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February 2024 Events from Magers & Quinn

Diane Gottlieb & Contributors present Awakenings In-Store Event: Thursday, 2/1 @ 7pm - Registration Required What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! No matter where you turn in this tribute to the miracles, mishaps, and mysteries of the body, you will be moved. Awakenings will sometimes make you laugh, often make you cry, and will always spur a deep appreciation for the flesh and bones that carry us all through life.

Thu, Feb 1, 2024 7:00 PM CST Diane Gottlieb & Contributors present Awakenings Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Angela Rodel presents The Case of Cem in conversation with Eric Lorberer In-Store Event: Sunday, 2/4 @ 7pm - Registration Required The Case of Cem, Vera Mutafchieva’s celebrated novel of court intrigue, maintains lasting resonance for being a personal exploration of emigration and loss set in the historical era during which the politics of the East and West were sketched out with utter clarity. These early lines of demarcation, as voiced through Christian and Muslim emissaries, greedy leaders, unflinching soldiers, and lyrical poets, have indelibly influenced the world as we know it today.

Sun, Feb 4, 2024 5:00 PM CST Angela Rodel presents The Case of Cem in conversation with Eric Lorberer Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Ron de Beaulieu presents St. Paul Murder & Mayhem In-Store Event: Wednesday, 2/7 @ 7pm - Registration Required Whiskey made the river city a byword for peril. Men brawled over small offenses and killed one another with near impunity. As crime flourished beyond the power of police control, vigilantes patrolled the streets. Irresponsible speculation and white-collar crime wrecked the local economy, devastating families and driving thousands out of town. The remaining St. Paulites rebuilt their community and economy, stimulating immigration, but more people meant more crime. In the 1870s, vice and violence spiraled into the Bloody Fall of '74, and St. Paul regained its reputation as a "dead tough" town. Historian Ron de Beaulieu reveals the past travails of life in this turbulent city.

Wed, Feb 7, 2024 7:00 PM CST Ron de Beaulieu presents St. Paul Murder & Mayhem Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

John Halter presents Driving Dad Home In-Store Event: Thursday, 2/8 @ 7pm - Registration Required In this funny, sad, challenging, and loving saga, author John Halter embarks on a mission to rescue his 96-year-old father, Russ, from an impossible situation in a Phoenix trailer park. Russ, a Depression-era farm boy, World War II Navy veteran, and retired heavy-equipment salesman, doesn’t want to leave, and to make things more difficult still, his short-term memory is fading. As father and son finally hit the road, Halter learns that the best way to coax his dad to cooperate is to get him talking about the past, and their multi-day trip across the western landscape becomes a halting but extended reminiscence about Russ’s childhood and war experiences, the rich family life they shared, and the misunderstandings they found it difficult to overcome.

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 7:00 PM CST John Halter presents Driving Dad Home Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

The Perpich Center for Arts Education presents The Annual Lit Kid's Poetry & Short Works Reading In-Store Event: Monday, 2/12 @ 6:30pm - Registration Required It's the Annual Lit Kid's poetry and short works reading! Check out new and selected works from our emerging writers, the Literary Arts program at Perpich Center for Arts Education.

Mon, Feb 12, 2024 6:30 PM CST Perpich Center for Arts Education Poetry & Short Works Reading Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Celebrate Black History in the Twin Cities with Shannon Gibney, Carolyn Holbrook, and David Mura In-Store Event: Tuesday, 2/13 @ 7pm - Registration Required Join local authors and historians for an evening celebrating Black History in the Twin Cities. From internationally-reaching events to local family histories, Shannon Gibney, Carolyn Holbrook, and David Mura will discuss their work and present on fascinating local topics. Followed by Q&A and book signing.

Tue, Feb 13, 2024 7:00 PM CST Celebrate Black History in the Twin Cities Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Richard Thieme presents Mobius: Out of Time in conversation with Jennifer Grannick Virtual Event: Tuesday, 2/15 @ 7pm Central - Registration Required The third volume is a powerful conclusion to the trilogy and a blockbuster of a novel that can be read as a stand-alone. It weaves together adventures in remote viewing, the deft management of UFO phenomena and research in the intelligence community, and the real impact of a life as an intelligence professional on practitioners of that black art and deadly craft.

Thu, Feb 15, 2024 7:00 PM CST Richard Thieme presents Mobius: Out of Time with Jennifer Granick Tickets

The Mill City Reading Series In-Store Event: Tuesday, 2/18 @ 5pm - Registration Required Magers & Quinn is proud to welcome back The Mill City Reading Series, a monthly showcase of works-in-progress by MFA in Creative Writing students at the University of Minnesota. The showcase is free and open to the public. Speakers and genres vary every month. Come support these emerging writers on Sunday, February 18. Other series dates are Sunday, March 17 and Sunday, April 21.

Sun, Feb 18, 2024 5:00 PM CST The Mill City Reading Series Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Will Tinkham presents The Packard Salesman In-Store Event: Monday, 2/19 @ 7pm - Registration Required From Minnesota's Iron Range to Hollywood's Golden Age, Ike Savich discovers America—one Packard at a time. A 1932 car-jacking by Baby Face Nelson thwarts Ike's plans for a job carving Mount Rushmore. Various stories printed about the Nelson encounter, including one penned by Ike himself, result in an invitation from RKO Studios to come to Hollywood—where all the trouble starts.

Mon, Feb 19, 2024 7:00 PM CST Will Tinkham presents The Packard Salesman Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Cathy Coats presents To Banish Forever In-Store Event: Wednesday, 2/21 @ 7pm - Registration Required In 1863, after the end of the US–Dakota War, a group of men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society. At the beginning of every meeting, members of the Knights of the Forest recited its ritual pledge, including these words: "I sincerely hope this meeting may be profitable to each one of us, and that we may go forth from this Lodge stronger and braver in the determination to banish forever from our beautiful State every Indian who now desecrates our soil."  This is the story of the Knights, the Ho-Chunk, and the ethnic cleansing of southern Minnesota.

Wed, Feb 21, 2024 7:00 PM CST Cathy Coats presents To Banish Forever Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Beto O'Rourke presents We've Got to Try In-Store Event: Thursday, 2/22 @ 7pm - Registration Required Join Beto O’Rourke for a candid talk about protecting our sacred right to vote and what it will take to save our democracy at this critical moment of truth. As a former Texas congressman and founder of the voting rights and voter registration organization Powered By People, Beto is uniquely qualified to explain both the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead as we approach the most consequential elections of our time. Registration for the event is free and includes discussion with Beto. There is an add-on option to pre-purchase a signed copy of his latest book, WE’VE GOT TO TRY: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible, that will be available for pick-up at the event. Extra books will also be available for sale at the event (while supplies last).

Thu, Feb 22, 2024 7:00 PM CST Beto O'Rourke presents We've Got to Try Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Bill Meissner presents The Wonders of the Little World Virtual Event: Monday, 2/26 @ 7pm Central - Registration Required Join us for the next installment of the Magers & Quinn Translation Book Club! This month, we'll be discussing Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station

Mon, Feb 26, 2024 7:00 PM CST Bill Meissner presents The Wonders of the Little World with Shannon Olson Tickets

Translation Book Club In-Store Event: Tuesday, 2/27 @ 6pm - Registration Required Join us for the next installment of the Magers & Quinn Translation Book Club! This month, we'll be discussing Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station

Tue, Feb 27, 2024 6:00 PM CST Translation Book Club Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Dawn Brockett presents Unrestricted In-Store Event: Thursday, 2/29 @ 7pm - Registration Required In Unrestricted, Dawn Brockett refutes the long-standing paradigm that anorexia is about the anorectic’s need to control. Having battled and beaten severe restrictive anorexia herself, she proposes that anorexia is triggered by a lack of the space a young woman needs to fully individuate— to become who she chooses to be without being controlled by others.

Thu, Feb 29, 2024 7:00 PM CST Dawn Brockett presents Unrestricted Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

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