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Author: Duff Brenna Publisher: ISBN: 9780983828952 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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Mesmerizing: In 17 riveting stories set in the author's native Minnesota, Duff Brenna's edgy tales journey from the mid-19th century to our current 21st century. While capturing the history centered in and around the cities of Medicine Lake, Golden Valley, Anoka, Minneapolis and Mankato, Minnesota Memoirs unfurl a series of unique narratives revealing a transfiguring perception of what it means to be alive in a world that never explains its quiet indifference to all things human. Called "a spectacular talent at crafting complex, believable characters" (Wall Street Journal), "a honed intelligence, unfaltering, unflinching, piercing" (New York Times) and "a master at capturing the helplessness of humans ... with tough written all over them" (Los Angeles Times), Brenna's insights into human nature show us who we are as a species and what we are capable of-our capacities for love and hate, intense desire, sanity, insanity, magnanimity, generosity of spirit and, above all, compassion.
Author: Duff Brenna Publisher: ISBN: 9780983828952 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Mesmerizing: In 17 riveting stories set in the author's native Minnesota, Duff Brenna's edgy tales journey from the mid-19th century to our current 21st century. While capturing the history centered in and around the cities of Medicine Lake, Golden Valley, Anoka, Minneapolis and Mankato, Minnesota Memoirs unfurl a series of unique narratives revealing a transfiguring perception of what it means to be alive in a world that never explains its quiet indifference to all things human. Called "a spectacular talent at crafting complex, believable characters" (Wall Street Journal), "a honed intelligence, unfaltering, unflinching, piercing" (New York Times) and "a master at capturing the helplessness of humans ... with tough written all over them" (Los Angeles Times), Brenna's insights into human nature show us who we are as a species and what we are capable of-our capacities for love and hate, intense desire, sanity, insanity, magnanimity, generosity of spirit and, above all, compassion.
Author: James A. Wright Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press ISBN: 9780873514071 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 482
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It went on to take part in every significant battle in the war in the East from 1861 to 1864. In remarkable detail, Wright describes the fighting at Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the New York draft riots, and Bristoe Station. The most grueling battle for the First was Gettysburg. Detached from the main body of its regiment, Company F missed the bloody fighting on July 2 when the First lost 82 percent of its men in a suicidal attack. But the next day, Company F and the remnant of the First helped stop Pickett's Charge. The First's sacrifice inspired Gen.
Author: Page Dickey Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1643260510 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 356
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“Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.” —The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in northwestern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and woodland around a former Methodist church. In Uprooted, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again. In these pages, follow her journey: searching for a new home, discovering the ins and outs of the landscape surrounding her new garden, establishing the garden, and learning how to be a different kind of gardener. The surprise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape. Written with humor and elegance, Uprooted is an endearing story about transitions—and the satisfaction and joy that new horizons can bring.
Author: Kyle Hanson Publisher: ISBN: 9781389387166 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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'Minnesota Memoirs' features the best historic landmarks and landscapes of the North Star State. Chapters Include:SAINT PAUL:Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, Raspberry Island, Harriet Island, Union Depot, Pioneer Endicott Building, Public Library, Rice Park, The Saint Paul Hotel, Landmark Center, Mickey's Diner, Indian Mounds Park, Wabasha Street Caves, Minnesota State Capitol, Cathedral of Saint Paul, James J. Hill House, Summit Avenue, Lake Como, Marjorie McNeely Conservatory, Como Park Zoo, Historic Fort Snelling, Fort Snelling State Park, Pike IslandMINNEAPOLIS:Minnehaha Depot, Minnehaha Park, Minnehaha Falls, Lake Nokomis, Lake Harriet, Como-Harriet Streetcar Line, Midtown Exchange, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Foshay Tower, Mill Ruins ParkRED WING:Red Wing Station, Pottery Place, Red Wing Shoes, St. James Hotel, Barn Bluff, Oakwood Cemetery, Memorial Park, Old Frontenac Historic District, Lake Pepin, Frontenac State Park, Villa MariaDULUTH:Duluth Depot, Lake Superior Railroad Museum, Duluth Shipping Pier, Duluth South Breakwater Outer Light, Duluth North Pier Light, Aerial Lift Bridge, Lake Superior, Glensheen Historic Estate, North Shore Scenic DriveTWO HARBORS:Trail of the Whispering Giants Native American Sculpture by Peter Toth, Two Harbors Breakwater, Edna G Tugboat, Gooseberry Falls State Park, Tettegouche State Park, Split Rock Lighthouse State ParkEnjoy with Life Love Peace Joy Laughter & Happiness, Kyle Hanson This was my 38th Book of Photography
Author: Garrison Keillor Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1951627709 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 398
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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”
Author: Kao Kalia Yang Publisher: Metropolitan Books ISBN: 1250296862 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 189
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From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a Hmong refugee—has gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home. Here are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades. Tommy, born in Minneapolis to refugees from Cambodia, cannot escape the war that his parents carry inside. As Afghani flees the reach of the Taliban, he seeks at every stop what he calls a certificate of his humanity. Mr. Truong brings pho from Vietnam to Frogtown in St. Paul, reviving a crumbling block as well as his own family. In Yang’s exquisite, necessary telling, these fourteen stories for refugee journeys restore history and humanity to America's strangers and redeem its long tradition of welcome.
Author: Duff Brenna
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