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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.

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 nati...

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 ...

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...

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 Min...

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, forei...

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 ...

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.

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 who...

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!

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 Th...

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 a...

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 gi...

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 Houst...

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 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 onl...

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 gal...

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 whic...