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Living Cargo How Black Britain Performs Its Past Steven Blevins 2016 Fall

A sweeping survey of the historical turn in contemporary black British art and literature

Homemade Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food Beatrice Ojakangas 2016 Fall

A celebrated cook’s recipes and reflections on growing up in a big Finnish family in northern Minnesota

Recovery John Berryman 2016 Fall

Renowned poet John Berryman’s first and only novel, unfinished at the time of his suicide, about “the disease called alcoholism”

The War Came Home with Him A Daughter’s Memoir Catherine Madison 2016 Fall

A poignant look at the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a soldier brings his war home

d’Aulaires’ Book of Norwegian Folktales 2016 Spring

A collection of twenty-one classic Norwegian folktales from two Caldecott-honored authors and illustrators

Dharma Lion A Biography of Allen Ginsberg Michael Schumacher 2016 Spring

The expansive, authoritative biography of a Beat Generation leader—now with two new chapters

Women Write Iran Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora Nima Naghibi 2016 Spring

Auto/biographical narratives can kindle both our empathy and our commitment to human rights

If Bees Are Few A Hive of Bee Poems 2016 Spring

An anthology of 2,500 years of poetry, from Sappho to Sherman Alexie, humming with bees, at a moment when the beloved honey makers and pollinators are in danger of disappearing

So Much to Be Done The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner Barbara Brenner Barbara Sjoholm, Editor 2016 Spring

Political and inspiring, personal and influential—the writings of Barbara Brenner, who transformed the way we look at breast cancer

The Age of Lovecraft Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editors 2016 Spring

The first sustained look at Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture

Wake Up, Island Mary Casanova 2016 Spring

In a picture book for all ages, lyrical language and elegant woodcuts celebrate the waking natural world on a North Woods island

The Ravens Vidar Sundstøl 2016 Spring

The final installment of the award-winning Minnesota Trilogy by the celebrated Norwegian mystery writer

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

Unconditional Equality Gandhi's Religion of Resistance Ajay Skaria 2016 Spring

The first book on Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy to be informed by postcolonialism

The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2016 Spring

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