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After he died on the operating table, Gary Lindberg woke up with most of his memories wiped clean. He vowed to recollect and document a spectacular life filled with a series of events spanning Hollywood escapades, magic and music, war atrocities, monster hunts, POW rescue attempts, art heists, myth busting, Mexican drug cartels, mansion mysteries, brutal murders, space exploration, entrepreneurial perils and so much more. He learned that his risk-taking, combined with an intolerance for boredom, had created an unusual life packed with experiences rare for any one individual. These memoirs are the result of years of recollection and consultation with many family members and friends.

Weaver's long-awaited adult novel returns to the themes of Red Earth, White Earth and Sweet Land. In 1906, an emigrant family from Norway arrives in North Dakota with dreams of owning land and "moving up in the world." Tragedy plus a crime against them by a powerful man threatens to destroy the family. An unlikely hero steps up. Jenny Haugen, seventeen, leads her siblings on a generational march toward agency, justice, and power. Power & Light, the first of a two-book saga, mirrors the hard-won success of America itself and shows Weaver at the height of his powers.

Bob Gilbert's fourth novel, "A Firm State of Heart," takes place in Washington, D.C. Its protagonist, Minneapolis writer Samuel Meckler, is crafting a long poem that's trying to rise above the chaos of the Trump presidency. Meckler supports himself by working as a waiter at Tadich Grill, an upscale Washington restaurant located on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the US Capitol. His interaction with congressmen, senators, foreign diplomats, tourists and media personalities gives him an eyewitness understanding of American politics. His social life takes him into DC cultural salons, ghetto trap houses, and Capitol Hill watering holes. His affair with a famous broadcaster coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic recession, and the death of George Floyd in his hometown. Ultimately, "A Firm State of Heart" is about an idealist trying to formulate a new American narrative in a digital age rife with cynicism and rage.

Ninth-grader BJ Maki knows there is an evil presence on a killing spree in the hills above his Lake Superior home. And, thanks to strange messages he has been receiving, he knows that the Red Hand Warrior can help protect his family and community. But what he doesn't know-until he climbs out of a mysterious cave-is that the warrior he is supposed to find lives five hundred years in the past.

Living on a hobby farm-the idea seems idyllic, doesn't it? Yeah, you betcha'...not when you have to slog out to feed the livestock in twenty-below-zero weather, with a raging blizzard and 30 mile-an-hour winds. When you live in the frozen tundra otherwise known as Minnesota, that kind of thing tends to happen.Or consider the delights of a Minnesota summer-when the temperature hovers above 90 degrees and the humidity is 10,000 percent. The animals still need to be tended, and the copious quantities of manure disposed of. Yup. It's all fun and games. At least until the manure piles up.If you've ever dreamed of having your own hobby farm, living off the land, and communing with nature-this book will open your eyes to what it's really like. You'll laugh, you will probably cry a little, and you'll scratch your head and wonder, "What in the heck was she thinking?!"

What should have been a beautiful proposal of marriage for Corey Flanagan atop the Hermosa Beach Pier turns deadly when the widow of the man Corey killed shows up with a loaded gun. The "delightfully deranged" (Chicago Book Review) Cecelia Jackson chases Corey across two thousand miles in a vengeance-fueled pursuit, driving her blue Chevy Malibu with her dead husband's urn strapped into the passenger seat. Seeking escape and refuge in his native Midwest, Corey turns to those who provided him comfort in the past-his mother, Ginny; best friend, Billy; and former lover, Nick. All of them become ensnared in Cecelia's maniacal quest, which brings the story full circle to the family cabin in Wisconsin for a climactic and deadly conclusion.

Back to the Womb traces the complexities of birth in America as well as the voices of homebirth moms in Hawai'i. This book uncovers the struggle for sovereignty, the issues with medicalized birth and the sacredness of home birth. It is a book about reclaiming our birthright, honoring our humanity, cultivating our divine feminine energy, trusting in ourselves, relying on our ancestral strength and returning back to the womb.

1970s New York City is borderline bankrupt. Police departments, public schools and other municipalities are struggling under massive layoffs, buildings are abandoned, and the streets are rife with crime and drugs. For Johnny Alvarez, a precocious young runaway, the decay, and lawlessness offer camouflage and opportunity. He squats in an empty apartment in a derelict Washington Heights tenement and gathers a gang of streetwise kids, most of whom struggle with their own issues. Johnny is haunted by the abuse he suffered at the hands of his sadistic older brother. The crew tries to keep his head straight with belonging and levity, but the turbulent nature of the street triggers unwanted memories, which spin Johnny into recklessness amid the city's seedy underbelly. "A thought-provoking coming-of-age novel imbued with psychological dimensions...Its blend of gritty realism and psychological depth makes it a recommendable choice for readers seeking a coming-of-age novel that navigates the challenging journey from adolescence to maturity amidst a backdrop of urban hardship and complexity." ¿¿¿¿¿ Literary Titan

Judith Heilizer offers musings about the world, spirit, joy and grief and the interconnectivity within everything. Dr. Heilizer is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin.

Newsman Boston Meade interviews ex-forest ranger Leif Nielsen who wants his farmstead on Tarn Lake to remain in its natural state. His brother, Harald, a doctor, and his political wife, Regina, tell Boston the farm has great development potential. They draft a will for Leif's signature while he is hospitalized, but Leif discovers the draft gives Harald power of attorney. His sanity is questioned, and blood will ensue!

Water Wheels is a story of historical fiction about two immigrant teenagers who grew up in Minnesota during the 1870s. Halvor Dahl's Norwegian family are poor Lutheran farmers who settle in the Cannon River valley of southern Minnesota. Emelia Meier's German family are Catholic merchants in the capital city of St. Paul. Halvor and Emelia meet each other and experience adventures in all four corners of the state, traveling urban and rural Minnesota by train, steamboat, and horse-drawn buggy. Separately and together, they witness social and political changes, financial ups and downs, crimes, fires, blizzards, swarms of insects, and a comet. Chapter by chapter, the teens meet and are affected by well-known Minnesota entrepreneurs James J. Hill, Cadwallader Washburn, Isaac Staples, and Theodore Hamm; politicians John Pillsbury, Oliver Kelley, and Ignatius Donnelly; bishop John Ireland, author Laura Ingalls Wilder, and outlaw Jesse James, in addition to others.

Little does Doctor Buzz know when he signs on as the Ringmaster and tour manager for the one-ring Rex Terrestrial, Celestial & Nautical Circus that he will not only be taking a ragtag collection of misfits on a six-month trip from the headwaters of the Mississippi to New Orleans, but that he will be dealing with alcoholic camels, broken down boats, too many or not enough cooks, and his own existential crisis of confidence. That and a chance to find the love of his life if he can just choose the right woman. Loosely based on the author's lived experience, this is not a memoir gone off the rails in which facts stand in awe of a good story, but an engaging fiction replete with poetic imagery, carny come-ons and offbeat humor.

David Koehler continues his history of German peasants with this brilliant second volume, the companion to Bakers, Brewers and Bricklayers (2022), which was nominated for a Midwest Book Award. Paupers, Parties and Plagues, written in a vivid non-academic style, shows how this hardy people survived waves of war, plague and famine yet managed to invent the first printing press, oil lamps, iron stoves, the pivoting front cart axle, cuckoo clocks and stagecoaches between 1450 and the mid-19th century. Koehler explains why the Industrial Revolution arrived late in German-speaking lands, and shows how the revolution of 1848, known as the "turning point when Germany did not turn", left Germans at a poverty equal to today's Sub-Saharan Africa. The religious upheaval of the Thirty Years' War played out mostly on German soil, leaving the German-speaking world destitute and divided, which eventually leads to a mass exodus, beginning in 1820, when millions escaped poverty and despotism for freedom and food in the Americas.

A poignant and brave record of one mother's attempt to rescue her addicted son from an addicted life on the street.

This book is about how you will leave your mark on the world.It is about discovering the purpose for which you were created, and how to fulfill that purpose.It is about the vision you have for your life, and how to bring that vision into reality.It is about building relationships that are rich and enduring.It is about the courage to rise above adversity in the pursuit of your dreams.It is about connecting to your creative and transcendent spirit.Most of all, it is about taking charge of your one precious life, spreading your wings, and soaring to new realms of possibility.It is about discovering the purpose for which you were created, and how to fulfill that purpose.It is about the vision you have for your life, and how to bring that vision into reality.It is about building relationships that are rich and enduring.It is about the courage to rise above adversity in the pursuit of your dreams.It is about connecting to your creative and transcendent spirit.Most of all, it is about taking charge of your one precious life, spreading your wings, and soaring to new realms of possibility.

The Cutter's Widow is a heartrending novel, set in Saint Paul, Minnesota, against the backdrop of 1915 urban poverty. Ella Byrne is a young widow, gripped by grief and struggling to support herself. She becomes a milliner's apprentice, a baby broker and partners with a local pickpocket. Ultimately, she becomes the focus of attention in a murder investigation by one of Saint Paul's first female police officers. This is story of the devastations of grief and poverty and the quest to make a difference in the world.

Everyone deals with fear, some of it real, some of it imagined. Fourteen-year-old Donny Hansen is trying to keep it from ruling, and ruining, his life. But then, he has reason to be afraid. The town bully, Swade Percival, has it out for Donny and his three best friends. The guys can't seem to go anywhere during the summer of 1978 without running into Swade and his hulking sidekick, Avery Burke. Written in the same vein as Netflix's Stranger Things and Stephen King's The Body, The Graveyard Gang is a nostalgic journey combining the bonding and playful interaction of teen-age boys with a mystery that only they can solve. It's a story of kid vs. adults, kids vs. kids and life vs. death.

This book is a compilation of true crime stories by prize-winning author Bruce Rubenstein, including "The Milwaukee Avenue Massacre," the Chicago Magazine article that resulted in the pardon of four men who were wrongfully convicted of murder. "Danny's Boat" is a chronicle of modern-day piracy and murder involving a double-agent for the Mafia and the CIA. The book takes its title from the lead story, the saga of the O'Kasick gang, a band of armed robbers led by a sociopath who wanted to die in a shoot-out with the police. "Star Stalker" tells the tale of one of Hollywood's most dangerous stalkers, and "Last Train" goes inside the investigation of a string of hobo slayings, ultimately found to be the work of a serial killer.

Taking out an insurance policy on your most important employee then murdering him is not the kind of plan they teach in business school, but it just might work.Three beautiful women seem to think that's what happened, but it's hard to convince a skeptic like private investigator Martin McDonough. They're as surprised as you will be when they find out the truth.

North Dakota is a sparsely populated rectangle of mostly flat prairie. Life is agricultural, unsophisticated, and within the last dozen years, blasted with the hoopla and tumult of the oil business. The roads and pipelines to the Canadian Alberta oil sands go through North Dakota, and the deeply buried shale oil reserves found in the western part of North Dakota have given a steroid boost to the state. Oil attracts big oil interests from Houston, Dubai, and New York. That's like throwing a lit match into an oil drum. Set in North Dakota in 2014, CRUDE is about crude... oil that is. It's about a New York hedge fund and its crude maneuvers with North Dakota's oil refiners. It's about crude political ambition driven and financed by North Dakota's deeply buried, expensive crude. It's also about manipulating real estate polluted by crude. It's about ranchers, dead in their Buick after inhaling crude fumes. Maybe all this crude dripping on the pristine prairie is just background pollution. Could be the story is really about scorned love and revenge crudely taken.

History is being repeated as women are being murdered in the streets of Chicago. Spencer Manning is drawn into the middle of it all by a friend who asks for a simple favor. The sinister, dark world of Chicago at night leads Spencer into dark alleys as he tries to unravel the confusing stories of prostitutes, some of whom aren't as they appear. Follow Spencer as he tries to figure out what street walkers, a high-priced call girl, and a young girl who looks like she should be in college have to do with each other.

Dealing with death is never easy, especially when it's murder-especially for Chicago P.I. Spencer Manning when he can't directly help. Spencer is confused by strange letters he finds in a case under Stosh's bed. But what led him to that case, and why are the police at Stosh's house, and why are Spencer and Rosie in Green Bay wearing wedding rings? Following the trail of the letters, Spencer breaks into the offices of an adoption agency and ends up in a hospital bed where he meets a friend from a prior case. Confusing clues lead Spencer on a trail of revenge and murder with twists and turns along the way as he and Rosie race to prevent the next murder. The police have solved the crime, but as Spencer delves into the new field of forensic entomology he realizes they are wrong. Only he has the solution to the puzzle. The best Spencer book yet will keep you turning pages right up to the end.

A cemetery is a peaceful place - usually. But a cryptic phone call leads P.I. Spencer Manning to a cemetery that appears to be anything but peaceful. Spencer investigates a growing number of people who have disappeared and a graveyard where the bodies may not match the names on the markers. If Spencer can find a connection between the two mysteries, it could expose a scandal that reaches higher than anyone could imagine. Unfortunately, the only way to solve this puzzle is to set a trap with himself as bait. Join Spencer Manning as he tackles his eighth and most perplexing case yet.

Bill Nemmers' first novel, Crude, examined the political and financial absurdities of North Dakota's recent oil drilling frenzy. This book, Mothers Hurling Bricks, examines a very different absurdity-the U.S. Army's Cold War occupation of West Germany. The Heidelberg-based expatriate Czech rock band, The Mothers Hurling Bricks, honors the Prague women who, in a frustrated act of violence, hurled loosened paving bricks back at Soviet tanks which were rumbling through Prague's streets on August 10, 1968. The author, a U.S. soldier in Heidelberg, knew the band members, and knew the band's name honored all mothers-his own certainly included-who at times must need to hurl things at machines to protest the absurdity of modern mechanized warfare.

In a thrilling continuation of the Spencer Manning Mystery series, Spencer takes us from Chicago to Door County, Wisconsin, a quaint resort area with all the history and charm of a cozy vacation spot. When Spencer's old girlfriend is accused of stealing her own painting and then vanishes without a trace, Spencer suspects something more sinister than art theft. That's when the murders begin. When another painting is reported stolen from the gallery in Chicago, the mystery deepens because the painting is worthless. So why was it stolen? The gallery is in Chicago, and the murders are in Door County. Trying to find the connection leads Spencer to a Chicago crime boss, a police chief who is not fond of Spencer's snooping, and a handful of questionable characters all of whom may not be what they seem. The mystery deepens when kidnapping is added to the list. But who has been kidnapped? With help from some unexpected sources, Spencer lays a trap for a daring rescue. All of Spencer's friends return for an entertaining tale of murder and intrigue on the streets of Chicago.

Spencer is hired by a beautiful, rich widow to look into her son's drug arrest. It should be a simple problem, but the son isn't cooperating, and after three murders, the simple case becomes complicated. The trail of clues soon involves a Chicago police detective, an FBI agent, a US senator, the head of a Chicago gang, and a nun who tells Spencer the Lord will provide. The Lord does, but not in a way Spencer expected. The list of suspects is long and confusing. Why would a senator risk his career? Why would a detective be involved with drugs? And how does the widow's affair fit into the puzzle? Drugs lead to murders, and murders lead back to drugs, and the only way Spencer can tie all the loose ends together is to set a trap, one that may very well land him in jail, or dead. The result is his most challenging case yet.

Cathy Sultan offers further insight into the disturbing and seemingly unsolvable situation in the Middle East. Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A dialogue with Both Sides is part adventure, part history, part travelogue, all bound together with a startling collection of interviews which this courageous housewife from Wisconsin conducted first-hand in a variety of sometimes not-so-safe places. Her cinematic account of a narrow escape from Ramallah into East Jerusalem prior to a military assault on the town leaves the reader breathless. This book is a continuance of the author's bold quest to bring peace to a region tragically gripped by obduracy and fanaticism. Readers will be astounded at the poignant and sometimes frightening opinions of the ordinary people Sultan meets and interviews.

THE BEECHWOOD FLUTE is a coming-of-age story about a young man finding his courage. At seventeen, Kiran wants to become a warrior to avenge his lost father and brother, but his talents lie in playing the flute. Then, when his nerve fails him, he allows his young sister to be stolen by Savages. Guilt and regret lead Kiran on a quest through the forest that leads him through servitude and suffering to discoveries about his broken family, and finally to a decision that pits his conscience against everything he has believed since childhood.

Wishbinder transports us from earth to Elvenswolde, a magical realm of elves and dragons, where the business of wish fulfillment is overseen by the Wish Maker, Ramón. However, a dark power has risen, seeking to overturn the existing order and weave malice into the intricate balance of enchantments. Septimus, seventh son of a seventh son, raised on earth but half elf, must now fulfill the prophecies to restore equilibrium. He is helped by a dragon hatchling with a remarkable propensity for trouble. Hilarious, magical, heartbreaking at times, this amazing novel presents a world we can only wish existed.

Through history, research and personal interviews, Cathy Sultan chronicles life in southern Lebanon and northern Israel during the brutal war of the summer of 2006. As in her other critically acclaimed books, Sultan focuses on ordinary people, who are overlooked by politicians and military leaders and become victims of poor decisions made by the governments of Israel, Lebanon and the United States.She vividly portrays the polluting effects of cluster bombs and explains how different factions within the Lebanese government keep it on the brink of further violence. She writes of the tiny Shabba Farms area's importance to Hezbollah and of the refugee camp that holds members of Fatah al-Islam, a Sunni militant group, despite efforts of the Lebanese army. Sultan also addresses media treatment of the war, dispels common myths about the region, and includes a timeline of Lebanese history, and maps depicting violence around the area.