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A mysterious trait spans generations. Modern science may have an answer, but uncovering its origins will shatter everything. Arin Coppertree is a graduate student who seeks to break from the life scripted by her wealthy parents. Dane Hardy is a New York City bike messenger who risks it all to carve out a life removed from his tragic past. A unique genetic ability, once uncovered, brings them together. Arin embarks on what starts as a quain...

One of the most enduring mysteries of all time is what happened on Oak Island in Nova Scotia? Was there treasure buried there and is it still there? One of the most popular cable television shows ever, The Curse of Oak Island on History Channel, investigated the mystery spending millions of dollars over ten seasons and could not find the treasure. Both Don Ruh and Scott Wolter have had firsthand involvement with the island and its mysteries ov...

Best-seller en Norvège, disponible en trois langues, et recommandé par le magazine Forbes comme l'un des cinq livres les plus importants à lire sur la "vraie" Scandinavie, ce récit aussi désopilant que perspicace nous amène à découvrir avec délice une Norvège encore méconnue. Tout commence lorsque Lorelou, Franco-Québécoise, s'installe à Oslo après y avoir décroché un emploi. Ce livre pétillant et drôle raconte les aventures de Lorelou dura...

Heiress to an energy fortune built off fossil fuels, recent college graduate Missy Mayburn Crowe is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she fears is a looming "climate apocalypse" and her family's role in it. She develops an involuntary twitch, a conversion disorder that quickly spreads to her impressionable young friends who have been bombarded their entire lives with questionable predictions of climate doom. Missy is diagnosed by ...

Maarit McDonough Malone lied. As lies go, it was big. It was also believable. Had Maarit been able to control her anger, the lie might not have surfaced for decades, perhaps a lifetime. But karma being what it is, the cost of the lie had to be paid. Maarit paid the price, as did her daughters, Kay and Anna. The lie jeopardizes Kay's career as an internationally acclaimed opera star, and upends Anna's stable life. Set in Minnesota, along the Mi...

Minnesota has more youth, high school, college and pro hockey players than anywhere in the United States. For all that pedigree, and despite fifty years in the NHL, it still waits for a Stanley Cup championship team. This is the improbable tale of when the self-professed State of Hockey came closest to that title with the Minnesota North Stars. Through most of the 1990-91 schedule, the team was among the worst in the NHL on the ice, and dead l...

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As a Master Maine Guide, Carroll Ware has enjoyed a lifetime of experiences and met many people who have become incredibly important to him for many reasons. He continues to be amazed at the full and exciting life he has led. Leading this life has provided an endless stream of priceless moments, many of which he describes in this book. He has, in his career as a Master Maine Guide and International Travel Consultant with Lila at his side, had ...

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The naturalist, says Emerson, must satisfy all the demands of the spirit. Dana Wilde does that by uniquely unifying acute perception with that transcendental metaphysic that Emerson unabashedly called Love. Wilde is the poet of facts, his science always in the service of reverence and his universal intimations of spirit never "the easy gold of fay or elf, " as Robert Frost praised a practice of the natural supernatural. Wilde is not an excursi...

In this sobering sequel to his first poetic volume, Richard Lee Granvold presents a thundering sermon railing against the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in America. Rooted in the chaos of the Trump era, Granvold trains his lyrical eye on the forest fires sweeping over his home state of Oregon, the eruption of violent protests and riots¿some just, and others less söand the spiritual decay of a country suffering bitter political strife. With h...

Fathers cast long shadows over the lives of their children, especially when they pass on too soon in a child's life. In North Orchard Press' first chapbook, premiere poet Joseph Davidson unpacks a web of emotional threads that encircle the early death of his father. With forms and structures as varying as their content, and rooted in Minnesotan identity, Davidson's poetry addresses the cycles of catharsis and grief that interchange like season...

This book is a collection of chapters on management topics ranging from the firm's flexibility to strategy. Each chapter suggests new ways of viewing the firm within the context of a new economy. The new economy calls for the firm to consider integrating flexibility, leadership, followership, and organizational strategy in the workings of a dynamic economic landscape. Because this is a collection of previously published papers related to manag...

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Lorelou is French, has lived in 7 different countries, and dreams of living on a tropical beach. She suddenly gets a job offer in Oslo and decides to move to Norway despite her limited knowledge of the country and its customs. Her friends think she has lost her mind. "Do you know what Norwegians do to have fun? They go on skiing trips in the middle of the night!". During one year she will try to understand Norwegians, learn their language and ...

The adventure of a lifetime is back in print! First published in 2010, Kayaking the Great Circle Trilogy is the incredible true story of how Randy Bauer traveled by kayak down the Mississippi River, around the Gulf and East coasts, and then back through the Great Lakes to return to his home state of Minnesota. Not only a tale of great sportsmanship, his memoir is also a tribute to the limitless potential of human willpower. Published posthumou...

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Abraham Lincoln's election as sixteenth president of the United States in November, 1860, has brought about a national crisis. South Carolina, a state that has promoted the idea of secession for nearly thirty years, finally makes good on that threat, and withdraws from the Union on December 20. By early 1861, six more "cotton states" are ready to follow South Carolina's lead, putting the United States, entering into its eighty-fifth year of ex...

Angels. Time. Christ. God. Planting religious figures within contemporary visions, Richard Lee Granvold melds these ideas together into a poetic ballad concerned with finding the eternal self within the now. Evoking the mystical lyricism of poets like Yeats and Whitman, Granvold's search is one for spirituality within the cogs and clock arms of modern times. Death approaches all, but Granvold fixes his gaze beyond it, beyond the horizon, upon ...