North Star Press: 174 books
Growing Up on the Mississippi
The 1950s in Winona, Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“Kent Stever takes you by the hand for a stroll back in time to a simpler place, one sprinkled with nostalgia and fond remembrance. His writing conjures up images so exact you’ll swear you’re sitting at a soda fountain sipping on a cherry Coke while he tells his tales.” —Mike Nistler, Publisher, Minnesota Moments Magazine
by Don Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Flying Uncle's Junk is the much-anticipated follow-up memoir to A Shadow at the Gate. Author Don Bloch spent more than twenty years with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. He made undercover buys of heroin, cocaine, and other drugs on the streets of Minneapolis. As a DEA pilot, he flew undercover...
by Rhonda Fochs
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Wisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places began in northern Wisconsin, and in this book, she explores the stories and tales of Wisconsin’s places of the past.
Tomatoes Free for the Asking
A Minnesota Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
"Tomatoes free for the asking" is a quaint term remembered from the 1800s, yet heard in the 1950s of Stever's youth. It was a simple expression written on a piece of cardboard set alongside a pile of tomatoes near someone's garden or on the front porch. It was an invitation to take as you...
Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids
A Family Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Mark and Katya bought a thirty-four-foot steel sailboat. With their two daughters, they sailed around Lake Superior, then moved aboard for a year and sailed to the Bahamas. The sailing life proved both challenging and rewarding to the extreme, and big decisions made along the way stretched them to...
by Mary Joy Breton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Plunged into poverty by the Great Depression, Mary Joy tells how—after losing their home in Minneapolis—she and her family lived off an acre of land in then-rural Eden Prairie township. Volunteer work during a political campaign in 1968 led to a job offer that launched her back into the work world....
Un Moving Four Ward
Tales & Tips for Keeping Perspective Despite Life's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Having suffered an accident in the dorms while a student at St. John’s University, Bob became a quadriplegic. This fact, however, doesn’t keep Bob from living his life fully. This book describes some of his adventures—and challenges—along the way. This book is for anyone who has faced, is...
by Mark Berriman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this, Berriman's fourth collection, he continues to fight for the underdog. Pulling no punches, Berriman's words can be both inspiring and jaw-dropping.
Various Heroes
A Novel—Life, Death, and the Afterlife in the Upper Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Roy Shea has never been one to make waves. But he’s noticed some changes in his beloved Upper Peninsula, changes he’s not entirely comfortable with. When two strangers come to town, Roy finds himself in more trouble than he ever bargained for—as do the strangers, as the ghosts of the Peninsula...
by Matthew J. Krengel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Duluth, Minnesota, is finally at peace and things are getting better on both sides of the Divide. However, dark forces are lurking. When Tasker the dwarf is kidnapped, Jane, Jacob, and the others realize something horrible is about to happen. Soon it becomes obvious that they need help and with Coronia,...
The Klinefelter Legacy
A Story of Faith, Family and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
St. Joseph, Minnesota, police officer Brian Klinefelter was gunned down on January 29, 1996, leaving behind a wife and infant daughter. His death in the midst of a crime spree by three local men shocked Central Minnesota. But the response of his family and others affected by that night's violence...
180 Days
Reflections and Observations of a Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
180 Days: Reflections and Observations of a Teacher is a collection of poems from several different facets of being a teacher: first as a teacher and observer of the profession and students; as a continuing learner with students at the Young Authors Conference; as school documentarian and historian;...
A Penny A Kiss
Memoir of a Minnesota Girl in the Forties and Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A young southern family moves from the hills of small-town West Virginia to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1939 and enters a new social stratum. After struggling to fit into a private girl’s high school, the daughter attends a western college, where she suffers staggering defeat and enters a relationship...
by Carolyn K. Boehlke
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Nadia Alvarez, a fifteen-year-old Mexican immigrant, travels from a remote and poverty-stricken village in southern Mexico with her family to the United States. They sneak illegally into the country through a drain pipe that connects Sonora, Mexico, to Arizona. As the family enters the country, the...