Melinda Nelson

A fascinating chapter of Lake Minnetonka historyBoathouses of Lake Minnetonka is a beautiful 240-page coffee-table book by award-winning author and photographer Karen Melvin and by writer Melinda Nelson. If you've ever sailed, boated, or paddled past a vintage boathouse on Lake Minnetonka and wished its rustic wooden walls could talk, you'll love this beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched volume about Minnesota's famed lake. Never before has a book so carefully documented the interior views and history of Lake Minnetonka's boathouses, and with over 400 stunning pictures, you will feel like you are "up north at the lake." Boathouses of Lake Minnetonka gives the reader an insider's view into the most enchanting boathouses of Lake Minnetonka, including today's appearance and vintage photos of nearly three-dozen boathouses. Experience the fascinating stories of the history of the original families and of the current owners, who consider themselves caretakers of these alluring lakeside retreats.

Unique Trueheart has been thru hell and back, surviving torture and betrayal from people she would've given her life for. Picking up the pieces of her life with help from her family, she straddles the fence of sanity. Now co-owner of Risqu , one of the biggest styling companies to the rich and famous. Surrounded by family and the perfect man, her life seems to be finally coming together. Lurking in the shadows are people with secrets that will open old wounds and bring danger right back to her front door. Not the scared, depressed and fragile person her family thinks she is, it's time to let the darkness and rage that consumes her loose. Join Unique on this journey of secrets, lies, and murder. Finding out why she was a target in the first place and making sure it doesn't happen again. Introducing them and the world to the savage she has become.

This winner of 11 national publishing awards belongs on every coffee table! Summit Avenue, grande dame of Victorian boulevards, is lined with magnificent turn-of-the-century mansions built by railroad magnates, lumber barons and captains of industry. Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District is a celebration of these homes on St. Paul's best-known and most beloved avenue. With a foreword by Garrison Keillor and fascinating stories penned by four award-winning writers, the book opens the doors to more than two dozen legendary homes situated on America's best-preserved avenue from the era. Photographer Karen Melvin takes us along for a tour through stately mansions to view these remarkable architectural gems. Richly illustrated with hundreds of photos, this book offers an irresistible invitation to step through the doors of these showcase homes to explain what we are all curious to know.