minnesota

"Evie Allen must use her wicked smart brains to figure out whether or not there is a zombie infestation--and figure out who the zombies are and most importantly, how to defeat them"--Provided by publisher.

Fourteen-year-old Jeff Allen, cancer survivor, is not sure which problem facing him is more troubling, dealing with a prosthetic leg or replacing the cell phones that were destroyed by the monsters his parents do not believe in; but when he offers to work at Mr Ogilvie's store (for a phone) he encounters the Nosferatu cell phones with a killer app--literally, because it causes people who use it to become raging lunatics with a vampiric thirst for blood.

Evolution is running backwards and women are giving birth to babies who resemble more primitive species. Into this environment, Cedar Hawk Songmaker is raised by Minneapolis-based liberals who encourage Cedar to seek out her Ojibwe roots. But a sinister new government kidnaps pregnant women off the streets to study the infants, and Cedar contends with a disintegrating world while trying to protect her unborn baby.

Tiffany Donovan needs cookies for the annual Devils' Pass Middle School Cookie Sale, though she is a little suspicious of the strange woman at the bakery offering them free; still, everybody seems to love the cookies--but when everyone who ate the cookies starts behaving like sleep-walking robots Tiffany remembers that in Devils' Pass there is no such thing as a free cookie.

"[A collection of sixteen essays on what it is] like to live as a person of color in Minnesota"--Back cover.

"Wanting to travel back a few years to a time when her mother almost moved to glamorous Hollywood, Ava Larsen is accidentally sent to 1891, where she struggles with the period's complete lack of digital technology"--OCLC.

"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.

Lars Thorvald, a midwestern chef, used to love three things--his kitchen, his wife, and his daughter, Eva. Then his wife left him for some sommelier. Left to raise Eva on his own, Lars instills in her his passion for cooking, and Eva grows up to become the chef at one of the most sought-after restaurants in the country, with a buried secret that drives her to be the best she can be.

""...Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong..."--Provided by publisher.