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1	The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir more books like this by Kao Kalia Yang add to wishlist In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family's story after her grandmother's ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| SVS
2	The Florist's Daughter more books like this by Patricia Hampl add to wishlist "Nothing is harder to grasp than a relentlessly modest life." From Patricia Hampl, the author of "Blue Arabesque," comes this thoughtful and affecting memoir, a meditation on the death of her parents. As Patricia holds on to her dying mother's hand with one hand, she begins to write her obituary with the other. "She would have expected nothing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	MR Whites Confession more books like this by Robert Clark add to wishlist Author Robert Clark never intended this book to be classified as a mystery novel. Yet it received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cold Blood more books like this by Theresa Monsour add to wishlist Paris Murphy, the brilliant detective heroine of Monsour's riveting first novel, "Clean Cut," returns in this story of "cliffhanger suspense" ("BookPage") to track a vicious killer with whom she shares a past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Summit Avenue more books like this by Mary Sharratt add to wishlist How can you weave a life from fairy tales? Set in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul during the First World War, Mary Sharratt's debut novel is the story of a young German immigrant experiencing her spiritual and sexual awakening. As the poet Mandy Sivers says, "Summit Avenue" is A book about Woman and the tremendous, multiplied hurdles and barriers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Finding Laura Buggs more books like this by Stanley Gordon West add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Tin City more books like this by David Housewright add to wishlist Mac McKenzie spends his time doing favours for friends. His latest effort seems simple enough: Find out what's been killing his pal's honeybees. But with only a minimal amount of digging, McKenzie soon turns up a hornet's nest of trouble. A vicious hood named Frank Crosetti suddenly and mysteriously disappears leaving behind a rape and a lifeless ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Jelly's Gold more books like this by David Housewright add to wishlist Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favours as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the '30s, McKenzie is intrigued. In the early 20th century, St. Paul, Minnesota was an ... see all copies from $12.91! new only from $18.06! \| SVS
9	Madman on a Drum: A McKenzie Novel more books like this by David Housewright add to wishlist Homicide cop Bobby Dunston's daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a million dollars and force Dunston to get the ransom from his friend McKenzie. It soon becomes apparent to the two of them that one of the kidnappers is childhood pal Scottie, a once aspiring drummer ... see all copies from $3.54! new only from $5.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Rose Variations more books like this by Marisha Chamberlain add to wishlist /* Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; ... see all copies* from $3.00! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology more books like this by Mary Rose O'Reilley add to wishlist Reflecting on the past and a hard-won sense of self, Mary O'Reilley is determined not to sacrifice or waste herself. At midlife, she writes, she is finally learning to withhold after years of struggle on paths set by her suburban childhood, her Catholic upbringing, and a failed marriage. With a new perspective, O'Reilley discovers the pleasure in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.47! \| SVS
12 view cover	Practice to Deceive more books like this by David Housewright add to wishlist Private eye Holland Taylor investigates a case of investment swindling in the Twin Cities, in his second outing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Man's Reach more books like this by Elmer L Andersen add to wishlist "Andersen's story is the Horatio Alger myth made real, but his life is about much more than money and politics. He believes in public service, in democracy, and in striving to meet the needs of all citizens, especially those in the worst circumstances. Andersen's strong faith and values resonate from the first page of this autobiography. His ... see all copies from $2.51! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The girl. more books like this by Meridel Le Sueur add to wishlist In November 1978, West End Press published "The Girl", a rewritten version of a novel the author had first completed in 1939. The original story told of women struggling to survive a harsh winter in St. Paul after having suffered the loss of their male companions in a failed bank robbery. According to Le Sueur, it was a collective work: We had a ... see all copies from $2.55! new only from $16.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Love Me: 5 more books like this by Garrison Keillor add to wishlist In Garrison Keillor's comic novel, Larry Wyler is living in St. Paul with his wife, Iris, but he longs for the bright lights of the big city--New York. When his first novel hits it big, he's offered a job at the New Yorker magazine, and off he goes. But the New Yorker is not what he thought it was: the magazine Keillor has created is an amalgam of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Subterranean Twin Cities more books like this by Greg Brick add to wishlist see all copies from $11.94! new only from $11.94! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Days of Rondo more books like this by Evelyn Fairbanks add to wishlist Evelyn Fairbanks grew up in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s along Rondo Avenue -- the heart of St. Paul's largest black neighborhood. Her book tells the warm and human stories she recalls from those years in the then-vibrant community that was doomed to disappear with the coming of the freeways in the 1960s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Heathens more books like this by David Haynes add to wishlist This novel, presented as a series of linked short stories, centers on the life of a sixth grade teacher, Marcus Gabriel. LaDonna, his significant other, is in prison, and he struggles alone in guiding their son who must deal with the pressures of growing up in the city. A winner of the Minnesota Voices Project. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Twelve Branches: Stories from St. Paul more books like this by Nora Murphy, Joanna Rawson, Julia Klatt Singer add to wishlist A "once-in-a-lifetime book."-"St. Paul Pioneer Press" For six months, residents of St. Paul gathered at a dozen public libraries and shared their memories, anecdotes, and histories with four outstanding Minnesota writers. The result of this nationally unique collaborative project is a beautifully realized book that weaves the (mostly) true stories ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.03! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Twin Cities Then and Now more books like this by Larry Millett, Jerry Mathiason (Photographer) add to wishlist Twin Cities: Then and Now is an engaging, startling, and at times heartbreaking look at the dramatic evolution of landscapes in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities, explores the changing appearances of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their relatively static streets. Seventy-two historic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	St. Paul's Historic Summit Avenue more books like this by Ernest Robert Sandeen, Margaret Redpath, Carol Sawyer add to wishlist Well known as the most prestigious and beautiful street in the Twin Cities, Summit Avenue runs past the opulent mansion of railroad tycoon James J. Hill, an early home of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and several residences designed by renowned architect Cass Gilbert. In its heyday the four-and-one-half-mile-long boulevard included 13 churches, 9 schools, ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $15.01! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Minneapolis-St. Paul Then & Now more books like this by Paul Froiland, Hanje Richards add to wishlist Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then and Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes. see all copies from $2.51! new only from $10.74! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Most Beautiful Monday in 1961 more books like this by Ruth F Brin add to wishlist An inventive tightly-constructed book which by zeroing in on a single summer day in 1961 in the lives of six 40-something Jewish friends a psychiatrist, a rabbi, two women who have both loved the same man, and two men who are contentious business partners has managed to cover all the big issues in contemporary life, the hazards of marriage, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
24 view cover	Love Me more books like this by Garrison Keillor add to wishlist In Garrison Keillor's comic novel, Larry Wyler is living in St. Paul with his wife, Iris, but he longs for the bright lights of the big city--New York. When his first novel hits it big, he's offered a job at the New Yorker magazine, and off he goes. But the New Yorker is not what he thought it was: the magazine Keillor has created is an amalgam of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier more books like this by Philip J Anderson (Editor), Dag Blanck (Editor) add to wishlist A detailed portrait of Swedish immigrant life and culture in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, told in 22 essays by leading scholars from the US and Sweden. Includes contributions from twenty-four leading scholars in both the United States and Sweden investigating various facets of Swedish life and culture in the Twin Cities. For these ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $19.09! \| first editions

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