Literature
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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
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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
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Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall
- Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations
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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 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
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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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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
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Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring
- New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer
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Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 2020 Spring
- A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu
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Listening Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings
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The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring
- Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality
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What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
- Examining the personal library and the making of self
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Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition