Bøger udgivet af North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc

Joliet Girl is a deep and complex pleasure, like a rainstorm or a saxophone playing the tone of a lost afternoon. Tolf writes of childhood's grip on our lives, of loyalty, disappointment, and most beautifully, the particular joy that is laughter between sisters. This intense love has its echo in the power of these oldest bonds to break us, too. I felt I'd been allowed to slip in the back door of a life, watching how sisters, not so different from my own, lose one another and find their way. Francine Tolf writes with fierce, inquiring love and honesty, but it is the poetry in these pages her observant eye and the beauty of her languagethat gives this memoir resonance and haunting power. -Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery

"Endlessly Fascinating.... The ultimate 'I was there' book. I have read many books about Scandinavians coming to America in the turbulent 1860s, but thanks to author Candace Simar, this is the first time I was ever transported from my easy chair right into the book to experience it with them. The images of courage, cruelty, intolerance, discovery, and simple pleasures have stayed with me. This is one book I won't forget." -John Koblas, author Let Them Eat Grass trilogy

In Uprising, Dean Urdahl has crafted a story about Minnesota s war within a war in the Minnesota River Valley during the autumn of 1862. His saga is enriched by unfolding . . . on an even broader background beginning with the bloody battle of Shiloh in the spring of 1862 and carrying his main character, Nathan Thomas, from there to Minnesota where he participates in an extraordinary number of adventures during the six-week ethnic earthquake variously known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Conflict, and the Dakota War. In casting Nathan as his central figure and relating him to the two theaters of conflict during the great battles of Second Manassas, Antietam, Corinth, and others in the East . . . he adds meaning and depth to the power of his story.

Ghost stories put a tingle up the spine, goose bumps down the arms. What better place to enjoy them than while camping? Away from familiar places, with only a campfire to ward off the chill and keep the creepy ghost just outside the firelight.

Wonderful, lively tales of hauntings and strange -happenings from all over Minnesota.