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Identify your agate finds quickly and easily with this all-in-one identification guide. A must-have for beginners and experts.

Historian and storyteller Gayle Soucek explores the haunting mysteries and spooky stories behind the area known as the Lake Michigan Triangle.

A heartfelt and humorous memoir about the hard, laborious life on a farm in the early 1960s, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland.

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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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This impeccably researched study points to ways in which legends about the past possess qualities unique to their subgenre yet can also operate similarly to contemporary legends in their social impact.

A tale of soaring success and terrible tragedy, offering insight not only into one man’s athletic journey but also into the rise of American hockey on the national and international stage.

CD-ROM Format: $49.95
ISBN: 9780870202952

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Paperback: $12.95
112 pages, 60 b/w photos, and 5 maps, 7 x 9
ISBN:9780870204883

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Paperback: $19.95
200 pages, 40 b&w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-851-5

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Paperback: $15.95
192 pages, 46 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870202681

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Explore Christmas traditions from 13 different countries! Rhyming text and detailed, festive illustrations.

Learn about special days in 13 countries through lyrical text and festive illustrations! Includes educational notes and calendar.

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.

Hardcover: $29.95
208 pages, 180 color photos, 7 ½ x 9
ISBN: 9780870208287

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Paperback: $14.95
152 pages, 50 color and b/w photos and illus., 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204920

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Hardcover: $22.95
248 pages, 48 b/w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ¼
ISBN: 9780870205804

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Little Hawk shares his life journey—a story that is wise and irreverent, often funny, and deeply moving.

Paperback: $15.95
172 pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-861-4

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Wisconsin state birds, flowers, trees, and animals for the youngest of book lovers. A board book.

A beautifully told and illustrated story of when the little people gave the Anishinabe people the gift of maple syrup.

This biography introduces young readers to a great Wisconsin soldier-statesman. From panning for gold, to losing an arm during a Civil War battle, to campaigning hard for elections, Lucius learned early that it takes courage and persistence to succeed.

Nancy Oestreich Lurie found a shopping bag filled with letters from her mother's childhood, and they turned out to be historically enlightening and entertaining.

From the prowling Beast of Bray Road to what is thought to be Wisconsin’s most haunted bar, a spine-tingling location is never far away. Join author Anna Lardinois to discover some of Madison’s most macabre tales.

Paperback: $8.95
64 pages, 20 b/w photos, 2 maps, 6 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870201462

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Renowned historian John Gurda chronicles the development of a community whose past has produced one of the most livable big cities in America and, at the same time, created some daunting social and economic problems. Thoroughly illustrated. Fourth edition.

Create new memories with every meal! Features recipes beyond breakfast that are sure to delight friends, neighbors, and the entire family.

Ann Bausum chronicles the intertwining struggles of poverty, labor rights and civil rights culminating in the poignant final days of Martin Luther King Jr's life and his enduring legacy.

Paperback: $24.95
128 pages, 210 color photos, 9.25 x 11.5"
ISBN: 9780978948702

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Paperback: $29.95
432 pages, 161 b/w illus., 8x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-883-6

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Mai Ya's Long Journey follows Mai Ya Xiong, a young Hmong woman, from her childhood in Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp to her current home in Wisconsin.

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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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ISBN: 978-0-87020-508-8

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Paperback: $12.95
136 pages, 60 b/w photos, 20 image color gallery
ISBN: 9780870205774

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Take a nostalgic ride around the fair with celebrated rural historian, Jerry Apps, as the former 4-H leader and fair judge showcases the history of Wisconsin county fairs (and the state fair) in this salute to one of the Midwest’s greatest summer traditions!

Paperback
128 pages, 30 b&w photos, 6x9
ISBN: 9780870208348

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Hardcover: $28.95
244 pages, 5 maps, 7 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-865-2

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Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 220 b/w photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN:9780870204234

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Paperback: $18.95
260 pages, 86 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870207426

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From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all—Milwaukee Mayhem uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis.

Paperback: $15.95
224 pages, 24 b & w photos an dillus, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870203220

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Paperback: $18.95
236 pages, 10 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN:9780870206900

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Beneath Milwaukee's calm façade, its ghastly past awaits.

Based on the popular series of posters published by the City of Milwaukee in the 1980s, this book features both historical chronicles and contemporary portraits of 37 neighborhoods that emerged before World War II

This fascinating pictorial history celebrates the people of Mineral Point-the early American settlers from Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky, and the Cornish, German, Irish, and Italian immigrants. Illustrated.

After a difficult and perilous journey that neither of his parents survived, five-year-old Pao Lor reached the safety of Thailand, but the young refugee boy's challenges were only just beginning.

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Paperback: $14.95
192 pages, 40 b/w photos, 3 maps, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204470

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Read 23 chilling stories from two paranormal investigators about encounters with monsters in the Midwest!

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.

Paperback: $12.95
88 pages, 55 photos and illus., 8 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN:9780870203817

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

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A pictorial and entertaining commentary on the growth and development of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Take a playful trip to the museum in this wordless picture book. Use your imagination to tell the story!

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.

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

Empowers children to become nature explorers. Full-color guide featuring beautiful watercolors, tips on becoming a naturalist, and engaging activities.

An essential title for the upper elementary classroom, Native People of Wisconsin fills the need for accurate and authentic teaching materials about Wisconsin’s Indian Nations.

Hardcover: $22.95
160 pages, 5 1/2 x 8
ISBN: 9780870207945

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The first biography to chronicle the life and career of one of the most beloved musical artists to come out of Wisconsin. From his earliest days singing in the 1940s until his death in 2017, Jarreau defied categorization.

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72 pp, photos
ISBN:9780870203343

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Carries readers on a journey that chronicles rail operations in Wisconsin and Michigan. 145 color photos.

Based on significant original and archival research, including interviews with Wright’s family and others involved in the studio and 180 images, The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright offers the first comprehensive look at the early independent office of one of the world’s most influential architects.

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.

Paperback: $16.95
200 pp, illustrations, 5.5" x 6.5"
ISBN:9780870203831

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Paperback: $12.95
120 pp, maps, softcover
ISBN: 9780870202391

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Seasoned with personal stories, menus, and family photos, Old Farm Country Cookbook recalls a time when electricity had not yet found its way to the farm, when making sauerkraut was a family endeavor, and when homemade ice cream tasted better than anything you could buy at the store.

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Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 114 photos, 2 maps, 8 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204067

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Paperback: $12.95
78 pages, 42 b/w photos, 1 map, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204326

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

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Learn more about the history of Lake Mendota's shoreline and the people and place along it in this collection of stories, maps, newspaper articles, and other fully colored illustrations compiled by Donald P. Sanford. Details below.

Meticulously researched by one of the state’s most prolific outdoor writers, "On the Hunt" covers subsistence hunting, sport hunting, deer camps, changing deer management policies, human encroachment, CWD and more.

Hardcover: $22.95
256 pages, 39 b&w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-857-7

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