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Author: Louis V Clark, III (Two Shoes)
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112 pages. 5.5 x 8.25"
ISBN: 9780870209291
Publication Date: Fall 2019
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Author: Gary Jones
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208 pages. 5.5 x 8.5"
ISBN: 9780870209239
Publication Date: Fall 2019
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The Ringling Brothers confronted the challenges of taxation, war, economic pressure, changing technology, and personal sorrows. They emerge as complex characters whose ambition, imagination, and pure hucksterism fueled the phenomenon that was the Ringling Brothers' Circus.

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Paperback: $19.95
320 pages, 10 b&w images, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207075

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Get the perfect guide to rocks and minerals in the Badger, Prairie, and Hawkeye states! Full-color photographs and information to help readers identify their finds.

A multilayered story about the impact of people on the vulnerable landscape of the Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area. Told in memoir style. Color photographs.

Begin identifying and collecting seven edible mushrooms (and learn what to watch for and avoid)!

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!

Hardcover
200 pages, 179 color and b&w photos, 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207143

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Author: Muriel Simms
Paperback: $18.95
224 pages, 64 b/w illus., 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-885-0

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A facsimile edition of the original "way to a man's heart," featuring authentic American recipes, European cooking, and Jewish favorites. First published in 1903, it was a staple of the American kitchen for more than fifty years.

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112 pages, 60 b&w photos, 5½ x 8½
ISBN: 9780870207303

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Hardcover: $22.95
160 pages, 5 1/2x 8
ISBN: 978-0-87020-887-4

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A Short History of Wisconsin offers a fresh understanding of how Wisconsin came into being and how Wisconsinites past and present share a deep connection to the land itself.

It's time to take a hike and explore the Madison area. Filled with interesting new places to discover!

Reprint anticipated in 2024. To be notified when back in stock, click on "Notify me when available" below. — In Skunk Hill, archeologist Robert A. Birmingham traces the largely unknown story of this community, detailing the role it played in preserving Native culture through a harsh period of US Indian policy from the 1880s to 1930s.

Paperback: $16.95
224 pages, 46 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870207464

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

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The Midwestern landscape has given rise to significant visionaries whose extraordinary intellectualism has contributed to forming an American Identity. This book, featuring a collection of essays, examines individuals whose stories together establish the history of the American Midwest.

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A board book for beginning readers and animal lovers. Young readers will learn about different snouts and sniffers!

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

In this beautifully illustrated children's book based on historical documents, readers share in Sport's adventures while discovering the various ways lighthouse tender ships helped keep the lake safe for others.

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.

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Author: John Odin Jensen
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304 pages. 128 b&w and color photos and illustrations. 8 x 10"
ISBN: 978-0-87020-902-4
Publication Date: May, 2019
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128 pages, 81 illus., 1 map, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203749

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On a gray and drizzly day in 1983, writer Alice D’Alessio and her math professor husband, Laird, made their way down a curving, tree-lined driveway on their way to a picnic. They were visiting 115 acres of land in Wisconsin’s unglaciated Driftless Area that Laird had inherited from his parents. Emerging from the trees, Alice had her first glimpse of the valley that would become a twenty-five-year labor of love for the couple. Details, below.

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Paperback: $20.00
240 pages, 2 maps, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN: 9780870207907

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Paperback: $19.95
115 pages, 8½ x 11
ISBN: 978-0-87020-754-9

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Learn all about Wisconsin trees! Filled with full-page photos and informative details.

Nearly a decade in the making, this is a groundbreaking source for both beginning and veteran instructors. Hard Cover. First Edition.

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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Thoroughly researched and vibrantly told, Vencdedor is a captivating account of a racing sailboat famous for its exploits and victories and of the man who built it. Vencedor, a 63-foot cutter, was built in Wisconsin by the Racine Boat Manufacturing Company in the golden age of yachting.

Beautifully illustrated booklet about Villa Louis - one of the Society's historic sites.

An unforgettable collection of 174 letters and diary entries written by ninety-two Wisconsin men and women who served in Vietnam.

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Gathering interviews with residents of the now-vanished neighborhood, Dr. Sandra E. Jones reimagines Bronzeville not just as a place, but as a spirit engendered by a people determined to make a way out of no way.

Walking Milwaukee leads readers through some of the city’s most interesting, scenic, and historic places.