Location: 5501 Glenwood Avenue, Golden Valley, MN 55422

“Steve McEllistrem has created a searingly vivid portrayal of a very possible future.”--Jeffrey Morris, FutureDude and author of Venus: Daedalus One

In a future where religion and disease have brought social order to the verge of collapse, and where some humans have been biologically and others mechanically enhanced, Jeremiah Jones must find the one man who might be able to fix everything. Problem is, that man--Walt Devereaux--may have created bio-weapons that could wipe out humanity. Is Devereaux really a dangerous man? Or is Jeremiah simply a pawn in a deadly game? Who can he trust? The nun who is sheltering Devereaux? Jeremiah’s ex-partner and former lover, who betrayed him? The Attorney General, who hopes to capture Devereaux to catapult himself to the presidency? Surrounded by questions, the only way Jeremiah will learn the truth is by battling the transgenic Escala and their sworn enemies, the mechanically enhanced Elite Ops. And the odds of survival are slim. “The Devereaux Dilemma is full of complex plot twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. McEllistrem writes gripping, action-packed scenes with eye-popping tech and well-imagined future combat.”---Lyda Morehouse, Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of Archangel Protocol and Resurrection Code ---- Steve McEllistrem is a lawyer, writer and editor. He produces and co-hosts Write On! Radio on KFAI in the Twin Cities, where he interviews local, national and international authors. The Devereaux Dilemma is is his first novel.

Location: Street: 38 S Snelling Ave City: Saint Paul, Province: Minnesota Postal Code: 55105 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Who doesn't love John Coy? No one, that's who. Because John Coy knows that it's important to read. That's why he writes books that people, especially the younger variety, really like to read.

To celebrate John Coy's fascinating new book, Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Baseball, we are going to do something we've never done at Wild Rumpus: play basketball! We will have a hoop, basketballs, and all that sporty jazz. Come on over to play some ball and meet one of our favorite authors, John Coy.

(By the way, did you know that John is a member of the NBA Reading All-Star Team?)

Location: Street: 2720 West 43rd St. City: Minneapolis, Province: Minnesota Postal Code: 55410-1643 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Who doesn't love John Coy? No one, that's who. Because John Coy knows that it's important to read. That's why he writes books that people, especially the younger variety, really like to read.

To celebrate John Coy's fascinating new book, Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Baseball, we are going to do something we've never done at Wild Rumpus: play basketball! We will have a hoop, basketballs, and all that sporty jazz. Come on over to play some ball and meet one of our favorite authors, John Coy.

(By the way, did you know that John is a member of the NBA Reading All-Star Team?)

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Calling all aspiring veterinarians, animal lovers, and generally curious kiddos!

It's that time of year: Daniel Handler, Trini Lopez, & Sumo Mouse (the cats), Doodle & Ferdinand (the ferrets), Wilbur (the hairless rat), Tilly & Pip (the dumbo eared rats) and Amelia & Mr. Skeeter (the chinchillas) are all getting their annual check-ups, and you are invited to attend.

Now's your chance to see a real, live vet in action: checking teeth and ears, administering shots, and giving the Wild Rumpus critters (the furry ones) a once over. You'll have a chance to listen to tiny heartbeats through a stethoscope and guess how much our adorable chinchillas weigh. (Hint: most of that fluff is fur.)

Dr. Ali from All Paws is not only an amazing veterinarian, she is also happy to answer all of your questions. Come take advantage of this opportunity to pick her brain as she works. It only comes around once a year.

(Find out more about Dr. Ali and All Paws Animal Hospital here.)

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"A remarkable book... It's marvelous."--Paul Chance, former editor of Psychology Today and author of Learning and Behavior While it's easy to see that consequences are important, few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day and applications everywhere--at home, at work, and at school, and that's just for starters. Despite their variety, consequences appear to follow a common set of scientific principles and share some similar effects in the brain (think "pleasure centers"). Based on these principles, Schneider and other scientists have been able to create mathematical models of certain behaviors.Further, learning from consequences predictably activates genes and restructures the brain. The science of consequences brings together research from many fields to explain how adeceptively simple idea can explain so much.

The science of consequences helps dispel prejudice, free addicts of their destructive habits, and treat depression. It enriches the lives of pets and zoo animals. It also sheds light on our biggest societal challenges, where we must choose between short-term and long-term consequences. ---- Biopsychologist Susan M. Schneider, PhD, has an international reputation in nature-nurture relations and the principles of learning from consequences. A friend of B. F. Skinner, she has been a professor at St. Olaf College, Auburn University, and Florida International University, and is currently a Visiting Scholar at University of the Pacific. The science of consequences is her first book.

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Help us celebrate two incredible first-time published authors and recent award winners.

Ethan Rutherford’s stories have appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, and The Best American Short Stories. He has taught fiction at Macalester, the University of Minnesota, and at The Loft Literary Center, and his work has received awards from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Born in Seattle, he now lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son. The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories is his first book.

Matt Rasmussen’s poetry has been published in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, H_NGM_N, New York Quarterly, Paper Darts, and at Poets.org. He’s received awards, grants, and residencies from The Bush Foundation, The Minnesota State Arts Board, Jerome Foundation, Intermedia Arts, The Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN, and The Corporation of Yaddo. He is a 2012 McKnight Artist Fellow, a former Peace Corps Volunteer, and teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College. His first book of poems, Black Aperture, won the 2012 Walt Whitman Award and will be published in 2013 by LSU Press. He’s a founding editor of Birds, LLC, a small, independent poetry press. (The_Loft_Library)… (more)

We like Pete Hautman's style. In fact, our teen book club likes his style so much, they have read four of his books (Godless, Invisible, Rash, and How to Steal a Car)—not to mention the Hautman books they've each read on their own.

One of the things we like about National Book Award winner Pete Hautman is how extremely diverse his books are. From realistic fiction to futurist sci-fi to really good vampire stories before vampire stories were trendy, he writes it all.

We are extremely excited about Pete's new book, The Cydonian Pyramid. It's the second book in The Klaatu Diskos sci-fi trilogy (if you haven't read the first, The Obsidian Blade, you are truly missing out). It's got pyramids, nanobots, and time travelling maggots. What more do you want?

So come to Wild Rumpus on Saturday, June 1 at 11AM to talk about time travel and pink maggots. It's going to be fantastic.

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We like Pete Hautman's style. In fact, our teen book club likes his style so much, they have read four of his books (Godless, Invisible, Rash, and How to Steal a Car)—not to mention the Hautman books they've each read on their own.

One of the things we like about National Book Award winner Pete Hautman is how extremely diverse his books are. From realistic fiction to futurist sci-fi to really good vampire stories before vampire stories were trendy, he writes it all.

We are extremely excited about Pete's new book, The Cydonian Pyramid. It's the second book in The Klaatu Diskos sci-fi trilogy (if you haven't read the first, The Obsidian Blade, you are truly missing out). It's got pyramids, nanobots, and time travelling maggots. What more do you want?

So come to Wild Rumpus on Saturday, June 1 at 11AM to talk about time travel and pink maggots. It's going to be fantastic.

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Join Joel Karsten and his new book Straw Bale Gardens at Moon Palace Books!

Joel Karsten is a graduate from the University of Minnesota and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulture Science. He worked in the "Green" industry after graduation, running his own landscape design and Installation company in the Minneapolis/St.Paul metro area. He is still an avid vegetable gardener, trying new varieties of anything he can fit into his 20 bale garden on his limited residential lot in Roseville.

Check out our event on Facebook and invite your friends!

Location: Street: 2820 E 33rd St Additional: City: Minneapolis, Province: Minnesota Postal Code: 55406 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Three poets explore grief and loss.

Calendars of Fire by Lee Sharkey is an extended elegy whose grief is political as well as personal. Across barriers of tribe, history, and mortality, her poems carry us home with their music to a dwelling place in our own resonant bodies.

“When you are done reading Calendars of Fire, you will know what it means to ‘shiver from the we in tenderness.’” — Fady Joudah Lee Sharkey’s books include A Darker Sweeter String and To A Vanished World , a poem sequence in response to Roman Vishniac’s photographs of Eastern European Jewry in the years just preceding the Nazi Holocaust. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Drunken Boat, Field, Kenyon Review, Nimrod, The Pinch, Seattle Review, and other journals. She was the Maine Arts Commission's 2010 Fellow in Literary Arts and since 2003 has co-edited the Beloit Poetry Journal. ----

A meditation on the death of a mother, Kathleen Jesme’s Meridian measures the hours and reflects on how experience collapses and elongates time, creating a lens through which we can look at how we’re connected and separated. And the poet asks: Is music our best refusal to accede to the irrationality of death?

Meridian (2012, Winner of the Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press) is Kathleen Jesme’s fourth volume of poetry. Her other books are The Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta, 2009); Motherhouse, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize (LSU, 2005); and Fire Eater (Tampa, 2003). Jesme holds an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. She is the recipient of a 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant.

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Sharon Chmielarz has written seven books of poetry, including Calling, a finalist for the Indie Book Awards, 2011, and The Other Mozart. She’s had poems published in magazines like Notre Dame Review, The Iowa Review, Salmagundi, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Hudson Review. Her latest award is Water~Stone Review’s 2012 Jane Kenyon Prize. Her newest book Love from the Yellowstone Trail will be published in June.

Location: Street: 38 S Snelling Ave City: Saint Paul, Province: Minnesota Postal Code: 55105 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Kolt Beringer is a poet, essayist, and the managing editor of Picador USA, and the author of Seven Poems, a limited edition chapbook by Houndstooth Books (2013). His poem “Boy in a Corner” appeared in SALTS’s “Monochrome” exhibit press release and was read aloud during the opening night ceremony in Birsfelden, Basel, Switzerland. His writing has also appeared in Dunstan Thompson: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master. Born and raised in southern Minnesota, Beringer earned his BA from the University of Minnesota and his MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. ---- Joyce Sutphen grew up on a farm near St. Joseph, Minnesota, and currently lives in Chaska, Minnesota. She earned degrees from the University of Minnesota, including a Ph.D. in Renaissance Drama. Her first book, Straight Out of View, won the Barnard New Women’s Poets Prize (Beacon Press, 1995, republished by Holy Cow! Press in 2001), Coming Back to the Body (Holy Cow! Press, 2000) was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, and Naming the Stars (Holy Cow! Press, 2004) won the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. In 2005, Red Dragonfly Press published Fourteen Sonnets in a letterpress edition. In 2006, Sutphen coedited the award-winning anthology To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (New Rivers Press). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Minnesota Monthly, and Water-Stone, among many other journals, and she has had work featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, and on The Writer’s Almanac. She has also been a guest on A Prairie Home Companion, hosted by Garrison Keillor. In 2011, she was named the second Minnesota Poet Laureate by Governor Mark Dayton, following the tenure of Robert Bly.

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“Anyone who would understand America’s forests and, indeed, America should read this fascinating book.”--John C. Gordon, Pinchot Professor Emeritus and former dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies The Weyerhaeuser name looms large in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Arkansas, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of land, both forested and cut over. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the man who started the lumber empire, significantly shaped the American economy and landscape from Wisconsin westward in the nineteenth century. A complex and private man, Weyerhaeuser emigrated from Germany in 1852 at the tender age of eighteen. In just a few years, he would be a prominent lumberman, organizing partnerships among competing companies, rationalizing the business, and then making the largest timberland purchase in the history of the United States. Judith Koll Healey narrates the life of this extraordinary man through newly available resources: his extensive correspondence and journal entries as well as the letters and diaries of family members, friends, and business associates from around the country. She frames Weyerhaeuser’s many commercial opportunities and business decisions within both the family’s internal dynamics and world events: war and unrest, economic upswings and downturns, and western expansion and eastern urbanization. Throughout, Healey offers a thoughtful perspective on his achievements as well as the limitations of his vision for the expansion of the American West. ---- Judith Koll Healey has been a philanthropic professional for thirty years and is the author of two historical novels, The Canterbury Papers and The Rebel Princess.

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Taylor Stevens (The Informationist, The Innocent, The Doll)

Taylor Stevens is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Informationist and The Innocent, both featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe. They received critical acclaim and have been published in twenty languages. Raised in communes across the globe and denied an education beyond the sixth grade, Stevens broke free of the Children of God and now lives in Texas and is currently at work on the next Munroe adventure. (added from Random House)… (more)

Two Midwestern authors serve their fiction dark. Chris Fink’s debut work of fiction is no American pastoral. Fink’s vision is more Orwell than Rockwell. Not since Winesburg, Ohio has a book so thoroughly plumbed the Midwestern character. A despairing farmer milks a dead cow, a baseball phenom chooses between the diamond and the dairy barn, and in the back of the school bus, a young girl fights back against her tormentors. Farmer’s Almanac reports the news from mythical Odette County, Wisconsin, where the milk prices keep falling, and the forecast is not good. Chris Fink is a professor at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he teaches literature, writing, and journalism. He is the editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal. Since 2000, he has published more than twenty five stories and essays at various journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cream City Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Malahat Review North Dakota Quarterly, Other Voices, The Pinch, and South Dakota Review. ---- Unabashedly funny--at turns dirty, revolting, tender and sarcastic--the stories in Married but looking bring us a new style that is part inner dialogue, part comic monologue—Grace Paley meets Charles Bukowski. A widower celebrates the end of his life by preparing a fancy dinner for a call girl. A young opera singer finds her boyfriend is engaged to someone else. A man forces his wife to ride a tandem bike with him as penance for cheating. A man valiantly attempts to prevent his wife from selling their wedding dress at a garage sale. Taken together, the short works in Married but looking are a testament to the marriage and its demands of love, humor, and the sheer persistence of the human heart. Daniel S. Libman is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for fiction as well as a Paris Review discovery Prize, now called the Plimpton Prize. His story "In the Belly of the Cat" has been anthologized many times and translated into several languages, including Italian and Russian. He has published stories and essays in journals and magazines including Details, Other Voices, Columbia, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Santa Monica Review, and The Chicago Reader. Winner of a writing grant from the Illinois Arts Council, Dan is currently holed up in rural Illinois with his wife, the writer Molly McNett, two kids, a dog and a cat, and chickens too numerous to count.

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