Minnesota and the Upper Midwest
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The Darkest Evening William Durbin 2011 Spring
- An adventurous tale of one Finnish American family’s encounter with the “Red broom”
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Crossing the Barriers The Autobiography of Allan H. Spear Allan H. Spear 2010 Fall
- The memoir of a prominent Minnesota politician and one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials
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Queer Twin Cities Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project Kevin P. Murphy, Jennifer L. Pierce and Larry Knopp, Editors 2010 Fall
- A pioneering look at the queer history, politics, and spaces of the Twin Cities
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Fierce and True Plays for Teen Audiences Children’s Theatre Company Peter Brosius and Elissa Adams, Editors 2010 Fall
- A collection of plays written for teenage audiences from the leading theater for young people and families in North America
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This Is Not Florida How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount Jay Weiner 2010 Fall
- The behind-the-scenes story of the historic Franken-Coleman Minnesota Senate recount
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The Opposite of Cold The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition Michael Nordskog 2010 Fall
- A full-color history and celebration of Finnish sauna in the western Great Lakes
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Journeys from Scandinavia Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840—2000 Elisabeth Oxfeldt 2010 Spring
- How Scandinavians perceive and portray encounters with the non-European Other
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A Porch Sofa Almanac Peter Smith 2010 Fall
- An anthology of Peter Smith’s captivating musings on being Minnesotan
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News to Me Adventures of an Accidental Journalist Laurie Hertzel 2010 Fall
- The story of a journalist’s coming of age in Duluth during the boom days of print
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North Country The Making of Minnesota Mary Lethert Wingerd 2010 Spring
- The untold history of how the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe became the State of Minnesota
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Minnesota Architects A Biographical Dictionary Alan K. Lathrop 2010 Spring
- The first biographical guide to Minnesota architects from 1860 to the present
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Memory of Trees A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm Gayla Marty 2013 Spring
- An evocative memoir of life on a dairy farm in Minnesota’s St. Croix Valley
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The Music of Failure Bill Holm 2010 Spring
- The 25th anniversary edition of Bill Holm’s influential first book of essays
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Nature and Revelation A History of Macalester College Jeanne Halgren Kilde 2010 Spring
- Tells the story of one of the most prominent educational institutions in the Midwest
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Carew Rod Carew and Ira Berkow 2010 Spring
- The candid and compelling memoir of Rod Carew, one of baseball’s greatest players