Books with a Wisconsin Connection

Updated May 22, 2024
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French roast
Balzo, Sandra
Paper Book
Things go from bad to worse for Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen when her cousin Jacque Oui finds himself in hot water.Coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen's cousin, Jacque Oui, is in trouble. Big trouble! Not only is his cash-strapped Schultz's Market facing competition from a big bucks grocery...
We were never here : a novel
Bartz, Andrea
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * "This book is every suspense lover's dream and it kept me up way too late turning pages. . . . A novel with crazy twists and turns that will have you ditching your Friday night plans for more chapters."--Reese Witherspoon
Little faith : a novel
Butler, Nickolas
Paper Book
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  Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly...
The family Chao : a novel
Chang, Lan Samantha
Paper Book
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and...
Shoulder season
Clancy, Christina
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America * CNN * Parade * EW * Travel & Leisure * PopSugar * New York Post * BuzzFeed * Brit & Co * SheReads * Women.com ...
Send for me
Fox, Lauren
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. * A...
American gods : a novel
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
Laugh all year long with this hilarious, highly illustration collection of jokes from the author of the #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series. With gags for every day of the year, it's the book perfect book to keep the whole family laughing no matter what the weather's...
Raft of stars : a novel
Graff, Andrew J.
Paper Book
"A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor." --Richard Russo An instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the...
Wolf Hollow
Houston, Victoria
Paper Book
There are rumours that a precious vein of nickel and copper is buried on the property of wealthy Grace McDonough, and the drilling is about to begin. But not if environmentalist Pete Ferris can help it. When Grace's 24-year-old son Noah is caught in a sordid sex crime, police chief Lew Ferris makes...
The ingenue : a novel
Kapelke-Dale, Rachel
Paper Book
Stella Maris
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road * An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The...
A death in Door County
Ryan, Annelise
Paper Book
Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she's not tending the store, she's hunting cryptids - creatures whose existence is rumoured, but never proven to be real. It's a hobby that cost her parents their lives, but one she'll never give up on....
Death casts a shadow
Skalka, Patricia
Paper Book
With Door County caught in the grip of a fierce winter storm, Sheriff Dave Cubiak agrees to do a simple favor for a friend of his wife: he stops by to check in on an affluent widow with a questionable new suitor. His initial disquiet is easily dismissed--until she is found dead the next morning in...

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