Literature
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Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall
- How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
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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
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Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
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Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
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Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall
- A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means
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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
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The Silver Box An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2021 Fall
- In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie’s search for the truth about her mother—and herself—plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter
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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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Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall
- The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
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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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Reeling A Novel Sarah Stonich 2021 Fall
- RayAnne’s next adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmother’s death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show
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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
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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
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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
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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