Non-Fiction

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192 pages, 110 b&w/color photos, 7 x 9
ISBN: 9780870208423

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336 pages, 60 b&w photos, 8 x9
ISBN: 9780870208478

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224 pages, 100 illustrations, 8 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870209000

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Author: Jerry Apps
Hardcover
192 pages. 5.5 x 8.5"
ISBN: 9780870209062
Publication Date: Fall 2019
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A funny, heartwarming memoir about saying goodbye to your childhood home, in this case a quirky, one-of-a-kind, family-run miniature golf course in Wisconsin.

Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and the planets in this bittersweet and transformative memoir.

Author B.J. Hollars chronicles JFK’s nail-biting Wisconsin win by drawing on rarely cited oral histories from the eclectic team of people who worked together to make it happen: a cranberry farmer, a union leader, a mayor, an architect, and others.

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Author: Dennis McCann
Paperback
376 pages. 5.5 x 8.5"
ISBN: 9780870209314
Publication Date: Fall 2019
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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!

John D. Krugler brings to life the history of the dedicated corps who collected and preserved Wisconsin's diverse social heritage and fast-disappearing immigrant and migrant architecture in the largest outdoor museum of rural life in the United States.

Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are mentioned at all in histories of the state, it is with a sentence or two about their small numbers.... Full details below.

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H.H. Bennett once said, "My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography." Learn more that prominence in this H.H. Bennett biography by Sara Rath. Details below.

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.

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! Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

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.

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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An intimate and engaging Native food memoir. These stories from the author’s teen and tween years—some serious, some laugh-out-loud funny—will take readers from Catholic schoolyards to Native foot trails to bowling alleys. An intimate and engaging Native food memoir.

A first-hand narrative of the fight for farmworkers' rights from celebrated labor leader, Jesus Salas. Young leaders founded Obreros Unidos (Workers United) to fight for fairness and respect, and to provide services to migrant families.

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

Follow the war, from the Quad Cities on the Illinois/Iowa border through the “Trembling Lands” along the Kettle Morraine and into the Driftless Area of southern Wisconsin.

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

Jones Island, originally a mile-long peninsula bordering on the Lake Michigan shoreline, has a long and fascinating history, including close ties to maritime industries and the rich ethnic heritage of Milwaukee.

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Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years which trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of a variety of handicrafts.

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

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302 pages, 38 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-859-1

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288 pages, 12 maps, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207204

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176 pages, 6 photos and illus., 6 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204906

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128 pages, 100 color photos
ISBN:9780870206177

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208 pages, 30 b/w photos, 6 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204296

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240 pages, 114 photos, 2 maps, 8 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204067

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240 pages, 140 b/w and color photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204456

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240 pages, 220 b/w photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN:9780870204234

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Produced by: Milwaukee Public Television and William Povletich
Running time: 60 minutes

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288 Pages, b/w photos, maps, 6" x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204371

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128 pages, 210 color photos, 9.25 x 11.5"
ISBN: 9780978948702

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Paperback: $24.95
228 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN:9780870207297

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