North Star Press Of St Cloud: 166 books

Friendship. Danger. Murder. Grant O'Grady wants nothing more than to be a major league baseball pitcher. He's only thirteen, but his dream seems possible . . . until Big Joe turns his life upside down. Grant and his buddies are no strangers to risk. At the end of the Great Depression in small-town...

When Detective Cal Sheehan learns no one’s heard from his childhood friend Mike “Hawk” Hawkinson in days, he begins an unofficial investigation. Cal follows a lead from Minnesota to Las Vegas, and back again. When Hawk’s car is later found abandoned north of Prairie Falls, Birch County officially...

Steeped in the history of the French-Canadian voyageur journeys in the early 1800s in North America, Waters Like the Sky is a story of a well-educated teen boy who despises his fancy schooling and longs for a more adventurous life. André’s fate changes when a letter with a royal seal arrives. He...

When Bob White finds a birding colleague dead in a pool of coffee at the annual December meeting of the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union, he finds himself targeted by bad luck and an unknown killer. Adding to his winter blues, Bob’s star Hmong student lands in jail for trespassing in an abandoned...

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?

Abby is a nobody. That is, she was a nobody. Until a ­horrifyingly embarrassing thing happened to her. Now she’s the laughingstock of St. Theodore High. Abby is desperate to get her life back to the way it was, and after meeting a ­mysterious and unlikely ally, it seems she will get her wish....

This sequel to Eye of the Wolf finds Melora St. James working to restore the piping plover, an endangered shorebird, to Lake Superior. When her former boyfriend, Drew, shows up and they find a mysterious boy lost on the beach, the story takes a surprising turn. In helping the boy, Melora and Drew learn secrets about themselves, building community, and coming to terms with the past.

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...

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...

“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

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.

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...

Henry Wilder is excited to spend the whole summer at the family cabin, Wilder’s Edge. Cousin Dylan’s new scheme to find gold at an old mine sounds good at first, but goes dangerously wrong. An eighty year old mystery on Rainy Lake unfolds enticing Henry, Dylan and their friend, Arla into a hunt that pulls a dangerous game into the present.

The Minnesota State Fair is famous for its endless variety of foods on a stick, so reporter Warren “Mitch” Mitchell and his photographer buddy Alan Jeffrey are surprised when they’re sent to the fairgrounds to cover the introduction of still another stick-bound treat. The new novelty, called...