Author: Corey Bonnema
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997428322
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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You have probably heard about it and most likely experienced it in action. And if you've spoken to transplants for more than five minutes, it's bound to have come up in conversation. Minnesota Nice. It can make what might seem like the most benign interaction absolutely perplexing to an outsider. And it's no secret that Minnesota Nice can create real challenges for transplants attempting to work and live successfully in Minnesota. If you could use some help, you've come to the right place. Minnesota Nice? A Transplant's Guide to Surviving and Thriving in Minnesota Nice is a decoder book for Minnesota culture. In it you'll learn why Minnesotans are the way they are, including the characteristics and origins of this culture. But, more importantly, you'll learn numerous ways to work and live harmoniously with Minnesotans- even if they're being passive-aggressive, conflict avoidant, and hard to get to know!
Author: Patrick Strait
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681341866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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An insiders' look at the land of 10,000 laughs--how Minneapolis became a hotspot for comedy. It is a lively look back at the wild '80s scene and the creative legacy it wrought.
Author: Lucas LaMont
Publisher: Accomplishing Innovation Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Minnesota has a code, don't cha know? Knowing this code is essential for living in the state famous for an accent only the Coen Brothers could replicate. But if you only focused on the accents in Fargo, you might have missed the nuance. After all, there has to be some reason Minnesotans live in a state where winter lasts six months out of the year. What is it? We call it “Minnesota Nice.” It permeates all aspects of life, including the way we talk, what we eat, how we entertain guests, the way we practice our faith, and how we enjoy the great outdoors. Do you want to know more—or better yet, know someone in your life who should? Grab a copy today so you can have something to set your coffee mug on. Plus, it’s thick enough you’ll really annihilate that fly that won’t stop buzzing around.
Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101517778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.” Keillor is the founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the Good Poems collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Author: Lee Svitak Dean
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452961158
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers’ stories It’s cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and there’s nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart. A celebration of the rich traditions, creativity, and taste of the region, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book collects the best-loved recipes and baking lore from fifteen years of the Star Tribune’s popular holiday cookie contest. Drop cookies and cutouts, refrigerator cookies and bars; Swedish shortbread, Viennese wafers, and French–Swiss butter cookies; almond palmiers; chai crescents and taffy treats; snowball clippers, cherry pinwheels, lime coolers, and chocolate-drizzled churros: a dizzying array and all delightful, the recipes in this book recall memories of holidays past and inspire the promise of happy gatherings to come. These are winning cookies in every sense, the best of the best chosen by the contest’s judges, accompanied by beautiful photographs as instructive as they are enticing. A treat for any occasion, whether party, bake sale, or after-school snack, each time- and taste-tested recipe is perfect for starting a tradition of one’s own.
Author: Julie Schaper
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617751790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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"Local editors Schaper and Horwitz have assembled a noteworthy collection of noir-infused stories mixed with laughter…The Akashic noir short-story anthologies are avidly sought and make ideal samplers for regional mystery collecting." --Library Journal "The best pieces in the collection turn the clichés of the genre on their head . . . and despite the unseemly subject matter, the stories are often surprisingly funny." —City Pages (Minneapolis) Brand-new stories from John Jodzio, Tom Kaczynski, and Peter Schilling, Jr., in addition to the original volume's stories by David Housewright, Steve Thayer, Judith Guest, Mary Logue, Bruce Rubenstein, K.J. Erickson, William Kent Krueger, Ellen Hart, Brad Zellar, Mary Sharratt, Pete Hautman, Larry Millett, Quinton Skinner, Gary Bush, and Chris Everheart. "St. Paul was originally called Pig's Eye's Landing and was named after Pig's Eye Parrant--trapper, moonshiner, and proprietor of the most popular drinking establishment on the Mississippi. Traders, river rats, missionaries, soldiers, land speculators, fur trappers, and Indian agents congregated in his establishment and made their deals. When Minnesota became a territory in 1849, the town leaders, realizing that a place called Pig's Eye might not inspire civic confidence, changed the name to St. Paul, after the largest church in the city . . . Across the river, Minneapolis has its own sordid story. By the turn of the twentieth century it was considered one of the most crooked cities in the nation. Mayor Albert Alonzo Ames, with the assistance of the chief of police, his brother Fred, ran a city so corrupt that according to Lincoln Steffans its 'deliberateness, invention, and avarice has never been equaled.' As recently as the mid-'90s, Minneapolis was called 'Murderopolis' due to a rash of killings that occurred over a long hot summer . . . Every city has its share of crime, but what makes the Twin Cities unique may be that we have more than our share of good writers to chronicle it. They are homegrown and they know the territory--how the cities look from the inside, out . . ."
Author: Angelina E. Castagno
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517905675
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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"This collection extends a line of critique from Castagno's book, Educated in Whiteness: white teachers' default position of 'being nice' and its problematic relationship with larger inequities in education and society. Castagno and her contributors explore how the frame of niceness is the primary one through which teachers problematically engage diversity and maintain ideological commitments to colorblindness, equality, and politeness"--
Author: Peg Meier
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Life stories of ordinary people of Minnesota, through the form of letters, diaries, & photographs. Every day life from the beginning of the 19th century to the dawn of World War II.
Author: Barbara Merritt Deese
Publisher: Twin Cities Chapter Sisters in Crime, LLC
ISBN: 9780999437124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Minnesota Nice gets shoved offstage when Bad Behavior hogs the spotlight in this gripping, often delightful collection of mystery and crime stories. Eighteen local authors rip away the curtains to our states legendary Niceness to rummage through dusty emotional attics to find, emerging from the shadows, our worst impulses growling back with bared teeth. Book jacket.
Author: John-Brian Paprock
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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For the traveler seeking to find the spirit--however he or she chooses to define that term--Minnesota is blessed with a large number of sacred sites, many of which are unique. This book profiles approximately 350 sites, including retreat centers, churches, temples, cemeteries, and effigy mounds. Learn about each site's history, uniqueness, aesthetic beauty, and awe. Specific location and contact information is also included.
