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Your guide to feeders, food, and the most common backyard birds. Give birding a try, and get started with the guidance of an expert!

This book is a must-have for dog lovers who enjoy hiking in Wisconsin with their pup(s).

Document and learn about the birds you see each season. Take your birdwatching to the next level with this illustrated journal!

Identify wildlife like an expert with this extensive and richly illustrated field guide from one of the most trusted names in birding, the National Audubon Society.

Who's that bird visitng your feeder? Identify the birds you see in your back yard and on hikes throughout the state.

Readers will find in these pages the biography of a bridge, a requiem for a union, odes to autumn and spring, a poem about aging, tales of two shipwrecks, a frank take on segregation, a visit to a junkyard, memories of the summer of ’68, and more.

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Identify midwestern butterflies with this easy-to-use field guide. 198 species of butterflies and common moths organized by color.

Enslaved, Indentured, Free shines a light on five extraordinary Black women whose lives intersected in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, during seminal years of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

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A bittersweet story of bravery and compassion, Finding Freedom provides the first full picture of the man for whom so many fought and around whom so much history was made.

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Essays on barflies, fix-it guys, and other eccentric small-town folks come together in a humorous and touching collection that shares the heart of a Midwestern lake community.

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Take birding to another level when you make unique dishes especially for 70+ backyard birds. Illustrated.

In one hundred essays and poems, Wisconsinites reflect on "hope" in the era of COVID-19 and illustrate that hope can come in many forms: a dad dance, a birth plan, an unblemished banana, a visit from a neighborhood dog, the revival of an old tradition, and more.

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From pre-mound builder groups to the modern era, this book details 2000 years of history. Illustrated. Second edition.

Relish the real-life, epic journey of intrepid Wisconsin voyageur, Clara Pagel, who ventured into the world just prior to the start of World War II, chronicling her travels and the state of the world—from bombings and earthquakes to Mussolini and Gandhi—in more than 100 letters to YWCA members back home.

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Float like a butterfly in these socks. The perfect accessory when you need to be a true social butterfly. Fits Women’s shoe size 5 - 10.5.

Beginning with a boyhood surrounded by storytellers, Jerry Apps engages readers with stories about his path to becoming one of the Midwest’s best-known and most revered writers. A book for book lovers!

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Paperback: $18.95
240 p, 40 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870206191

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This guide will help you steward a perfect habitat that attracts birds, bees, and butterflies. Start planning your new landscape today!

Paperback: $20.00
192 pages, 1 b&w photo, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 9780870208249

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Wisconsin is known as the home of the Progressive party. But, in the words of a suffragist in 1912, "The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his wife." Learn more about women's rights to vote and the Wisconsin women who made it possible.

Fun to read and packed with information, Place Names of Wisconsin is a must-have for anyone interested in Wisconsin and Midwest history, language, geography, and culture—or anyone who simply wonders “why did they name it that?”

Audiobook: $34.95
5 Disc CD format
ISBN: 9780870206559

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A seeds-to-supper guide for the whole family to learn together about gardening science and history and growing in different environments. Includes recipes and projects to make the most of these nature lessons!

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Spirits of Earth explores the cultural, historical, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds in an informative, abundantly illustrated book and guide.

Paperback: $28.95
304 pages, 61 b&w and color photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-836-2

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Paperback: $16.95
216 pages, 31 b&w photos, 2 maps
ISBN: 9780870206528

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Learn about Thure Kumlien, one of Wisconsin's earliest naturalists, and his remarkable achievements working with bird specimens on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in the mid-1800's. Details below.

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More than eighty selected texts include writings by Black Hawk, Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Leopold, David Rhodes, explorers, scientists, historians, farmers, songwriters, journalists, and poets. Hardcover.

Small town Wisconsin native Peggy Prilaman Marxen recounts her family's rural farming life and its evolution from her settler ancestors to the modern day.

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Family-friendly guide to 70 Wisconsin birds, featuring large photographs and fascinating facts. Second Edition.

This is your guide to cooking wildfoods that you can hunt, fish, or forage—or buy—in the Upper Midwest.

Beyond delving into mythic origins of classic creations, Jeanette Hurt introduces a new generation of Wisconsin cocktail concoctions.

Wisconsin Waters takes readers on an epic tour of the geologic, natural, and human stories that have shaped these aquatic landscapes over millions of years.

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Paperback: $37.95
512 pp, photos
ISBN: 0870203619

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