Moving to Scotland is when it all starts. Before, when Keilann had been living in Chicago, almost everything about her life had been normal. In the city, no one ever notices or cares that she is Ojibwe, and Keilann learns how to scrape by just enough with her grades to not attract anyone's attention. Everything is going fine until her father takes a teaching job in Scotland. That's when everything changes. Rural Scotland is a wild. rugged land full of unsurpassed beauty-and a few secrets of its own. In the woods behind her new house, Keilann finds an ancient stone circle and a strange, silent girl who seems to have walked straight out of her nightmares. Though Keilann tries to deny it, a series of inexplicable coincidences makes her consider the impossible: perhaps her dreams are not mere illusions, but a window into Scotland's violent past.

Seven Stones

JULIA LEE

Riverplace Press

An old witch woman cares for her sick neighbors. A lonely homesteader contemplates a bleak Christmas alone in a dirty dugout. A pregnant woman crouches in the swamp to hide from attacking Indians, and another heeds a call beyond herself to find happiness at a convent. 'Dear Homefolks' transports readers to another time and place, and the glory of what might have been. "Dear Homefolks made me laugh and cry. Simar writes with an evocative clarity that reminds me of Willa Cather. Be prepared to ignore everything else when you pick up Dear Homefolks, because you will not want to stop reading." ~Nancy Plain, Spur Award winning author of 'This Strange Wilderness', 'One Sky Above Us', and 'Light on the Prairie'

Dear Homefolks and Other Stories

Candace Simar

"Lanesboro, Minnesota"

STEVE HARRIS

1953. Ike had just been elected president, the Russians announced they'd built their first hydrogen bomb, and the war in Korea came to a tentative stop. Albert Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Jonas Salk gave himself and his family doses of the polio vaccine. The Beatles were still ten years away. While waiting for them, we happily made do with Perry Como and Patti Page. In March of that year Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin died and I turned eleven. Much has been written about the Good Old Days. Lovers of nostalgia insist that the world isn't nearly as pleasant as it used to be; that when we were kids nobody worried about getting assaulted or kidnapped by some perverted sex maniac, or having their lives ruined by getting hooked on drugs; and how back in those days people were just more honest and decent and neighborly. There may be some truth to such assertions. But I've come to believe that what we think of as the good old days were essentially the days of childhood, when things were simply simpler, before the first harsh winds of adulthood began buffeting our souls.

Looking Back A 1950's Boyhood

Craig Nagel

A gripping, suspenseful, murder-mystery set on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.

The Flayed Man: A Superior Murder

Literature & Fiction

Andersen, Jay

Genre Fiction