Jun 2022
Staci Lola Drouillard “Seven Aunts” Book Launch
Staci Lola Drouillard launches her new book, Seven Aunts. A descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe, Drouillard lives and works in her hometown of Grand Marais. Her first book, Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe, won the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History and the Northeast Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. About Seven Aunts: They were German and…
Find out more »Oct 2022
Book Signing: John Owens
John Owens is the Minnesota author of the new children's book One Winter Up North, a wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. A wintery adventure unfolds in pictures and gives readers a chance to discover—or rediscover—another season full of wonder in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. He is also a freelance illustrator and teaches at the University of Minnesota and is the author of One Summer Up North.
Find out more »Peter Geye and The Ski Jumpers
Minnesota author Peter Geye visits Drury Lane Books as part of his fall book tour for his newest novel, The Ski Jumpers. Geye discusses, reads his book, and answers audience questions. A signing follows the presentation. For more information, visit drurylanebooks.indielite.org. About the book: A brilliant ski jumper has to be fearless—Jon Bargaard remembers this well. His memories of daring leaps and risks might be the key to the book he’s always wanted to write: a novel about his family,…
Find out more »Mar 2023
Timothy Cochrane Book Talk
Following its release, Minnesota author Timothy Cochrane will be discussing his new book, Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater. Making the Carry is an illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating their homeland along the U.S.–Canada border in the early twentieth century. Cochrane will discuss and read from the book, as well as answer audience questions. A signing will follow the presentation. Making the Carry is set to release on Mar. 7, 2023,…
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Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response Book Talk
Minneapolis Fire Captain and EMT Jeremy Norton will be discussing his new memoir, Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response. In this remarkable memoir, Norton captures in arresting detail the personal and social toll that twenty-two years on the job exacts, as well as the unique perspective afforded by sustained direct encounters with the sick, the dying and the dead. Norton's stories range widely across his experience ranging from his early EMT training to his role as…
Find out more »Feb 2024
Cary J. Griffith Presents Gunflint Falling
Cary J. Griffith will be speaking about his new book, Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters, published with the University of Minnesota Press. Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields and emerald waters of Eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota. His books explore the natural world. In nonfiction,…
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