Interspersed are a few photos of her family, giving faces to names for the reader. She shares a great gift of herself, her family and her culture with the reader in this book. This beautiful area is rich with history that predates the current landscape and LeGarde Grover captures the current with the past all through the lens of her unique, invaluable cultural heritage. LeGarde Grover weaves her family’s histories and her people’s culture and stories in with the natural and constructed landscape of Duluth. 'Gichigami Hearts' is a wonderful mix of history, geography and culture from the mostly untold Indegenous perspective. 'Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong' by Linda LeGarde Grover published in October by University of Minnesota Press It is also available at Barnes and Noble in Rochester and the Rochester Public Library. “Raising Ollie” is available online from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and University of Minnesota Press. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. He was named Minnesota Teacher of the Year in 2014. Tom Rademacher is an eighth-grade English teacher in the Minneapolis area. This book had me laughing out loud at times and tearing up at others. All of it showed me that great parenting tools don’t always fit in one box and modern day parents have to be open to trying new things to see what is best for their kids. A lot of the perspective was outside of my perimeters as a single mother so it gave me a look into a different mindset. I found much in this book very relatable as a parent. He also includes a lot from his perspective as a teacher. He addresses challenges like finding the right schools, gender identity, anxiety and all the everyday challenges of just being a parent. He includes the good, the bad and the ugly and a lot of humor along the way. Rademacher gives a first hand account of being a father to a nonbinary, off-the-charts smart, sensitive, amazing child. This book is a real honest look at raising a very unique child - as all children are. 'Raising Ollie' by Tom Rademacher published in October by University of Minnesota Press

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