May 2024
Meet and Greet with Lisa M. Bolt Simons
Meet Lisa Bolt Simons who will be signing copies of, Boxed Out: A Choose Your Path Basketball Book at Zenith Bookstore. Interactive books for kids are more popular than ever. Create your own adventure with the Choose to Win book series — you're the main character and you make the choices. Lisa M. Bolt Simons has written 70 nonfiction and fiction children’s books. including five middle-grade Choose Your Path novels. She has twice received an honorable mention for the McKnight…
Find out more »How the Birds Got Their Songs
Travis Zimmerman and Sam Zimmerman will present their new children's book, How The Birds Got Their Songs. The Great Spirit challenges all the birds to a contest and the gift of birdsong is born. This traditional story, told in both English and Ojibwe, explains bird behavior and where humans should go to hear the prettiest of birdsongs. This story handed down through author Travis Zimmerman's family, features traditional knowledge from the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Grand Portage…
Find out more »Story Time Book Signing with Staci Lola Drouillard
Staci Lola Drouillard is presenting a story-time and book-signing as she debuts her new children's book A Family Tree. Staci Lola Drouillard lives and works in her hometown of Kitchibitobig — Grand Marais. Her first book for adults, Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe, won the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History, the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.
Find out more »Jun 2024
Book Signing with Cheri Johnson
Meet Cheri Johnson who will be at Zenith Bookstore signing copies of her new book Annika Rose. Johnson has won grants and residencies from organizations such as the McKnight Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She studied writing at the University of Minnesota, Hollins University and Augsburg University.
Find out more »Jul 2024
Anton Treuer Presents Where Wolves Don’t Die
Author and Professor of Ojibwe, Dr. Anton Treuer, presents his debut novel for young readers: Where Wolves Don't Die. Joining Dr. Treuer is Duluth author Tashia Hart. Where Wolves Don't Die is both a taut thriller and a raw, tender coming-of-age story, about one Ojibwe boy learning to love himself through the love of his family around him.
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