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What is it about growing up and living in Minnesota that shapes the careers and values of its most successful athletes? In Minnesota Made Me, award-winning sportswriter Patrick C. Borzi digs into the background of more than two dozen of Minnesota's most accomplished athletes in search of the answer. Whether famous or obscure, from small towns to the Twin Cities, all share common ground in work ethic, integrity, and a drive for excellence. Many have...
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In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America‚Äs literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area, with narrative threads that stretch back not just to Scandinavia, but across the world. Edited by Frank Bures (The Geography of Madness), the writers included here have won, or been shortlisted...
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Two distinct communities which share equally vibrant histories, the twin cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor possess a rich heritage rooted in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and tourism. Through more than 200 photographs, this book documents the cities' development from the time when pioneers first struggled to create a community in the wilderness. It pays tribute to the men and women who labored to establish farms and industries,...
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A boardinghouse keeper finds her kitchen in a mess after Saturday-night revelry and refuses to cook on Sunday. An iron miner pries frozen ore from a car in 40-below temperatures. A grocer makes sausage, brews wine, and forages for mushrooms and dandelion greens. In Italian Voices, Minnesota's Italian Americans share rich stories of everyday life in communities in the Iron Range, Duluth, and the Twin Cities between 1900 and 1960. Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich,...
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Private Detective Doyle Malloy is on the case when a string of murders pop up in North Dakota. Murders that have a striking similarity to a killer from the 1980s who used pickles--yes, pickles-as his modus operandi. A killer who also has a mysterious connection to Doyle's own past. After witnessing a murder on-stage at the Fitzgerald Theatre, Doyle begins to wonder if some of the odd coincidences surrounding his investigations aren't so coincidental...
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Death of the Naked Lady, Vol: 2; 193 pages. This novel is part of the Mary Malone series. Four months ago, when unemployed teacher, Mary Colleen Malone, moved into her brother's apartment at the Foley in the Twin Cities with her widowed aunt, she never suspected she'd end up solving a serious crime, one in which she almost lost her life. Now a twist of fate brings her to Lake Superior's shores in Duluth and she's forced to take on yet another case....
88) Magic in Blood
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In a magical realm, the enemy kingdoms of blood mages and soul mages, Meris and Lysmir, are unexpectedly on the brink of war after two mysterious royal murders. The two royal families quickly cast blame on each other, but not everything is as it seems. Princess Sivrehya of Meris and Prince Ivar of Lysmir separately vow to determine the truth.
Unbeknownst to each other, the mortal enemies journey to the Twin Cities of the solar and lunar mages to...
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GAMBOL IN VEGAS
Formidable, lady-loving Jan Kokk, private investigator from Curacao, is at it again.
This time Kokk finds himself babysitting a delegation of Curacaoan officials in Las Vegas there to win the lucrative Twin City title. The agreement would establish formal commercial and tourism links between Curacaos capital, Willemstad, and Fabulous Las Vegas.
What Happens Here, Stays Here, is the Vegas credo. In Kokks case What Happens...
90) Dead Too Long
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Reporter Gabriel 'Gabby' Gooding's unexpected arrival at Channel 7 is met with suspicion and resentment, and her first assignment, which involves the discovery of a long-dead body in the basement of a Minneapolis home, pits her against the rest of the staff because she suspects it was murder rather than suicide. Her troubles are compounded when, before she gets a chance to settle in, Gabby is forced to confront a figure from her past who has tracked...
91) Yeti Left Home
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Small-Town Yeti, Big-City Problems
Peaceful, unassuming Wylie Kang-a Yeti with an appreciation for more human creature comforts-lives a quiet life in his self-built sanctuary on the outskirts of Embarrass, Minnesota. But when violent dreams disturb his peace, and a series of strange murders plague the area, a Hunter comes to town, nosing after Wylie's trail.
Fleeing pursuit, Wylie packs up his truck and heads for the Twin Cities, hoping to lose...
92) Fountain Dead
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Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark's parents don't see what's unfolding around them-the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past. Of course, Mark keeps his ghostly encounters to himself, all the while sinking deeper into the house's dark, alluring, and ultimately terrifying history....
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¡Hola!
Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar.
Cuando les contamos a nuestros mejores amigos, Raúl y Sonia, que un extraño meteorito verde nos había vuelto telépatas, alucinaron.
Y después de la sorpresa, ¿sabéis lo primero que se les ocurrió? ¡Que necesitábamos un cuartel general!
Mientras tanto, una oleada de desapariciones de perros asolaba Twin City.
¿Qué tenía que ver una cosa con otra? Pues vas a ver que mucho…...
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Light Rhythms is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema.. The rhythmic elements of cinema are explored by artists and filmmakers fascinated in the abstract qualities of light. The American authors of avant-garde classics Ballet mécanique (1923-24), Anémic cinéma (1926), and Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (1934) are finally acknowledged for their seminal artistic achievements made in Europe....
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Chip Collingsworth, a popular crime writer and newest resident of Turners Bend, Iowa, is working hard on his next thriller, Mind Games, when dead bodies show up. Soon Chip is caught up in the search for a real-life murderer, as he faces a looming publication deadline and navigates a bumpy road to romance with Jane Swanson, town veterinarian. Once again, real life mirrors fiction in Chip's novel, as the lovely FBI agent, Jo Schwann, investigates a...
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A treasury of Twin Cities baseball history packed with photos from the archives.
Major League Baseball came to the Minnesota prairie in the spring of 1961, and ever since, the Minnesota Twins have held a cherished place in the hearts of sports fans throughout the region. With Hall of Famers like Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, and Kirby Puckett and beloved characters from Billy Martin to Kent Hrbek to Joe Mauer, the history of the Twins encompasses...
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The earliest arrivals were German Jews who came when the territory was newly created. By the 1880s they were joined by immigrants from eastern Europe. Many settled in small towns or walked the roads as peddlers. Some found homes in the Iron Range towns of Virginia and Hibbing, but the majority lived in the Twin Cities. Gradually, as they clustered in neighborhoods, founded synagogues and community organizations, and sought to create Jewish homes,...
98) Bite the Bullet
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Summer in the Twin Cities is hard to beat, and Detective Kate Rosetti is excited to show FBI Agent Jack Russo a nice, relaxing time while he's back in town. Unfortunately, her plans go belly up when Tommy "Two-Toed" Bianchi is found floating face down in Kate's favorite lake.
To complicate matters, Alastair Gem turns up with a brand-new girlfriend...which is all fine and dandy until his girlfriend goes missing. Gem begs the already-strapped-for-time...
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¡Hola!
Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar.
¿Sabes dónde comienza esta historia?
Pues en un lejano monasterio chino. Allí, la escultura de un precioso dragón de Jade y su leyenda llevaban siglos olvidadas en el fondo de un almacén.
Cuando un terremoto sacudió la zona y los equipos de rescate llegaron al monasterio, encontraron al dragón milagrosamente intacto.
El destino le acabó trayendo hasta Twin City y, sin comerlo...
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In the fifth instalment of this epic fantasy series, a journey south brings together nine eclectic friends and leads them ever closer to answers — and danger. On their journey south to Freedland, Josie, Dane and their friends sense that someone is following them. Hiding in the twin cities of Merrin Fahl seems like their best course of action — until they're recognized by strangers. With this tantalizing hint to their pasts within reach, Dane is...
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