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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
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Rachael Hanel's name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn't at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family's business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they erected their gravestone—Rachael's name was simply a branch on the sprawling family tree etched on the back of the stone. As she puts it: I
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Publication Date
2011.
Language
English
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What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a...
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Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
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While there is no single hero of the Minnesota women's movement, Rosalie Wahl, the first woman on the Minnesota Supreme Court, changed the way her fellow judges saw the cases they decided. A champion of both women's rights and civil rights, she brought new attention to the problems that faced women impoverished by divorce, women abused by their partners, and others who coped with poverty and discrimination. With sharp intelligence and hard work, Wahl...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
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All Rise is the authorized biography of this remarkable man, a man who became a pioneer for his race without setting out to be one. He grew up in Canton, Ohio, in the shadow of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, into which he would later be inducted after his stellar NFL career. After leading Notre Dame to a national championship in 1966 and earning All-America honors, he became a first-round draft choice of the Minnesota Vikings in 1967. A six-time All-Pro...
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Publication Date
1999
Language
English
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Neil Haugerud served as sheriff of Filmore County in southeastern Minnesota. He lived with his wife and their four small children in the same building that housed the jail. These stories are reminiscences of a real-life Andy Griffith character. Haugerud's community is part Mayberry, part Twin Peaks.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
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"John Linklater, of Anishinaabeg, Cree, and Scottish ancestry, and his wife, Tchi-Ki-Wis, of the Lac La Croix First Nation, lived in the canoe and border country of Ontario and Minnesota from the 1870s until the 1930s. With broad geographical sweep, historical significance, and biographical depth, Making the Carry tells their story, overlooked for far too long." -- From publisher's website.
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Publication Date
2016
Language
English
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"From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Graham Megyeri Books
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Richards, the oldest of five children growing up in the early 20th century rural Midwest, struggles to hold her family together as she and her four siblings attempt to survive illness, abandonment, abuse, neglect, hunger, institutionalization, and loss. In Crackers and milk, Arlene Nelson retells her mother's amazing story of an unusually tarnished childhood, as her mother told it to her many years ago"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publication Date
2010
Language
English
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Long before he was considered a top prospective presidential candidate for 2012—even before he landed on John McCain’s short list of potential running mates in 2008—Governor Tim Pawlenty had already earned legendary status in conservative circles. In his hard-left-leaning home state of Minnesota, the man known as “T-Paw” somehow erased a $4.8-billion budget deficit while simultaneously reforming health care, creating jobs, improving education,...
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Publisher
Lindell Publishing, LLC
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, is a memoir written by Mike Lindell describing his entrepreneurial journey and how he overcame addiction to build one of America's most successful brands. Woven throughout the book are themes of a "what are the odds" outlook, as well as hope, and an unwavering spirit to never give up. Foreword by Dr. Ben Carson. About Mike Lindell: Mike Lindell is the inventor and CEO of MyPillow, Inc. The Minnesota based...