Wroblewski, David.
Summary: A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WROWroblewski, David
Summary: It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble, again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start, and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC WROButler, Nickolas.
Summary: "Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations.Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTAnsay, A. Manette.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: LP FIC ANSDavenport, Randi
Summary: Vowing to not enter a marriage filled with violence like her mother and her grandmother did, 17 year-old Marie dreams of independence in 1907 Wisconsin while working for an older man who thinks she belongs to him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVMcQuestion, Karen
Summary: "Joe Arneson's ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn't until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges. Drawn into his family's past, Joe discovers secrets weighing on the old woman's soul: the tragic death of her sister Alice a half century ago and its ripple...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCQMcQuestion, Karen.
Summary: Finding the love and stability she has always wanted with her husband Thomas, Skyla Plinka settles into her role as wife and mother, but she can't seem to calm her restless nature after she begins a friendship with neighbor Roxanne, whose life with her five children is in constant disarray.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Summary: "Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, life in rural Wisconsin is satisfying, but can't seem to quell Skyla's increasing sense of restlessness. Her only reprieve is her growing friendship with neighbor Roxanne who has five kids (and counting) and a life in constant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Encore 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McQuestion 2010Schwarz, Christina.
Summary: Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHGraff, Andrew J.
Summary: As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young, adventurous river guides but, a decade later, find themselves weighed down by money worries and the demands of adulthood. The town of Thunderwater, in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, could be the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKring, Sandra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRIButler, Nickolas
Summary: "A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUTButler, Nickolas
Summary: "In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTDunbar, Carol
Summary: "He promised her he would never let go. She's willing to risk everything to hold on. In the aftermath of her husband's logging accident, Elsa has more questions than answers about how to carry on while caring for their two small children in the unfinishedhouse he was building for them in the woods of rural Wisconsin. To cope with the challenges of winter and the near-daily miscommunications...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNHamilton, Jane
Summary: Laura and Charlie Rider, married for twelve years, run a nursery in picturesque Wisconsin and share a passion for gardening which long ago overshadowed Laura's physical passion for Charlie. Still, theirs' are mostly happy lives - Charlie living his simple life; Laura reading novels while privately writing her own. Then Jenna Faroli, a popular radio show host, crosses Charlie's path one day and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMBaker, Ellen
Summary: Decades after the women in her family and their friend are shattered by the losses of two beloved men during World War II, Julia is approached by her long-lost great-grandmother and untangles a dark secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011