minnesota

Fourteen-year-old Caleb Parker has not been having much fun playing baseball recently, but when his mother volunteers to host Ricky Alvarez, a nineteen-year-old Dominican player on a local independent team in their Minnesota town, he finds a friend and mentor whose own struggles serve as an inspiration to the young Caleb.

Provides information about the culture, history, economy, and geography of Minnesota through a look at the state's professional and college sports teams and fans.

"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--Provided by publisher.

Fourteen-year-old Caleb Parker has not been having much fun playing baseball recently, but when his mother volunteers to host Ricky Alvarez, a nineteen-year-old Dominican player on a local independent team in their Minnesota town, he finds a friend and mentor whose own struggles serve as an inspiration to the young Caleb.

Text and images reveal the real-life origins of Lake Wobegon, the small midwestern town which Garrison Kellor brought to life.

Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, the author, a graphic designer, was drawn to beautiful handwriting in some old letters. They were in French and had been signed by a man named Marcel and posted from Berlin to France during World War II. Her curiosity aroused, she began to trace Marcel's life and to try and find out the answer to his fate. In the meantime she immortalized Marcel's handwriting as the acclaimed P22 Marcel Script font.

A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.

"The author shares how she and her husband became egg farmers, and how, with very little experience, they learned to manage their business and why they believe farms like theirs are vital to rebuilding America's food system"--OCLC.

Jack and Rochelle Sutin survived the Holocaust and World War II as part of a band of Jewish resistance fighters hiding in the dense forests of Poland. Their story is told by their son, Lawrence, and the book effectively describes the reality of months spent hiding in a dank underground bunker with lice and disease. When they met and fell in love they did not know if they would live through the war. But over fifty years later, their survival is a tale of strength and courage.

"In late 1800s Minnesota, 13-year-old Ben Ward goes to work with his father in a lumber camp and signs up for a log drive with his friend Nevers, where together they endure freezing weather, dangerous rapids, logjams, storms, floods, and pioneer life in general"--Provided by publisher.