North Star Press: 174 books

Father Louis Hennepin and the La Salle expedition to the Upper Mississippi have been recorded in our history books, but in Spirit Lake, we see the expedition from the view of those who lived it: the intrepid French-Canadian voyageurs. Risking their lives to explore the Upper Mississippi, these men...

This sequel to Eye of the Wolf finds Melora St. James working to restore the piping plover, an endangered shorebird, to Lake Superior. When her former boyfriend, Drew, shows up and they find a mysterious boy lost on the beach, the story takes a surprising turn. In helping the boy, Melora and Drew learn secrets about themselves, building community, and coming to terms with the past.

A tryst of bondage.  A lover's murder.  Investigator Jon Frederick returns in a search to uncover the identity of a killer creeping through communities along I-94 in Minnesota, targeting couples who store their fetish photos online.  The killer taunts Jon with hidden messages embedded  in local...

"Anyone who has loved, lived with, or grieved the loss of a cat will appreciate Driving with Cats. This tender book interweaves profiles of the author’s cat companions with her gems of wisdom on topics as diverse as finding your true calling in life, transporting cats to and from the veterinarian,...

In the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, a young Lakota warrior stands trial for murder in Sioux Falls, the 1891 Divorce Capitol of America. Plenty Horses admits to shooting the army lieutenant, but he claims it was an act of war. Laura, a beautiful New York socialite escaping an unhappy marriage,...

Readers will be glad to know that another book from Walter Roers, author of The Pact, a novel of boys, friendship and tragedy set in 1948 Minneapolis, has finally arrived. Roers centers his second novel Pathos Rising around the friendships of four men in

"Cynthia Kraack’s immediately transfixing Ashwood deftly swings us into a not-too-distant future of limited natural resources and unlimited challenges, and into the life of a young government worker beginning an assignment as matron of an agricultural estate, where being certain of who you...

The Ashwood trilogy ends three decades after failure of the global economy. The big question is answered. If world leaders had the opportunity to build from scratch, what would happen? At the half point of the twenty-first century, corporate spinners say: ''The vote of a shareholder is a commitment to building a better world, while the vote of a citizen is an uneducated guess.''

"Readers who have loved 1984, Brave New World, Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451, or the The Handmaid's Tale will devour this book, too. Rigorously plotted and carefully written, the author brings Minnesota into a frightening fictional future with no holds barred and no politically correct nods to...

It's 1969, the summer of Woodstock. After nearly getting his head bashed in a demonstration on Milwaukee's East Side, John Meyer crashes down a hillside with fellow student Tony Russo. It looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Then John meets Tony's wife, Claire, and their young son,...

In this sequel to The Ridge, past and present collide as Zach learns the fate of his brother, Chris. Join Zach and his friends for another heart-pounding adventure that gets to the bottom of what's haunting the Sutton family. Hupton's keen writing and silver-tongued prose bring suspense to the boiling point! An A-one job!

Thirteen-year-old Tim Hansen lives in a quaint little neighborhood in South Minneapolis. For the most part, he leads a normal, preteen existence. He is concerned about friendships, girls, sports, and even schoolwork from time to time. But when his mother, who is a nurse in the United States Army Reserve,...

I read Dean Urdahl's amazing, haunting book, Retribution. Like Lincoln, it has gotten hold of me in many ways and I can t let it go. --Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State Another page-turner by Dean Urdahl. The high drama of frontier life in Minnesota during the Civil War...