North Star Press Of St Cloud: 166 books

The history hidden in the story of Minnesota's borders. How were those borders formed, what deals were struck, and why does Minnesota looks like it does.?

When Mitch Mitchell and his buddy, photographer Alan Jeffrey, receive a hot tip on a bone-chilling day in March, they arrive on the scene of an apparent missing-persons case, neither knowing quite what they’ve gotten themselves into. Mitch, hoping to keep his job at the Daily Dispatch in the midst...

The Hooked X is a secret symbol first found on an inscribed slab of rock, dated 1362, unearthed by a farmer in Minnesota in 1898. This mysterious symbol inspired the author to pursue a nine-year investigation on both sides of the Atlantic that led to the discovery of other artifacts and clandestine...

Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: The Mysteries of the Hooked X  is the third book in a series that investigates the origin and meaning of a mysterious symbol originally found on the five fiercely debated medieval North American rune stones. That research led forensic geologist Scott Wolter on a...

Using the pen name of “Jacquelilne Pine Savage” has allowed Jodi Schwen to protect the innocent while writing about life up north. Some call it “outstate” or “boondocks”—Jacqueline Pine Savage calls it home. Either way, living in a rural community means finding the humor in north woods...

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...

IT’S SO COLD THAT THE FLASHERS IN DOWNTOWN ST. PAUL ARE ONLY SHOWING PICTURES OF THEMSELVES when newspaper reporter Warren “Mitch” Mitchell and photographer Alan Jeffrey are called out to cover the discovery of the frozen body of a young woman The victim is a former St. Paul Winter Carnival...

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...

Jake was the ultimate big brother: cool, suave with the girls, tough, and a Vietnam veteran. Peter, the younger brother, was always the “good kid,” eventually becoming a monk at St. John’s Abbey. But they came of age on the North Dakota plains at a time when sex, drugs, and rock & roll blasted onto the prairie. Thirty years later, neither brother can escape his past.

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...

An African-American golfer and a washed-up St. Paul Saints’s pitcher, caught in a dangerous post-World War II mix of racial tension, anxious social change, and anti-Communist paranoia, struggle to find a common ground of trust as they mount a challenge to segregation in professional golf. It’s...

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.

A fresh and compelling voice in regional fiction, Marlais Brand's new collection, The Hungry Coast, takes the reader for a hair-raising ride along a rocky stretch of the historic and fabled North Shore.

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...