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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Woodsong Woodsong Gary Paulsen For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the au… OL14850222W
Harold E. Stassen Harold E. Stassen Alec Kirby "In 1938 Harold E. Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota. He went on to a distinguished career as a key political figure of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He is most known as being a perennial candi… OL17722137W
Riding into the sunrise Riding into the sunrise Mitchell B. Pearlstein "Riding into the Sunrise is more than a conventional biography of a good man. It s also more than a conventional review of Al Quie s political victories and defeats over three decades in elected offi… OL17885127W
Stassen again Stassen again Steven Werle "In ten unsuccessful runs at the U.S. presidency, Harold E. Stassen became infamous as a perennial candidate. But his lifetime of achievements--as Minnesota's 'boy governor,' as a war hero, as a foun… OL17896936W
Tell my sons Tell my sons Mark M. Weber "At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Wi… OL19968152W
Fly a little higher Fly a little higher Laura Sobiech When Sobeich found out her son Zach had only one year to live, she released him to God's will. When his mother told him to think about writing good-bye letters to family and friends, he decided inste… OL21178642W
Forgetting Ireland Forgetting Ireland Bridget Connelly "In 1880, at the height of Ireland's second famine, a ship of paupers was sent from Galway to take up land granted them by a Catholic bishop in Minnesota. There they encountered the worst winter in t… OL5955021W
Latehomecomer Latehomecomer Kao Kalia Yang In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a wri… OL9849489W