Calumet Editions

  • Gaza

    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

  • Getting to Know Your Child's Brain

    Getting to Know Your Child’s Brain

    Over the last ten to twenty years, a lot of progress has been made in understanding brain development. There is still a lot to be learned, but much of what has been discovered remains in scholarly journals inaccessible to many parents. This book provides basic, up-to-date information about brain development that is concise, easy to read and full of helpful advice to parents who want to raise positive, happy children.

    What is so great is that she explains so you can actually understand how it all works.

    —Julie Stewart
  • Ghosts & UFOs

    Ghosts & UFOs

    Are ghosts and UFOs the same? This revealing book contains full explanations of how ghosts and UFOs identically move, communicate, use energy, are physical and nonphysical, and intertwine themselves with the history of humanity. Adrian Lee has brought the last two great unknown phenomena into the canon of mankind together with new and groundbreaking theories in quantum physics and collective consciousness.

    This book had me hooked from the beginning.

    —Kisa Meehan on Amazon

  • Ghosts of the US-Dakota War 1862

    Ghosts of the US-Dakota War 1862

    Join ghost hunter and historian Adrian Lee, along with his elite team of paranormal investigators, on a compelling tour of the most haunted historic places of the US-Dakota War. His chilling firsthand investigations, accompanied by rich historical details, will send shivers down your spine as he recovers history from the lips of the dead.

    worth multiple reads… a spectacularly detailed and poignant account of this sad series of events

    —Amazon reader

  • Granite Facts

    Granite Facts

    These poems by Minnesota writer June Skjervold celebrate nature, music, love, and loss—plus a charming short story—creating a mid–twentieth-century snapshot. Dedicated to “everyday poets,” the collection reveals how the seemingly mundane is wrapped in natural and supernatural beauty. Drawn from close observation and rendered with surprising craft and stylistic range, the work invites readers to hear the music in the lines—best read aloud—and discover magic at the edge of daily life.

  • Green Goes Forth

    Green Goes Forth

    Green Goes Forth, prequel to Robert Gilbert’s Mintwood Place, follows Joe Green’s 1970s coming-of-age. A senior at American University, he lands in trouble and flees Washington two steps ahead of the law. Hiding in Sonoma County, he studies The Odyssey and the I Ching, grows marijuana, and returns after two years—wealthy, gnostic, and opposed to rising Reagan-era politics back home.

    whets the appetite to keep going

    —Monte Dutton
  • Greetings from Bullhead Country

    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
  • Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

    Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

    During the Great Depression, Faunce Ridge on the Minnesota–Canadian border is condemned as a New Deal “rural slum.” Emil Rousseau returns to photograph neighbors’ hardship to justify resettlement—but they refuse to leave. Narrated through Emil, his sweetheart Rose, madam Sadie, and bootlegger Magnus, this novel evokes the borderland’s harsh beauty, history, and mystical hold.

    Her characters are fully realized; her descriptions of the landscape make you long for ‘up north’ and her dialogue is spot-on.

    —Mary Ann Grossman, Pioneer Press

  • Hanging the Mirror

    Hanging the Mirror

    Hanging the Mirror: The Discipline of Reflective Leadership goes beyond standard management advice to examine how leaders’ values and assumptions drive their behavior. Drawing on behavioral research and twenty-five years of consulting, it challenges readers to rethink entrenched patterns through ongoing reflection—because lasting leadership transformation is earned, not quick-fixed.

    Deftly written and researched, perceptive and relevant, an important addition to leadership literature.

    —KIRKUS REVIEWS

  • Hannah and Martin

    Hannah and Martin

    Hannah & Martin is a dramatized play about the fraught philosophical and romantic entanglement between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Set against questions of being, truth, and ethics, it confronts the tension between Arendt’s Jewish identity and Heidegger’s Nazi affiliation. Stephen Vicchio uses their relationship to probe the moral stakes of ideas. Complementing the drama are essays exploring human suffering, love in classical and Christian traditions, and the ethical implications of philosophical thought—inviting readers to consider how personal history shapes morality and existence.

  • Harbor Nights

    Harbor Nights

    Spencer Manning’s latest case takes him from Chicago to charming Door County, Wisconsin, when an old girlfriend is accused of stealing her own painting—and then vanishes. Spencer suspects something darker than art theft, and the murders begin. A second ‘worthless’ painting is stolen in Chicago, linking two crime scenes miles apart. Chasing the connection draws Spencer into a web of a Chicago crime boss, a hostile police chief, and slippery suspects—until kidnapping raises the stakes. With unexpected allies, Spencer sets a trap for a daring rescue.

    This is a great summer read!

    —Michael J. Walsh, verified review on Amazon
  • Hassie Calhoun

    Hassie Calhoun

    Beautiful, gifted Hassie Calhoun arrives in Rat Pack–era Las Vegas determined to become a singer. Her looks open doors at the Sands, but also draw her into danger: a brooding, obsessive lover, Jake, and the attention of the powerful Frank Sinatra. Like Persephone, Hassie is torn between darkness and light, her innocence masking the risks she invites. As stardom beckons, she faces compromising choices that threaten her identity, safety, and dreams.

    took me on a trek filled with intrigue

    —KAS, verified review on Amazon
  • Headspace Habits

    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

  • Hell

    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.

  • Holding Court

    Holding Court

    The kidnapping of a Supreme Court Justice to keep him from being the deciding vote in a monumental environmental issue ushers in a spine-tingling and bizarre set of events, leading all the way to the White House. A young reporter and his professor/fiancée lead readers through a dizzying series of events while the kidnap victim lies in a coma, with suspects everywhere. It’s all topped off with an incredible surprise ending.

    Both suspenseful and thought-provoking, Alan Miller’s outstanding…novel plumbs today’s headlines to tell a twisty story filled with desperate characters and a ticking clock.

    —David Housewright, Edgar Award-winning author of Something Wicked

  • Hound of God

    Hound of God

    Joey Winston, a science-minded DNA researcher preparing for grad school, wakes to terrifying “dreams” of running as a wolf—until she realizes they’re real. Caught in an ancient curse, she has become a werewolf, and people begin to die. Is the wolf a demonic force or an agent of God? When it starts killing those she loves, Joey must confront the horror inside her and race to stop it before it destroys her family.

    what it might be like to ‘become’ a werewolf

    —Lawrence, verified review on Amazon