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Friday, February 12
7:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea
by Jane Jeong Trenka
Whenever she speaks to a stranger in her native Korea,
Jane Jeong Trenka is forced to explain what she is.
Japanese? Chinese? The answer—that she was adopted
from Korea as a baby and grew up in the United States—is
a source of grief, pride, and confusion.
In this searching and provocative memoir, Trenka explores a question: Can
she make an adult life for herself in Korea? Despite
numerous setbacks, Trenka resolves to learn the language
and ways of her unfamiliar birth country
Greywolf Press. Paperback. $16.00  |
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Thursday,
February 18
7:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
Wormwood, Nevada
by David Oppegaard
Tyler and Anna Mayfield have just relocated from Nebraska to the sun scorched desert town of Wormwood, Nevada. They find themselves in a strange new landscape populated with old school cowboys, alien cultists, meth dealers, and doomsday prophets. Loneliness and desperation pervade Wormwood, and when a meteorite lands in the center of town, its fragile existence begins to unravel as many believe the end of the world is near, while others simply seek a reason to believe in anything at all.
St. Martin's Press.
Hardcover.
$24.99 |
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Christmas Festival Event
Thursday, December 3
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
A Hard-Water World:
Ice Fishing and Why We Do It
by Layne Kennedy and Greg Breining
Kennedy and Breining take readers to fun-filled
if bizarre festivals that include "Guys
on Ice" in Door County, Wisconsin, the
Tip-Up Town USA festival on Michigan's Houghton
Lake, and the supremely self-mocking International
Eelpout Festival on Minnesota's Leech Lake,
which honors a slimy, potbellied, finny critter.
Photos offer peeks inside ice houses that
range from a plastic-bag cocoon to an impossibly
luxurious Adirondacks ice residence with
front porch and wet bar. Travel to a frozen
lake in the Boundary Waters, to ice cities
that form and disband overnight, and to the
Volga River near Moscow, shadowed by the
KGB.
Minnesota Historical Society Press. Hardcover.
$24.95 |
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Christmas Festival Event
Friday, December 4
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Wildflowers of the
Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons
by Betty Vos Hemstad
Arranged by season and including helpful "as
seen while hiking" views, this guidebook
opens up a world of natural beauty for wildflower
watchers in northern climes.
Minnesota Historical Society Press. Paperback.
$22.95 |
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Christmas Festival Event
Friday, December 4
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Gift of an Ordinary
Day: A Mother's Memoir
by Katrina Kenison
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an
intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys
becoming teenagers, careers ending and new
ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper
sense of place, and a slower pace, in a small
New England town. It is a story of mid-life
longings and discoveries, of lessons learned
in the search for home and a new sense of
purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of
life with teenagers—holding on, letting
go.
Springboard Press. Hardcover.
$23.99 |
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Christmas Festival Event
Saturday, December 5
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Bring Warm Clothes:
Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past
by Peg Meier
This is a celebration of the everyday lives
of Minnesotans through the centuries – those
who paused here on their way to someplace
else and those who made the state their home.
Minnesota Historical Society Press. Paperback.
$29.95 |
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Christmas Festival Event
Sunday, December 6
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Best Casserole
Cookbook Ever: With More Than 500 Recipes!
by Beatrice Ojakangas
A good cook once said that a casserole is
a blend of inspiration and what's on hand.
Beatrice Ojakangas must have had inspiration
by the gallon to come up with these 500 casseroles.
From a breakfast of Eggs Florentine to a
dinner of Pork Chops with Apple Stuffing,
soon even the most casserole-wary cook will
be dishing about these delights.
Chronicle Books. Paperback.
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Petite
Sweets: Bite-Size Desserts to Satisfy Every
Sweet Tooth
by Beatrice Ojakangas
From a shot glass of velvety chocolate mousse
to an itty-bitty key lime pie, these miniature
delights are each a mouthful of pure pleasure.
Indulge in one of the hottest food trends around
and make these simple but decadent desserts at
home. Whether you're craving just a bite of something
sweet at the end of a meal, or you wish to sample
several sweets as a grand finale, these recipes
for luscious desserts- prepared in bite-size
portions- are perfectly satisfying every time.
Sellers Publishing. Hardcover.
$18.95 |
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Friday, September 25 through Sunday, September
27
Visit the Bookstore during special hours:
Friday, September 25: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 26: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 27: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Attend our Author Events
on Saturday, September 26 from 11:00 a.m.
to 1:00 p.m.
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Thy
Father's Will
by Kirsten Jacobson Stasney
Joseph Marvick is a respected leader in the Norwegian
community of Story City, Iowa. He controls the
lives of his children, who love, honor, and obey
him, trusting he will ensure their prosperity,
health, and happiness. Based on true events that
occurred between 1907 and 1918, Thy Father’s
Will is a heartbreaking story of family love,
control, and guilt, of the damaging consequences
of decisions made for all the right reasons.
Kirk House Publishers. Paperback. $18.00 |
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The
Nearly Departed: Minnesota Ghost Stories
and Legends
by Michael Norman
Everyone loves a good ghost story. Veteran ghost
hunter Michael Norman has uncovered almost three
dozen stories of legitimate Minnesota eeriness
to thrill readers. Beware: these stories do not
have conclusive endings, since they remain mysteries
to this day, but perhaps that’s best. An
ending would just take the fun out of it.
Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Paperback. $16.95 |
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The
Biography of a Building: The Personalities
of 2615 Park Avenue
by Mary Jo Thorsheim, Class of ‘59
In 1929, two Swedish-American immigrants undertook
the imposing task of constructing an elegant
apartment-hotel in Minneapolis. Apartment hotels
were already a popular residential arrangement,
but few could compete with 2615 Park for style
and service. Here is the story of its construction,
its neighborhood, its famous residents, and its
continuing legacy of gracious urban living.
Park Press. Paperback. $16.00 |
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Thursday, September 17
7:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
Buntrock Commons
From the Bottom Up:
One Man’s Crusade to Clean America’s
Rivers
by Chad Pregracke
Part Huckleberry Finn, part Pied Piper, this
genuine, modern-day folk hero began his passionate
journey while still in high school, when
he first saw the trash that littered the
bottom of his beloved river. Thus began his
quest, from the bottom up, to seek help to
clean up the Mississippi river. Ten years
later, Chad Pregracke’s one-man project
has grown into a nationwide operation with
more than 60 sponsors.
National Geographic Society. Hardcover.
$26.00 |
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Thursday, September 17
7:00 p.m.
Regents Hall, Room 150
Judging Lincoln
by Frank J. Williams
Judging Lincoln collects nine of the
most insightful essays on the topic of the
sixteenth president written by Frank J. Williams,
chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme
Court and one of the nation’s leading
authorities on Abraham Lincoln. Williams
is the founding chairman of the Lincoln Forum,
the current president of the Ulysses S. Grant
Association, and a past president of the
Abraham Lincoln Association and of the Lincoln
Group of Boston.
Southern Illinois University Press.
Paperback. $17.95 |
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Lincoln
Lessons: Reflections on America’s
Greatest Leader
edited by Frank J. Williams
In Lincoln Lessons, seventeen of today’s
most respected academics, historians, lawyers,
and politicians provide candid reflections on
the importance of Abraham Lincoln in their intellectual
lives. Their essays, gathered by editors Frank
J. Williams and William D. Pederson, shed new
light on this political icon’s remarkable
ability to lead and inspire two hundred years
after his birth.
Southern Illinois University Press.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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The
Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views
by Frank J. Williams
In Lincoln Lessons, seventeen of today’s
most respected academics, historians, lawyers,
and politicians provide candid reflections on
the importance of Abraham Lincoln in their intellectual
lives. Their essays, gathered by editors Frank
J. Williams and William D. Pederson, shed new
light on this political icon’s remarkable
ability to lead and inspire two hundred years
after his birth.
Louisiana State University Press.
Hardcover. $29.95 |
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Wednesday, September 9
7:00 p.m.
Northfield Public Library Meeting Room
Wasted: A Memoir
of Anorexia and Bulimia
by Marya Hornbacher
Why would a talented young woman enter into
a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex,
and death? Through five lengthy hospital
stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family,
friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means
to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher
lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia — until
a particularly horrifying bout with the disease
in college put the romance of wasting away
to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally
wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story
of one woman's travels to reality's darker
side — and her decision to find her
way back on her own terms.
Harper Perennial. Paperback. $13.99 |
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Madness:
A Bipolar Life
by Marya Hornbacher
When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted:
A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did
not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge
that would finally make sense of the chaos of
her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was
diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the
most severe form of bipolar disorder. Madness delivers
the revelation that Hornbacher is not alone:
millions of people in America today are struggling
with a variety of disorders that may disguise
their bipolar disease. And Hornbacher's fiercely
self-aware portrait of her own bipolar as early
as age four will powerfully change, too, the
current debate on whether bipolar in children
actually exists.
Mariner Books. Paperback. $14.95 |
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The
Center of Winter
by Marya Hornbacher
The luminous first novel by Marya Hornbacher,
the acclaimed author of Wasted: A Memoir of
Anorexia and Bulimia, is a moving and passionate
story of a death from despair — and a stricken
family's passage through grief toward the hope,
solace, and understanding that waits for them
somewhere beyond the center of winter.
Harper Perennial. Paperback. $14.99 |
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Saturday, May 23
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Buntrock Commons
Join a variety of alumni authors as they
sign their books during Reunion Weekend. Copies
of the authors’ books will be available
at the event as well as prior to the event
in the Bookstore.
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Yellowrocket
by Todd Boss
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention,
with poems in the Paris Review and The
New Yorker and a series in Poetry.
His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately
features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking
storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage
that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these
lines.
W. W. Norton & Co. Hardcover. $23.95
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Thanksgiving Dawn
by John Graber
Written over four decades, this Iowa Writers
Workshop graduate, shows, poem by poem, what
it is like to be transformed by writing, great
teachers, and Christ. A student of the great
poetry teachers of our time: Richard Hugo, Marvin
Bell, Donald Justice and William Stafford, Graber
brought his Christ with him to Iowa, and let
everything work its way into his own journey
as a Christian pilgrim.
Blue Begonia Press. Paperback. $25.00
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A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany
of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of
the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100
by Eric Hanson
The day we turn any age, we become contemporaries
of everyone who has ever been that age, and it
becomes our business to know that Bob Dylan wrote “Blowin’ in
the Wind” when he was twenty, Winston Churchill
was fired from the Admiralty when he was forty
and took up painting, and Jane Austen died, unmarried
and mostly unknown, when she was forty-one. A
witty, ironic collection of moments from famous
lives organized by year of age from infancy to
death, A Book of Ages tells you who is
doing what, who is on top of the world, who is
waiting for his luck to change, who is saying
unkind things about whom, who is planning his
revenge, who is meeting for the first time, and
who Elizabeth Taylor is currently divorcing.
Harmony Press. Hardcover. $19.95
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Keep the Bathwater: Emergence of the Sacred
in Science & Religion
by Edwin E. Olson, Ph.D.
The goal of this book is to raise our collective
awareness of the emerging consensus of hope about
the sacredness of the origin and connectivity
of everything on the planet. By increasing
our knowledge and skill for relating to the sacred
that is in us and everywhere around us we can
rethink our purpose on earth, our care-taking
of the planet, and our treatment of our fellow
humans and other living things.
Island Sounds Press. Paperback. $19.95
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Scandinavian-American Folk Tales and Fish
Stories
by Kristoffer Paulson
The stories in this book were originally told
to Kris Paulson’s children. “Rather
than reading a story, some times I found it much
better and perhaps even easier and certainly
more satisfying to tell them my own stories.”
Mophouse Publishing. Paperback. $16.95
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Life Like Winter Wheat: The Emergence of
Wonder, Joy and Praise
by Ruth J. Reinertson Paulson
These glimpses of God's presence shaping our
lives, in the face of our doubts, pride, guilt,
and lack of hope, together with glimpses of the
author's family draw us back to reading and rereading,
finding God's peace!
PublishAmerica. Paperback. $16.95
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Emma's Question
by Catherine Urdahl
Emma, a kindergartner, is afraid to ask her parents
if her grandmother is going to die. Geared toward
young children, the story uses gentle humor and
simple explanations to describe what is happening
to Grandma in the hospital. Funny, sweet illustrations
show the depth and closeness of Emma and Grandmas
relationship.
Charlesbridge Publishing. Paperback. $7.95
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Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking
Through the Seasons
by Betty Vos Hemstad
Arranged by season and including helpful "as
seen while hiking" views, this guidebook
opens up a world of natural beauty for wildflower
watchers in northern climes.
Minnesota Historical Society Press. Paperback.
$22.95
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Recipes for Change 2009: A St. Olaf Community
Cookbook
by the Wendell Berry House
This community cookbook which grew out of an
independent study called Ethics of Eating is
an attempt to show that participation in a healthy
food culture extends far beyond the food on our
plates. The book includes recipes supplied
by St. Olaf faculty, staff and students as well
as essays relating to a healthy food culture.
Spiral Bound. $5.00
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Friday, May 22
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Buntrock Commons
Join faculty authors Tim Howe and Charles
Taliaferro as they sign their books during
Reunion Weekend. Copies of the authors’ books
will be available at the event as well as prior
to the event in the Bookstore.
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Macedonian Legacies: Studies in Ancient
Macedonian History and Culture in Honor of
Eugene N. Borza
edited by Tim Howe and Jeanne Reames
This new volume is a justified addition to library
shelves, not only because it celebrates one of
the foremost scholars in the field, but also
for the strides in new research offered here
in Gene Borza’s honor. This volume’s
contributors include some of the most distinguished
names currently involved in Macedonian scholarship
and related areas of ancient history. The range
of papers is impressive—in areas, in disciplines,
and in foci. What is particularly exciting
about these papers is how they often combine
academic disciplines in fruitful ways to shine
new light on old questions.
Regina Books. Paperback. $24.95
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Pastoral
Politics: Animals, Agriculture and Society
in Ancient Greece
by Tim Howe
This volume focuses on the interdependencies
between land use, animals, agriculture and politics
in ancient Greece. In keeping with the goals
of the series, the book provides an overview
of the interactions between animals, land and
agriculture to ancient historians who had little
or no knowledge of the subject. This book study
justifies why ancient historians should care
about animals and agriculture.
Regina Books. Paperback. $19.95 |
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Dialogues About God (New Dialogues
in Philosophy)
by Charles Taliaferro
Charles Taliaferro, a leading philosopher of
religion, presents several fictional dialogues
among characters with contrasting views on the
existence of God, including theism, atheism,
skepticism, and other nuanced arguments about
the nature of God. In a series of five inspired,
original debates, Taliaferro taps into several
famous exchanges, including those among Antony
Flew, Basil Mitchell and R. M. Hare; between
Frederick Copleston and Bertrand Russell; and
between Copleston and A. J. Ayer.
Rowman & Littlefield. Paperback. $16.95
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Philosophy
of Religion
by Charles Taliaferro
Why does evil exist? Could God could create a
stone he couldn't lift? Does the wonder of life
imply a creator? Philosophy of religion is concerned
with such questions. Taliaferro provides a clear
exploration of the discipline, covering the topics
of morality and religion, evil, the afterlife,
prayer, and miracles. Also containing a section
dedicated to Hinduism, Buddhism and the Eastern
religions, this helpful primer is the perfect
resource for students or the general reader.
Oneworld Publications. Paperback. $14.95 |
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One Couple's Gift
by Steve Swanson and Steve Sheppard
Steve Swanson’s latest book peeks into
the lives of Harold and Louise Nielsen, two seemingly
ordinary people and a company called Foldcraft. Harold
Nielson takes his financial success and sells
the company to the employees. The funds were
used to start the Winds of Peace Foundation which
serves the underprivileged around the world,
focusing on women and children. This is
a story of their extraordinary vision of a just
and peaceable world.
Nine Ten Press. Paperback. $9.95
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Wednesday, April 15
7:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
The Suicide Collectors
by David Oppegaard
St. Olaf alum David Oppegaard describes his
first novel as a blend of speculative horror
and literary fiction. The Despair has plagued
the earth for five years. Most of the world's
population has inexplicably died by its own
hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain
alive. A Florida man named Norman takes an
unprecedented stand against the Collectors,
a group energized by gathering corpses, and
then begins to journey westward where it's
rumored a scientist in Seattle is working
on a cure for the Despair. In a world ruled
by death, it won't be easy to get there.
St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. $23.95 |
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Poetry Reading:
Wednesday, April 8
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
Film Lecture:
Wednesday, April 8
7:30 p.m.
Viking Theater
Descartes' Nightmare
by Susan McCabe
Descartes’ Nightmare explores
the apparently irreconcilable split between
body and mind by dissecting nightmares. The
poems collected here do not revolve around
Descartes but project a speaker, “a
nightmarist by trade,” compelled to
collect the nightmares of others and to consider
the way the nervous system functions in the
modern age.
University of Utah Press.
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Cinematic
Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film
by Susan McCabe
Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American
modernist poets with the techniques and themes
of early twentieth-century European avant-garde
films. The historical experience of World War
One and its aftermath of broken and shocked bodies
shaped a preoccupation with fragmentation in
both film and literature. Film, montage and camera
work provided poets with a vocabulary through
which to explore and refashion modern physical
and metaphoric categories of the body, including
the hysteric, automaton, bisexual and femme fatale.
This innovative study explores the impact of
new cinematic modes of representation on the
poetry of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams,
H. D., and Marianne Moore. Cinematic Modernism
links the study of literary forms with film studies,
visual culture, gender studies and psychoanalysis
to expand the usual parameters of literary modernism.
Cambridge University Press.
Hardcover. $92.00 |
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Thursday, March 19
5:00 p.m.
Black & Gold Ballroom
Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
The Unlikely Celebrity:
Bill Sackter's Triumph over Disability
by Tom Walz
Thomas Walz tells the story of Bill Sackter,
a man who spent nearly half a century in
a Minnesota mental institution and emerged
to blossom into a most unlikely celebrity.
Bill Sackter was committed to the Faribault
State Hospital at the age of seven, there
to remain until he was in his fifties. At
the time of his commitment, Bill’s
father had recently died; thus his sole contact
with his family came through rare letters
from his mother. Through vignettes ranging
from hilarious to near tragic. Walz reveals
a remarkable human being.
Southern Illinois University Press.
Paperback. $19.95 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Paper Pavilion
by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
"Dobbs is an astonishing poet. The poetry
in Paper Pavilion is by turns lyric
and incisive, operatic and sweeping. There
is a resonant passion that fills every page.
With this heartbreaking and exhilarating
debut, Dobbs has established herself as one
of the most compelling and important poets
of her generation." - David St. John
Paper Pavilion captures the theme of
transnational adoption and a powerful search
for a personal history and identity from Korea
to America.
White Pine Press. Paperback. $15.00 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Dancer with Good
Sow
by Diane LeBlanc
Diane LeBlanc’s second poetry chapbook,
written as part of Finishing Line Press’ New
Women’s Voices series, is all about
navigating. Navigating through shifting family
relationships, through reality and dream,
myth and parable and finally, through love.
Finishing Line Press. Paperback. $14.00 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Thanksgiving Dawn
by John Graber
Written over four decades, this Iowa Writers
Workshop graduate, shows, poem by poem, what
it is like to be transformed by writing,
great teachers, and Christ. A student of
the great poetry teachers of our time: Richard
Hugo, Marvin Bell, Donald Justice and William
Stafford, Graber brought his Christ with
him to Iowa, and let everything work its
way into his own journey as a Christian pilgrim.
Blue Begonia Press. Paperback. $25.00 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Yellowrocket
by Todd Boss
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting
attention, with poems in the Paris Review and The
New Yorker and a series in Poetry.
His first collection, set in the Midwest,
alternately features a childhood Wisconsin
farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed
it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls
it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines.
W. W. Norton & Co. Hardcover. $23.95 |
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Wednesday, March 11
7:30 p.m.
Boe Memorial Chapel
St. Olaf College
The Osama bin Laden
I Know:
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
by Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen offers an astounding, unparalleled
portrait of Osama bin Laden, comprised of
Bergen's own interviews with more than fifty
people who have known bin Laden personally,
from his brother-in-law to his high school
English teacher to former members of al Qaeda.
The resulting collage of voices and memories
affords an unprecedented glimpse into the
life and true nature of the man directly
responsible for the largest terror attack
in history. This definitive and engaging
portrait gives the American public its first
true, enduring insight into a man who has
declared us his greatest enemy.
Simon & Schuster. Paperback. $15.00 |
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Nobel Peace Prize Forum
Saturday, March 7
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Crossroads, Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
Planetwalker: 22
Years of Walking, 17 Years of Silence
by John Francis
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds
and restore blackened beaches left him feeling
frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided
to take a more fundamental and personal stand—he
stopped using all forms of motorized transportation.
Soon after embarking on this quest that would
span two decades and two continents, the
young man took a vow of silence that endured
for 17 years. Through his silence and walking,
he learned to listen, and along the way,
earned college and graduate degrees in science
and environmental studies.
National Geographic Society. Hardcover.
$26.00 |
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Nobel Peace Prize Forum
Friday, March 6
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Crossroads, Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
Hope for a Heated
Planet
by Robert Musil
Rejecting cries of gloom and doom, Hope
for a Heated Planet shows how the fight
against global warming can be won by the
grassroots efforts of individuals. Robert
K. Musil, who led the Nobel Peace Prize–winning
organization Physicians for Social Responsibility,
explains that a growing new climate movement
can produce unprecedented change—in
the economy, public health, and home—while
saving the planet.
Rutgers University Press. Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Tuesday, February 17
7:00 p.m.
Mane Stage
Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
Nobodies: Modern
American Slave Labor and the Dark Side
of the New Global Economy
by John Bowe
Most Americans are shocked to discover that
slavery still exists in the United States.
Yet 145 years after the Emancipation Proclamation,
the CIA estimates that 14,500 to17,000 foreigners
are “trafficked” annually into
the United States, threatened with violence,
and forced to work against their will. Modern
people unanimously agree that slavery is
abhorrent. How, then, can it be making a
reappearance on American soil? In this eye-opening
book, set against the everyday American landscape
of shopping malls, outlet stores, and Happy
Meals, Bowe reveals how humankind’s
darker urges remain alive and well, lingering
in the background of every transaction–and
what we can do to overcome them.
Random House. Paperback. $15.00 |
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