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This bedtime story brims with holiday cheer! Santa's helper, Krampus, is ready for Christmas!

Paperback: $22.95
208 pages, 28 b/w photos, 2 maps, 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-344-2

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Compiling stories of stolen skulls, underground gangs, and crimes so horrendous and shocking they made national news, Timothy Freiss reveals a side of Green Bay few have seen.

Great Ships on the Great Lakes tells of the sea battles, treacherous storms, and unexpected tragedies that sent thousands of ships to the bottom of these so-called low seas. Designed for the upper elementary classroom with emphasis on Michigan and Wisconsin.

This book examines the historic trends and battles which shaped Milwaukee, including the boundary wars of the 1950s and lawsuits over the polluting of Lake Michigan.

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Paperback: $26.95
416 pages, 337 color & b/w photos/ illus., 8 x 9”
ISBN: 9780870204975

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Paperback: $12.95
64 pages, 8 illus., 2 maps, 8 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870203107

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Paperback: $15.95
112 pages, 70 color photos and illustrations, 2 maps, 8 x 9”
ISBN: 9780870204999

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Paperback: $22.95
272 pages, 20 b/w photos, 8 x 8
ISBN: 9780870204623

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Dreidels to spin. Pennies to win. Big llama grin. Happy Llamakkah!

Astonishing accounts of ghosts, mysterious lights, and haunted houses in the midwest.

Like so many cities bordering Lake Michigan, Racine has a long and storied history. Some of that history is stranger than fiction, and historian Rory Graves uncovers some of the city's most notorious haunts.

Paperback: $12.95
112 pages, 76 b/w photos & illus., 7 x 9"
ISBN:9780870203800

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Hardcover: $22.95
200 Pages
ISBN: 9780870206726

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Parent and child badgers visit iconic sites and partake in some of Wisconsinites' favorite activities in this colorful board book.

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.

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.

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Hardcover: $40.00
753 pp, illustrated, maps
ISBN: 9780870201226

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Hardcover: $29.95
160 pages, 126 color photos and illus., 1 map, 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207679

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Hardcover: $40.00
659 pp, illustrated, photos
ISBN: 9780870201608

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Vol. II is out of stock and is currently available only as an e-book from all major e-book retailers.

Hardcover: $40.00
693 pp, illustrated, photos
ISBN: 9780870202438

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Hardcover: $40.00
734 pp, photos
ISBN:9780870203039

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Hardcover: $40.00
642 pp, photos, maps
ISBN:9780870202605

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Hardcover: $40.00
830 pp, photos, maps
ISBN: 9780870202544

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Hardcover: $24.95
208 pages, 30 b/w photos, 6 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204296

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Local expert Ross M. Curry has been chronicling the Dells region for almost sixty years. Join him for chapters of the area's story that he himself has witnessed, and then follow him as he hikes back to a time before the Kilbourn Dam, when towns were lit by gaslight.

The nation-to-nation treaties and other documents discussed here testify to the complexity and sovereignty of Indigenous governance then and now. This volume is a vital resource for historians and an accessible introduction to Indigenous treatymaking in Wisconsin.

For young anglers everywhere, reading "H is for Hook" is the next best thing to being at the end of a fishing pole waiting for that big bite.

Told with a blend of scholarly research, interviews, and personal experience of the author, this latest addition to the popular "People of Wisconsin" series shares the Hmong’s varied stories of survival and hope as they have joined Wisconsin communities.

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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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Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 140 b/w and color photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204456

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Say "Good Night" in ten different languages from around the world! A board book for young readers.

Warm, plainspoken, and wryly funny, Clark shares his own American Indian story, talking frankly about a culture’s struggle to maintain its heritage.

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Paperback: $22.95
240 pages, 29 b&w and color photos, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-855-3

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A rhyming picture book filled with optimism and encouragement for the hodag in all of us.

Paperback: $18.95
176 pages, 44 b&w photos and illus, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 9780870207730

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