Books set primarily in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Iowa
Minn. Wis. Iowa
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The Lost Wife: A novel
by Susanna Moore
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel about a seminal and shameful moment in America's conquest of the West. Drawing partly from a true story, it brings to life a devastating Native American revolt and ...
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: May 2024
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy - from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, ...
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Saints of the Household
by Ari Tison
Hardcover: Mar 2023
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away.
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The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich
Hardcover: Nov 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.
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The Family Chao: A Novel
by Lan Samantha Chang
Hardcover: Feb 2022
Paperback: Aug 2022
An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok).
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Brood
by Jackie Polzin
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
An exquisite new literary voice - wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout - depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.
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Lightning Strike: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #18
by William Kent Krueger
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
The author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O'Connor series - a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo ...
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In the Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado
Hardcover: Nov 2019
Paperback: Dec 2020
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.
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We Contain Multitudes
by Sarah Henstra
Hardcover: May 2019
Paperback: May 2020
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teens boys, told through the letters they write to one another.
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Barn 8
by Deb Olin Unferth
Hardcover: Mar 2020
Paperback: Mar 2020
An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers.
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Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
Hardcover: Nov 2017
Paperback: Nov 2018
A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.
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The Driest Season
by Meghan Kenny
Hardcover: Feb 2018
With wisdom and grit, Kenny has fashioned a deeply affecting story of a young woman discovering loss, heartache, and - finally - hope.
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