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A guide to the best hikes and microbreweries from the Twin Cities and the Northland to Milwaukee and Michigan's UP

Beer lovers and hiking enthusiasts, these 42 Northwoods hikes are for you! Each carefully selected hike leads you through a stunning natural landscape and ends near a brewery or a brewpub where a local craft beer awaits you. This full-color guidebook features the best one- to five-hour beer hikes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It takes you from historic neighbourhoods of the Twin Cities and Milwaukee to the wild spaces of the Northwoods.

Each trail description includes details on:

• Access
• Difficulty
• Duration
• Points of interest
• A recommended beer at trail's end, with notes on its appearance, aroma, and taste.

The choice of breweries reflects the wonderful diversity of the Upper Midwest's brewing scene and gives you an inside look at the creative and passionate craftspeople behind the beers.

So, what do you do?" Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. Ask him what he did, he wouldn't say tending bar. He was going places--until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least, that's Eric's version.
In "Lush Life, "Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. "Lush Life "is an Xray of the street in the age of no broken windows and "quality of life" squads, from a writer whose "tough, gritty brand of social realism . . . reads like a movie in prose" (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times").

Psychologist and expert on body language and memory, Kari Voss investigates the murder of two teenaged girls in the small Norwegian town of Son, as suspicion is cast on multiple suspects. A mesmerizingly dark, twisty start to a nerve-shattering new series by two of the world's finest crime writers.

"A breathtaking thriller with a complex plot and twist to die for. Simply brilliant." --Express

"Gustawsson and Enger deliver a one-two punch that's a stone-cold knockout." --Alexandra Sokoloff & Craig Robertson

"A pacy, gripping read that marks the start of an exciting new series. The best Nordic noir I've read in ages. Spectacular!" --Tariq Ashkanani

"The disturbing consequences of this are fully explored in a haunting tale that concludes with a sickening double twist. Son is everything a crime novel should be--and more." --Sunday Times

Everyone here is lying...

Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son who disappeared on his birthday seven years earlier. Still grieving for her dead husband and trying to pull the pieces of her life together, she is thrust into a shocking local investigation when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home in the nearby village of Son.

When a friend of the victims is charged with the barbaric killings, it seems the case is closed, but Kari is not convinced. Using her skills and instinct, she conducts her own enquiries, leading her to multiple suspects, including people who knew the dead girls well.

With the help of Chief Constable Ramona Norum, she discovers that no one--including the victims--are what they seem. There is a dark secret at the heart of Son village that could have implications not just for her own son's disappearance, but Kari's own life, too...

For fans of Harlan Coben, Lars Kepler and Jo Nesbo.

NUMB is a raw and unflinching memoir by Christina Schwartz that pulls back the curtain on the hidden reality of domestic violence, and the long, painful road to reclaiming freedom.

After years of silence, Christina shares her journey through emotional manipulation, physical abuse, and the harrowing moments that nearly cost her everything. Written with honesty and vulnerability, NUMB captures what it means to lose yourself in someone else's control, and the courage it takes to find your voice again.

Through her story, Christina not only exposes the cycle of abuse but offers hope, healing, and empowerment for survivors who've been told to stay quiet. Published in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, NUMB reminds readers that breaking free is possible, and that even in the darkest moments, there's light on the other side of survival.

*Soon to be a major motion picture*

From international bestselling authors James S. Murray (better known as "Murr" on the hit TV show Impractical Jokers) and Darren Wearmouth, comes You Better Watch Out, a suspenseful, serial killer thriller that leaves you wondering, is Christmas really the best time of the year?

Forty-eight hours until Christmas, Jessica Kane wakes up with blurred vision, ears ringing, and in excruciating pain. A gash in her head and blood running down her face, the last thing she remembers is going for a run and something or someone hitting her in the head.

It doesn't take her long to realize she is trapped in an unknown, deserted town with five other strangers who share similar stories of being attacked and stranded there. Unsure why and how they got there, she knows one thing for certain, she has to find a way out.

That becomes nearly impossible when someone is meticulously orchestrating their deaths, one by one, and the only thing Jessica can do is watch the life leave their eyes.

The fenced-in town is the killer's very own playground and there's nowhere left to hide... she better watch out because she could be next.

In a battle against time and shadow, the last Michigan Mound Builder and his unlikely allies fight to save a hidden legacy from vanishing forever.

Nokee, separated from his fleeing tribe at an early age, becomes the last remaining member of an ancient mound-building culture who lived in Michigan for thousands of years. He now carries a sacred burden: to ensure his people's stories survive. Raised in a world where memory is survival and history is power, he sets out on a treacherous journey to find the only person who holds the whole truth of his ancestors-an aging shaman whose knowledge is fading with time.

Haunted by dreams, driven by duty, and inspired by the arrival of French Jesuit missionaries-the Black Robes-Nokee forges an unlikely alliance. Though their beliefs clash, their goals align: to document a culture on the brink of erasure. With the shamans' help, they began transcribing the sacred narratives into the Jesuit's diaries, carefully translating an oral tradition that had never before touched ink or parchment.

But Nokee's mission is not just spiritual-it is dangerous. His journey draws the attention of enemies, both seen and unseen. Rival tribes, colonial forces, and shadowy figures who fear what these stories might reveal stand in his way. The closer he gets to completing the work and sending it across the Atlantic for publication in the Journal of Jesuit Relations, the more the threats escalate.

As the line between the physical and spiritual worlds begins to blur, Nokee must confront visions, omens, and an inner calling that suggests this journey is not only about preservation but transformation. What started as a quest to protect a fading legacy becomes something more profound: a reckoning with identity, memory, and destiny.

Suspenseful, lyrical, and steeped in the mysticism of a vanishing world, this is the story of a young man racing against time to save a civilization-and discovering his place within it.

Death takes the lead in this collection of eight disparate tales, exploring how the loss of loved ones affects us, how surviving close calls with death shape us, how the fear of death motivates us, and how we can be either lifted up or let down by our communities in dealing with lingering grief. The genres vary between stories, including science fiction, magical realism, and suspense.

My Life with Death: A child becomes friends with Death and later serves as Death's assistant, constantly grappling with how much her relationship with Death limits her ability to enjoy her own life.

The Patron Saint of Pianos: A 1980's homicide detective, exhausted by working on too many cartel and gang-related deaths, moves from the southern border to a quiet, one-stoplight northern town for a fresh start.

My Husband's Fathers: A marriage strained by a husband habitually using the death of his mother to dismiss anyone else's pain or trauma endures a new challenge when the couple fosters two young brothers.

The Girl Who Sold the World: Humanity faces an existential threat when an alien collective arrives at Earth to judge the worthiness of all species on the planet.

My Sister Agnes: A 1990's suburb is shaken by an unexpected death, which brings neighbors together for one summer, and forever shapes one of the families.

The Shattered Glass Girl: A teenage girl in the 1920's dies due to her father's cruel discipline, leaving her spirit bonded to the house, enabling her to have a second chance at happiness when a new family moves in.

My Side of the World: A married woman in her midlife discovers evidence that a former paramour may be dead, leading her to obsess over confirming his demise in the present, while also reexamining her past and the influence he had in shaping her present life.

The Red Lights: When a young girl has a recurring nightmare of being murdered, her grandmother convinces her that it is a factual depiction of what will happen.

New edition of well-loved stretching anatomy guide.

With more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, Stretching Anatomy is your go-to guide for seeing inside the stretches that help you increase range of motion, enhance recovery, and facilitate ease of movement during physical and everyday activities.

The fourth edition includes the following content updates:

• A new chapter that explains how to use stretching to increase force output, improve muscle hypertrophy, prevent and rehabilitate injuries, stimulate cardiorespiratory improvements, and lower blood glucose, each with a sequence of stretches intended to address these scenarios
• 10 new stretches: 7 assisted and 3 unassisted
• New stretch ratings to help you find appropriate stretches for your unique goals
• Stretching programs in chapters 10 and 11, for a total of over 30 programs

Visually stunning full-color illustrations throughout the text give you a clear idea of the muscles affected by each stretch. All major joint areas from the feet to the neck are covered, with 95 stretches throughout the book. Each stretch includes step-by-step instructions on how to perform the stretch, the names of the muscles stretched, and a Stretch Notes section detailing the procedures and benefits of every exercise as well as safety considerations and variations for increasing or decreasing difficulty.

Suggested stretching programs for daily mobility and flexibility are provided, as are 23 sport-specific routines to be used by athletes and their trainers who want to improve flexibility, maximize efficiency of movement, and enhance recovery from training and competing in their chosen sport.

Whether you're looking for stretches to ease daily aches and pains, address arthritis, recover effectively from your sport, or just fit a little more movement into your busy day, Stretching Anatomy, Fourth Edition, has something for you.

Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.

Nonbinary Life is an invitation to imagine the possibilities of life outside of gender.

To write, to think, to imagine, to agitate, and to love without regard for gender is to lead a non-binary life. In this genre-defying work of autotheory, Marquis Bey proposes a radical refusal: to relinquish gender as a framework we carry - for ourselves and for others - and to embrace modes of being that exist outside of its grasp.

Spanning questions of pronouns, masculinity, love, family, language, and even the Redwood National Forest, Nonbinary Life blends memoir and theory to provide a philosophical meditation on what it means to live beyond the binary

Forget the myth of meritorcracy.
It's no longer about what you earn, or what you learn.
We are living in an inheritocracy, where the bank of mum and dad matters more than ever.

Parental support is the secret taboo of the modern world. Whether we have it or we don't, this shapes life for all of us.

Blending award-winning research, revealing interviews and candid stories, Eliza Filby digs deep into the bank of mum and dad to reveal how it affects our dating, our careers, our children, and everything else. Fresh, captivating and honest, she reveals the surprising ways the inheritocracy controls us all.

Evil never sleeps. It plants turnips.

Once, the Demon Overlord commanded fear across kingdoms. Now he argues with stubborn soil, stockpiles vegetables like treasure, and perfects the art of living unnoticed. The world celebrates his defeat-unaware he simply walked away.

But legends have long shadows. How long can the most infamous villain in history stay forgotten, when even his quietest routines feel like battles of their own?

Perfect for readers who crave smart parody, sly humor, and a villain's unexpected second act, Demon Overlord is the beginning of a saga you will not forget. Begin the conquest of ordinary life today.

Lauren Roberts's #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Powerless comes to vivid life with this immersive official coloring book full of imagery from the book sure to delight fans.

Experience the epic and sizzling fantasy romance series like never before. This gorgeous coloring book beautifully depicts the lush world of the Kingdom of Ilya in stunning detail, with forty-six original black-and-white coloring pages.

Filled with fan-favorite scenes, unforgettable quotes from the first novel, and special moments between Paedyn and those closest to her, this coloring book invites fans to relive the twists and turns of Pae, Kai, and Kitt's tale, and bring them to life with their own colorful flair!