persist because electric utility service is built backwards. Utilities profit when they sell more power and pollute more; conservation cuts earnings. Meanwhile, costly transmission lines are built for remote renewables instead of prioritizing community-scale projects that need little new infrastructure. About Power argues that better energy management can reduce major social and environmental harms—and insists nuclear power is not the answer—offering history, diagnosis, and a path to fix what’s broken.
The world is in crisis over Climate Chaos and multi-dimensional inequities. About Power shows how the electric utility industry contributes to this crisis, and how delivering electric utility services properly could instead provide solutions.
—Mark Ritchie, former Minnesota Secretary of State and civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army -
Workbook for a Career in Wildlife Management and Natural Resource Conservation
This concise history traces how the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources shifted from hunter-focused game management to an ecological, biodiversity-based approach with the creation of the Nongame Wildlife Program in 1977. A national model, the program supports surveying and restoring species from butterflies and bats to bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and trumpeter swans. Written for Minnesotans who donate via the Nongame Wildlife Checkoff—and all who use DNR guidance—it shows how citizen generosity has protected wildlife and habitats.
I plan to begin using it in my college wildlife classroom
—Bill Faber, professor of wildlife, Brainerd Vocational Tech -
Gaza
Hamas entered southern Israel on October 7, killing Israeli soldiers and civilians. Israel retaliated, killing upward of 38,000 Palestinians and wounding some 80,000 others. For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been ignored. Hamas’s actions and Israel’s response have put issues of apartheid, genocide and famine front and center. Students and activists from around the world have taken up the Palestinian cause and selflessly made it their own.
Sultan has taken her experience and transported us into the region to better understand its complexities.
—Jack Rice, ex-CIA officer -
Humanity Coming of Age
Humanity Coming of Age offers a systemic, nonpolitical blueprint for peace and global harmony drawn from the world’s great wisdom traditions. The authors argue this timeless plan has emerged gradually as human understanding has matured—and that the moment has arrived to apply its rational principles to transcend division and build a more just world. The book contends humanity’s “coming of age” has already begun.
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Poised
In 1990s Kentucky, naïve but spirited doctor Shelly Riley endures a grueling two-year cancer-surgery fellowship. Battling chauvinist mentors and punishing training, she fights for her patients’ lives while struggling to save herself—because without her all-male supervisors’ approval, her career ends before it begins. Funny, tender, and unflinching, Poised offers an inside look at hospitals and operating rooms, featuring a quirky, lovable scientist who refuses to be dismissed.
will make you laugh then cry and then laugh some more
—Anna Farro Henderson, author of Core Samples -
Hell
This book traces the history of an idea: hell and punishment after death. It surveys ancient and medieval perspectives, then examines how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam understand hell in the modern era. Appendices explore key foreign terms, concepts such as levels of hell, and artistic portrayals of the afterlife across the centuries.
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Top 40 Honeypot
The year is 1974 and Donnie Dixon is hired as program director of one of the most popular Top 40 radio stations in the country. But he soon finds out that behind the excitement of the music, the contests, and the big money prizes, is a dark world of crime, betrayal, and deceit. Be prepared for a thriller like no other inside the world of Top 40 Honeypot.
Janet Merran knocked it out of the ballpark!
—Sonja Grace, verified review on Amazon -
Headspace Habits
Many people face hardships that demand new skills to heal and thrive yet lack the time or resources for therapy. Headspace Habits: Advice from Zoomers to Boomers offers practical, research-based steps to calm your “headspace” and build everyday peace. Through self-assessments, real-life stories, and proven strategies, it shows how people turned adversity into healthier habits. Drawing on insights from 400+ individuals ages 22 to 82—Gen Z through Boomers—plus psychologist-recommended tools, it strengthens well-being and relationships with “tried and true” guidance.
practical strategies for anyone seeking to rediscover joy amidst ongoing challenges
—Ronn Haart, review 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 -
The Grain Terminal Elevators of Duluth-Superior
The Grain Terminal Elevators of Duluth-Superior tells the story of risk and innovation that built one of the world’s great grain ports. Through merchants, architects, and empire builders, it traces the elevators’ evolution from simple wooden structures to concrete architectural marvels. Follow Duluth-Superior’s rise as the Great Lakes export leader and its peak in the St. Lawrence Seaway era.
very insightful and informative with outstanding illustrations
—Leigh, review on Amazon -
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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An Improbable Series of Risky Events
After dying on the operating table, Gary Lindberg wakes with most of his memories erased. Determined to recover them, he reconstructs a life defined by risk and an intolerance for boredom—spanning Hollywood, magic and music, wartime horrors, monster hunts, heists, cartel encounters, murders, mysteries, and even space exploration. These memoirs emerge from years of recollection and interviews with family and friends.
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A Firm State of Heart
In Bob Gilbert’s A Firm State of Heart, Minneapolis writer Samuel Meckler tries to compose a long poem that can rise above the chaos of the Trump years. Paying bills as a waiter at an upscale Pennsylvania Avenue restaurant between the White House and the Capitol, he becomes an eyewitness to politics through diners ranging from lawmakers to diplomats and media stars. His nights move between salons, trap houses, and Capitol Hill bars, as an affair unfolds amid COVID, recession, and George Floyd’s death—an idealist searching for a new American narrative.
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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 -
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
