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7/16 MN Reads: " Waters Like the Sky: Book 1" by Agnes Rajala and Nikki Rajala

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published July 17, 2015 at 1:46 PM CDT

Agnes Rajala kept her writing to herself.

In fact, she didn't get around to showing it to her family until she presented them with the manuscript of "Waters Like the Sky: Book 1 – The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyageur."

But as her daughter explains, by the end of her life in 2013, she was not only excited about the publishing of this book with her daughter, Nikki, she had another in the series ready to go.

Agnes and Nikki Rajala's book "Waters Like the Sky: Book 1 – The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyageur" was nominated for the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (NEMBA) in Fiction and is published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. All this summer, we'll be bringing you books about the Northland, from the Northland by NEMBA award-winners and nominees.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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