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Picture of Prairie Post Office: Enlarging the Common Life in Rural North Dakota

Prairie Post Office: Enlarging the Common Life in Rural North Dakota

SAVE OUR POST OFFICE! This was the plea when the USPS determined to restructure or close post offices across the US, including 76 locations in North Dakota. In response, authors Amy Phillips and Steven Bolduc set out to explore the contemporary role of post offices in ND. The Prairie Post Office documents an essential institution and includes a history of northern Dakota Territory & ND rural postal services by Kevin Carvell and 100+ color photos by Wayne Gudmundson.

2018 Bronze Medalist in IPPY Awards for Midwest--Best Regional Nonfiction; 2018 Midwest Book Awards finalist for Social Science/Political/Culture; 2018 Midwest Book Awards finalist for Total Book Design, by Deb Tanner; 2018 North Dakota Documents Award, 1st Place

Paperback

$30.00
Picture of Science and Policy: Interbasin Water Transfer of Aquatic Biota

Science and Policy: Interbasin Water Transfer of Aquatic Biota

This book offers a history of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District and the role of science, in what was largely a politically based problem.

By: Jay Leitch.

$19.95
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Girl on a Float

Girl on a Float is a collection of stories with a shared setting and recurring conflicts, most of which involve civilization and nature in some kind of revealing interaction. Brian Bedard reveals the northern plains experience as it takes shape in a variety of dramatic situations. That experience invariably involves the challenges of living in a wild space, which tests people’s physical strength and their practical wits within a raw and unpredictable climate. In this environment, you simply cannot ignore the natural world as a reminder and a teacher. The wind, for example, won’t let you.
$17.95
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Promise of Water

The Garrison Diversion Project has been a controversial political issue in North Dakota for decades. More than half a billion dollars already have been spent, and a comparable amount is being sought to bring the project to completion. The landscape has been transformed by pumping stations and other large-scale waterworks, along with more than one hundred twenty miles of canals.

By: Wayne Gudmundson and Robert Silberman.

$10.95
Picture of Trouble with Daydreams: Collected and New Poems, The

Trouble with Daydreams: Collected and New Poems, The

An icon of literary culture on the northern plains, Mark Vinz observes the details—be they dreary or delightful—of real life. Through concise language and powerful imagery, he conveys his memories, marked more by the present than the past, with clarity and affection.

Paperback w/French flaps
192 pp
Available now for presales. We will ship out the first week of September

$21.95
Picture of Unwanted Bread

Unwanted Bread

Farmers talk of their frustrations and opportunities in this personal glimpse into rural life today. Readers will discover insights into the expensive, complicated and often emotional business of farming and ranching. "One way to understand what is happening in farming today is to listen to those who are involved in it," write Green and Coomber. That is what they do, and invite their readers to do, in Unwanted Bread. Here is the story of farming and ranching today as told by farmers and ranchers, along with astute commentators who know the country well. Visually striking, thought-provoking photographs accompany the interviews and essays. "If we could sit down with a farmer over coffee and listen to his or her story," Green and Coomber say, "we'd begin to understand the challenge farmers are facing today." So pour yourself some coffee, and help yourself to Unwanted Bread.

By:Sheldon Green and Jim Coomber

$24.95