University of Minnesota Press
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Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home
$29.95 Add to cartCulinary journeys from around the globe: recipes and stories from immigrants to the United States
Immigrants carry more than hope as they cross oceans and traverse continents to come to the United St- Author: Svitak, Linda S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1517919126
- Language: English
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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
$16.95 Read moreStories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorol
- Author: Griffith, Cary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915570
- Language: English
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Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy
$24.95 Add to cartA bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self
Beyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, an- Author: Bettcher, Talia Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1517902576
- Language: English
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Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless
$19.95 Add to cartLiving mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty
In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest
- Author: Dean, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918561
- Language: English
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Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre
$19.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Hollywood horror legend Tod Browning–now revised and expanded with new material
One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time, Tod Browning (1880-1962) b- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916739
- Language: English
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A Lesser Light
$27.95 Add to cartOn the rocky shores of Lake Superior, a piercing story of selfhood and determinism develops: is the future what we’re handed or what we make of it?
It’s 1910, and Theodulf Sauer has finally achieved
- Author: Geye, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916372
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author
“There never was a good biography of a novelist,” F. Sco
- Author: Salmose, Niklas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915856
- Language: English
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Exploring the St. Croix River Valley: Adventures on and Off the Water
$34.95 Add to cartAn authoritative, accessible, and entertaining nature recreation guide to one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring areas in the Midwest
The St. Croix River is a 169-mile ribbon of blue that cleave
- Author: Hong, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1517916402
- Language: English
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Trans Philosophy
$29.95 Add to cartEstablishing trans philosophy as a unique field of inquiry, offering tools for our quest toward a more just and equitable world
Trans Philosophy defines this burgeoning and polymorphous discipline as p
- Author: Zurn, Perry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917042
- Language: English
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Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood
$18.95 Add to cartPeople live by their stories–how can we use them to accelerate action on climate change?
Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core S
- Author: Henderson, Anna Farro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1517916046
- Language: English
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Making Love with the Land: Essays
$18.95 Add to cartA moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
The novel Jonny Appleseed established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new lite- Author: Whitehead, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 151791504X
- Language: English
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Rise to the Challenge: A Memoir of Politics, Leadership, and Love
$24.95 Read moreThe inspiring life story of Minnesota’s first woman lieutenant governor: breaking political ground, navigating patriarchal tradition, and persevering through great personal loss
Marking a milestone fo
- Author: Johnson, Marlene M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917611
- Language: English
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Seven Ways to Trick a Troll
$19.95 Read moreTrolls They are huge and ugly and very, very dangerous. But luckily, their brains are no bigger than a walnut, so even small children can trick them. First, though, you need to know their weaknesses-
- Author: Lunge-Larsen, Lise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0816699771
- Language: English
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Plant a Pocket of Prairie
$17.95 Read moreAuthor Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take you
- Author: Root, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0816679800
- Language: English
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Johnny’s Pheasant
$16.95 Read moreAn encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma
“Pull over, Grandma Hurry ” J… [more below]
- Author: Minnema, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 151790501X
- Language: English
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
$16.95 Read moreThe remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay
Unrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and
- Author: Warren, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913748
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book: 100 Best Recipes from the Star Tribune’s Holiday Cookie Contest
$29.95 Add to cartA fresh batch of deliciously distinctive recipes from the Star Tribune‘s beloved annual cookie contest–with even more recipes, enticing photographs, and bakers’ stories
Cold winters call for warm ki- Author: Dean, Lee Svitak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1517918170
- Language: English
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
$29.95 Read moreThe story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because tha
- Author: Sprinkle, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1517900190
- Language: English
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The Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future
$27.95 Add to cartRecipes and resources connect thoughtfully grown, gathered, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future–for food, farming, and humankind
Knowing how and where food is grown can add depth and richne- Author: Dooley, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 151790949X
- Language: English
