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A selection of books with a Minnesota connection.
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Baumbich, Charlene Ann Stray Affections : a Novel Mesmerized by a snow globe containing a little girl with hair the color of her own, Cassandra Higgins recalls memories of her beloved Grandpa Wonky, the stray she rescued as a child, and her relationship with her mother. 2009 Adult Fiction Book BAUMBIC | |
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Benitez, Sandra The Night of the Radishes A married Minnesota woman searching for her long-lost brother in Oaxaca, Mexico, finds a more complicated situation than she bargained for when she starts to fall for an engaging Berkeley professor. 2003 Adult Fiction Book BENITEZ | |
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Boggs, Johnny D. Northfield : a Western Story Boggs recounts the action of the infamous Northfield Raid using first person narratives from a different perspective in each chapter. 24 different characters share the narration - from the James brothers--reckless and violent Jesse and scripture-quoting Frank, to a five-year-old daughter of a murdered bank teller not quite able to get what all the fuss is about, to indignant members of the subsequent posses chasing the James brothers down. 2007 Adult Western Book BOGGS | |
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Carter, Emily Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories In these interconnected stories, Emily Carter relates Glory’s life, from her childhood to treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. She's also HIV positive, chronically depressed, and lonely. We follow her through recovery, to the possibility of happiness. 2000 Adult Fiction Book CARTER | |
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Clark, Robert In the Deep Midwinter In the 1940s, the moral dilemma of a woman who becomes pregnant out of wedlock. She is Anna MacEwan, 30, a divorcee carrying a child by a married lawyer. He intends to divorce and marry her, but in the meantime he would prefer if she had an abortion, saving him embarrassment. 1997 Adult Fiction Book CLARK | |
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DePree, Traci A Can of Peas Instead of embracing the career-chasing ambitions of their friends in St. Paul, Peter Morgan and his new bride Mae accept the daunting challenge of saving the family farm in the Minnesota countryside. 2002 Adult Fiction Book DEPREE | |
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Enger, Leif Peace Like a River Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder. 2001 Adult Fiction Book ENGER | |
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Erdrich, Louise Four Souls Journeying to Minneapolis, where she plans to avenge the loss of her family's land to a deceptive, wealthy white man, a young Native American woman finds herself entangled within a complex relationship. 2004 Adult Fiction Book ERDRICH | |
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Flynn, Vince Protect and Defend: A Thriller In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States. 2007 Adult Fiction Book FLYNN | |
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Gamer, Ron Winter Chance : Walking in Wolf Tracks 14-year-old Travis Larsen plans a solo camping trip in December near Mystery Lake along the Gunflint Trail. His overnight stay in the wilderness takes an unexpected turn when he crosses paths with a pair of poachers. Anxious about what Travis might have seen, one poacher leads him blind-folded deeper into the wilderness and leaves him to starve or freeze. Travis not only struggles to keep himself alive, but also takes into his care a wounded yearling wolf that escaped the poachers. 2003 Adult Fiction Book GAMER | |
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Guest, Judith. The Tarnished Eye The community of Blessed, Michigan, is shattered by the murder of the Norbois family -- Paige, Edward, and their four children -- in their summer home. Sheriff Hugh DeWitt is determined to find answers. Based on a real life case. 2004 Adult Fiction Book GUEST | |
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Harfenist, Jean A Brief History of the Flood Spanning the years 1959 to 1970, this series of eleven interlinked stories chronicles the lives and fortunes, misadventures and mishaps, of Lillian Anderson and her family in the small Minnesota town of Acorn Lake, as Lillian journeys from eight years old to eighteen. 2002 Adult Fiction Book HARFENIST | |
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Hassler, Jon The New Woman Anticipating the end of her life while watching changes within the small town of Staggerford from her apartment window, octogenarian Agatha McGee wonders if she is up to such challenges as the deaths of two close friends, her nephew's worrisome mental state, and a kidnapped girl. 2005 Adult Fiction Book HASSLER | |
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Hautman, Pete The Prop Working as a prop poker player at an Arizona casino, Peeky Kane becomes unwittingly involved in a scam against her employer, a plot that is complicated by her daughter's drug problems and a high-stakes band of murdering robbers. 2006 Adult Fiction Book HAUTMAN | |
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Hornbacher, Marya The Center of Winter At the center of winter, in Motley, Minnesota, Arnold Schiller gives in to the oppressive season that reigns outside and also to his own inner demons, he commits suicide, leaving a devastated family in his wake. Claire Schiller, wife and mother, takes shelter from the emotional storm with her husband's parents but must ultimately emerge from her grief and help her two young children to recover. 2005 Adult Fiction Book HORNBACHE | |
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Johnson, Wayne Six Crooked Highways In the sequel to Don't Think Twice, Paul Two Persons, a Native American resort owner, is forced to turn sleuth after state politicians propose a highway to run across the Red Lake reservation, a decision that will destroy his people's land and his own property, a situation that becomes further complicated when a boy who had worked for Paul turns up dead. 2000 Adult Fiction Book JOHNSON | |
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Keillor, Garrison Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel Astonished to learn that her impeccable mother led a secret life marked by her passionate love for a Las Vegas man and a private commitment to pleasure, Barbara elects to end destructive patterns in her own life while honoring her mother's final wishes, an effort that coincides with a veterinarian's efforts to marry her reluctant fiancé. 2007 Adult Fiction Book KEILLOR | |
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LaDuke, Winona Last Standing Woman Traces the struggle of the Anishinaabe Indians to restore their culture and regain their land. Begins with the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s, continues to the 1970s occupation by Indian militants of the Minnesota White Earth Reservation, up to the present problems of alcoholism and sexual abuse. 1997 Adult Fiction Book LADUKE | |
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Landvik, Lorna Welcome to the Great Mysterious Reluctantly agreeing to take care of her nephew, Rich, a thirteen-year-old boy with Down syndrome, while her sister and her husband take a vacation, Broadway actress Geneva Jordan finds her life turned upside down by the youngster and by a fascinating local man, until tragedy forever transforms the lives of those around her. 2002 Adult Fiction Book LANDVIK | |
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Logan, Chuck Homefront It never occurred to Phil Broker and Nina Pryce that moving to Glacier Falls, Minnesota, and still recovering from their life-and-death struggle with a demented terrorist, that a minor school-yard tussle could lead to confrontation with a local clan notorious for violence and criminal behavior. 2005 Adult Fiction Book LOGAN | |
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