Upcoming Events

Minneapolis Central Library
Pohlad Hall, 2nd Floor
300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55401

Please join Birchbark Books and Native Arts alongside Hennepin County Library for this special event!

Angeline Boulley, author of New York Times bestselling YA novels Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed, will discuss her brand new novel, Sisters in the Wind, with Ari Tison, winner of the Pura Belpré Award and Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult Literature for Saints of the Household.

FREE and open to the public! Books will be available for purchase before and after event.

Sisters in the Wind is a daring new mystery about a foster teen claiming her heritage on her own terms.

Ever since Lucy Smith’s father died five years ago, “home” has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything waiting for her as a “ward of the state”. But when the sharp-eyed and kind Mr. Jameson with an interest in her case comes looking for her, Lucy wonders if hiding from her past will ever truly keep her safe. Five years in the foster system has taught her to be cautious and smart. But she wants to believe Mr. Jameson and his “friend-not-friend”, a tall and fierce-looking woman who say they want to look after her. They also tell Lucy the truth her father hid from her: She is Ojibwe; she has – had – a sister, and more siblings; a grandmother who’d look after her and a home where she would be loved. But Lucy is being followed. The past has destroyed any chance of normal she has had, and now the secrets she’s hiding will swallow her whole and take away the future she always dreamed of.

The Parkway
4814 Chicago Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55417

Bestselling author Danica Nava celebrates her new romantic comedy Love is a War Song, in conversation with fellow author Lyla Sage. Described as a “swoony love story that deftly explores identity, redemption, and the complexities of cancel culture,” the new book is funny, though-provoking, and heart-melting. A must-read for all romance book lovers!

All ages welcome
- $29 ($36.92 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission (admission includes a copy of Love is a War Song!)
- $34 ($39 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission (admission includes a copy of Love is a War Song!)

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Birchbark Bizhiw
1629 Hennepin Avenue #275
Minneapolis, MN 55403
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Join us as we welcome Aaron John Curtis, author of Old School Indian! He will be joined in conversation by Mona Susan Power (A Council of Dolls, Sacred Wilderness).

OId School Indian is a coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.

Abe Jacobs is Kanien'kehá ka from Ahkwesáhsne--or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty-three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease--one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe returns to the Rez, where he's convinced to undergo a healing at the hands of his Great Uncle Budge.

“With its profound exploration of identity, language, and cultural survival, Old School Indian is a novel of pure heart and mastery. Through the vivid and deeply human lives of a Mohawk family, Curtis weaves a narrative that is both urgent and timeless, drawing us into a world where every word, every action, carries the weight of history and the hope for the future.” -- Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez

Birchbark Bizhiw
1629 Hennepin Avenue #275
Minneapolis, MN 55403
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Join us as we welcome author Dennis Staples (This Town Sleeps) to explore his new novel, Passing Through a Prairie Country.

Passing Through a Prairie Country is a darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web.

For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Spoken of only in whispers as “the sandman,” he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation’s main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons’ dreams and preventing the ghosts that linger there from moving on. Fleeing a breakup, Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties Ojibwe, seeks solace in the slot machine’s siren song. Here he falls afoul of the sandman, an encounter he barely escapes through the timely intervention of his cousins Alana and Cherie, who both work at the casino and are intimately aware of the sandman’s power. Meanwhile, Glenn Nielan, recently out of the closet and an aspiring documentarian, hopes to capture the faces of the Ojibwe land while experiencing the casino’s thrills. But he will learn that all who choose to play the sandman’s games are in danger of falling into his grasp.

Open Book
1011 Washington Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55415

Birchbark Books is thrilled to welcome author Stephen Graham Jones for a reading and conversation about his new novel, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. He will be joined by Carson Faust, author the forthcoming novel, If the Dead Belong Here.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter will be available for purchase at the event or you can preorder a copy today (pub date is March 18).

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is the story of a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the true masters of horror.