Tag: Books
Jim Moore and Robin Walter in conversation
In Enter, poet Jim Moore navigates the public spaces of his neighborhood— parks, boardwalks, piazzas, even parking garages—and encounters people negotiating mortality in the pandemic age just as he is coming to terms with...
Timmon Wallis presents Nuclear Abolition
This event is co-sponsored by Global Minnesota!Annie Jacobsen's 2024 bestseller, Nuclear War: A Scenario describes second by second how the launch of a single nuclear weapon could end up destroying civilization in 72 minutes....
Translation Book Club – A Perfect Day to Be Alone
Join us for the May meeting of the Magers & Quinn Translation Book Club!This month, we'll be discussing Nanae Aoyama's A Perfect Day to Be Alone, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood!Order the book...
Ben Schierer presents Perpich: A Minnesota Original
The story of Minnesota’s longestserving—and perhaps most colorful— governor and his role in propelling the state to the global stage, woven together from interviews with many of the era’s most influential civic leaders.Rudy Perpich...
Sonja Trom Eayrs presents Dodge County, Incorporated
Join Magers & Quinn for a discussion of Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America, led by author and Minnesota attorney, Sonja Trom Eayrs. It’s a compelling legal drama recounting...
Hawa Hassan presents Setting a Place for Us
This event is co-hosted by Alight!This Spring, James Beard Award-winning author, chef, and entrepreneur Hawa Hassan releases her powerful new book, “Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community”...
Rickey Fayne presents The Devil Three Times
Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion. Desperate to survive the hell that awaits her at their destination,...
Charlie Sellars presents What We Can Do
While no one can do everything, everyone can do something. In this radically optimistic climate change book by Charlie Sellars, find yourself empowered to maximize sustainability across every facet of your life – the...
Willa Hammitt Brown presents Gentlemen of the Woods
The folk hero Paul Bunyan, burly, bearded, wielding his big ax, stands astride the story of the upper Midwest—a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast northwoods for the march of industrialization...
Bill Thorness presents All Roads Lead to Rome
What happens when a seasoned journalist and travel writer takes on his most challenging assignment yet--crossing not just continents but also history--by retracing his father's steps on the battlefields of Italy in World War...
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