University of Minnesota Press
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The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition
$34.95 Read moreAs many in the north country can attest, one of life’s great pleasures resides in the tradition of sauna-sitting in 180-plus-degree heat and throwing cool water on oven-hot stones to create a blast of… [more below]
- Author: Nordskog, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0816656827
- Language: English
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Rafferty’s Last Case: A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes
$14.95 Read moreThe ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder
Like many mysteries, this one begins with a murder. But
- Author: Millett, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1517913128
- Language: English
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The Shared Room
$16.95 Add to cartA family gradually moves forward after the loss of a child–a story for readers of all ages
When someone you love dies, you know what doesn’t die? Love. On the hot beach, among colorful umbrellas blo- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1517907942
- Language: English
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The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever
$29.95 Read more500 casseroles for every occasion–sweet and savory, hearty and light, homey and festive–from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas
A good cook once said that a casserole is- Author: Ojakangas, Beatrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913438
- Language: English
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What Is Posthumanism?: Volume 8
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, socie
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #8
- Author: Wolfe, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0816666156
- Language: English
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Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
$39.95 Add to cartStarting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the materials of painting in ways that prompted critics to desc
- Author: Kee, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0816679886
- Language: English
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Noah’s Arkive
$29.95 Read moreA timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorf- Author: Cohen, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1517904242
- Language: English
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant Story
$9.95 Read moreA portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century–now in paperback
After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Pelto- Author: Durbin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1517910463
- Language: English
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Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark
$24.95 Read moreWalleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survival
Among the more than 34,000 species of fish, few have the walleye’s followi
- Author: Radomski, Paul J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913632
- Language: English
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One Winter Up North
$17.95 Read moreA picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in winter, snowshoeing the frozen lakes and silent forest with family, encountering the wonders of northern wildlife in the col
- Author: Owens, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 151791292X
- Language: English
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers
$24.95 Read moreRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s–a decade unnervingly similar to our own
In the Company of Radical Wom
- Author: Hennessy, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914906
- Language: English
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Queer Networks: Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art
$34.95 Read moreHow the queer correspondence art of Ray Johnson disrupted art world conventions and anticipated today’s highly networked culture
Once regarded as “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson
- Author: Kienle, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 151791163X
- Language: English
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Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
$24.95 Add to cartThe 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
In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crosse- Author: Mech, L. David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1517908256
- Language: English
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The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives
$15.95 Read moreA collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems
Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Wa
- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1517914515
- Language: English
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From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture
$34.95 Read moreA cultural history of S?pmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts
Material objects–things made, used, and treasured–tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the I- Author: Sjoholm, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911974
- Language: English
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Yang Warriors
$16.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Kao Kalia Yang delivers an inspiring tale of resourceful children confronting adversaries in a refugee camp
After lunch the Yang warriors prepare for battle. They practice drills- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1517907985
- Language: English
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Modern Nature
$18.95 Read moreThis text is the iconoclastic and controversial filmmaker Derek Jarman’s candid journals from 1989 to 1990. The journals include Jarman’s love of gardening and flowers while he was growing sicker from… [more below]
- Author: Jarman, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 081666594X
- Language: English
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Hush Hush, Forest
$16.95 Add to cartLyrical words and elegant woodcuts capture the quiet beauty of the forest as day fades to night and autumn gives way to the North Woods winter
While we are tucked in, snug in warm blankets as we list
- Author: Casanova, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0816694257
- Language: English
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The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
$14.95 Read moreA wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade–now in paperback
When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982,- Author: Goodman, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1517916615
- Language: English
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Letters from Tove
$19.95 Read moreA virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1517910102
- Language: English
