Author: Nina McGuire
Publisher:
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Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Author: Greg A. Brick
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145291432X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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In Subterranean Twin Cities, geologist, historian, and urban speleologist Greg Brick takes us on an adventurous, educational, and-thankfully-sanitary journey beneath the streets and into the myriad tunnels, caves, and industrial spaces that make up the Twin Cities' fascinating and surprisingly vast underground landscape. In this groundbreaking tour, the first of its kind of the Twin Cities, Brick mines the stories that lie below the city surface.

Author: Eric Dregni
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402739087
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Gary Goodman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452966915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store’s new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota—the early struggles, the travels to estate sales and book fairs, the remarkable finds, and the bibliophiles, forgers, book thieves, and book hoarders he met along the way. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated Lake Minnetonka mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region’s most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. This store became so successful and inspired so many other booksellers to move to town that Richard Booth, founder of the “book town” movement in Hay-on-Wye in Wales, declared Stillwater the First Book Town in North America. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.

Author: Nina McGuire
Publisher:
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 9781591930822
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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They're cities unlike any others - where urban meets rural, where nature is intertwined with a vast metropolitan area - and you want to remember it. This book is a collection of full-color photographs of attractions and events that reflect the Twin Cities' history and culture. It's a perfect souvenir, a wonderful gift and an ideal way to show your family and friends the unique diversity that Minneapolis and Saint Paul have to offer.

Author: Jose Pimienta
Publisher: Random House Graphic
ISBN: 0593180658
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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FOUR STARRED REVIEWS • A critically acclaimed graphic novel with rave reviews about this timely story featuring middle school twins living on the Mexico-US border and trying to discover exactly who they are – together or apart. “Transcendentally good.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Being twins means having a best friend forever . . . But when one goes to middle school in Mexico and the other across the border in California, can that bond withstand the distance? Luis Fernando is staying local in Mexicali, Mexico, while Luisa Teresa crosses the border every day so she can go to a private school in Calexico, California. As they try to embrace new experiences close to and far from home, the twins hit obstacles: like making new friends and navigating school pressure without the other one for support. Fernando and Teresa finally have the chance to stand on their . . . isn’t that what the always wanted? A unique and timely story about siblings, middle school, and peer pressure from rising star Jose Pimienta, Twin Cities is at once a relatable contemporary story and much-needed window into an experience so many kids can relate to but has rarely been seen in children’s graphic novels. "From start to finish, Twin Cities is a superbly crafted work of art and emotion that marks Pimienta as a creator to watch." —BookPage, starred review

Author: Michelle Hensley
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873519841
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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"A history of the Twin Cities' theater company Ten Thousand Things, which for more than twenty years has been bringing intelligent, lively theater to nontraditional audiences as well as the general public"--

Author: Larry Millett
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452933111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Take a tour of the lost mansions of the Twin Cities

Author: Adam Gamble
Publisher: Good Night Books
ISBN: 1602194459
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Welcome to the magnificent Twin Cities. This board book takes young readers on a tour of their cities’ most cherished destinations, including the Mississippi River, Mall of America, Stone Arch Bridge, Bunker Beach Water Park, Como Park Zoo, Fort Snelling, Minnesota State Fair, Minnesota History Center, Minnesota Children’s Museum, and more.