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Giants in the Earth

Giants in the Earth
  • Author(s): Ole Rølvaag
  • Location(s): North Dakota, South Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

This is the first in a trilogy of books about the Norwegian settlement of the Dakota Territory, followed by ” Peder Victorious”, and then “Their Fathers’ God”. The author is a Norwegian who went to the USA in the late 1800s...

Paradise Valley

Paradise Valley
  • Author(s): C J Box
  • Location(s): North Dakota, Montana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

He’s the Lizard King – a serial killer who haunts North America’s highways and truck stops, preying on runaways and prostitutes. After years on the road, he’s tired. The net is closing around him. Its time to end it....

Badlands Saloon

Badlands Saloon
  • Author(s): Jonathan Twingley
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Told from the point of view of a young man on the edge of his life looking off to discover his path, this book is filled with wonderful characters, set in a beautiful landscape.

La Rose

La Rose
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back

Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour’s...

The Round House

The Round House
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone – including...

Three Women

Three Women
  • Author(s): Lisa Taddeo
  • Location(s): North Dakota, Indiana, Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a...

Love Medicine

Love Medicine
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich’s most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012. Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, ‘Love Medicine’ tells the...

Yellow Bird

Yellow Bird
  • Author(s): Sierra Crane Murdoch
  • Location(s): North Dakota, Fort Berthold
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2009

When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her...

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