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Saturday, May 23
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Buntrock Commons
Join a variety of alumni authors as they
sign their books during Reunion Weekend. Copies
of the authors’ books will be available
at the event as well as prior to the event
in the Bookstore.
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Yellowrocket
by Todd Boss
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention,
with poems in the Paris Review and The
New Yorker and a series in Poetry.
His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately
features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking
storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage
that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these
lines.
W. W. Norton & Co. Hardcover. $23.95 
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Thanksgiving Dawn
by John Graber
Written over four decades, this Iowa Writers
Workshop graduate, shows, poem by poem, what
it is like to be transformed by writing, great
teachers, and Christ. A student of the great
poetry teachers of our time: Richard Hugo, Marvin
Bell, Donald Justice and William Stafford, Graber
brought his Christ with him to Iowa, and let
everything work its way into his own journey
as a Christian pilgrim.
Blue Begonia Press. Paperback. $25.00
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A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany
of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of
the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100
by Eric Hanson
The day we turn any age, we become contemporaries
of everyone who has ever been that age, and it
becomes our business to know that Bob Dylan wrote “Blowin’ in
the Wind” when he was twenty, Winston Churchill
was fired from the Admiralty when he was forty
and took up painting, and Jane Austen died, unmarried
and mostly unknown, when she was forty-one. A
witty, ironic collection of moments from famous
lives organized by year of age from infancy to
death, A Book of Ages tells you who is
doing what, who is on top of the world, who is
waiting for his luck to change, who is saying
unkind things about whom, who is planning his
revenge, who is meeting for the first time, and
who Elizabeth Taylor is currently divorcing.
Harmony Press. Hardcover. $19.95
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Keep the Bathwater: Emergence of the Sacred
in Science & Religion
by Edwin E. Olson, Ph.D.
The goal of this book is to raise our collective
awareness of the emerging consensus of hope about
the sacredness of the origin and connectivity
of everything on the planet. By increasing
our knowledge and skill for relating to the sacred
that is in us and everywhere around us we can
rethink our purpose on earth, our care-taking
of the planet, and our treatment of our fellow
humans and other living things.
Island Sounds Press. Paperback. $19.95
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Scandinavian-American Folk Tales and Fish
Stories
by Kristoffer Paulson
The stories in this book were originally told
to Kris Paulson’s children. “Rather
than reading a story, some times I found it much
better and perhaps even easier and certainly
more satisfying to tell them my own stories.”
Mophouse Publishing. Paperback. $16.95
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Life Like Winter Wheat: The Emergence of
Wonder, Joy and Praise
by Ruth J. Reinertson Paulson
These glimpses of God's presence shaping our
lives, in the face of our doubts, pride, guilt,
and lack of hope, together with glimpses of the
author's family draw us back to reading and rereading,
finding God's peace!
PublishAmerica. Paperback. $16.95
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Emma's Question
by Catherine Urdahl
Emma, a kindergartner, is afraid to ask her parents
if her grandmother is going to die. Geared toward
young children, the story uses gentle humor and
simple explanations to describe what is happening
to Grandma in the hospital. Funny, sweet illustrations
show the depth and closeness of Emma and Grandmas
relationship.
Charlesbridge Publishing. Paperback. $7.95
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Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking
Through the Seasons
by Betty Vos Hemstad
Arranged by season and including helpful "as
seen while hiking" views, this guidebook
opens up a world of natural beauty for wildflower
watchers in northern climes.
Minnesota Historical Society Press. Paperback.
$22.95
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Recipes for Change 2009: A St. Olaf Community
Cookbook
by the Wendell Berry House
This community cookbook which grew out of an
independent study called Ethics of Eating is
an attempt to show that participation in a healthy
food culture extends far beyond the food on our
plates. The book includes recipes supplied
by St. Olaf faculty, staff and students as well
as essays relating to a healthy food culture.
Spiral Bound. $5.00
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Friday, May 22
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Buntrock Commons
Join faculty authors Tim Howe and Charles
Taliaferro as they sign their books during
Reunion Weekend. Copies of the authors’ books
will be available at the event as well as prior
to the event in the Bookstore.
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Macedonian Legacies: Studies in Ancient
Macedonian History and Culture in Honor of
Eugene N. Borza
edited by Tim Howe and Jeanne Reames
This new volume is a justified addition to library
shelves, not only because it celebrates one of
the foremost scholars in the field, but also
for the strides in new research offered here
in Gene Borza’s honor. This volume’s
contributors include some of the most distinguished
names currently involved in Macedonian scholarship
and related areas of ancient history. The range
of papers is impressive—in areas, in disciplines,
and in foci. What is particularly exciting
about these papers is how they often combine
academic disciplines in fruitful ways to shine
new light on old questions.
Regina Books. Paperback. $24.95
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Pastoral
Politics: Animals, Agriculture and Society
in Ancient Greece
by Tim Howe
This volume focuses on the interdependencies
between land use, animals, agriculture and politics
in ancient Greece. In keeping with the goals
of the series, the book provides an overview
of the interactions between animals, land and
agriculture to ancient historians who had little
or no knowledge of the subject. This book study
justifies why ancient historians should care
about animals and agriculture.
Regina Books. Paperback. $19.95 |
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Dialogues About God (New Dialogues
in Philosophy)
by Charles Taliaferro
Charles Taliaferro, a leading philosopher of
religion, presents several fictional dialogues
among characters with contrasting views on the
existence of God, including theism, atheism,
skepticism, and other nuanced arguments about
the nature of God. In a series of five inspired,
original debates, Taliaferro taps into several
famous exchanges, including those among Antony
Flew, Basil Mitchell and R. M. Hare; between
Frederick Copleston and Bertrand Russell; and
between Copleston and A. J. Ayer.
Rowman & Littlefield. Paperback. $16.95
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Philosophy
of Religion
by Charles Taliaferro
Why does evil exist? Could God could create a
stone he couldn't lift? Does the wonder of life
imply a creator? Philosophy of religion is concerned
with such questions. Taliaferro provides a clear
exploration of the discipline, covering the topics
of morality and religion, evil, the afterlife,
prayer, and miracles. Also containing a section
dedicated to Hinduism, Buddhism and the Eastern
religions, this helpful primer is the perfect
resource for students or the general reader.
Oneworld Publications. Paperback. $14.95 |
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One Couple's Gift
by Steve Swanson and Steve Sheppard
Steve Swanson’s latest book peeks into
the lives of Harold and Louise Nielsen, two seemingly
ordinary people and a company called Foldcraft. Harold
Nielson takes his financial success and sells
the company to the employees. The funds were
used to start the Winds of Peace Foundation which
serves the underprivileged around the world,
focusing on women and children. This is
a story of their extraordinary vision of a just
and peaceable world.
Nine Ten Press. Paperback. $9.95
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Wednesday, April 15
7:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
The Suicide Collectors
by David Oppegaard
St. Olaf alum David Oppegaard describes his
first novel as a blend of speculative horror
and literary fiction. The Despair has plagued
the earth for five years. Most of the world's
population has inexplicably died by its own
hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain
alive. A Florida man named Norman takes an
unprecedented stand against the Collectors,
a group energized by gathering corpses, and
then begins to journey westward where it's
rumored a scientist in Seattle is working
on a cure for the Despair. In a world ruled
by death, it won't be easy to get there.
St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. $23.95 |
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Poetry Reading:
Wednesday, April 8
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
Film Lecture:
Wednesday, April 8
7:30 p.m.
Viking Theater
Descartes' Nightmare
by Susan McCabe
Descartes’ Nightmare explores
the apparently irreconcilable split between
body and mind by dissecting nightmares. The
poems collected here do not revolve around
Descartes but project a speaker, “a
nightmarist by trade,” compelled to
collect the nightmares of others and to consider
the way the nervous system functions in the
modern age.
University of Utah Press.
Paperback. $12.95 |
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Cinematic
Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film
by Susan McCabe
Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American
modernist poets with the techniques and themes
of early twentieth-century European avant-garde
films. The historical experience of World War
One and its aftermath of broken and shocked bodies
shaped a preoccupation with fragmentation in
both film and literature. Film, montage and camera
work provided poets with a vocabulary through
which to explore and refashion modern physical
and metaphoric categories of the body, including
the hysteric, automaton, bisexual and femme fatale.
This innovative study explores the impact of
new cinematic modes of representation on the
poetry of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams,
H. D., and Marianne Moore. Cinematic Modernism
links the study of literary forms with film studies,
visual culture, gender studies and psychoanalysis
to expand the usual parameters of literary modernism.
Cambridge University Press.
Hardcover. $92.00 |
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Thursday, March 19
5:00 p.m.
Black & Gold Ballroom
Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
The Unlikely Celebrity:
Bill Sackter's Triumph over Disability
by Tom Walz
Thomas Walz tells the story of Bill Sackter,
a man who spent nearly half a century in
a Minnesota mental institution and emerged
to blossom into a most unlikely celebrity.
Bill Sackter was committed to the Faribault
State Hospital at the age of seven, there
to remain until he was in his fifties. At
the time of his commitment, Bill’s
father had recently died; thus his sole contact
with his family came through rare letters
from his mother. Through vignettes ranging
from hilarious to near tragic. Walz reveals
a remarkable human being.
Southern Illinois University Press.
Paperback. $19.95 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Paper Pavilion
by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
"Dobbs is an astonishing poet. The poetry
in Paper Pavilion is by turns lyric
and incisive, operatic and sweeping. There
is a resonant passion that fills every page.
With this heartbreaking and exhilarating
debut, Dobbs has established herself as one
of the most compelling and important poets
of her generation." - David St. John
Paper Pavilion captures the theme of
transnational adoption and a powerful search
for a personal history and identity from Korea
to America.
White Pine Press. Paperback. $15.00 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Dancer with Good
Sow
by Diane LeBlanc
Diane LeBlanc’s second poetry chapbook,
written as part of Finishing Line Press’ New
Women’s Voices series, is all about
navigating. Navigating through shifting family
relationships, through reality and dream,
myth and parable and finally, through love.
Finishing Line Press. Paperback. $14.00 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Thanksgiving Dawn
by John Graber
Written over four decades, this Iowa Writers
Workshop graduate, shows, poem by poem, what
it is like to be transformed by writing,
great teachers, and Christ. A student of
the great poetry teachers of our time: Richard
Hugo, Marvin Bell, Donald Justice and William
Stafford, Graber brought his Christ with
him to Iowa, and let everything work its
way into his own journey as a Christian pilgrim.
Blue Begonia Press. Paperback. $25.00 |
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St. Olaf Poetry Reading and Reception
Thursday, March 12
4:00 p.m.
Rolvaag Memorial Library, Room 525
St. Olaf College
Yellowrocket
by Todd Boss
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting
attention, with poems in the Paris Review and The
New Yorker and a series in Poetry.
His first collection, set in the Midwest,
alternately features a childhood Wisconsin
farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed
it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls
it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines.
W. W. Norton & Co. Hardcover. $23.95 |
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Wednesday, March 11
7:30 p.m.
Boe Memorial Chapel
St. Olaf College
The Osama bin Laden
I Know:
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
by Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen offers an astounding, unparalleled
portrait of Osama bin Laden, comprised of
Bergen's own interviews with more than fifty
people who have known bin Laden personally,
from his brother-in-law to his high school
English teacher to former members of al Qaeda.
The resulting collage of voices and memories
affords an unprecedented glimpse into the
life and true nature of the man directly
responsible for the largest terror attack
in history. This definitive and engaging
portrait gives the American public its first
true, enduring insight into a man who has
declared us his greatest enemy.
Simon & Schuster. Paperback. $15.00 |
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Nobel Peace Prize Forum
Saturday, March 7
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Crossroads, Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
Planetwalker: 22
Years of Walking, 17 Years of Silence
by John Francis
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds
and restore blackened beaches left him feeling
frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided
to take a more fundamental and personal stand—he
stopped using all forms of motorized transportation.
Soon after embarking on this quest that would
span two decades and two continents, the
young man took a vow of silence that endured
for 17 years. Through his silence and walking,
he learned to listen, and along the way,
earned college and graduate degrees in science
and environmental studies.
National Geographic Society. Hardcover.
$26.00 |
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Nobel Peace Prize Forum
Friday, March 6
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Crossroads, Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
Hope for a Heated
Planet
by Robert Musil
Rejecting cries of gloom and doom, Hope
for a Heated Planet shows how the fight
against global warming can be won by the
grassroots efforts of individuals. Robert
K. Musil, who led the Nobel Peace Prize–winning
organization Physicians for Social Responsibility,
explains that a growing new climate movement
can produce unprecedented change—in
the economy, public health, and home—while
saving the planet.
Rutgers University Press. Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Tuesday, February 17
7:00 p.m.
Mane Stage
Buntrock Commons
St. Olaf College
Nobodies: Modern
American Slave Labor and the Dark Side
of the New Global Economy
by John Bowe
Most Americans are shocked to discover that
slavery still exists in the United States.
Yet 145 years after the Emancipation Proclamation,
the CIA estimates that 14,500 to17,000 foreigners
are “trafficked” annually into
the United States, threatened with violence,
and forced to work against their will. Modern
people unanimously agree that slavery is
abhorrent. How, then, can it be making a
reappearance on American soil? In this eye-opening
book, set against the everyday American landscape
of shopping malls, outlet stores, and Happy
Meals, Bowe reveals how humankind’s
darker urges remain alive and well, lingering
in the background of every transaction–and
what we can do to overcome them.
Random House. Paperback. $15.00 |
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Friday, December 12
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Heritage Room, Buntrock Commons
Riding Into the Sunrise:
Al Quie
A Life of Faith, Service, and Civility
by Mitch Pearlstein
Riding Into the Sunrise is more than
a conventional biography of a good man. It's
also more than a conventional review of Al
Quie's political victories and defeats over
three decades in elected office, including
twenty-one years in Congress and four years
as governor of Minnesota. Rich in memories
and stories, it connects virtually every
sphere and thread in his remarkable days
and celebrates his lifelong love of God and
allegiance to Him.
Hardcover. $27.95 |
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Friday, December 12
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Prince and the
Nanny
by Odell M. Bjerkness
“I was fascinated by the rare and intimate
view of the first few years of little Prince
Harald’s life… It was especially
touching to read of the devotion shown by
the royal parents… and the effort
they made to have a normal family life.” —Dr.
Margaret O’Leary, Chair and Professor
of Norwegian at St. Olaf College in Northfield,
Minnesota
Paperback. $24.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Sunday, December 7
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Potluck Paradise:
Favorite Fare from Church and Community
Cookbooks
by Rae Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller
Here is the book that answers the age-old
question: What should I bring? Foodies Rae
Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller combed
through hundreds of folksy cookbooks compiled
by groups around the Midwest. Then they tested
hundreds of the most popular recipes before
winnowing the list to 125 of the tastiest
crowd-pleasing dishes: treats such as Swedish
Tea Ring, Oven Barbecue Spareribs, Blueberry
Buckle, and Party Punch. Recipes are organized
by course, so it's as easy as pie for the
reader to find the perfect dish for the long
community table.
Paperback. $16.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Sunday, December 7
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Utterly Otterly Day
by Mary Casanova
Little Otter likes to play in a carefree,
unabashed, utterly otterly way. Mom warns
Little Otter, "Be careful!" Dad
says, "Stay close!" But does Little
Otter listen? Oh, no! No. No. No. Little
Otter thinks he's a big otter now, big enough
to take care of himself. But watch out, Little
Otter, because no matter how big you get,
it's good to have loved ones looking out
for you.
Hardcover. $16.99 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Saturday, December 6
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Tales of the Road:
Highway 61
by Cathy Wurzer
"Highway 61 traces approximately 440
miles through Minnesota, from Pigeon Falls
at the Canadian border south to La Crescent.
Along the way, the road hugs the North Shore,
zips through St. Paul, and navigates bluffs
along the Mississippi River. While places
such as Split Rock Lighthouse or Sugar Loaf
Mountain offer well-documented stopping-off
points, observant travelers may wonder about
the historic buildings, abandoned sites,
and decaying structures they see along the
way." In this companion book to the
public television documentary, Cathy Wurzer
unearths stories about these places and more
as she travels down the road and into the
past.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Saturday, December 6
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Come One, Come All:
Easy Entertaining with Seasonal Menus
by Lee Svitak Dean
Award-winning writer and national food authority
Lee Svitak Dean provides 32 seasonal menus
and over 150 recipes for just about any party
or occasion in this, her first book. Guided
by the ingredients and distinct seasons of
the Midwest, these menus take the guesswork
and anxiety out of party hosting with game
plans for all cooks: What can be done ahead?
How do you get the food ready at the same
time? All of the menus include time-saving
tips, shortcuts, and substitutions so that
even the busiest among us can throw a wonderful
party. The menu styles range from elegant
to casual chic.
Hardcover. $29.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Friday, December 5
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
A Book of Ages: An
Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat
Moments in the Lives of the Famous and
Infamous, Ages 1 to 100
by Eric Hanson
The day we turn any age, we become contemporaries
of everyone who has ever been that age, and
it becomes our business to know that Bob
Dylan wrote “Blowin’ in the Wind” when
he was twenty, Winston Churchill was fired
from the Admiralty when he was forty and
took up painting, and Jane Austen died, unmarried
and mostly unknown, when she was forty-one.
A witty, ironic collection of moments from
famous lives organized by year of age from
infancy to death, A Book of Ages tells
you who is doing what, who is on top of the
world, who is waiting for his luck to change,
who is saying unkind things about whom, who
is planning his revenge, who is meeting for
the first time, and who Elizabeth Taylor
is currently divorcing.
Hardcover. $19.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Friday, December 5
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Sweeter Side
of Amy’s Bread: Cakes, Cookies,
Bars, Pastries and More from New York
City's Favorite Bakery
by Amy Scherber and Toy Kim Dupree
Amy's Bread is a New York institution--a
bakery that serves over 55,000 customers
a month at its three retail locations in
Manhattan and also supplies bread to more
than 500 restaurants and stores. While Amy's
is famous for its bread, it's also renowned
for its sweeter side--scones, muffins, cookies,
bars, biscotti, layer cakes, and other treats.
Now, in this beautiful cookbook, Amy and
her executive pastry chef show home cooks
how to re-create 71 of the bakery's trademark
goodies, from tasty breakfast fare such as
Cherry Cream Scones and Pecan Sticky Buns
to delectable sweets like Double Chocolate
Chip Cookies and Amy's famous "Pink
Cake."
Hardcover. $34.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Thursday, December 4
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
State Fair: The Great
Minnesota Get-Together
by Susan Lambert Miller
Machinery Hill. Edibles on a stick. Livestock
competitions. Princess Kay of the Milky Way.
The Grandstand. The Midway. It must be State
Fair time! Miller has selected 150 stunning
images that capture the fair's essence and
arranged them to surprise and delight. These
fresh and delightful photos and Lorna Landvik's
charming "The Fair Maiden" capture
the hilarity, the camaraderie, and the quirkiness
that is the Minnesota State Fair.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Join editor Kathryn Kysar (our M.C. for
the evening) and authors Heid Erdrich, Sheila
O'Connor, Shannon Olson, Wang Ping and Faith
Sullivan for readings, a question-and-answer
session and book signings.
Friday, November 14
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Severence Great Hall
Carleton College
Riding Shotgun: Women
Write about Their Mothers
edited by Kathryn Kysar
With honesty and extraordinary self-knowledge,
twenty-one accomplished authors illuminate
the mother-daughter relationship–intimate,
complicated, loving, flawed–with humor
and clarity.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Tuesday, October 21
4:00 p.m. - Colloquium: The Mathematics of
Fiction
Regents Hall 150
7:30 p.m. - Reading and Signing
Viking Theater
The Age of Shiva
by Manil Suri
Following his spectacular debut novel, The
Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri returns with
a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly
layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The
Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story
of a country in turmoil and an extraordinary
portrait of maternal love. It is among the
most compelling novels to emerge from contemporary
India.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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The
Death of Vishnu
by Manil Suri
At the opening of this masterful debut novel,
Vishnu, the resident odd-job man, lies dying
on the apartment building staircase he inhabits,
while his neighbors, the Pathaks and the Asranis,
argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As
the action spirals up through the floors of the
building, the dramas of the residents' lives
unfold: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher
meaning; Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife
he has lost; the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani,
who fancies herself the heroine of a Hindi movie.
Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of
one apartment building becomes a metaphor for
the social and religious division of contemporary
India.
Paperback. $14.95 |
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Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 4
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Whistling Wings
by Laura Goering
Marcel, a young tundra swan, is tired from
the first half of a winter migration. One
thousand miles is a long way to fly-too long
for Marcel, so he hides in the rushes to
stay behind while his parents and the flock
continue south. But with the lake nearly
frozen over, he soon realizes that he is
not cut out for life on ice. Other animals
offer advice about how to survive the winter,
but their ways of living aren't right for
the swan. Hungry and scared, he falls asleep
- only to be awakened by a big surprise!
Hardcover. $16.95
Paperback. $8.95 |
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Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 4
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Agate
by Joy Morgan Dey, illustrated by Nikki Johnson
Meet Agate the moose. He’s a big brown
galoot who doesn’t think he’s
very special when he compares himself to
his animal friends who are named after gemstones. “What
good is a moose?” he asks himself.
What good is a moose, indeed – his
beautiful friends help him to see that, just
like his namesake the agate, true beauty
comes from what’s inside. This stunning
book features original watercolors and a
poignant, witty message that resonates with
anyone who has ever felt like they don’t
quite belong.
Hardcover. $17.95 |
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Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 4
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Baseball Brothers
by Anne Fredrickson, illustrated by Kathryn
Weaver
The Baseball Brothers is a children's
book that tells the true story of twelve
brothers who played baseball together in
the 1920s. Through working together on the
farm and playing together as a team, the
brothers developed lifelong friendships.
The book is a tribute to baseball and a celebration
of family. The story recounts the brothers'
most famous feats, including a game-saving
tackle at home plate and an unlikely victory
over a tough opponent. But the most important
part of the tale is the enduring friendship
and familial bond that the brothers shared.
Hardcover. $12.95 |
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Tuesday, September 30
4:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
Pilgrims of Christ
on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path
Between Two Faiths
by Paul-Gordon Chandler
Historically, Christians have taken a confrontational
or missionary approach toward Islam, leading
many Muslims to identify Christianity with
the cultural prejudices of Westerners. On
the individual level, Christ-followers within
Islam have traditionally been encouraged
by Christians to break away from their Muslim
communities. Chandler boldly explores how
these two major religions—which share
much common heritage-can not only co-exist,
but also enrich each other.
This event is co-sponsored by the
Religion and Middle Eastern Studies
departments.
Hardcover. $19.95 |
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Monday, September 29
Keynote Address - 7:30 p.m.
Boe Chapel
Reception and booksigning to follow
in Buntrock Commons Crossroads
Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is
a fictional collage of stories dreamed by
Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in
a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant
but sensitive young genius is creating his
theory of relativity, a new conception of
time, he imagines many possible worlds. In
one, time is circular, so that people are
fated to repeat triumphs and failures over
and over. In another, there is a place where
time stands still, visited by lovers and
parents clinging to their children. In another,
time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped
by a bell jar.
Paperback. $12.95 |
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Friday, September 5
1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Scandinavian-American
Folk Tales... and Fish Stories by
Kristoffer Paulson
Fairy tales are fairy tales, fish stories
are fish stories and the truth is the truth.
It was not once upon a time, but in the summer
of 1955 that I was introduced to Norway,
the Oslo Summer School and Ulvik in Hardanger....Thus
began a week of visiting my relatives in
Ulvik, a beginning to my own Norwegian saga
and a life-time adventure with the people,
the language and the folk tales of Norway.
That week also brought into focus a recognition
of my own Norwegian heritage, both in Norway
and America. All of these stories began with
stories I told my children, and retold to
adults and other children. I look forward
to grandchildren, because the stories are
absolutely true and really good.
— Kristoffer Paulson
Paperback. $16.95 |
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