Read Minnesota 2023 // Holiday Book Sale

New and classic books in Minnesota history, environment, memoir, children's picture books, cookbooks, nonfiction, Scandinavia, travel guides, and more. Highlights include a celebration of the Northern Waters Smokehaus's singular contribution to food preservation, Smoke on the Waterfront; the first English translations of the original Godzilla novellas; new fiction from Linda LeGarde Grover; the final installment in Sigrid Undset's Olav Audunssøn tetralogy; a delightful, beautifully illustrated children's picture book on cultural clashes at the dinner table; a witty tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables; and Michael Schumacher's latest on Great Lakes shipwrecks. 30% off with code MN90520, good through Jan. 15, 2024.

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New and classic books in Minnesota history, environment, memoir, children's picture books, cookbooks, nonfiction, Scandinavia, travel guides, and more. Highlights include a celebration of the Northern Waters Smokehaus's singular contribution to food preservation, Smoke on the Waterfront; the first English translations of the original Godzilla novellas; new fiction from Linda LeGarde Grover; the final installment in Sigrid Undset's Olav Audunssøn tetralogy; a delightful, beautifully illustrated children's picture book on cultural clashes at the dinner table; a witty tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables; and Michael Schumacher's latest on Great Lakes shipwrecks.

All books below are 30% off with code MN90520, good through Jan. 15, 2024.

BROWSE BOOKS:

NATURAL HISTORY // ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE WRITING // FICTION

NONFICTION AND MEMOIR // MINNESOTA HISTORY // MUSIC & ARTS

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS AND MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE AND HISTORY // SCANDINAVIA

RACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE // MYSTERY AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION

COOKBOOKS // GARDENING // SPORTS AND FISHING // ARCHITECTURE

TRAVEL STORIES // TRAVEL GUIDES // RAILROADS // SHIPWRECKS

WINTER // FOLKLORE

A Private Wilderness The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson Sigurd F. Olson 2024 Spring: The personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer—now available in paperback
F. Scott Fitzgerald A Composite Biography Niklas Salmose and David Rennie, Editors 2023 Fall: A comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author
This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2024 Spring: One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii—now available in paperback
The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi Elin Anna Labba 2023 Fall: The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today
Gunflint Falling Blowdown in the Boundary Waters Cary J. Griffith 2023 Fall: Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
Grace & Grit A History of Ballet in Minnesota Georgia Finnegan 2022 Fall: A complete history of ballet in Minnesota by a professional dancer and creative force in the Twin Cities artistic community
Dreaming Our Futures Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky, Editors 2023 Fall: A beautiful collection of the art and life stories of regional Native painters
Impermanence Life and Loss on Superior’s South Shore Sue Leaf 2023 Fall: A personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior’s South Shore
Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy’s Culinary Capital Eric Dregni 2024 Spring: The food-obsessed chronicle of an American’s three years in Italy—now available in paperback
A Wild Path Douglas Wood 2023 Fall: A soul-satisfying journey through the wilderness that uncovers hope, healing, and the abiding grace of wild things
The King of Skid Row John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis James Eli Shiffer 2023 Fall: The story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters—now in paperback
The Ski Jumpers A Novel Peter Geye 2023 Fall: Now in paperback: a writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap—into a past of soaring flights and broken family bonds
Smoke on the Waterfront The Northern Waters Smokehaus Cookbook Northern Waters Smokehaus 2023 Fall: A cultural icon of Lake Superior cuisine shares its story, recipes, and techniques
The Last Bookseller A Life in the Rare Book Trade Gary Goodman 2023 Fall: A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade—now in paperback
A Song over Miskwaa Rapids A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2023 Fall: A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history
The Palace of the Snow Queen Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi Barbara Sjoholm 2023 Fall: An exploration of the winter wonders and entangled histories of Scandinavia’s northernmost landscapes—now back in print with a new afterword by the author
Olav Audunssøn IV IV. Winter Sigrid Undset 2023 Fall: The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of one man’s fateful life in medieval Norway
The Last Supper Club A Waiter’s Requiem Matthew Batt 2023 Fall: A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables
Trauma Sponges Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response Jeremy Norton 2023 Spring: Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this unflinching view of a Minneapolis firefighter reveals the significant toll of emergency response
Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again Shigeru Kayama 2023 Fall: The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla
Blood in the Tracks The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik 2023 Spring: The story of the Minneapolis musicians unexpectedly summoned to re-record half of the songs on Bob Dylan's most acclaimed album
Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2023 Fall: Now in paperback, in this ninth Minnesota mystery Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder
Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota The Complete Guide to Species Identification Welby R. Smith 2023 Spring: The definitive field guide for understanding and identifying ferns and lycophytes in Minnesota
Too Much Sea for Their Decks Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale Michael Schumacher 2023 Spring: Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
Blue Guitar Highway Paul Metsa 2023 Spring: The singular Minnesota musician tells his story of making music, from folk outpost to pop paradise to stages shared with stars from Seeger to Springsteen
Town Ball The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek 2023 Spring: Relive the golden era of Minnesota’s town team baseball from 1945 to 1960
The Big Sugar A Brigid Reardon Mystery Mary Logue 2023 Spring: A grisly death near her new homestead draws Brigid Reardon into a complicated mystery soon after her arrival in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881
Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What’s Next William G. Franklin, Editor 2023 Spring: A richly illustrated and personal presentation of the lives and careers of twelve Latin American artists in Minnesota
Scandinavia since 1500 Second Edition Byron J. Nordstrom 2022 Fall: An updated edition of the definitive history of Scandinavia over the past five centuries
Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight Shannon Gibney 2023 Spring: Six-year-old Sam, with his Liberian dad and African American mom, finds a way to bring everyone in his cross-cultural family together at the dinner table
For the Love of Cod A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness Eric Dregni 2023 Spring: What makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate?
Eastcliff History of a Home Karen Fults Kaler 2022 Fall: An illustrated tour of this historic mansion on the Mississippi River, now the official home of the president of the University of Minnesota—and the most-visited public residence in the state
In the Company of Grace A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing Jody Lulich 2022 Fall: The son of a Black mother and white father overcomes family trauma to find the courage of compassion in veterinary practice
From Lapland to Sápmi Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture Barbara Sjoholm 2023 Spring: A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts
Big Belching Bog Phyllis Root 2023 Spring: A quirky romp through the peat bogs of northern Minnesota for young readers
Making the Carry The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater Timothy Cochrane 2022 Fall: An extraordinary illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U.S.–Canada border in the early twentieth century
Don’t Count Your Chicks Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 2023 Spring: This delightful storybook by the incomparable d’Aulaires, based on a poem by Hans Christian Andersen, will charm a new generation of little readers
The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring: A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself Racial Myths and Our American Narratives David Mura 2022 Fall: Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression
Take My Word for It A Dictionary of English Idioms Anatoly Liberman 2022 Fall: Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations
Break Point Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX Sheri Brenden 2022 Fall: How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics
Not the Camilla We Knew One Woman’s Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Rachael Hanel 2022 Fall: The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States
Olav Audunssøn III III. Crossroads Sigrid Undset 2022 Fall: The third volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic story of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in the first English translation in nearly a century
The Sky Watched Poems of Ojibwe Lives Linda LeGarde Grover 2022 Fall: A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems
Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall: Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
By the Fire Sami Folktales and Legends Emilie Demant Hatt 2022 Fall: The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century
Walleye A Beautiful Fish of the Dark Paul J. Radomski 2022 Spring: Walleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survival
One Winter Up North John Owens 2022 Fall: A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in winter, snowshoeing the frozen lakes and silent forest with family, encountering the wonders of northern wildlife in the cold season
Finding Turtle Farm My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture Angela Tedesco 2022 Spring: The story of starting and running an organic farm—told by the woman who owned one of the first Community Supported Agriculture operations in the Upper Midwest
Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring: A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
Seven Aunts Staci Lola Drouillard 2022 Spring: Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century
Boathouses of Lake Minnetonka Karen Melvin and Melinda Nelson 2022 Fall: A fascinating chapter of Lake Minnetonka history
Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District Karen Melvin, Paul Clifford Larson, Bette Hammel, Melinda Nelson and Dave Kenney 2022 Fall: A lavishly illustrated record of the architectural—and preservation—wonders of the most elegant neighborhoods of St. Paul
My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring: From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom
The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring: A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
The Dylan Tapes Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto 2021 Fall: The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto’s iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era
A Natural Curiosity The Story of the Bell Museum Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin and Gwen Schagrin 2021 Fall: A richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum after 150 years
Hudson Bay Bound Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic Natalie Warren 2022 Spring: The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay
The ABC Bunny Wanda Gág 2022 Spring: An unfortunate accident with an Apple drives Bunny from Bunnyland to Elsewhere. Every letter in the alphabet is represented in Bunny’s journey, through what he eats (Greens), to whom he meets (Insects, Jay, Kitten, Lizard), and then a little sleep (Nap), to Tripping back to town, right side Up and Up-side-down.
The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever Beatrice Ojakangas 2022 Spring: 500 casseroles for every occasion—sweet and savory, hearty and light, homey and festive—from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas
After Effects A Memoir of Complicated Grief Andrea Gilats 2021 Fall: An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief
The Steger Homestead Kitchen Simple Recipes for an Abundant Life Will Steger and Rita Mae Steger 2021 Fall: Personal and simple, earthy and warm—recipes and stories from the Steger Wilderness Center in Minnesota’s north woods
The Big Island A Story of Isle Royale Julian May 2021 Fall: First published in 1968, this engrossing and beautiful picture book about wildlife on Isle Royale is available again
Snowshoe Country Florence Page Jaques 2021 Fall: The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions
Canoe Country Florence Page Jaques 2021 Fall: The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions
Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall: The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation
We Are Meant to Rise Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, Editors 2021 Fall: A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota
Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall: Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2021 Fall: Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision
Reconstructing the Garrick Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece John Vinci, Editor 2021 Fall: A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings
Olav Audunssøn II II. Providence Sigrid Undset 2021 Fall: The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century
A Love Affair with Birds The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts Sue Leaf 2021 Fall: The father of Minnesota ornithology, whose life story opens a window on a lost world of nature and conservation in the state’s early days
Days Like Smoke A Minnesota Boyhood Jon Hassler 2021 Fall: The memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota’s favorite writers, now published for the first time
Grandmother’s Pigeon Louise Erdrich 2021 Fall: A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print
Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall: A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect
Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall: Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter
Lemon Jail On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan 2021 Fall: A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
The Streel A Deadwood Mystery Mary Logue 2021 Fall: From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood
Skiing into the Bright Open My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen 2021 Spring: The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there
Loon Lessons Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver James D. Paruk 2021 Spring: The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird
Letters from Tove Tove Jansson 2021 Fall: A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
Begin with a Bee Liza Ketchum, Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Phyllis Root 2021 Spring: Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees but also about our own responsibilities in the natural world
Got to Be Something Here The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound Andrea Swensson 2021 Spring: The story, from start to superstardom, of the musicians who shaped the Minneapolis Sound
The Perennial Kitchen Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future Beth Dooley 2021 Spring: Recipes and resources connect thoughtfully grown, gathered, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future—for food, farming, and humankind
Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring: A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem
Nellie Francis Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota William D. Green 2020 Fall: The life and work of an African American suffragist and activist devoted to equality and freedom
Minnesota’s Natural Heritage Second Edition John R. Tester, Susan M. Galatowitsch, Rebecca A. Montgomery and John J. Moriarty 2021 Spring: The definitive work on Minnesota’s natural history and ecology—updated, expanded, and copiously illustrated to account for profound changes to the state’s natural landscape over the past twenty-five years
Nils Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 2021 Spring: A loving tale of a boy who dreams of becoming a cowboy while also embracing his Norwegian heritage
Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis Jim Walsh 2020 Fall: A veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for more than thirty years
Olav Audunssøn I. Vows Sigrid Undset 2020 Fall: The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century
The Soup and Bread Cookbook Beatrice Ojakangas 2020 Fall: More than one hundred delectable and satisfying soup and bread pairings from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas
Undiscovered Country A Novel Lin Enger 2020 Fall: Now in paperback—a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness
Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal L. David Mech 2020 Fall: The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures
The Range Eternal Louise Erdrich 2020 Fall: The story of a girlhood lived in the glow of a woodstove from one of the country’s most distinguished and beloved authors, now back in print
One Summer Up North John Owens 2020 Fall: A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty
Swede Hollow A Novel Ola Larsmo 2020 Fall: A riveting family saga immersed in the gritty, dark side of Swedish immigrant life in America in the early twentieth century
The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall: Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers
The Journal of Otto Peltonen A Finnish Immigrant Story William Durbin 2020 Fall: A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century—now in paperback
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify Essays Carolyn Holbrook 2020 Spring: The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community
Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2020 Fall: A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world
In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall: Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation
The Shared Room Kao Kalia Yang 2020 Spring: A family gradually moves forward after the loss of a child—a story for readers of all ages