Star Cloud Press imprint: 179 books

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...

Amidst the annual scarecrow display at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Bob White finds the dead body of Sonny Delite, a birding colleague well-known in the state for his conservation advocacy. Dismissed by the police as a suspect in the case, Bob turns his attention to unmasking the former...

Jack’s been here a long time. He knows the ropes, and he’s only too happy to pass along that information to his young apprentice, a new patient in a Minnesota state hospital in the 1950s. Walking the mail route, Billy learns tidbits that could make his life easier in the coming months—and could...

Hundred Miles to Nowhere: An Unlikely Love Story explores what happens when a singer-songwriter moves from New York City to rural Minnesota for love, and finds there’s more to life than music.  When Elisa Korenne took a month’s break from New York City to be the resident singer-songwriter...

Guthema's poetry contains life itself and it enters straight into your heart as you read each verse that seems to dance within you. Every single verse is like a drop of magic that sinks in deeply and you will laugh and smile feeling the presence of God in them as well as in you. He is a master artist...

Alexandra Stein was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has also lived in England, France, and the United States. She writes creative non-fiction and is currently studying for a doctorate in sociology at the University of Minnesota. She lives in Minneapolis with her two children.

Linked by the theme of finding our voices, breaking free of constraints, and transformation, the stories in Voice Lessons look at what it means to move into a new way of being, or to reexamine our beliefs and internal stories. A woman who can't resolve her relationship with her mother takes solace...

Ma Doula is a book of stories about births, from Amish home births by lamplight to big-city births in high-tech hospitals. These stories are about families, medical personnel, midwives and doulas and, of course, moms, dads, and babies (who already have their own opinions). The different cultural...

In this beautiful collection of essays on paddling and growing up in the Northwoods of Minnesota, Joseph Van Nurden regales readers with tales of misty mornings on the lake, paddling alongside moose, introducing his son to the wonders of canoeing, and his own childhood at a northern resort. Full of...

Chip Collingsworth, a popular crime writer and newest resident of Turners Bend, Iowa, is working hard on his next thriller, Mind Games, when dead bodies show up. Soon Chip is caught up in the search for a real-life murderer, as he faces a looming publication deadline and navigates a bumpy road to...

At the height of the Depression, Faunce Ridge, a tiny village on the Minnesota-Canadian border, is declared a rural slum by Roosevelt's New Deal government. Hometown boy Emil Rousseau is sent to photograph the poverty of his childhood neighbors to sell Congress on resettlement. Told from the perspective...

Crafted with an honest sensitivity, this charming book reflects the perspective of a small, free-range boy with a large imagination reared in one of our nations most cherished wilderness areas. It is mostly about the author’s growing up years in the 1950s and 1960s at the resort his parents owned...

Birding, the gentle pastime of watching birds, can at times become a competitive sport. Even at its worst, though, when birders don’t give out information of their sightings and try to sidetrack other birders, it seldom rises to the level of serious harm . . . usually. But when Bob White mannered...

Newly unemployed teacher Mary Malone never suspected she would become a Miss Marple wannabe when she and her recently widowed aunt decide to sublet her private investigator brother's apartment in the Foley complex near downtown Minneapolis. After having listened to a message intended for the PI's...