North Star Press: 174 books

Cover of A River Through Two Harbors
by Dennis Herschbach
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

When Deidre Johnson fills in for Silver Bay’s only police officer for six weeks, she doesn’t anticipate facing anything of consequence. She is so wrong. She discovers the frozen body of a Cree Indian girl within the city limits, and in the process of her investigation uncovers a sex-trafficking...
Cover of Going Coastal
by Phil Fitzpatrick, Evan Sasman, Marie Zhuikov
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Lake Superior—its people and places—feature in this anthology of short stories by nine writers from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The power of stories lures an aging man on a road trip back home, north on Highway 61. Through her painting of a river, an Ojibway woman teaches a historian about...
Cover of Headaches Can Be Murder
by Marilyn Rausch, Mary Donlon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Broke and aimless after three divorces, Chip Collingsworth wrote a crime novel as cathartic therapy. It became a success. Now they want book two. Buckling under the pressure, he escapes to Iowa to write Brain Freeze, a thriller set on the North Shore of Minnesota. What will happen when his real life starts to read like his crime fiction?
Cover of Black Otter Bay
by Vincent Wyckoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016

Praise for Black Otter Bay:“Vincent Wyckoff writes as both a novelist and a naturalist, bringing to life a vivid cast of characters (go, Abby!) as well as engaging the reader's senses in the beauty and wildness of Minnesota's North Shore. Black Otter Bay is suspenseful, surprising, and satisfying.”Lorna...
Cover of The Ridge
by Nick Hupton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Zach Sutton’s little brother has been missing for over a year. His parents have divorced. The police have found no clues. But it isn’t until Zach takes a field trip to Minnesota’s north woods that the mystery really begins. Faced with supernatural visions and ghostly images, Zach finds himself in a scary adventure he couldn’t have dreamed.
Cover of Coming of Mage
by Mikel K. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Quinn Sullivan, fresh from his first year of college, returns for yet another summer to the North Shore of Minnesota, working for minimum wage at an off-season ski resort. A resort for wizards. Wizards like Quinn. Like most “mages” his age, Quinn's got no car, no money, isn't keeping up on his...
Cover of Perfume River Nights
by Michael P. Maurer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016

When a teenage boy sets out to prove his bravery, he becomes trapped in an ordeal of survival and ignites a struggle with darkness from which he might never escape. In Perfume River Nights, eighteen-year-old Jimmy Miller, called Singer by his platoon mates, wants to confirm his courage in the trials...
Cover of Fishing for a Killer
by Glenn Ickler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

The sun isn’t even over the horizon at Madrigal’s Lodge on Gull Lake, and an empty motorboat is slowly circling the bay. The Governor’s Fishing Opener just got a lot more exciting. Luckily, St. Paul Daily Dispatch reporter Warren “Mitch” Mitchell and photographer Alan Jeffrey are on the...
Cover of Secrets of the Stone
by Karlajean Jirik Becvar
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Having traveled back in time and having survived the Great Hinckley Fire, Addie Ever’s desire for adventure should be more than satisfied. However, after reading an historical account at the library that reveals the true fate of Thomas and Judith Markham after the fire, Addie finds herself drawn...
Cover of Awakening
by Kathryn Knutson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

In the darkness I could barely make out the silhouette of a figure. Cassie. In the next instant, lightning lit up the room, and a pair of blue eyes looked at me. "Cassie?" I asked. "Is that you?" "Help me," she whispered. Ever since Cassie came out of the woods she's...
Cover of Rodeo Snow
by Pat Rhoades
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

The only thing not ordinary about fifteen-year-old Eugene “Gene” Snow is his nerd name—he’s named after a peacenik politician his pathetically earnest parents admired. When some street skaters nickname him Rodeo, he’s happy to take on that new, totally cool identity. If only he could win...
Cover of Unattached
by Kristin Lee Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Keeping children safe isn't just a job for Terrance County Social Worker Leah Danco. After she's taken care of the children of the county, she heads home to help keep her drug-dealing brother out of jail, her paranoid mother out of the psychiatric ward, and herself away from the constant draw of the...
Cover of Malice Toward None

Malice Toward None

Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, the Homestead Act, and the Massacre—and the Heartening Survival—of the Kochendorfers

by Daniel C. Munson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

A gravestone inscription leads the author on a search through early Minnesota history, and then U.S. and Civil War history. He discovers that four siblings orphaned by the Dakota War commissioned that inscription in memory of their parents and younger sister, and that their many descendants now live...
Cover of Minnesota's Lost Towns Central Edition
by Rhonda Fochs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

The long-awaited second book in the Minnesota’s Lost Towns series is now available. Travel along as we visit and learn about more than 125 central Minnesota locations. The book covers twenty-seven of Minnesota’s central corridor counties, from east to west. Read how the towns were created, how...
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