Stroll through some of Wisconsin's most beautiful and historic towns. Absorb rich architectural tradition and discover a depth of character only found in such well-preserved places. This charming, illustrated guide--complete with maps--will help you find your way.

Walking Tours of Wisconsin's Historic Towns

Biographies & Memoirs

Elizabeth McBride

Lucy Rhodes

Anita Matcha

Historical

Bower House

Create beautiful gardens and grow healthy perennials ideally suited for zones 3, 4, and 5. Emphasizing basic techniques, Joan demystifies and simplifies gardening with a common sense approach that makes growing perennials accessible to most everyone. Stunning full-color photos provide inspiration to the gardeners of all abilities.

Creating a Perennial Garden in the Midwest

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Severa, Joan

Stoga, Stan

Gardening & Landscape Design

From astronauts to athletes, you'll meet 55 special people, either born or raised in Wisconsin, that made a difference in our world. A who's who'' of famous Wisconsinites, this book is sure to educate and entertain. Read about Georgia O'Keefe, Golda Meir, Harry Houdini, Liberace, and Aldo Leopold. A photo accompanies each biography. Written for the fourth grade level.

Wisconsin Portraits: 55 People Who Made a Difference

Children's Books

Hintz, Martin

Biographies

All aboard for a glimpse of life on the rails! Weaving together tales of railroading days gone by, this collection of personal reminiscences will delight any fail fan or traveler. Featured are stories of conductors, porters, carmen and tower operators from around the Midwest.

Prairie Whistles: Tales of Midwest Railroading

Engineering & Transportation

Boyer, Dennis

Transportation

The whole magnificent sweep of Colorado history is told in a sprightly condensation.

Colorful Colorado: Its Dramatic History

History

Bancroft, Caroline

Americas

Based on interviews with over thirty elderly Sioux. All of the informants either knew Crazy Horse themselves or had been told about him by older relatives.

To Kill an Eagle: Indian Views on the Last Days of Crazy Horse

Kadlecek, Edward

Kadlecek, Mabell

Community & Culture

Reminiscent of nineteenth-century botanical prints, the full-color illustrations in these small nature guides are miniature watercolors, as delightful to look at as they are accurate. Beneath each illustration the reader will find the popular and scientific names, size, range, and a concise description of the habitat or an interesting bit of lore. Ideal for the backpacker or dayhiker, the books fit handily in the pocket.
Coastal mountains share some flowers with the Rockies but boast many of their own, such as the Sierra star tulip, Sierra saxifrage, and Sierra gentian. Illustrations are arranged by color for easy identification.

Sierra: Mountain Flowers (Pocket Nature Guides)

Miller, Millie

This collection of poems by James Tipton contains a Foreward by Isabele Allende. Each poem testifies tothe bedrock of Tipton's imagination and taken together, the poes are extravagant yet earthy, tender yet passionate, wild yet intimate, crazy yet hopeful. It is a poetry of transformations, an invocation of exuberant vitality.

Letters From a Stranger: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Tipton, James

Poetry

In Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems, Burton Raffel brings a lifetime of artistry to an enchanting and visionary story, followed by a sequence of jewel-like lyrics. In the title poem, set during Raffel's time as a Professor of English at Denver Univeristy, Beethoven returns from the dead and moves in with Raffel for extended conversations on music, politics, women, history, chocolate, mountains, love and God. According to the narrator, the composer returns because "Beethoven would risk anything," but it is Raffel who has dared to imagine this magical, whimsical and inspired dialogue, forging anew the character of Romantic inspiration. Over the course of the poem, Beethoven emerges as both ordinary adn supernatural, naive yet eternal, vulgar and divine. Filled both with creative joy and the acknowledment of death, Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems stands as a major and mature work by one of the gifted poets of our time.

Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems: Poems

Raffel, Burton

Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems

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