Help us welcome to the Stories at the Station series Sally Franson, Swedish-reality TV star and award-winning author to share with us her two hilarious novels: Big in Sweden and A Lady's Guide to Selling Out. This event is not to be missed - Sally's work is heartwarming, charming, and funny in that uniquely Swedish-Minnesotan way. […]
Jezebel. We know the word, but not the woman who wore the name long before it was an epithet. Now, we'll learn her story, told in the style of Madeline Miller's Circe, as a triumphant feminist warcry for a queen who deserved more than history gave her. About the Book With a bold voice reminiscent of […]
Join me and Katie as we revisit one of our all-time favorites. This book makes me buy everything that V.E. Schwab writes, sight unseen. It's perfect and beautiful and heartbreaking and everything you could want in a novel. About the Book France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian […]
Jimmy leads our quarterly Nonfiction book club with a meeting about Autocracy, Inc. Fair warning, this one hits a little close to home. About the Book From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat […]
Join us Saturday, August 2 to welcome award-winning local author Heather Texle as she continues her launch tour for On Impact, the second book in the Reliance Sinclair series. This is an adrenaline-fueled science-fiction-espionage-thriller-police-drama-murder-mystery series about a young woman navigating the underbelly of interplanetary human civilization. Think The Expanse meets Honor Harrington with a heavy […]
Winner of the 2025 Minnesota Book Award in the Novel and Short Story category, Obligations to the Wounded is an extraordinary collection of stories about Zambian women, all of whom are adjusting to circumstances far outside of their control, either in the United States or in Kalimamukwento’s birth nation of Zambia. “While providing a […]
Charlie Brown first met his best friend, Snoopy in the August 10, 1950 edition of the Peanuts daily comic strip, brought to life by St. Paul’s own Charles Schultz. To celebrate 75 years of Snoopy, we’ll be having a little party at the store for ol’ Snoopy, with cake, dancing, entertainment, and (of course) […]
We didn’t even need to see the Essentials List before we knew that we’d be reading this one. Join us to discuss this all-timer, and share the story with the whole family with our collection of Huckleberry Finn adaptations suitable for readers of all ages!
The short description is "A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons". 10/10 Perfect. No notes. It's a book about rage, memory, and violently enforced limitations where women are forced to stay small - crushed and crushed until the pressure causes them to explode into the […]
We're all familiar with the story of American desegration in the South, but many fewer of us are as familiar with what desegration looked like in relatively "progressive" places like Boston. Hint: it wasn't good. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is […]
