James Brakken: 6 books

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...

About DARK: Imagine you are a mind reader—a voyeur who can steal dreams. It happens in DARK. You will immediately become “The Thief of Dreams,” allowing you to purloin many dreadful, occasionally humorous, and sometimes downright disturbing dreams--fantasies and nightmares of others. All are...

About DARKER: Imagine you are a mind reader—a voyeur who can steal dreams. It happens in the book, DARK. Now, DARKER, the midsection of DARK you are “The Thief of Dreams,” allowing you to purloin many dreadful, occasionally humorous, and sometimes downright disturbing dreams--fantasies and nightmares...

About DARKEST: Imagine you are a mind reader—a voyeur who can steal dreams. It happens in the book, DARK. Now, in DARKEST, the final third of DARK you as “The Thief of Dreams,” will see many dreadful, occasionally humorous, and sometimes downright disturbing dreams--fantasies and nightmares...

NOTE: This is the originally published version. Some minor details have been changed in later revisions. The story, though, remains the same. SEE REVIEWS FAR BELOW. It is 1883 and you are about to plunge into the peak of nineteenth century lumberjack life in northern Wisconsin. Meet sixteen-year-old...

This TREASURE OF NAMAKAGON study guide contains three types of questions: Those that can be answered by reading the text, those that call on readers to offer an opinion not found in the text, and research projects or questions that require the reader to investigate other sources in order to satisfy...