Univ. of Minnesota Press

A Wasp in the Beehive (The Brigid Reardon Mysteries)

By Mary Logue - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

In 1881, Brigid Reardon is newly settled into the Cutter home in Salt Lake City after leaving Cheyenne, where she left her brother Seamus, ...Read Review

A Lesser Light

By Peter Geye - Published 2025

Genres:

Literary

A Lesser Light takes place in a lighthouse on the remote shores of northern Lake Superior in 1910. At the beginning of the story, ...Read Review

Olav Audunssøn: IV. Winter (Olav Audunssøn, 4)

By Sigrid Undset - By Tiina Nunnally (trans.) - Published 2023

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Norway, early 1300s: This last volume of Sigrid Undset’s tetralogy, Olav Audunssøn, recounts the final years of Olav’s life; his ...Read Review

The Big Sugar (A Brigid Reardon Mystery)

By Mary Logue - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

What is a “big sugar”? In Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881, it’s a cattle baron—someone with enormous power and money, and control of ...Read Review

Olav Audunssøn III: Crossroads

By Sigrid Undset - By Tiina Nunnally (trans.) - Published 2022

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Newly translated by Tiina Nunnally, Crossroads is the third volume of Sigrid Undset’s tetralogy Olav Audunssøn, a Norse saga of sorts. ...Read Review

Olav Audunssøn: Providence

By Sigrid Undset - By Tiina Nunnally (trans.) - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

Olav Audunssøn: Providence is Tiina Nunnally’s new translation of Book Two of Sigrid Undset’s lauded Audunssøn series. Originally published ...Read Review

Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows

By Sigrid Undset - By Tiina Nunnally (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

In 13th-century Norway, Olav and Ingunn are betrothed to each other as children. As teenagers, romantic love grows between them, but their passion ...Read Review

Waterfall

By Mary Casanova - Published 2021

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1922, Minnesota. Trinity Baird has just been released from Oak Hills Asylum, to which her well-meaning parents committed her for nearly two years. She ...Read Review

American Gospel: A Novel

By Lin Enger - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

In American Gospel, the biblically named Enoch has a near-death experience and a vision of the Rapture, an event in which Christians believe ...Read Review

The Search for the Homestead Treasure

By Ann Treacy - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In early 20th-century Minnesota, 14-year-old Martin Gunnarsson, a descendant of Scandinavian immigrants, is moving from the city to his family’s deserted farmland. ...Read Review