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In: 2020, Delta Eddy, New Releases, Sparks, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Delta Eddy Sparks $17.95 – Purchase online Full disclosure: I knew Delta Eddy when she was Gary. The dedicatee of her elegy “Student,” Anthony Piccione (d. 2001), who is a central presence in Sparks, was an English Department colleague and close friend of mine. Delta writes, “I keep / walkingContinue Reading

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In: 2020, Ghosting, New Releases, Steve McCown, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Steve McCown Debut Collection Ghosting $17.95 – Purchase online When Steve McCown finally gathered together the pages for this book he was probably a bit surprised to realize he had been a poet for the better part of his life. What possessed him all those years? A courage and curiosityContinue Reading

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In: 2020, Deb Pitton, Lost Lake Folk Art, New Releases, No One Left Behind

An Unexpected Educational Adventure at Machu Picchu Deb Pitton $17.95 – Purchase a print copy online. Professor Deb Pitton led a group of education and healthcare students to Peru and Machu Picchu in 2010. When rain swelled the mountain rivers, flooding downstream villages, the group was trapped and struggled toContinue Reading

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In: 2019, GL Smit, Lost Lake Folk Art

  GL Smit $17.95 – Purchase a print copy online. “Truth with a twist is funnier than fiction.” GL Smit’s stories are often poignant, always wry, and they walk the fine line between memoir and fiction with humility and wit.Continue Reading

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In: 2019, Konnie Ellis, Picnic in Venice, Rocket Science Press

  Konnie Ellis $17.95 – Purchase a print copy online. Italy! A century ago, E.M. Forster’s heroine in his novel A Room with a View faints dead away when she witnesses a gangland killing in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria. But slowly the vivid otherness of Italy teaches this outwardly conventional English girlContinue Reading

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In: 2019, Lake Zumbro Forever, Lost Lake Folk Art

Lake Zumbro Forever   Hardcover copies are available from Lake Zumbro Forever board members, Mazeppa, Minnesota.   A collectable photobook and narrative history of Lake Zumbro, the Zumbro dam, the neighborhoods that grew around the lake, and the future of Lake Zumbro, its water, its wetlands and its residents.Continue Reading

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In: 2018, Ashyer, Index of Titles, James Petrillo, Rocket Science Press

An epic fantasy by James Petrillo $18.95 – buy a print copy online The last Immortal King of Ashyer has fallen, bringing down the wrath of the dragons: fiery horrors from the sky who have subjugated the races of Ashyer for a thousand years. But there is a new wayContinue Reading

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In: 2018, Anne Muccino, Index of Titles, Red Bricks, Rocket Science Press

Love and treachery in the old southwest by Anne Muccino $17.95 – buy a print copy online Red Bricks, the debut novel by Kansas City writer, Anne Muccino, is set in the desert southwest circa 1930. JT Swain is just seventeen when he loses everything that matters to him, hisContinue Reading

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In: 2018, Nicole Borg, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Nicole Borg $17.95 – buy a print copy online. In her debut collection, All Roads Lead Home, Nicole Borg convinces us that poetry is the way our most important experiences may be best understood. Her voice has resonance and clarity, speaking not just for herself as woman, mother, wife, teacherContinue Reading

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In: 2017, Dan Coffey, Index of Titles, Rocket Science Press

Dan Coffey Playwright, director and actor, Dan Coffey known for his work with Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater and portraying memorable characters like Dr. Science. Dan lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. $9.00 – Print copies available online.   Glass Eater is a wild, satiric hybrid, a book Hunter S. Thompson and KurtContinue Reading

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In: 2017, Index of Titles, J.P. Johnson, Lost Lake Folk Art

J.P. Johnson Debut short story collection $17.95 – Buy a print copy online A whirling mix of short fiction, Convoluted Tales looks at every aspect of life in the Upper Midwest through a lens warped slightly by the bizarre, the ironic and tragic. J.P. Johnson is a semi-retired real estateContinue Reading

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In: 2017, Arguments & Negotiations & All that Matters - expanded edition, Index of Titles, Lost Lake Folk Art, Pixie Youngdahl

Pixie Beadrin Youngdahl Urista In memoriam – Pixie passed in August 2018 This expanded edition of Pixie Youngdahl’s 2013 cancer survivor’s memoir includes Legacy Letters to ancestors as well as family photos. Buy a print copy online $15.00 “Pixie Youngdahl, the author of The Timeless Café, now takes you downContinue Reading

Domestication by Rob Hardy

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In: 2017, Index of Titles, Rob Hardy, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Rob Hardy Poet Laureate Northfield, Minnesota  $17.95 – Buy a print copy online Available at Content Bookstore in Northfield Amazon Reviews— Carrie L. writes: In these beautiful, reflective poems, Domestication is a collection to be savored. As I read each poem, the words of Rob Hardy’s generous, intimate introduction resonated.Continue Reading

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In: 2016, Index of Titles, Larry Johnson, Lost Lake Folk Art

Larry Johnson $17.95 – Buy a print copy online    Drafted during the Vietnam era, Larry Johnson filed for conscientious objector status and served as an Army medic in Germany, carrying no weapons. The life-long peace activist from Golden Valley, Minnesota, answered JFK’s call in 1961 and hiked 50 miles.Continue Reading

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In: 2014, Glen Timm, Index of Titles, Lost Lake Folk Art

  Glen Timm as told to Debbie Kuehn My Unique Life & WWII A riveting memoir by a Minnesota Veteran of wars in Europe, Japan and Korea  $10.00 – Buy a print copy online This is the story of Glen Timm, a sharp young man from the rural Midwest, bornContinue Reading

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In: 2013, Haley Thompson, Home is a Place Worth Burying, Index of Titles, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Haley Thompson $10.50 – Buy a print copy online   Here is what acclaimed poet Dora Malech, author of Shore Ordered Ocean and Say So, has to say about Haley Thompson‘s poetry: Haley’s poems shimmer with the intimacies of memory and place. They weave the consolation of sparkling specificities throughContinue Reading