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AUTHOR EVENTS

Saturday, March 15, 1:00 - 3:00 PM: Kiki Garcia, author of Fishing by Torchlight, will have an author event at Foxes and Fireflies at 1401 Tower Avenue, Superior, Wisconsin. 

Friday, April 25 - Kiki Garcia, author of Fishing by Torchlight, will have an author event at Grand Marais Elementary School, Grand Marais, MN.  

Saturday, April 26, 10:30-11:30 AM: Kiki Garcia will be at the Grand Marais, MN Library, 104 2nd Avenue W. 

Saturday, April 26, 12:30-2:00 PM: Kiki Garcia will be at Drury Lane Bookstore in Grand Marais, MN., 12 Wisconsin St. 

Monday, April 28, 1:00-3:00 PM:  Roxanne Gould (Murphy the Boss Cat of Little Earth) will be having a book event at Little Earth, 2501 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN. 

Saturday, May 10, 10:30 AM: Kiki Garcia, author of Fishing by Torchlight, will be at STORY LINE BOOKS on Saturday, May 10, 10:30 a.m., 214 4th Street E., St. Paul. Come hear Kiki read from her book! Kiki is our youngest author at 10 years old, a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe

Friday, June 6, 5:00-7:00 PM: Several of our authors (Art Coulson, Kiki Garcia, Dee Sweet, Roxanne Gould, Melonee Montano, Evan Larson,  Elizabeth Albert-Peacock and Kent Estey) will be at a very special author event hosted by the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO), 202 West 2nd Street, Duluth, Minnesota. Food and refreshments will be served. 

Saturday, June 7, 10:00-11:00 AM: Ginanda Gikendaasomin, Red Cliff Library, will host an author's event for Kiki Garcia (Fishing by Torchlight), at 36750 State Highway 13, Red Cliff, Wisconsin. 

Saturday, June 7, 1:00-3:00 PM: Rabbit, Bird and Bear will host a multiple author event featuring Dee Sweet (Do Rabbits Have Habits), Art Coulson (Our Stories), Kiki Garcia (Fishing by Torchlight), Melonee Montano and Evan Larson (Ishkode), Roxanne Gould (Murphy, the Boss Cat of Little Earth), 222 Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield, Wisconsin. 

Sunday, June 8, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM:  Madeline Island Museum, LaPointe, WI, will host Dee Sweet (Do Rabbits Have Habits), Art Coulson (Our Stories), Kiki Garcia (Fishing by Torchlight), Melonee Montano and Evan Larson (Ishkode), Roxanne Gould (Murphy, the Boss Cat of Little Earth), 226 Colonel Woods Ave. 

Sunday, June 8, 1:00-3:00 PM: Woods Hall Gallery, 712 Fort Road, LaPointe, WI., hosting all the authors listed above. 

Saturday, June 28, 10:00-11:30 AM: ​ Dee Sweet (Do Rabbits Have Habits), Melonee Montano and Evan Larson (Ishkode) will be at Foxes and Fireflies Bookstore, 1401 Tower Avenue, Superior, WI. 

Saturday, June 28, 12:00-2:00 PM: Art Coulson and author contributors (Our Stories) will be at Foxes and Fireflies Bookstore, 1401 Tower Avenue, Superior, WI. 

Saturday, June 28, 3:30-5:30 PM: Art Coulson and author contributors (Our Stories) will be at Rabbit, Bird and Bear, 222 Rittenhouse, Bayfield, WI. 

Saturday, July 5, 1:00-3:00 PM: Kiki Garcia (Spearing by Torchlight) will be signing books at Split Rock Lighthouse on Minnesota's Northshore, 3713 Split Rock Lighthouse Road, Two Harbors, MN. 

Tuesday, August 12, 1:00-3:00 PM: The Perpich Center for the Arts will hold a very special multi-author event featuring Art Coulson and author contributors (Our Stories), Kiki Garcia (Fishing by Torchlight), Evan Larson and Melonee Montano (Ishkode), at 6125 Olson Memorial Highway, Golden Valley, Minnesota 

OUR BOOK EVENT LIST WILL BE CONTINUALLY UPDATED AS THEY ARE BEING SCHEDULED

​We have seven exciting new books in 2025!

Ishkode, A Story of Fire by Evan Larson and Melonee Montano, illustrated by Moira Villiard - in hardcover only.  A wondrous story of the traditional use of fire by the Ojibwe people.  $17.95

Murphy, the Boss Cat of Little Earth by Roxanne Gould, illustrated by Anna Granholm.  A must read illustrated children's book based on real characters - Calvin, a resident of Little Earth Housing in Minneapolis, and Murphy, a homeless cat.  $12.95

Our Stories, Past, Present and Future, edited by Art Coulson. An anthology of Indigenous writers of the Native Writer's Program offered through the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI). Prose, poetry and essays. A wonderful collection by new and emerging Native writers.  $12.95

Animal Friends by Erin Kant Barnard and Elizabeth Albert-Peacock, illustrated by Erin Kant Barnard. Learn to count in Ojibwe! Learn the animal names in Ojibwe! Beautifully illustrated.  $12.95

Do Rabbits Have Habits by Dee Sweet, illustrated by Erin Kant Barnard. Author Dee Sweet is a multiple year Poet Laureate of Wisconsin. A beautiful, lyrical prose poem sure to be very popular with children of all backgrounds.  $12.95

Fishing by Torchlight by Delores Kiki Garcia, illustrated by Erin Kant Barnard. A story of three friends who go spearing fish to exercise their treaty rights. Sure to be one of our best sellers. This is author Kiki Garcia's first book, and our first book written by a young person. Kiki is nine years old!  $12.95

Picking Sweetgrass by Kent Estey, illustrated by Anna Granholm. An illustrated children's book based on the life of Josephine Robinson, a renowned Ojibwe black ash basketmakers, and her grandson Kent Estey. Beautifully written and illustrated.  $12.95


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