Minnesota and the Upper Midwest
- Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders Larry Millett 2011 Spring
- When one of St. Paul’s wealthiest scions loses his head—literally—it’s up to Holmes and Watson to track a cold-blooded killer
- Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon Larry Millett 2011 Spring
- The first novel in the series that brought Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John D. Watson to turn-of-the-century Minnesota
- The City, the River, the Bridge Before and after the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Patrick Nunnally, Editor 2010 Fall
- Exploring the university’s role in understanding how disasters impact communities
- Song of Sampo Lake William Durbin 2011 Spring
- A gripping depiction of frontier life on the Minnesota Iron Range
- The Darkest Evening William Durbin 2011 Spring
- An adventurous tale of one Finnish American family’s encounter with the “Red broom”
- Crossing the Barriers The Autobiography of Allan H. Spear Allan H. Spear 2010 Fall
- The memoir of a prominent Minnesota politician and one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials
- Queer Twin Cities Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project Kevin P. Murphy, Jennifer L. Pierce and Larry Knopp, Editors 2010 Fall
- A pioneering look at the queer history, politics, and spaces of the Twin Cities
- Fierce and True Plays for Teen Audiences Children’s Theatre Company Peter Brosius and Elissa Adams, Editors 2010 Fall
- A collection of plays written for teenage audiences from the leading theater for young people and families in North America
- This Is Not Florida How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount Jay Weiner 2010 Fall
- The behind-the-scenes story of the historic Franken-Coleman Minnesota Senate recount
- The Opposite of Cold The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition Michael Nordskog 2010 Fall
- A full-color history and celebration of Finnish sauna in the western Great Lakes
- Journeys from Scandinavia Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840—2000 Elisabeth Oxfeldt 2010 Spring
- How Scandinavians perceive and portray encounters with the non-European Other
- A Porch Sofa Almanac Peter Smith 2010 Fall
- An anthology of Peter Smith’s captivating musings on being Minnesotan
- News to Me Adventures of an Accidental Journalist Laurie Hertzel 2010 Fall
- The story of a journalist’s coming of age in Duluth during the boom days of print
- North Country The Making of Minnesota Mary Lethert Wingerd 2010 Spring
- The untold history of how the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe became the State of Minnesota
- Minnesota Architects A Biographical Dictionary Alan K. Lathrop 2010 Spring
- The first biographical guide to Minnesota architects from 1860 to the present