Minnesota and the Upper Midwest

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

The Last Bookseller A Life in the Rare Book Trade Gary Goodman 2021 Fall

A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age

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

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

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

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

Swedish-American Borderlands New Histories of Transatlantic Relations Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Editors 2021 Spring

Reframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration

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

Citizen Swain Tales from a Minnesota Life Tom H. Swain 2021 Fall

An entertaining personal history of the state, told by one of its leading citizens

A Private Wilderness The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson Sigurd F. Olson 2021 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

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

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

Hope in the Struggle A Memoir Josie R. Johnson 2021 Spring

How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment

The Children of Lincoln White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876 William D. Green 2021 Spring

How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans