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Author Event: Sarah Stonich
Zenith Bookstore welcomes award-winning Minnesota author Sarah Stonich on the launch of her new novel Laurentian Divide. Returning to the northern Minnesota town of Hatchet Inlet, Laurentian Divide picks up the story where Vacationland left off — at a moment of great sorrow and hope. Residents recovering from a tough winter anticipate their first real celebration since losing two of their best and brightest young women. Sarah Stonich weaves the past and present lives of a retired union miner, his…
Find out more »Dessa
Zenith Bookstore welcomes musician, artist and writer Dessa to West Duluth. Dessa will discuss, read from and sign her new memoir My Own Devices. This is a ticketed event that includes one copy of the book. Tickets may be purchased at Zenith Bookstore, by phone at (218) 606-1777, or online.
Find out more »Author Event: Leif Enger
Zenith Bookstore celebrates the release of a novel Leif Enger spent 10 years writing, "Virgil Wander." Enger, the author of the magical New York Times bestseller "Peace Like a River," returns with a story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to "revive it’s flagging heart." Raised in Osakis, Minnesota, Enger worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel "Peace Like a River," which won the Independent…
Find out more »Author Event: Curt Brown
On the centennial of the 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake fires, Zenith Bookstore hosts Curt Brown, author of Minnesota 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State. It is a story of trauma, tragedy and perseverance in a year that proved to be a turning point in the making of modern America. In 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put communities to the test, forcing them to persevere through untold hardship. First, as…
Find out more »Author Event: Samantha Nielsen
Author and artist Samantha Nielsen visits Zenith Bookstore to answer questions and sign her first book, "5-Minute Watercolor: Super Quick Techniques For Amazing Watercolor Drawings." Nielsen's book features 60 exercises for new and aspiring artists. The book has four sections that include tools to create a quick watercolor painting and capture movement. The book also features Nielsen and contributing artists' work. Nielsen graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead with an art education degree and taught high school art for two…
Find out more »Hush, Hush, Forest: Mary Casanova and Nick Wroblewski
Author Mary Casanova and illustrator Nick Wroblewski will be at Zenith Bookstore for a reading and signing of their new book, Hush Hush, Forest. In Hush, Hush, Forest, lyrical words and elegant woodcuts capture the quiet beauty of the forest as day fades to night and autumn gives way to the North Woods winter Hush Hush, Forest peers through twilight’s window at the raccoon preening, the doe and fawn bedding down, and the last bat flitting away. The book pictures…
Find out more »Author Event: William D. Green
William D. Green presents "The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876." Frederick Douglass, in a speech in 1876, said that white people were “the children of Lincoln,” while black people were “at best his stepchildren.” "In this carefully researched book, Green shows, through the stories of four Minnesotans, how white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction." Emancipation became the law of the land, and white…
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