DescriptionMinnesota Governor and former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura has become one of the most talked about politicians of our day. Listen to the controversial figure in his first appearance at the National Press Club given on February 22, 1999.
DescriptionIn the small Minnesota shore town of Flame Lake, a close-knit group of friends find their comfortable lives taking some unforeseen turns. Best friends Devera and BiDi were recently voted "Least Changed" at their twentieth high school reunion, but Devera is starting to think of the label as insulting. Sure, she loves her husband and still believes being a wife and mother is the main entree on life's plate...but she longs for some more exotic side dishes. Lorna Landvik, author of Patty Jane's House of Curl, creates real, resilient people we come to know and love, and stories with brilliant wit and amazing resonance.
DescriptionIn the 6 years since her bitter, angry divorce, Bess Curran has built an independent, successful life in Stillwater, Minnesota. But Bess is unexpectedly reunited with her ex-husband, Michael, when their 21-year-old daughter, Lisa, becomes pregnant and plans to marry in her mother's wedding dress. As Lisa's antagonistic parents absorb this news, they find themselves forced to consider whether 16 years of love can really be erased by a legal decree. In this memorable novel, best selling romance author LaVyrle Spencer examines whether a divorce can sometimes be too final, when the times change and people don't change along with them.
DescriptionThe author of Love Medicine brings an unforgettable novel about the irrevocable patterns set in motion by certain fateful acts. A soldier deserts the cavalry during a cruel raid on an Ojibwa village to chase a dog bearing on its back a baby on a cradle board strung with breathtaking blue beads. Generations later, a fast-talking trader kidnaps a silent and graceful woman from a powwow. In a haunting recreation of a native tale, the woman is part antelope - hunter and hunted change identities and nothing is ever the same for those involved.
DescriptionMinnesota Governor Jesse Ventura decries the ease with which most Americans surrender their freedoms and apathetically accept a system of governance driven more by pork patronage than by the best interests of the constituency. He also denounces an irrespo…
DescriptionOn one of the coldest nights in Minnesota history, the difference between life and death is literally the blink of an eye for Phil Broker, until recently St. Paul's most successful undercover cop. That blink will convey the urgent warning of a comatose ma…
DescriptionFourteen-year-old Gary, a self-described "tree toad" (lover of a perfect lawn, the soft-porn masterpiece of Carnal Cuties, his Underwood typewriter, and, above all, his rebellious cousin Kate), lives through one amazing Lake Wobegon summer. Gary preoccupies himself by spinning fantastic yarns about boogers, talking dogs, conversations between God and Jesus, and especially melodramas featuring himself as hero and Kate as distressed damsel. When the real Kate makes a terrible mistake, Gary learns a lot about love, heartbreak, and what it really means to rebel. In his latest novel, Garrison Keillor describes the making of a writer who comes of age in classic Wobegon style. It's just what his fans have been waiting for: trademark wit, brilliant humor, great storytelling, and an extended stay in "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve".
DescriptionGarrison Keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability, both in print and in performance, to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor, tenderness, and grace. This exclusive recording of Garrison Keillor reading a carefully edited abridgement of the book also includes a few segments taken from live performances recorded during a fundraising tour for public radio stations in 1985.
