Best Small Towns In Minnesota - April 2024

Ordinary Grace

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the so... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451645856
• UPC: 884740901625
• ASIN: 1451645856
• ISBN: 1451645856
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

• ASIN: 1501133098
• ASIN: 1501133098
• ISBN: 1501133098
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Trouble in Taco Town (The ABCs of Spellcraft Book 2)

Road trip!When Dixon and Yuri head for Taco Town, they’re hoping to track down Uncle Fonzo. What they find instead is a fiasco. Is it sabotage? A curse? Or is it just a bunch of badly worded Spellcraft?The small Minnesota berg is a tourist destination featuring a memorable roadside attraction: The Big Taco. It’s not actually edible, but there’s a flock of birds passing through that never got the memo. One thing’s for sure, Fonzo has been there. Not only do plenty of folks recognize his photo, but they paid him to solve certain problems…all of which are now exponentially worse. Dixon ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07RCFYK7N
• ASIN: B07RCFYK7N
• Manufacturer: JCP Books LLC

Holy Ghost (A Virgil Flowers Novel Book 11)

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist)Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079DXLLPC
• ASIN: B079DXLLPC
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Grapes of Wrath

• ASIN: B001BKTEZA
• ASIN: B001BKTEZA
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Deep Freeze (A Virgil Flowers Novel Book 10)

Class reunions: a time for memories—good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly—in this New York Times bestselling thriller from John Sandford. Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt—and as it turned out, homicidal—local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There’s a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01NBU65Z1
• ASIN: B01NBU65Z1
• Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Rules of Prey (The Prey Series Book 1)

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's “haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller”* that introduced Lucas Davenport...   The killer was mad but brilliant.   He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used...So many rules to his sick, violent games of death.   But Lucas Davenport, the cop who’s out to get him, isn’t playing by the rules.“Terrifying...Sandford has crafted the kind of trimmed-to-the-bone thriller that is hard to put down…scary...intrigui... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000QUCO58
• ASIN: B000QUCO58
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Dark of the Moon (A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 1)

The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.“Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford’s Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own..”*He’s been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he’s never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000W94GH2
• ASIN: B000W94GH2
• Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Iron Lake: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)

“A brilliant achievement, and one every crime reader and writer needs to celebrate.” —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Glass Houses “A master craftsman [and] a series of books written with a grace and precision so stunning that you’d swear the stories were your own.” —Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire series “Among thoughtful readers, William Kent Krueger holds a very special place in the pantheon.” —C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Disappeared Read the thrilling, universally acclaimed debut that introduced the award-winnin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439157286
• ASIN: 1439157286
• ISBN: 1439157286
• Brand: Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Town Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball

Fondly remembered and celebrated throughout Minnesota, old-fashioned town team baseball was the glue that held a community together and generated a great sense of pride and passion among its residents. A love of baseball—and, of course, the desire to whomp the neighboring town’s team—spurred on players and fans alike. The game was intense and personal, connecting people from all walks of life at every hard-fought game.Featuring individual stories of success and defeat, hundreds of photographs, and scores and statistics, Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek chronicle the unfolding of a fascin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0816646759
• ASIN: 0816646759
• ISBN: 0816646759
• Brand: Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press

Heat Lightning (A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 2)

Virgil Flowers hunts a killer responsible for a strange string of murders in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago.Working the murders, Flowers becomes convinced that someone is keeping a list—with many more names on it. And when he discovers what connects them all, he’s almost sorry. Because if it’s tru... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0016H97J6
• ASIN: B0016H97J6
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Winter Prey (The Prey Series Book 5)

It's the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that's closing in on Lucas Davenport.

• ASIN: B000QFCFHK
• ASIN: B000QFCFHK
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Little Minnesota: 100 Towns Around 100

They're Minnesota's smallest towns, but they have huge character! Experience the rich stories, histories and cultures of 100 charming small towns, with populations from 5 to 141. And meet the friendly people who call these places home. Each entry in the book features folks who know what it means to help their neighbors and locales that range from quaint to historic. It's one book, and it's one hundred towns to love.

• ASIN: 1591933196
• ASIN: 1591933196
• ISBN: 1591933196
• Manufacturer: Adventure Publications

The Shadows We Hide

Journalist Joe Talbert investigates the murder of the father he never knew, and must reckon with his own family's past, in this "brilliant sequel" to the national bestseller The Life We Bury (Publishers Weekly).MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALISTBARRY AWARD FINALISTJoe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota. Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316509787
• ASIN: 0316509787
• ISBN: 0316509787
• Manufacturer: Mulholland Books

Shadow Prey (A Prey Novel)

A series of ritualistic murders committed across the United States draws Lucas Davenport into an unimaginable conspiracy of revenge in this “classic”(Boston Globe) thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis...A rising political star executed in Manhattan...A judge slashed to death in Oklahoma City... Each victim has a history of bad behavior, but the only thing the killings have in common is the murder weapon—a Native American ceremonial knife—and a trail of blood that leads to an embodiment of evil known only as Shadow Love. Recruited to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425208842
• ASIN: 0425208842
• ISBN: 0425208842
• Brand: Sandford, John
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Down to the Last Pitch : How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time

From acclaimed author Tim Wendel, the behind-the-headlines story of the Best World Series Ever, and the watershed season that propelled two of baseball s worst teams to dominance and ushered in baseball s modern era.

• UPC: 42083555
• Rating: 4.0

Little minnesota : 100 towns around 100 - paperback: 9781591933199

They're Minnesota's smallest towns, but they have huge character! Experience the rich stories, histories and cultures of 100 charming small towns, with populations from 5 to 141. And meet the friendly people who call these

• UPC: 16657402

Small Town Sinners

The much-talked about story that the New York Times called both "credible and tender" in which a teen girl questions her extreme religious

• UPC: 21085466
• Rating: 3.875

They Called Me Cheesy : Tales of Growing Up in a Small Minnesota Town in the '30s and 40s

Growing up in Northern Minnesota in the 1930s & 40s Park Rapids, Minnesota, during the Great Depression and World War II is a place and time our grandchildren can barely imagine - or have little

• UPC: 8218461

The Best Small Towns In the United States - eBook

Once in a while, you discover a town that has everything—great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. Each year, the Budget Travel team celebrates these places with our "Coolest Small Towns in America"

• UPC: 467819528

Small Town Glory - eBook

How did the Kenora Thistles become, against all odds, the smallest team and the smallest town ever to win the Stanley Cup?This famously scrappy hockey team was founded in the rough and tumble town of

• UPC: 479317546

Little Minnesota in World War II : The Stories Behind 140 Fallen Heroes from Minnesota's Littlest Towns

This unique book allows readers to experience World War II through personal accounts, photos from the war, scans of actual letters, journal excerpts, and family memories of men from Minnesota's smallest towns who served and

• UPC: 55770034

Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns - eBook

For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the

• UPC: 972366994

No Small Coincidence: How Yale Alumni Made History in Minnesota - eBook

In isolation, the fact that any prominent Minnesotan attended Yale may be purely random. But time after time, a relationship with Yale exists in the histories of so many Minnesotans, that its recurring presence soon

• UPC: 644997743

Best Dressed Ghoul in Town

Best Dressed Ghoul in Town

• UPC: 817014882