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The cradle The cradle 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,… OL11967479W
A reliable wife A reliable wife 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… OL13654113W
Blood country Blood country 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… OL15128468W
The story of Edgar Sawtelle The story of Edgar Sawtelle 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… OL15153076W
Survival Instinct Survival Instinct 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… OL15186562W
The wheat field The wheat field 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… OL15416720W
Drowning Ruth Drowning Ruth 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… OL15859271W
By Lizzie By Lizzie 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. OL15861046W
Nairobi heat Nairobi heat 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… OL16002546W
This bright river This bright river 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… OL16342558W
Plague riders Plague riders 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… OL16529174W
Tamarack River ghost Tamarack River ghost 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… OL16572317W
Widow's Web (Elemental Assassin #7) Widow's Web (Elemental Assassin #7) 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… OL16794060W
Going to Town Going to Town 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. OL1719778W
The Deer in the Wood The Deer in the Wood Laura Ingalls Wilder,Renée Graef A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner. OL1719791W
Working stiff Working stiff 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… OL17758567W
Heartland courtship Heartland courtship 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… OL17792490W
Night sisters Night sisters 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… OL1849210W
The driftless zone, or, A novel concerning the selective outmigration from small cities The driftless zone, or, A novel concerning the selective outmigration from small cities 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… OL1892328W
The drifter The drifter 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… OL20017802W
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