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A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a poignant and lyrical story of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Now an award-winning indie film distributed by 20th Century Fox. Available everywhere on DVD. http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/ Excerpted from the paperback original, Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories (Borealis Books, 2006), by Will Weaver.
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An overview of how Minnesotans of diverse backgrounds—soldiers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans—served their country during the Civil War. Excerpted from Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out (MHS Press, 2007).
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As the first of the MHS Express imprint, this short e-book will highlight the rifts and crises leading up to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota between the Dakota people and the U.S. government, as keenly represented by then-governor and later militia colonel Henry Sibley, and will weave together excerpts from the 2004 MHS book, Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart, and with a new MHS Express introduction by author Rhoda Gilman.
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A short-form e-book original providing a brief history of the famed automobile assembly plant in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood, 1925-2011. Based on an essay written for the Society for Industrial Archaeology.
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Lois Phillips Hudson eloquently portrays George Custer, a determined and angry man who must battle both the land and the landlord; his hard-working wife Rachel; and their young and vulnerable daughter Lucy. Through their compelling story looms a sense of a whole nation's tragedy during the Great Depression.<br /><br />Reviews of The Bones of Plenty:<br /><br />"It is possible . . .that literary historians of the future will decide that The Bones of Plenty was the farm novel of the Great Drought of the 1920s and 1930s and the Great Depression. Better than any other novel of the period with which I am familiar, Lois Phillips Hudson's story presents, with intelligence and rare understanding, the frightful disaster that closed thousands of rural banks and drove farmers off their farms, the hopes and savings of a lifetime in ruins about them."—New York Times Book Review<br /><br />"Hudson does a superb job of revealing the physical texture of farm life on the prairie—its sounds, smells, colors, sensations. Then she goes further, examining the spiritual texture as well. Her characters are bound to each other and to their land in a kind of harsh intimacy from which there is no relief. Weather, poverty, anger, and pride are the forces that drive them and ultimately wear them down. . . Like the best books of any era, it convinces us of its characters' enduring humanity, and surprises us, again and again, with the depth of emotion it makes us feel."—Minneapolis Star Tribune<br /><br />"At her best, Lois Phillips Hudson can make the American Ordeal of the 1930s so real that you can all but feel the gritty dust in your teeth."—Omaha World-Herald
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This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's history. Maud Hart Lovelace's careful research into the documents of the Historical Society, combined with her knowledge of the actual setting, enabled her to write a story that conveys a sense of time and place both accurate and compelling for young adults as well as general readers.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm Moberg sensitively explores his own childhood.<br /><br />When Valter, a boy with great imagination, describes the exciting things he sees so vividly, he is punished for lying, so he learns to write his stories down instead. He willingly leaves school and helps support his family by working in lumber camps and a glass factory. His father's ill health and death bring even harder times. Through all his toil, he debates whether to honor his father's wish and remain in Sweden to support his mother.<br /><br />With gentle irony and a loving knowledge of the landscape, the people, and the larger issue of class struggle, Moberg offers American readers a deeply moving view of the other side of Swedish immigration.
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Povijesni roman koji govori o iskustvima članova obitelji grčkih ribara tijekom Prvog punskog rata Almices Teópulos, mladi ribar, živi sa svojom obitelji na otoku Samosu, u grčkom arhipelagu Dodekanez. Slučajno spašavanje dvojice brodolomaca prouzročit će obiteljsku tragediju. Godina je 264 pr.Kr.. Nakon Aleksandra Velikog, Kartaga i Rim postali su nove velesile tog vremena, a njihovi će suprotstavljani interesi dovesti do prvog Punskog rata. U ovoj uzbudljivoj drami, likovi će biti uvučeni u ratni sukob koji ih okružuje, boreći se protiv gospodara, kriza, bolesti i zaskočicama sudbine. Ova priča opisuje svakodnevni život na Mediteranu u predrimsko doba, od grčkih otoka do Tira, Aleksandrijeili Kartage. Roman koji uklapa evoluciju glavnih likova priče u povijesna događanja, plod je temeljitog istraživanja koje se predstavlja čitatelju kroz jedno gotovo nepoznato, ali fascinantno razdoblje: Mediterana koji je pripadao Feničanima i Kartažanima, Rimljanima i piratima, robovima i oslobođenicima te pojedincu koji, u ono vrijeme nije vrijedio ništa kao ljudsko biće, ali je unatoč tome, mogao postati velik.
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Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Lady Delilah Everly no ha tenido una vida tan maravillosa como algunos podrían creer. El mal ni siquiera empezó a describir a su madre o como debería tratar a las personas que se suponía tenía que amar. A Dalilah se le endureció el corazón y aprendió pronto a depender de sí misma comenzando a adquirir las habilidades necesarias para sobrevivir por su cuenta. Marrok Palmer, el duque de Wolfton, no puede comprender el giro que ha tomado su vida. Para proteger a su hermana se vio forzado a tomar la vida de su padre. El anterior duque no fue una buena persona, pero siendo cómplice de su muerte es destruir a Marrok. Tanto Marrok como Delilah parten juntos hacia un viaje. A través de su destino, ninguno de los dos podrá imaginar que sus caminos se cruzarán. En sus viajes deberán aprender a apoyarse el uno con el otro. Descubrirán que existe el amor eterno, pero solamente si están decididos a dar un salto de fe y aceptarse mutuamente las faltas del otro.
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Um amor que só um conto de fadas pode criar… Um amor que só um conto de fadas pode criar… Lady Delilah Everly não levou a vida encantada que alguns podem acreditar. Perversa nem sequer começava a descrever sua mãe ou como tratava aqueles que deveria amar. Isso endureceu Delilah para o amor e ela aprendeu cedo a apenas depender de si mesma e a ganhar as habilidades necessárias para sobreviver sozinha. Marrok Palmer, o duque de Wolfton, não consegue entender a mudança que sua vida tomou. Para proteger sua irmã, ele foi forçado a tirar a vida de seu pai. O duque anterior não era um bom homem, mas ser responsável pela sua morte está destruindo Marrok. Tanto Marrok quanto Delilah saem em uma jornada, através de um destino que nenhum dos dois poderia imaginar que se cruzariam. Nessa viagem, eles precisam aprender a confiar um no outro e durante o caminho, descobrem a possibilidade de um amor eterno, mas somente se estiverem dispostos a dar um salto de fé e aceitar cada falha um do outro.