Read MN 2023: Fiction
READ MINNESOTA 2023: 30% OFF BOOKS FROM UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
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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
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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
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Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again Shigeru Kayama 2023 Fall
- The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2022 Spring
- The ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder
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American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2021 Fall
- Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jack and the Ghost Chan Poling 2019 Fall
- A gothic, lyrical evocation of a shipwreck, ghosts, and lost—and found—love in a North Shore town
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Laurentian Divide A Novel Sarah Stonich 2019 Fall
- Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country—now in paper
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The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall
- A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture
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The Road Back to Sweetgrass A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2016 Spring
- A powerful debut novel of love, hardship, and family bonds on an American Indian reservation—from the author of the award-winning short story collection The Dance Boots
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The Bohemian Flats A Novel Mary Relindes Ellis 2014 Spring
- The story of a man caught up in the immigrant culture of a river village in Minnesota, and in the throes of World War I
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Blackwater Ben William Durbin 2014 Spring
- A young boy discovers harsh realities, secrets, and adventure at a northern Minnesota logging camp in 1898
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A Slave’s Tale Erik Christian Haugaard 2013 Fall
- The dynamic sequel to Hakon of Rogen’s Saga
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Hakon of Rogen’s Saga Erik Christian Haugaard 2013 Fall
- A widely acclaimed work of historical fiction—back in print
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The Disenchanted Budd Schulberg 2012 Fall
- A moving, controversial novel that captured both the dazzling spirit and the bitter disenchantment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age
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Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery Larry Millett 2012 Spring
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to Minnesota, on the trail of the famous Kensington Rune Stone
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The Fall of the King Johannes V. Jensen 2011 Fall
- The masterpiece of one of Scandinavia’s preeminent literary figures and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Styrbiorn the Strong E. R. Eddison 2011 Fall
- E. R. Eddison’s classic saga novel now in paperback—includes for the first time Eddison’s remarkable letter of introduction and his unabridged closing note
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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
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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
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Legends of Paul Bunyan Harold W. Felton, Editor 2008 Fall
- The collected lore of Minnesota’s favorite lumberjack hero
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Swedish Folktales and Legends Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher, Editors 2004 Fall
- A unique collection of Sweden’s most charming folktales