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Crookston Public Library - Main
KRU
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KRU
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Gonvick LINK Site - Main
KRU
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KRU
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an...
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Fosston Public Library - Main
305 NER
2 available
305 NER
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Mahnomen Public Library - Main
305 NER
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305 NER
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"Acclaimed author Kent Nerburn creates an incisive character study of a Native American elder, against the unflinching backdrop of contemporary reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas. Nerburn draws us deep into the world of this elder, identified only as Dan, as we journey to where the vast Dakota skies overtake us and the whisperings of the wind speak of ancestral voices. As this spellbinding story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently...
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Detroit Lakes Public Library - Main
ERD
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ERD
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Ulen LINK Site - Main
ERD
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ERD
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"It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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Climax Public Library - Main
796.09 BER
1 available
796.09 BER
1 available
Crookston Public Library - Main
796.09 BER
1 available
796.09 BER
1 available
Moorhead Public Library - Main
796.09 BER
1 available
796.09 BER
1 available
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Tells the true story of a Minnesota community of 590 who rallied around a handful of larger-than-life, local athletic heroes in the mid 1950s. Excelling in both basketball and baseball, these high-schoolers thrilled their townsfolk with their near-miraculous feats on the court and on the field. Takes readers back to a time when the small community of Halstad, Minnesota followed its teams through two state tournaments and relives the excitement generated...
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Breckenridge Public Library - Main
921 ING
1 available
921 ING
1 available
Crookston Public Library - Main
921 ING
1 available
921 ING
1 available
Detroit Lakes Public Library - Main
921 ING
1 available
921 ING
1 available
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The hilarious, charming, and candid story of Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400--the community he made famous as "the worst place to live in America" in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.
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Breckenridge Public Library - New
634.9618 GRI
1 available
634.9618 GRI
1 available
Mahnomen Public Library - New
634.9618 GRI
1 available
634.9618 GRI
1 available
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Breckenridge Public Library - Main
CD TALKING BOOK 634.9618 GRI
1 available
CD TALKING BOOK 634.9618 GRI
1 available
Rothsay LINK Site - Main
CD TALKING BOOK 634.9618 GRI
1 available
CD TALKING BOOK 634.9618 GRI
1 available
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"On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event-from first-time visitors to the north woods to returning paddlers to Forest Service Rangers"--
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Bagley Public Library - Main
SIM
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SIM
1 available
Climax Public Library - Main
SIM
1 available
SIM
1 available
Detroit Lakes Public Library - Main
SIM
1 available
SIM
1 available
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"Mama and little Elsa are kidnapped by Indians. As his father lies dying, fourteen-year-old Ryker Landstad promises to take the nine-year-old twins to safety and rescue Mama and Elsa. It takes all Ryker's gumption, to reach the fort, only to discover that Fort Abercrombie is besieged by 500 warriors"--
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Bagley Public Library - Main
921 YAN
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921 YAN
1 available
Crookston Public Library - Main
921 YAN
1 available
921 YAN
1 available
Moorhead Public Library - Main
921 YAN
1 available
921 YAN
1 available
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Barnesville Public Library - Main
CD TALKING BOOK 921 YAN
1 available
CD TALKING BOOK 921 YAN
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Fertile Public Library - Main
CD TALKING BOOK 921 YAN
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CD TALKING BOOK 921 YAN
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In 1980, Kao Kalia Yang was born in a Hmong refugee camp. In this memoir, Yang reveals the experiences of her family and her people as they emigrate from Thailand to America.
9) A wild path
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Ada Public Library - Main
811.54 WOO
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811.54 WOO
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Bagley Public Library - Main
811.54 WOO
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811.54 WOO
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"With A Wild Path, Douglas Wood seeks to understand the importance and existence of beauty, the emotional poignancy of a wilderness sunset, and the realization of dreams. With generosity and compassion, he leads readers along a meditative path through a wilderness of many dimensions, offering courage and hope to those who feel different or left behind as he shares how he found, through the counsel of rocks, trees, and waters, his own way toward joy...
10) The reaping
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"In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, where it moldered for twenty-five years. Until today. Agent Harry Steinbeck hoped never to return to the northland, a place that holds terrible memories of his sister's abduction. But when a recent homicide is connected to Alku's unsolved mass murder, he and cold...
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Barnesville Public Library - Main
641.5973 DOO
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641.5973 DOO
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Detroit Lakes Public Library - Main
641.5973 DOO
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641.5973 DOO
1 available
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"In Winter's Kitchen reveals how a food movement with deep roots in the Heartland--our first food co-ops, most productive farmland, and the most storied agricultural scientists hail from the region--isn't only thriving, it's presenting solutions that could feed a country, rather than just a smattering of neighborhoods and restaurants. Using the story of one thanksgiving meal, Dooley discovers that a locally-sourced winter diet is more than a possibility:...
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Detroit Lakes Public Library - Main
M REN
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M REN
2 available
Mahnomen Public Library - Main
M REN
1 available
M REN
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"Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live-northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at thirteen was working farms. She's tough as nails-five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing...
13) Fox Creek
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Ada Public Library - Main
M KRU
1 available
M KRU
1 available
Crookston Public Library - Main
M KRU
1 available
M KRU
1 available
Mahnomen Public Library - Main
M KRU
1 available
M KRU
1 available
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Moorhead Public Library - Main
MP3CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
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MP3CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
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"The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking...
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Gonvick LINK Site - Main
KRU
1 available
KRU
1 available
Hawley Public Library - Main
KRU
1 available
KRU
1 available
Moorhead Public Library - Main
KRU
3 available
KRU
3 available
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Climax Public Library - Main
CD TALKING BOOK KRU
1 available
CD TALKING BOOK KRU
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Moorhead Public Library - Main
CD TALKING BOOK KRU
1 available
CD TALKING BOOK KRU
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Moorhead Public Library - Main
LARGE PRINT KRU
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LARGE PRINT KRU
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Ulen LINK Site - New
LARGE PRINT KRU
1 available
LARGE PRINT KRU
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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...
15) Ordinary grace
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. It was the Twins' debut season; the country had a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited often and took many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank was forced to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Forty years later, he tells the story of discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
16) Lightning strike
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Frazee LINK Site - Main
M KRU
1 available
M KRU
1 available
Gonvick LINK Site - Main
M KRU
1 available
M KRU
1 available
Moorhead Public Library - Main
M KRU
1 available
M KRU
1 available
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Ada Public Library - Main
CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
1 available
CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
1 available
Bagley Public Library - Main
CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
1 available
CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
1 available
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Detroit Lakes Public Library - Main
MP3CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
1 available
MP3CD TALKING BOOK M KRU
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Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota's Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown,...
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A casual note left on the windshield of a car. The death of an old dog. And author Kent Nerburn unexpectedly finds himself back on the Dakota reservation where more than a decade before he traveled with the elder, Dan, whose thoughts he chronicled in the classic of Native American studies, Neither Wolf nor Dog. Now almost ninety, Dan wants Nerburn to assist in the unlikely task of burying Fatback, the old Labrador who had been Dan's closest companion...
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"In this moving finale to the trilogy that began with Neither Wolf Nor Dog, Kent Nerburn blends history, humor, and heartbreak with a gripping mystery. Once again he visits the Dakota elder Dan and joins in the quest to understand the fate of Dan's little sister, Yellow Bird, a girl with a mystical relationship to animals who disappeared into the Indian boarding school system. Delving beneath the myths, misconceptions, and stereotypes that make up...
19) The mighty red
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Detroit Lakes Public Library - New
ERD
1 available
ERD
1 available
Rothsay LINK Site - New
ERD
1 available
ERD
1 available
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4 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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"In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business"--
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Barnesville Public Library - Main
ERD
1 available
ERD
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Breckenridge Public Library - Main
ERD
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ERD
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Crookston Public Library - Main
ERD
1 available
ERD
1 available
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Crookston Public Library - Main
LARGE PRINT ERD
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LARGE PRINT ERD
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Twin Valley LINK Site - Main
LARGE PRINT ERD
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LARGE PRINT ERD
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A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.