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Woodsong
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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… |
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Harold E. Stassen
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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… |
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Riding into the sunrise
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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… |
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Stassen again
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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… |
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Tell my sons
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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… |
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Fly a little higher
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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… |
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Forgetting Ireland
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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… |
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Latehomecomer
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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… |
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