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The cradle
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Patrick Somerville |
Early one summer morning, Matthew Bishop kisses his still-sleeping wife Marissa, gets dressed and eases his truck through Milwaukee, bound for the highway. His wife, pregnant with their first child,… |
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A reliable wife
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Robert Goolrick |
A widower advertises for "a reliable wife" and he chooses Catherine. To her surprise, Catherine learns to love Ralph and must, as a result, abandon the remaining traces of her former life and cope wi… |
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Blood country
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Mary Logue |
Deputy sheriff Claire Watkins of Wisconsin, the widow of a murdered Minneapolis policeman, receives a shock when her 10-year-old daughter informs her she saw the killer. When Watkins passes the infor… |
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The story of Edgar Sawtelle
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David Wroblewski |
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 th… |
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Survival Instinct
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Rachelle McCalla |
Returning to Devil's Island—the place that haunts her past—is frightening enough for Abby Caldwell. When her ride home mysteriously disappears, terror starts closing in. The island can be deadly, and… |
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The wheat field
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Steve Thayer |
Deputy Pennington of Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin, must embark on a murder investigation when the bodies of Maggie and Michael Butler are found in a wheat field, plunging him into a labyrinth of strange… |
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Drowning Ruth
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Christina Schwarz |
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 sis… |
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By Lizzie
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Mary Eccles |
Lizzie, the middle child of divorced parents, uses her mother's old typewriter to record the events in her life the year before she turns ten. |
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Nairobi heat
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Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ |
"A young and beautiful white woman is murdered in the US, and the prime suspect is former Rwandan school headmaster Joshua - a hero who had risked his life to save the innocent during Rwanda's genoci… |
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This bright river
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Patrick Somerville |
"Lauren Sheehan's career in medicine came to a halt after a sequence of violent events abroad. Now she's back in the safest place she knows--St. Helens, Wisconsin--cut off from career, friendship, an… |
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Plague riders
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Gabriel Goodman |
"Fourteen-year-old Shep Greenfield is a plague rider. He rides his horse between the makeshift colonies along the Wisconsin River, delivering homemade medicine to people infected with nightpox, a dea… |
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Tamarack River ghost
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Jerold W. Apps |
"When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper's national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the biggest story of his young career--just as the pa… |
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Widow's Web (Elemental Assassin #7)
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Jennifer Estep |
I used to murder people for money, but lately it’s become more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gun… |
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Going to Town
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Laura Ingalls Wilder,Renée Graef |
A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store. |
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The Deer in the Wood
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Laura Ingalls Wilder,Renée Graef |
A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner. |
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Working stiff
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Annelise Ryan |
"Former nurse turned deputy coroner Mattie Winston has gone from working on live patients to cutting open corpses. But she has no idea that trading in her nurse's cap for a deputy coroner's badge wil… |
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Heartland courtship
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Lyn Cote |
Quaker Rachel Woolsey dreams of having her own bakery and her own homestead, but the odds are stacked against her - until the handsome ex-soldier she nurses back to health offers to help her. Like Ra… |
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Night sisters
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Sara Rath |
"Nell Grendon never thought about communing with the dead when she was growing up in Little Wolf, Wisconsin; she was more concerned with slumber parties, boys, and the Lord's Prayer Ring she won (dis… |
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The driftless zone, or, A novel concerning the selective outmigration from small cities
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Rick Harsch |
Out of La Crosse, Wisconsin (home of Nicholas Ray), comes a quirky black comedy paying considerable homage to film noir: a solid debut about a hired psychokiller who steps off a bus into a city aware… |
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The drifter
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Nicholas Petrie |
"An explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren't easily left behind . . . " --
"Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with on… |
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