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City and town life Wisconsin Drama Eccentrics and eccentricities Wisconsin Drama Families Family life Wisconsin Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Wisconsin Fiction Murder Investigation Wisconsin Fiction Policewomen Wisconsin Fiction Wisconsin Wisconsin Fiction Wisconsin Romans, nouvelles, etcSummary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from The Wizard Oz is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show and tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause". Everyone knows everyone else's business - or at least they think they do.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICWilkes, Maria D.
Summary: An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Fifteen years ago, Heidi White's parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth--if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She's also the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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Summary: Sheriff Heidi Kick has a dead body on her hands: a homeless young man last seen alive miles from the Bad Axe. The medical examiner confirms what Sheriff Kick has been experiencing in her own reoccurring nightmares of late: the victim was buried alive. As the relentless summer heat bears down and more bodies are discovered, Sheriff Kick also finds herself embroiled in a nasty reelection...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALNania, Jeff
Summary: "Olympic medalist Anna MacDonald comes home to Namekagon County to emcee the Great Wilderness Race as predators stalk the Northwoods. While occasional interactions with potentially dangerous animals are old hat for most residents, this changes when unpredictable behavior patterns make it unclear who is the hunter and who is the hunted. Sheriff John Cabrelli and the new Musky Falls chief of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feet Wet Writing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANHouston, Victoria
Summary: It's Lew Ferris's first day as the newly-elected Sheriff of McBride County, and already things are heating up in the Wisconsin Northwoods. The tragic drowning of a teenage girl draws an eerie parallel to the unsolved murder of another teen thirty years earlier, but one of Lew's new subordinates-- Alan Stern, Chief of the Deer Haven Police Department-- has ruled it an accidental death by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUSummary: An evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom and Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. She is taken under the wing by Mason, an agent from the Program. Carter is Mason's daughter, who works after school at a a nearby bait shop. Rosalinda,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrGenhart, Michael
Summary: Follows the reaction of a neighborhood of birds, from a congress of crows to a gaggle of geese, when a flamboyance of flamingos moves in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENHenkes, Kevin
Summary: Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HENGalligan, John
Summary: "It’s a time for celebration in Bad Axe County as the town gathers for the annual Syttende Mai—or Norwegian Independence Day—festival. During this rollicking family-oriented event filled with dancing and food, Sheriff Heidi Kick discovers a dark and shocking event—a migrant worker has been savagely beaten but refuses to explain what happened. Then, a sudden murder of a band member shatters the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Galligan 2020Wright, Jaime Jo
Summary: "After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene--even going so far as to re-create it in the attic. Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WRISummary: It's Christmastime as young Robbie Eunson pulls his little sister on a sled through the snow to a snug house in the woods. Robbie is fulfilling the promise he made to their dying mother- that he would find a home for each of the six orphaned children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALLBrink, Carol Ryrie
Summary: The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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Summary: "When grouse hunters stumble upon a body in the backwoods, Sheriff John Cabrelli works to untangle the complex case, while stressed relationships, public outcries for justice, and pressure from the media compound the situation. As the body count rises in the expansive landscape, he soon finds his greatest resource is the community itself."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Creek Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANNania, Jeff
Summary: "A missing federal agent, suitcases full of cash, a secluded cabin in the woods. Spider Lake is no longer the peaceful retreat John Cabrelli needs to recover from his gunshot wounds and start a new life. The new chief of police recruits Cabrelli to help untangle a string of strange events in the little town of Musky Falls. Cabrelli and a coloful team of local residents land in the center of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feet Wet Writing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANSummary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LScillian, Devin
Summary: "From a mischief of mice and a shiver of sharks to a caravan of camels and a rhumba of rattlesnakes, animals from around the globe gather a group and sashay, swim, slither, or sail through this party of animal plurals"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCIBalzo, Sandra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBeckstrand, Jennifer
Summary: During this holiday season, Anna Yoder can't help hoping that she and her old schoolmate Felty Helmuth, who is being ostracized by their Amish community for his Korean War army service, can find a way to be the perfect match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021