Twin Cities Then and Now

Larry Millett

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• From Larry Millett, author of the award-winning Lost Twin Cities , comes this fascinating new book that explores the history of Minneapolis and St. Pa... Lees meer

The North Star State

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• An engaging history of Minnesota, told in compelling essays by the state's finest historians and writers. Two hundred years of Minnesota history sprin... Lees meer

The Pocket Guide to Minnesota Place Names

Michael Fedo

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Within our state's borders you'll find such exotic place names as Amor and Darling, Fertile and Conception, Comfort and Happyland, Looneyville and Nim... Lees meer

Ely Echoes

Bob Cary

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Listen to echoes of a life filled to the brim as one of the Northland's most renowned storytellers sallies forth once again to share his seventy-plus ... Lees meer

Minnesota Rag

Fred W Friendly

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• The fascinating behind-the-scenes story of this landmark First Amendment case Minnesota Rag takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of the seamy unde... Lees meer

They Chose Minnesota

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Why did emigrants leave their homeland and move to Minnesota? Where in the state did they settle? What did they do, and how did they organize? How did... Lees meer

The Haymakers

Steven R Hoffbeck

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Spanning 150 years, Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers tells a story of the labor and heartbreak suffered by five families in five different eras stru... Lees meer

The Days of Rondo

Evelyn Fairbanks

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• In the 1930s and the 1940s Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. Paul's largest black neighborhood. African Americans whose families had lived in Minne... Lees meer

Cold Comfort

Barton Sutter

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• A whimsical look at the pleasures and challenges of living in the far north-now in paperback! A whimsical look at the pleasures and challenges of livi... Lees meer

John Dillinger Slept Here

Paul Maccabee

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• "Paul Maccabee's John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of l... Lees meer

Murder in Minnesota

Walter N Trenerry

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• This treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved statehood in 1858 through 1917. It also traces the gradua... Lees meer

Voices for the Land

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• "A place is not a thing," writes Paul Gruchow in the foreword to Voices for the Land, "it is a relationship. A location becomes a place only in the co... Lees meer

Letters from the Country

Carol Bly

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Letters from the Country, one of Bly's best-known and best-loved books, is a collection of essays as fresh today as when they were originally publishe... Lees meer

The Low Road

Valerie Miner

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Here Valerie Miner provides an account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. Focusing on the life journeys of her gra... Lees meer

Woman of the Boundary Waters

Justine Kerfoot

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. In... Lees meer

Mill City

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Minnesota Book Award Winner! St. Anthony Falls--the birthplace of Minneapolis--has a storied past. This astonishing work of nature drew the awe and ad... Lees meer

The Last Full Measure

Richard Moe

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• The definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War. Lees meer

We Made It Through the Winter

Walter Omeara

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• In this delightful memoir, O'Meara recounts a ten-year-old boy's year in the northern Minnesota sawmill town of Cloquet at the turn of the twentieth c... Lees meer

Jailhouse Stories

Neil Haugerud

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• The unforgettable stories of a county sheriff In the 1950s and 1960s, Neil Haugerud served as sheriff of Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota. In... Lees meer

Down and Out

Edwin C Hirschoff

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• An elegiac look at a lost piece of Minneapolis's past. Minneapolis's skid row, known as the Gateway district, was a lively area consisting of dozens o... Lees meer

Lives Lived Large

Dean Urdahl

• Paperback | Engels | Minnesota
• Through business or science, sports or entertainment, the forty-one individuals in this book have affected the world around them in big ways. Starting... Lees meer