minnesota

Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.

NHL. Olympic Hockey. Olympics.

A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.

When protests about a superstore chain's plans to build a location in a Minnesota river town escalade into bombing attacks at the construction site and the company's headquarters, Virgil Flowers races against time to find and stop the bomber.

After 17-year-old Charlotte Kane - the beautiful, brilliant, and brooding daughter of a rich widower - disappears on a drunken New Year's Eve snowmobile ride, a raging blizzard soon snuffs out all search efforts. When her body is found during the spring thaw four months later, preliminary evidence implicates her ex-boyfriend - Ojibwe badboy, Solemn Winter Moon. But then a second Charlotte Kane turns up dead, and Cork isn't sure of anything any more.

When a murder suspect commits suicide after his arrest for killing a soybean farmer, Virgil Flowers uncovers a multi-generation, multi-family conspiracy involving a series of monstrous crimes.

This is the account of six summers spent with bears in the woods of Minnesota, by the author and his wife.

In the accounts of the lives of several generations of Ojibway people in Minnesota is much information about their history and culture.