Zenith Bookstore

Zenith Bookstore welcomes Connie Wanek for a live, in-store event to present Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech. Wanek will be in conversation with former Duluth Poet Laureate Ellie Schoenfeld. Marshmallow Clouds is the newest collaboration between Wanek and Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, along with illustrator Richard Jones. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required to attend this event, as is the wearing of face masks over nose and mouth for…

Independent Bookstore Day festivities at Zenith Bookstore include giveaways, special deals, Zenith cupcakes, and more. Two favorite Duluth authors will be in the store for a meet-and-greet and book signing of their latest works. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Emily Vikre, co-owner of Vikre Distillery, is the author of the new Family Camp Cookbook, a book for everyone who enjoys cooking and eating outdoors. Whether you need to learn how to pack your first cooler or you’re looking for…

Zenith Bookstore hosts Duluth author and journalist Stephanie Pearson, who will discuss her new book 100 Great American Parks. Her book is an illustrated collection of the nation’s most breathtaking natural landscapes, published by National Geographic. Filled with beautiful photography, wisdom from experts, need-to-know travel information including the best scenic overlooks and hiking trails, and practical wildlife-spotting tips, this collection takes readers to all 63 national parks, as well as 37 state, recreational, and city parks and green spaces. Pearson…

Zenith Bookstore hosts this in-store author event with John Teschner, who will present his debut novel Project Namahana. Project Namahana takes readers from Midwestern, glass-walled, corporate offices over the Pacific and across the island of Kauai; from seemingly idyllic beaches and mountainous inland jungles to the face of Mount Namahana; all the while, exploring the question of how corporate executives could be responsible for evil things without, presumably, being evil themselves. John Teschner was born in Rhode Island and grew…

William Kent Krueger will be at Zenith Bookstore for a live, in-person talk to present Fox Creek, the newest mystery in the Cork O'Connor mystery series. Because of increasing interest, this event will be held outside, in the Zenith parking lot. Food and drink will be available from the Wussow's Concert Cafe take-out window. Attendees are invited to bring lawn chairs. Since the event is outside, there is no vaccination requirement. Masking is encouraged, and will be required on the…

Zenith Bookstore hosts Peter Geye in conversation with Linda LeGarde Grover, presenting his new novel The Ski Jumpers. Geye is author of the award-winning novels Safe from the Sea, The Lighthouse Road, Wintering (winner of the Minnesota Book Award) and Northernmost. He teaches the year-long Novel Writing Project at the Loft Literary Center. Born and raised in Minneapolis, he lives there with his family. LeGarde Grover is professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a…

Meet the authors of two new books about the north woods -- Stephanie Hansen and Kurt Johnson. Hansen's True North Cabin Cookbook celebrates life in the northland with seasonal foods and cherished stories, as recipes and personal recollections transport readers to a lakeside cabin in the north woods. Hansen is a food writer and blogger. From chatting about local dining on FM 107.1's Weekly Dish to sharing recipes on The Jason Show to highlighting local entrepreneurs and craftspeople through the…

Join with Duluth author Alice Marks to celebrate the launch of her new book RV Murder, the third book in her Corpus Christi Mysteries series, after Missing and Breaks. Proof of Covid vaccination and masking are required to attend this in-store, live event. Alice Marks has lived in Duluth for more than six years, after an eight-year stay in Port Aransas, Texas, near Corpus Christi. All of her books take place in Corpus Christi. Besides these novels, Marks’ short stories…

Marice R. Rendon will be at Zenith Bookstore to sign copies of her new book Sinister Graves. Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Rendon’s new mystery follows Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, as she attempts to discover the truth about the disappearances of Native girls and their newborns. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, a Pinckley Prize-winning author, playwright, poet, freelance writer and a community arts activist. She was awarded…

Best-selling author Brian Freeman signs copies of his new thriller The Zero Night during this meet-and-greet event. Book synopsis: Duluth homicide detective Jonathan Stride is back! After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year. When his partner, Maggie Bei, gets called about a suspicious abduction involving a local lawyer, she tells Stride it’s time for him to come back. A woman has been kidnapped. Now Stride…

Author Jennifer Walters visits Zenith Bookstore with her latest title The Memories We Keep for a book signing. The Memories We Keep is a journey of "self-discovery and taking chances." Author Bio: Walters is the author of the love story saga The Fredrickson’s Series. She writes women’s fiction and romance. She is also a triathlete and swims the lakes of Minnesota for training, bikes the Mesabi Trail and Redhead, and runs throughout the streets of Hibbing and Side Lake. She…

Duluth author Marie Zhuikov launches her new book Meander North during this event at Zenith Bookstore. The essays in this book were collected over nine years on Zhuikov’s “Marie’s Meanderings” blog. The quirky essays are arranged by season, and cover a wide range of ourdoorsy and community-based reflections, from an insider’s view of Duluth’s Christmas City of the North Parade to a spring cleaning trip to the local dump and a description of a lawnmower road race. One piece depicts…

Small Business Saturday at Zenith Bookstore features hot cocoa, giveaways and author guests throughout the day. Ten percent of sales -- in-store and online -- will be donated to the American Indian Community Housing Organization to support the Dabinoo'lgan domestic violence shelter.

Chef Jillian Forte of At Sara's Table Chester Creek Café will be signing copies of her new At Sara's Table Chester Creek Café 20th Anniversary Cookbook. For 20 years, At Sara's Table Chester Creek Café owners Barb Neubert and Carla Blumberg have provided a welcoming space and championed diversity, sustainability and local farms to create delicious comfort food with a twist. This cookbook is loaded with recipes culled from two decades of café favorites. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, soups, salads,…

Zenith Bookstore hosts a book launch for Duluth poet Julie Gard's new collection I Think I Know You. Gard will read and discuss her new book, and answer questions. Refreshments will be served. In I Think I Know You, Gard explores "the ways we struggle to understand each other’s hearts and histories, along with our own." The prose poems speak of "deep connection and tragicomic gaps in understanding, as life’s pedantic, transcendent rhythms are mined for revealing moments and messages."…

Duluth author Catherine Wright presents her book Have a Beauty Day: One Woman's Winding Path to Healing Generational Trauma.

Meet author Stuart Getty who is a genderqueer writer and filmmaker who recently moved from sunny Oakland, California to snowy Duluth. Getty will be signing copies of their book, How To They/Them: A Visual Guide To Nonbinary Pronouns And The World of Gender Fluidity . Their book is a guide to gender nonconformity and that there is more to that than just bathrooms and pronouns — this is about gender expression and the freedom to choose how to identify. For…

Author Timothy Cochrane will be holding a meet and greet and a signing for his new book, Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater. Making the Carry is an extraordinarily illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U.S.–Canada border in the early twentieth century. For more information or to buy Cochrane's book, visit Zenith Bookstore's website.

Sheila Packa is a poet and writer living in Duluth, Minnesota. She served as Duluth's Poet Laureate in 2010-2012 and has taught creative writing and composition at Lake Superior College. She will be signing copies of her newest poetry collection, Surface Displacements. For her new book, this poet travels through mine pits and waterways vulnerable to environmental contamination and climate change in Minnesota, where the Northern Continental Divide crosses the Laurentian Divide and creates three watersheds that flow into the…

Join the authors of the recently released To Be Free: Understanding and Eliminating Racism (Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing). This new, updated book about racism, seen from an Indigenous perspective, is written for middle school age through adult readers. Nine chapters cover many aspects of race and racism throughout history up to current times. Each chapter offers ways of learning about racism and combating it using multiple examples and classroom exercises. The book includes the “I Have a Dream” speech…

Singer, rapper, author and poet, Dessa sign copies of her recent poetry collection Tits on the Moon at Zenith Bookstore and perform a concert at the West Theatre later that evening. The book features a dozen “stage poems,” many of which Dessa performs at her legendary live shows. They’re funny, weird and occasionally bittersweet. The collection opens with a short essay on craft (and the importance of having a spare poem around for when the power goes out). The book…

On Small Business Saturday, Zenith Bookstore will host local authors, Marcie R. Rendon (11 a.m.- 1 p.m.), Mary T. Smith (1 p.m.- 3 p.m.) and Larry Weber (3 p.m.- 5 p.m.), who will all be signing copies of their most recent books. For more information on each author and their books, visit zenithbookstore.com.

Zenith Bookstore hosts three Minnesota authors with new books for dual meet-and-greets and book-signings. 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Joshua Moehling has been called "one of the best new voices in the mystery genre." His new thriller Where The Dead Sleep follows his debut bestseller And There He Kept Her. 1-3 p.m.: Mindy Mejia is the author of Leave No Trace, Strike Me Down, and Everything You Want Me to Be. She is a CPA, a graduate of the Hamline University MFA…

Join local author Lydia 'Nibs' Noble as she signs her debut graphic memoir 365 Lessons: A Year in Early Recovery. The book follows her journey through grief and addiction issues. Her anthology of introspective comics blends with nonfiction substance abuse topics such as Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS), and bringing awareness to the Fentanyl crisis. In her graphic novel, we follow Noble as she hits the milestones to get to 365 days of sobriety.

Local author, John Michael McLoughlin is visiting the Zenith Bookstore to sign his new book, Pagan Portals - The Irish Pagan Book of Rites: Rituals and Prayers for Daily Life and Festivals

Author Jayson Iwen is visiting the Zenith Bookstore to sign copies of his new book, You Contain Multitudes – Tackling Unconscious Bias Using Poetry, Creative Writing, and Psychology, Iwen's poetry, prose and translations have appeared in numerous journals and his work has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize several times.

Sutter participates in a discussion and reads from his new collection of poetry Cotton Grass: New and Selected Poems of the North.

Rendon presents her new poetry collection Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium and converses with musician and cultural educator Lyz Jaakola.

Seidelmann signs copies of her new book Boundaries Make Love Possible. Attendees can enjoy cupcakes and prosecco, too.

La Tray presents his debut memoir Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home. This event includes a reading, conversation, audience Q&A and a book-signing. The book combines the story of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe (the most recent tribe to receive federal recognition from the U.S. government), the history of the Métis people, and La Tray’s own search to find a place with them. La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the Red…