Twisted at the Root by Ellen Hart
Published in August 2019, Twisted at the Root is Ellen Hart’s 26th novel in the Jane Lawless mystery series. Hart’s mastery of the mystery genre and the unique world of… Read more »
A Fan Letter on Minnesota Writers
Published in August 2019, Twisted at the Root is Ellen Hart’s 26th novel in the Jane Lawless mystery series. Hart’s mastery of the mystery genre and the unique world of… Read more »
Diane Glancy aptly titles her work a “consideration.” Island of the Innocent; A Consideration of the Book of Job, (2020 Turtle Point Press) visits perspectives on the biblical book of… Read more »
“You learn a lot about a person when you eat their hotdish,” Johnson states on p. 25, as she takes us through her stint judging the Minnesota Congressional Delegation Hotdish… Read more »
Originally written and illustrated in 1948 by Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Nils is a children’s book in its first reprinting by the University of Minnesota Press. More than seventy… Read more »
From the Grave by David Housewright is the latest in the long-running Mac McKenzie series. This novel is a suspenseful mystery, with detailed descriptions of the Twin Cities setting and… Read more »
Hope in the Struggle is a captivating book that explores the history of racial inequality in the United States. Author Josie R. Johnson speaks on social unrest, discrimination, and racial… Read more »
There is an undeniable reflection and frightening sense of solitude that is usually associated with the inevitability of death. When such loss occurs, some people turn to writing poetry in… Read more »
To talk of genocide and gimmickry at once is risky, but Chris McCormick pulls it off with considerable success in his debut novel The Gimmicks. McCormick uses the metaphor of… Read more »
The Shared Room is a book about loss, grief and how to bear and cope with the continual movement of life after the demise of someone you love. The collection… Read more »
It is 1932 and we are in Racine, Wisconsin. Our protagonist is twelve-year-old Emma Monroe who is intelligent and courageous and will stop at nothing to find out more about… Read more »