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18 produkter
Barnstorm
Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction
Häftad, 2005
252 kr
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Though the best American writers live everywhere now, a popular fiction persists: our strongest literary voices are strictly bi-coastal ones. Barnstorm sets out to disprove that cliche and to undermine another one as well: the sense of regional fiction as something quaint, slightly regressive, and …
Somewhere in Germany
A Novel
Inbunden, 2006
333 kr
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Somewhere in Germany is the sequel to the acclaimed ""Nowhere in Africa"", which was turned into the Oscar-winning film of the same name. This novel traces the return of the Redlich family to Germany after their nine-year exile in Kenya during World War II. In Africa, Walter had longed for his …
This Tender Place
The Story of a Wetland Year
Häftad, 2007
232 kr
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This work is the winner of a 2006 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Book Award. Excerpts have appeared in Nature Conservancy and Natural History. After the deaths of her father and father-in-law, Laurie Lawlor discovers an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a …
Cry Rape
The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice
Av Bill Lueders
Häftad, 2007
232 kr
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In September 1997, a visually impaired woman named Patty was raped by an intruder in her home in Madison, Wisconsin. The rookie detective assigned to her case came to doubt Patty's account and focused the investigation on her. Using pressure and lies, he got her to recant, then had her charged with …
Where Bones Dance
An English Girlhood, an African War
Inbunden, 2007
349 kr
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In this stunning debut novel, a child dissects the darkness at the heart of her British diplomatic family. Living in Nigeria on the brink of civil war, Anna - also known as Jake - becomes blood brothers with Dave, the Korean American daughter of a C.I.A. operative. They do push-ups, collect …
In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
A Novel
Inbunden, 2009
333 kr
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This is a first novel from the author of ""A Woman in Amber"". From Agate Nesaule, acclaimed by writers across the globe from Doris Lessing to Tim O'Brien, comes a long-awaited novel. ""In Love with Jerzy Kosinski"" is a story of courage and persistence, exploring in fiction the themes that gripped …
Sugarless
A Novel
Inbunden, 2009
333 kr
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Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother's second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a stoner slut, and his father is engaged to a Southern belle. Rick's only solace is his growing …
BIG BANG SYMPHONY
A Novel of Antarctica
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Inbunden, 2010
333 kr
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Sawdusted
Notes from a Post-Boom Mill
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Inbunden, 2010
277 kr
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Founded in 1910, the Forest Products Laboratory was created as an interdisciplinary research facility to solve difficult problems important to sustainable forest management and to a diverse wood products industry. The laboratory—a federal facility located on the University of Wisconsin–Madison …
H. H. Bennett, Photographer
His American Landscape
Av Sara Rath
Häftad, 2010
292 kr
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'My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography.'--H. H. Bennett Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) became a celebrated photographer in the half-century following the American Civil War. Bennett is admired for his superb …
Catina’s Haircut
A Novel in Stories
Av Paola Corso
Inbunden, 2010
284 kr
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Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and …
Haunted Wisconsin
Häftad, 2011
219 kr
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Grab a cozy blanket, light a few flickering candles, and enjoy the unnerving tales of Haunted Wisconsin. Gathered from personal interviews with credible eyewitnesses, on-site explorations, historical archives, newspaper reports, and other sources, these scores of reports date from Wisconsin's early …
Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club
Av Dave Crehore
Inbunden, 2012
268 kr
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Open this book and you are in Door County, Wisconsin, strolling down Coot Lake Road—a one-lane, dead-end gravel track just a few miles from Baileys Harbor and the Lake Michigan shore. Along the way you meet George and Helen O’Malley, who are growing old gracefully. Russell, their brave and …
Horse Named Sorrow
Inbunden, 2012
349 kr
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Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the 1980s and '90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant, and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, and visionary.When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the strong and self-possessed Jimmy …
Troutsmith
An Angler's Tales and Travels
Inbunden, 2013
307 kr
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Whether standing in a quiet Wisconsin creek, by a high-country lake in Wyoming, or on the grassy margins of England's hallowed chalkstreams, Kevin Searock believes anglers are driven by a vision: ""There are things on this good Earth that only the angler sees, and one of them is the breathless …
Body in Bodega Bay
A Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler Mystery
Av Betsy Draine, Michael Hinden
Inbunden, 2014
349 kr
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Life in Bodega Bay on the rugged, foggy coast of northern California has been pretty quiet since Alfred Hitchcock filmed The Birds there. But antiques dealer Toby Sandler learns that his new business partner Charlie has been found dead on an abandoned boat in the harbor. When the local sheriff …
Assault with a Deadly Lie
A Nick Hoffman Novel of Suspense
Av Lev Raphael
Inbunden, 2014
349 kr
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Successful professor Nick Hoffman finds his secure, happy, college-town life changed forever after a nightmarish encounter with police. But even when that horrible night is over, life doesn't return to normal. Someone is clearly out to destroy him. Nick and his partner Stefan Borowski face an …
Death Claims
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
Häftad, 2004
201 kr
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Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's college-age …
