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Battle Talk: Memoirs of a Marine Radio Correspondent
By: Dick Hill
Format: Paperback, 275 pg. with audio CD
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
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ISBN: 1-59298-155-0

A memoir and battlefield report of a Marine Radio Correspondent during the Korean War. With transcripts and an audio CD of actual radio reports.

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Country Doctor's Casebook
By: Roger A. MacDonald, M.D., Foreword by Roger Welsch
Format: Paperback; 202 pp., 5.5 x 8.25
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-474-2

Tales from the North Woods
A humane and humorous collection of stories chronicling the work of a country doctor practicing in the remote north woods.

Borealis Books

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Country Doctor’s Chronicle
By: Roger A. MacDonald, M.D.
Format: Cloth, 208 pp, 5.75” x 8.5”, appendix
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-509-9

Further Tales from the North Woods
House calls. Flu epidemics. Terminal illnesses. Coroner duties. Fishhook incidents. For more than three decades, Roger A. MacDonald served the people of Minnesota’s north woods as a family practitioner and jack-of-all-trades, even responding to the occasional “barn call” for ailing animals.

Borealis Books

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Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food
By: Susan Marks
Format: Paperback, 274 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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ISBN: 0816650187

A unique look at the culinary and marketing history of America's First Lady of Food.

Betty Crocker

Green Stamps to Hot Pants
By: Genny Zak Kieley
Format: 72 photos, 192 pg, 9.5 x 8.25 in.|
Publisher: Adventure Publications
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ISBN:978-1932472738

Growing up in the '50s and '60s

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Packinghouse Daughter
By: Cheri Register
Format: Cloth, 288 pp., 5 1/2
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-391-6

A Memoir
American Book Award Winner
Minnesota Book Award Winner
Packinghouse Daughter merges personal memoir and public history to tell a compelling story about family loyalty, small-town life, and working-class values in the face of a violent labor strike in 1959. The daughter of a Wilson & Company packinghouse worker, Cheri Register recalls the meatpackers’ strike that devastated and divided her hometown of Albert Lea, Minnesota.

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Polio: An American Story
By: David Oshinsky
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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ISBN 978-0195307146

All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.

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Richfield: Minnesota's Oldest Suburb
By: Frederick L. Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages, 9.5 x 11.25 in.
Publisher: Richfield Historical Society
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9781605856360

An engaging local history with wider appeal due to the community's status as a perfect prototype of a post-World War II American suburb.

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Strange Days, Dangerous Nights
By: Larry Millett
Foreword by John Sandford
Format: Cloth, 224 pp., 11.25” x 11.25”, 220 b&w photos
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-504-8

Photos from the Speed Graphic Era
Fat men's races and fall-out shelters, murder victims and loose women, cheerleaders and immigrants, celebrities and children in distress were just some of the urban curiosities splashed across the pages of city newspapers during the Speed Graphic era (1930s–1950s). Championed by acclaimed news photographers like Arthur Fellig (a.k.a. Weegee), the Speed Graphic camera produced a new visual style that was as blunt, powerful, and immediate as a left hook.

Borealis Books

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Suburban Dawn
By: Frederick L. Johnson with Thomas U. Tutte
Format: Hardcover, 9.5x11 in., 224 pg., 300+ photos, maps and assorted images
Publisher: Richfield Historical Society Press
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The Emergence of Richfield, Edina and Bloomington

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Suburban World
By: Brad Zellar
Format: cloth, 144 pages, 10 x 10, 130 BW photos
Publisher: MHS Press; April 2008
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ISBN 0-87351-609-5

The Norling Photos
An amateur photographer’s astonishing collection of images that showcase the often unexpected psyche of a developing American suburb in the 1950s and ’60s.

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Borealis Books

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What a Card! The Story of Clellan Card
By: Julian West
Format: Paperback, 344 pg., 6x9 in., with DVD
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
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ISBN: 9781592982615

The Story of Clellan Card and "Axel and His Dog"

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