Three Minnesota Authors will sign books at CatTale’s Books and Gifts in Downtown Brainerd Saturday, May 17 from 11-1.

The event features Jack Kraywinkle, Jan D. Payne and Debbie Russell. All three authors currently live in Minnesota and write a variety of genres.

CatTale’s Books and Gifts in Downtown Brainerd will host three authors from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17.

The event features Jack Kraywinkle, Jan D. Payne and Debbie Russell. All three authors currently live in Minnesota and write a variety of genres. Patrons can get a card stamped by each author for entry into a door prize.

Jack Kraywinkle will sign copies of his book “Blue Harvest.” Farming is not just Oscar Halvorson’s livelihood but his life, and the Depression has taken nearly everything but the land itself. His acreage is still not entirely his own. Oscar faithfully paid his loans during the lean years, but he faces foreclosure soon, unless he can pay off the bank loan. Oscar’s plight has haunted him all winter. Banker E.A. Stordal is in no mood to bargain and has ambitions of becoming a wealthy landowner. With the only life he’s ever known at risk, Oscar gambles with fate and a bargain for a widow’s fallow land with the potential to save everything. In the midst of their arduous efforts, he finds redemption, a new life and a late-blooming love. This lyrical story is a reassurance that it’s never too late for love. Filled with a spirituality that’s ever-present in the characters’ lives and situations, “Blue Harvest” is a testament to survival despite overwhelming odds.

Jan D. Payne will sign copies of her book, “Rabbit Moon,” which is the first book in the Marin Sinclair series. Kidnap, murder and intrigue confront end-of-life doula Marin Sinclair on the Dineh reservation, and only by escaping into the Lukachukai mountains can she hope to survive her unknown adversaries — adversaries who may find her even in the depths of a deserted uranium mine. They say you can’t go back home, but Marin Sinclair doesn’t expect her life to be in danger when she answers a mysterious plea for help from a long-ago friend and returns to Dinetah, the Navajo Nation. Her past there holds memories she is reluctant to confront, but what about her life then would make someone want to kill her? Navajo Nation Police Sergeant Justin Blue Eyes shares a connection with Marin from the past, and he has a few questions of his own when Marin disappears, such as why the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agents investigating the abandoned uranium mines on the reservation and how Marin is connected. Marin needs to survive to find any answers, and to do so she is forced to run, going off the grid on her own in the Lukachukai mountains with unknown killers close behind.

Debbie Russell will sign copies of her book “Crossing Fifty-One: Not Quite a Memoir.” Three generations of family secrets and midlife crises all set the stage for one dream to come true. A week before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility known as a “narcotic farm.” Sixty-five years later, Dr. Russell’s granddaughter Debbie suffers a debilitating crisis of identity when her father (Dr. Russell’s oldest son), always her biggest fan, is accepted into hospice. Russell’s investigation into her paternal lineage reveals family secrets and ignites her mother’s volatile outbursts, propelling her into therapy. When therapy fails her, the grandfather Debbie never knew saves her, and she collaborates with her dying father one last time to make her biggest dream come true. “Crossing Fifty-One” pulls back the curtain on the internal struggles of midlife and provides a blueprint for redefining one’s self beyond the constraints of addiction and dysfunctional family dynamics.