Betty Cowley

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Inside WWII Prisoner of War Camps

Comprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.

Stalag Wisconsin

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Pat Middleton

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Upper Mississippi

(Signed) Discover! America's Great River Road

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Robin Shepard

Name inside cover,  some page yellowing.  See photos. 

Searching for the Perfect Pint

This information-packed guidebook introduces you to more than sixty breweries and brewpubs-from the Shipwrecked Brew Pub in Egg Harbor, to smaller craft breweries like Capital Brewery west of Madison, to the world-famous Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee. Robin Shepard includes descriptions and his personal ratings of some 600 local beers, plus a taster's chart you can use to record your own preferences. For each brewpub and brewery site you'll find: - a description and brief history, plus any "Don't miss" features - names, comments, and ratings for all their specialty beers - notes on the pub food, with recommendations - suggestions of other sites to see and activities in the local area - information about bottling and distribution - availability of tours, tastings, gift shops, mug clubs, and "growlers" - address and contact data, including Web sites and GPS coordinates Shepard also introduces novices to the brewing process and a wide variety of beer styles. And, you'll find a list of helpful books and Web sites, as well as information on Wisconsin beer tastings and festivals. As we say in Wisconsin, "So, have a couple a two, three beers, hey?"

Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs

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Chad Lewis

Michael Bie

Strange, Unusual, and Bizarre Newspaper Stories 1860-1910

Strange, Unusual, & Bizarre Newspaper Stories 1860 - 1910

(Signed First Edition) Hidden Headlines of Wisconsin

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Jeff Hagen

Name inside cover,  slight spot see photos. 

An Illustrated Journey to Midwest Fish Fries and Beyond

A sequel to Fry Me to the Moon, author Jeff Hagen visits all those Wisconsin fish fries that readers chided him for missing the first time! Featured are supper clubs, taverns, clubs, and churches with good fish and good people in Wisconsin, and some in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and the Twin Cities.

(First Edition) Codfather 2

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Robert E. Gard

Some edgewear,  spotting along page edges. Name inside cover.  See photos. 

Coming Home to Wisconsin

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Henry S. Reuss

Slight age yellowing and a bit of foxing on top edge only. Name  inside cover. See photos. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Guide for Wisconsin Hikers, Bikers, and Motorists

On the Trail of the Ice Age

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Charles Dee Sharp

But for a little chipping wear along the bottom front, its like new.
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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Photographic Journey from the Headwaters to the Delta

(First Edition) The Mississippi River In 1953

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Jane Hamilton

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Although suspiciously regarded by their neighbors as "that hippie couple" because of their well-educated, urban background, Howard and Alice believe they have found a source of emotional strength in the farm, he tending the barn while Alice works as a nurse in the local elementary school. But their peaceful life is shattered one day when a neighbor's two-year-old daughter drowns in the Goodwins' pond while under Alice's care. Tormented by the accident, Alice descends even further into darkness when she is accused of sexually abusing of a student at the elementary school. Soon, Alice is arrested, incarcerated, and as good as convicted in the eyes of a suspicious community. As a child, Alice designed her own map of the world to find her bearings. Now, as an adult, she must find her way again, through a maze of lies, doubt and ill will. A vivid human drama of guilt and betrayal, A Map of the World chronicles the intricate geographies of the human heart and all its mysterious, uncharted terrain. The result is a piercing drama about family bonds and a disappearing rural American life.

A Map of the World

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Anna Quindlen

A Novel

Blessings, the bestselling novel by the author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, begins when, late at night, a teenage couple drives up to the estate owned by Lydia Blessing and leaves a box. In this instant, the world of the estate called Blessings is changed forever. The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, “Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.”

Blessings

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Oscar Hijuelos

Through four novels in the last decade, Oscar Hijuelos has produced a body of work that is without rival in contemporary literature, both in the lush, incantatory rhythms of his extraordinary prose and in his profound and heartfelt vision. In his transcendent new novel, Hijuelos tells the story of Lydia Espana, a beautiful and formerly prosperous émigré from pre-Castro Cuba, who becomes a cleaning lady in New York. Once the spoiled, pampered daughter of a small-town mayor and adored by men--a "queen of the Congo line"--she is forced because of a youthful sexual indiscretion to leave home and, in 1947, finds herself suddenly living the life of a working poor. In time she falls in love with Raul, a humble waiter. One night in a Manhattan ballroom, in the middle of a bolero, Raul purposes marriage, for Lydia is his "empress of the most beautiful and splendid season, which is love." A life of promise is disrupted when Raul falls ill and Lydia, finding employment as a domestic, becomes the head of the family. Striving to educate her town children, Rico and Alicia, in the style of the upper class, she must endure a lesson in humanity, cleaning the homes of New Yorkers much better off than herself. Among her employers is Mr. Osprey, a reserved and kindly lawyer, who eventuality takes an interest in her family's well-being and, during the turmoil of the 1960s, intervenes at a critical juncture in the life of her teenage son, Rico. Throughout this novel Lydia remains a sensual and powerful woman who meets the trails of a lonely life with humor and a gleam of triumph in her eye--a sense that she is someone special--an empress of fortitude, of dignity. Hijuelo's genius for evoking the heart and soul of his characters has never been more vivid, moving, and impassioned than in Empress of the Splendid Season. A master of eloquent detail, Hijuelos allows Lydia to open up, alive and vibrant on the page. No one writes better of love or the pulse of the city. And no one has better captured the complexity of what happens to generations of people who come to America: how assimilation ius at once the achievement of dreams and yet, sometimes, a loss of what has rooted us to the past. Lydia, I am to you, as a sparrow adoring the sky; Lydia, you are as the moon reflecting upon the water, which is my soul; Lydia, you are the queen of beauty, the Empress of my love, and you preside over the splendidness of my feelings for you, like the morning sun on the most glorious day of the most beautiful and splendid season, which is love... -- Raul Espana to his future wife on the night he proposed marriage, 1949, from Empress of the Splendid Season

(Limited First Edition Signed by Author) The Empress of the Splendid Seasonq

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Nuala O'Faolain

Some slight page yellowing.  Black mark on bottom. See photos. 

The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

Nuala O'Faolain burst upon the literary scene in 1998 with Are You Somebody?, a fiercely candid account of her youth and adulthood that became a surprise bestseller around the world. Almost Therebegins at that moment when O'Faolain's life began to change, and it tells the story of a life in subtle, radical, and, above all, unforeseen renewal. It is on one level a tale of good fortune chasing out bad-of an accidental harvest of happiness. But it is also a provocative examination of one woman's experience of "the crucible of middle age"-a time of life that faces in two directions, forging the shape of the years to come, and clarifying and solidifying relationships to friends and lovers (past and present), family and self. Almost Thereis a crystalline reflection of a singular character, utterly engaged in life.

Almost There

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Elizabeth Strout

When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past. A first novel. 100,000 first printing. Reprint.

Amy and Isabelle

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Alaska Magazine Editors

Over 130 Favorite North Country Recipes That Tell How to Cook with Wild Game, Fish, Fowl, and Native Plants

Over 150 favorite north country recipes that tell how to cook with wild game, fish, fowl, and native plants.

Alaska Magazine's Cabin Cookbook

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Glen Duncan

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Rendered the last of his kind after a colleague's death, 200-year-old werewolf Jake struggles with depression and contemplates suicide until powerful forces that have personal agendas and the power to keep him alive take over his life. By the author of A Day and a Night and a Day. Reprint.

The Last Werewolf

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His Life and Universe 

(Audiobook) Einstein 

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Blackbeards Ghost 

J. M. Dillard

Slight edge wear,  one larger chip on front cover. See photos. 

The Resurrection

Alien invaders believed to be long-dead are revived by a toxic chemical spill and resume their mission--to prepare the Earth for colonization

War of the Worlds

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Neal Stephenson

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn. A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon

Cryptonomicon

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Susan Wright

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Never believing the rumors that the government was selling humans as slaves to the Alphas in exchange for alien technology, Rose Rico soon finds herself captive, bound for the Alpha home world. There, she will cater to the depraved desires of her new alien masters. First in a three-part saga. Original.

Slave Trade

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The Tree of Death

Great shape very slightly yellowing pages. 

Large Print

Blaze

Couple small rips along bottom of dj. Comes with advertising insert. See photos. 
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2021

A wonderful collection of stories selected by two renowned authors that has something that will surely pique the interest of everyone. Turn off the TV, your ipad, and your other electronic toys and settle back in your easy chair for a quiet evening of reading entertaining stories by some of the best authors in the world. Stories of mystery, humor, adventure, romance.....they're all here. Volume 1 & 2 of More Stories to Remember are out of print old books from the 1950's, but are still readily available on Amazon. They are inexpensive and well worth looking for. - you'll be glad you did. They are indeed stories to remember; to read and reread!

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