North Star Press Of St Cloud: 166 books

Meandering is a combination of journeys Mike has taken in the car, on a variety of boats, on a bike and on foot to discover the variations and stories of the Mississippi. As the backbone of the continent, draining thirty-one states and two provinces between the Rockies and the Appalachians, the Mississippi...

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...

Marilee Anderson disappeared twenty-five years ago at the age of fifteen, but police are digging up the rose garden behind her parents’ home in search of new evidence on a hot summer day in St. Paul. Marilee was last seen on a Sunday morning, when her father sent her off to a convenience store three...

When Minnesota baby-boomer Meggie Moore is given the opportunity to housesit for a friend in Key West, Florida, she jumps at the chance. Her husband, Walter, looking forward to completing the first item on his bucket list with a small game hunting trip to South Dakota, is unable to accompany her. Shirley,...

In a post-9/11 world, terrorists want Americans to believe that anywhere in the continent can be hit at anytime. The ore docks at Two Harbors, Minnesota, are vulnerable.

In this fast-paced adventure novel, Thomas Randolph, an historian and Knight Templar, must race across the country to save That-Which-Was-Lost. Joined by the husband of the president of the United States and other select Knights Templar, Thomas must piece together his knowledge of ancient lore and...

Minnesota baby-boomer Meggie Moore sets off on another housesitting adventure to a hobby farm in the country. But her dream job turns into a nightmare when she discovers the farm to be haunted.

When Deidre Johnson fills in for Silver Bay’s only police officer for six weeks, she doesn’t anticipate facing anything of consequence. She is so wrong. She discovers the frozen body of a Cree Indian girl within the city limits, and in the process of her investigation uncovers a sex-trafficking...

Mysterious lights are appearing on Rainy Lake. When Henry, Dylan, Arla, and Rika hear that ghosts are visiting the lake, they laugh it off. But as they kayak back over the route where Arla’s parents disappeared ten years before, they find themselves stranded on an island, haunted by a real ghost, who doesn’t want them to leave . . . ever.

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...

Mysterious lights are appearing on Rainy Lake. When Henry, Dylan, Arla, and Rika hear that ghosts are visiting the lake, they laugh it off. But as they kayak back over the route where Arla’s parents disappeared ten years before, they find themselves stranded on an island, haunted by a real ghost, who doesn’t want them to leave . . . ever.

Birders always hope for a rarity when they go on a Birding Weekend, but when Bob White finds the weekend leader sporting bullet holes in his chest, he realizes that more than an unusual bird is at stake. To make matters worse, Bob must contend with a lost love, big cats, ATV enthusiasts, and small-town...

Seventeen-year-old Silver Rae Dawson vanished while babysitting for her neighbors. Fifteen years later a landscaping crew, hired by Adriana Valero, Deputy Investigator Cal Sheehan’s ex-girlfriend, uncovers her shallow grave. With little new evidence and suspects who seem to have solid alibis, it...

Quinn Sullivan, fresh from his first year of college, returns for yet another summer to the North Shore of Minnesota, working for minimum wage at an off-season ski resort. A resort for wizards. Wizards like Quinn. Like most “mages” his age, Quinn's got no car, no money, isn't keeping up on his...