John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And he falls in love with an historian named Alida Freeman, hard at work on a book about a nineteenth-century Norwegian naturopath, an acquaintance of Lincoln,...

A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

There's a serial killer on the loose leaving behind three murders, two suspects and a lot of unanswered questions. Forced to deal with some high-tech crime busters eager to track down the psycho, and a beautiful crime scene photographer, Jake feels the killer pulling them toward another murder, another suspect, and a very bitter truth....

Forced to move to northern Minnesota from a comfortable life in Minneapolis, a family finds the need to make some big adjustments.

In Uprising, Dean Urdahl has crafted a story about Min­nesota's 'war within a war' in the Minnesota River Valley during the autumn of 1862. His saga is enriched by unfolding . . . on an even broader background beginning with the bloody battle of Shiloh in the spring of 1862 and carrying his main character, Nathan Thomas, from there to Minnesota where he participates in an extraordinary number of adventures during the six-week ethnic earthquake variously...

Pursuit follows both Uprising and Retribution, the previous two books in the Dakota uprising series and... takes us from the hangings in Mankato to the tragic outcome of the attempted genocide of the Dakota people. In this book, the author meticulously follows the course of events of the subsequent wars and expulsions that characterized the most unforgivable chapter in our history and which are still felt with great bitterness by the Dakota descendants......