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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota, gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
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Series
Language
English
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" The place is Minneapolis, the year is 1903, and Michael Masterson has fallen in love, or so he claims, with Addie Strongwood, a beautiful working-class girl with an interesting past and a mind of her own. But their promising relationship quickly begins to disintegrate before reaching a violent conclusion. Amid allegations of seduction, rape, and blackmail, Michael is shot dead and Addie goes on trial for first-degree murder. As the case unfolds...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
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Description
Raimund Kaufmann leaves Germany in 1896 to escape oppression under his older brother who runs the family farm and brewery. Traveling to Minnesota and settling in an area along the Mississippi River known as the Flats, Raimund is soon joined by his brother Albert and together they try to conceal their German roots by posing as British immigrants. However, when World War I breaks out, their German heritage can no longer be concealed and it threatens...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Physical Desc
166 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Peltonen joins his father in the iron ore mines of northern Minnesota, experiencing the harsh labor conditions that were common at the time, as mining companies cared more about making a profit than for their workers safety. Writing in his journal about his familys struggles and the hard life Finnish immigrants endured in the early twentieth century, Otto ultimately strengthens...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
7) Hannah's way
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural Minnesota in 1938, Hannah, a young orthodox Jewish girl, deals with being the new girl in class.
Author
Publisher
Rose Metal Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, novelist Sheila O'Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent girls for 'immorality' in the first half of the twentieth century, O'Connor follows young...
9) Full service
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences. The times they are a-changin.' The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. You need to meet the public, she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly...
10) Frozen
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Unable to speak or remember the events surrounding her mother's mysterious death eleven years earlier, sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose, the foster child of a corrupt senator in 1920s northern Minnesota, struggles to regain her voice, memory, and identity.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.
12) Ice-out
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Minnesota, life is hard for nineteen-year-old Owen Jensen and his family after their father dies but gets considerably worse when Owen becomes involved in the deaths of a sheriff and deputy.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Robberies, murders, kidnappings - Minnesota has been home to several notorious crimes. Some were committed by infamous lawbreakers: the James-Younger gang, John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde and others. But not all misdeeds have been done by career criminals. Take a closer look at more than two dozen unlawful acts that rocked Minnesota and often grabbed headlines across the country.