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Dead Silence
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The Seed Keeper
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Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #19)
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William Kent Krueger (Goodreads Author)
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As Love Blooms (The Gregory Sisters, #3)
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Lorna Seilstad (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Minnesota in the '70s
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American Boy
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Larry Watson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
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Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart
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Once and Always
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Swift Rivers
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Brood
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Where They Last Saw Her
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The Lynchings in Duluth
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Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
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Slouching Toward Fargo: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners And St. Paul Saints At The Bottom Of The Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie And Me
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Superior Justice
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Tom Hilpert (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Soft Target (Ray Cruz, #2)
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Stephen Hunter (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
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How to Talk Minnesotan: Revised for the 21st Century
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3.55 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The River Is Dark (Liam Dempsey, #1)
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Joe Hart (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 8,815 ratings
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American Gospel
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Deamhan (Deamhan Chronicles #1)
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Isaiyan Morrison (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Pirate of Jasper Peak
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Flying
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The Sweetheart Season
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Karen Joy Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 569 ratings
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Duluth
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
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3.85 avg rating — 28,434 ratings
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Larry Gets Lost in the Twin Cities
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3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Love in the Land of Lakes
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These Granite Islands
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Sarah Stonich (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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Superior Storm (Lake Superior Mysteries Book 2)
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Tom Hilpert (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The Turtle Catcher
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3.54 avg rating — 912 ratings
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The Keillor Reader
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3.98 avg rating — 443 ratings
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The Night is Deep (Liam Dempsey, #2)
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Joe Hart (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 3,446 ratings
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The Middle Sister
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3.89 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Dance With Me (Dancing, #1)
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Heidi Cullinan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 6,032 ratings
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The Pirate of Jasper Peak
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Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)
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Allen Eskens (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 7,513 ratings
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Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers & the Duluth Eskimos
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3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Kensington Rune Stone: New Light on an Old Riddle
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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T is for Twin Cities: A Minneapolis/St. Paul Alphabet
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Nancy Carlson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel
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2.89 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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Superior Secrets (Lake Superior Mysteries, #3)
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Tom Hilpert (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 284 ratings
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A Life in Comedy
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3.83 avg rating — 54 ratings
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A Can of Peas (Lake Emily, Book 1)
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3.77 avg rating — 919 ratings
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A Fireproof Home for the Bride
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Amy Scheibe (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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The Body Keeper (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries #3)
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Anne Frasier (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 11,024 ratings
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Here Comes Kristie
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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And There He Kept Her (Ben Packard, #1)
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Joshua Moehling (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 21,137 ratings
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The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
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3.49 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Hunter's Moon
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Chuck Logan (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Spirit of the Lights
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions
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A Prairie Home Companion: The Screenplay of the Major Motion Picture
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3.40 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Beneath the Same Stars
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Phyllis Cole-Dai (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Absolutely Positively Not
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David LaRochelle (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,969 ratings
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Cold Blood
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3.59 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Then Came Adventure
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Leave No Trace
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Mindy Mejia (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 9,608 ratings
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Where the Dead Sleep (Ben Packard #2)
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Joshua Moehling (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 7,683 ratings
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Duluth: Gem of the Freshwater Sea
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Bone Dance
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Emma Bull (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
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A Million Little Pieces
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Deadly Stillwater (McRyan Mystery, #2)
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Roger Stelljes (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 20,362 ratings
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Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
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Laura Ingalls Is Ruining My Life
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Kiss Me Deadly (Bewitch the Dark #2)
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Michele Hauf (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 3,691 ratings
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The Plaid Cow
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The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)
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Abby Jimenez (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 391,875 ratings
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101 Things to Do in Duluth and the North Shore
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Rookery Blues
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Finding Laura Buggs
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3.85 avg rating — 808 ratings
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The Sixth Idea (Monkeewrench, #7)
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P.J. Tracy (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 4,067 ratings
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Mississippi Solo: A River Quest
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Sunshine
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Marion Dane Bauer (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Black Friday (Maggie O'Dell, #7)
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Alex Kava (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 5,479 ratings
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The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)
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Abby Jimenez (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 296,857 ratings
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Tales of Spirit Mountain: Early Days in the Lake Superior Region
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Mind Prey (Lucas Davenport, #7)
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The Disapparation of James
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Anne Ursu (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 378 ratings
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Silhouette of a Sparrow
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Clean Cut (Paris Murphy, #1)
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Kunu: Winnebago Boy Escapes
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Kenneth Thomasma (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)
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Abby Jimenez (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 255,574 ratings
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The Painted Alphabet
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Songs of the North
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Just a Girl
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Carrie Mesrobian (Goodreads Author)
2.91 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Trouble With Witches (Ophelia & Abby, #3)
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Shirley Damsgaard (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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The Secret of Sanctuary Island
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Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
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Abby Jimenez (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 769,541 ratings
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Solar Storms
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The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis
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Shawn Francis Peters (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Brave
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Summary & Study Guide Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik
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Grimm End
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S.T. Cameron (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Wolf country: A wilderness pilgrimage
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Everything You Want Me to Be
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Mindy Mejia (Goodreads Author)
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All Roads Lead to Here
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Abby Jimenez (Goodreads Author)
4.87 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Par Four (Jake Hines, #2)
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Elizabeth Gunn (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
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Andrea Swensson (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Sod-House Winter
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The View from Mount Joy
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Lorna Landvik (Goodreads Author)
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May 18, 2017 07:53PM
Gore Vidal's "Duluth" is about the one in Georgia, not Minnesota.
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