Onesie-Twosie Sale
September 2 to 5

It’s the end of the summer, and we’re ready to fill our shelves with new non-book merchandise for fall. But first, we need to empty those shelves! Items we have in small quantities will be on sale Labor Day weekend. Check them out! You’ll find some great bargains!

Long before there was a Duluth, Minnesota, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to this place, the Point of Rocks. Against this backdrop—Misaabekong, the place of the giants—the lives chronicled in Linda LeGarde Grover’s book unfold, some in myth, some in long-ago times, some in an imagined present, and some in the author’s family history, all with a deep and tenacious bond to the land, one another, and the Ojibwe culture.

Within the larger history, Grover tells the story of her ancestors’ arrival at the American Fur Post in far western Duluth more than two hundred years ago. Their fortunes and the family’s future are inextricably entwined with tales of marriages to voyageurs, relocations to reservation lands, encounters with the spirits of the lake and wood creatures, the renewal of life—in myth and in art, the search for meaning in the transformations of our day is always vital. Finally, in one man’s struggles, age-old tribulations, the intergenerational traumas of extended families and communities, and a uniquely Ojibwe appreciation for the natural and spiritual worlds converge, forging the Ojibwe worldview and will to survive as his legacy to his descendants.

Join us to visit with Linda and learn more about the history of her people. We’ll also have copies of her other books available. AND, her publisher is sending a door prize! It’s a copy of The Sky Watched.

This book of Linda’s poetry will be reissued on October 25, but you can register to win it this month!

Terry Smith
September 13, 1:00 to 3:00

Terry Smith—and Beagle and Wolf—will be at the Armory for Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning.

Smith will be the program, sharing highlights of his 37-year career in law enforcement. He is the author of the book Code 4, and we’ll be selling copies. (The book is also available in the store.)

Fall Theological Conference
September 20, 6:00

The Northwest Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Church in America is holding a Fall Theological Conference at the Shooting Star Events Center in Mahnomen. The event will center on the book Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization

The authors of the book, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers, will be the keynote speakers for the event, and will be at Beagle and Wolf afterwards for a signing.

Their book is part memoir, part social, historical, and theological analysis, and part practical workbook. It invites Christians (and other people of faith) into a discipleship of decolonization. How are our histories, landscapes, and communities haunted by continuing Indigenous dispossession? How do we transform our colonizing self-perceptions, lifeways, and structures? And how might we practice restorative solidarity with Indigenous communities today?

Art Leap
September 24 and 25

Art Leap is an open studio event that will offer 24 sites and feature more than 90 artists at studios and other locations in Hubbard and Becker counties. Sites will be open from 10:00 to 5:00 Saturday and 11:00 to 5:00 Sunday.

Hop from studio to studio, learn process, appreciate skill, and support the artists. Let fall’s natural beauty inspire you, as it does the artists, as you pass lakes and travel country roads. 

View or download the Event Guide for the 2022 Art Leap.

Moving Words: Writers Across Minnesota
September 29, 7:00

Join us at the Armory for a lively discussion with three multi-genre, Minnesota Book Award-winning authors. It will be an opportunity for writers and readers to explore the impact of literature in their lives, their connection as fellow Minnesotans, and the lens through which we read.

We’ll have books by all three authors to purchase.

Peter Geye
October 1, 5:00

We are thrilled to welcome our friend Peter Geye back to Park Rapids! His latest book, The Ski Jumpers, will be released September 13. On October 1, we’ll be next door at Bella Caffe’ for a reading and signing. We’ll have Peter’s earlier books as well.

See Lee’s review of The Ski Jumpers below.

Peter's books include:

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