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Book
Discussion Kits at Wisconsin Libraries
This
is a list of books that have been used by Wisconsin public libraries
in their book discussion groups. The Wisconsin public libraries
listed have agreed to loan out their multiple copies of book discussion
titles to other Wisconsin public libraries to be used for their
discussion groups. If you have book titles to add to this list,
please send them to Trish Iaccarino at piaccarino@library.wisc.edu.
If
you are an individual with a book group who would like to borrow
these books, please contact your local public library to see if
they are available through Interlibrary Loan.
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About
a Boy by Nick Hornby. Thirty-something, unmarried and very
cool Londoner, Will Lightman meets Marcus, an impossibly uncool,
twelve year old. Gradually, Will and Marcus become friends, and
as Will teaches Marcus how to be a cool kid, Marcus helps Will
to finally grow up.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Marathon
Co. Public Library 5 copies
Aguero
Sisters by Christina Garcia
Arrowhead Library System
30 copies
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10
copies
Anna
Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Arrowheadead
Library System 3 copies
Ali
and Nino by Kurban Said
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8 to 10 copies
Almost
American by Patricia McReynolds
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Angela’s
Ashes by Frank McCourt. Frank McCourt’s memoirs of his impoverished
childhood provide a moving portrait of love and survival.
Manitowoc Public Library 11 copies
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
Angle of
Repose by
Wallace Stegner
Winner of
the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this book can be appreciated
as America's story as well. Based on the correspondence of the
little-known 19th century writer, Mary Hallock Foote, the novel's
heroes represent opposing but equally strong strains of the American
ideal.
Racine
Public Library 16 copies
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
Animal
Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. A woman returns to her hometown
to care for her father and reconnects with her past, the community,
and herself.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Antelope
Wife by Louise Erdrich
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Are You
Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Ar'n't
I a woman? by Deborah Gray White
Arrowhead Library System 19 copies
Art of
theTale by Daniel Halpern
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Artist's
Way by Julia Cameron
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Atonement
by Ian McEwan. Three children lost their innocence -- as the sweltering
summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935 -- and their
lives are changed forever.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Autobiography
of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Appleton Public Library 12 copies
Autobiography
of My Mother by Jamica Kincaid
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Balzac
and the little Chinese seamstress by Sijie Dai
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Bastard
Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Bone is a
survivor, a true heroine. At first, she feels that illegitimacy
has defeated her, that her life is already what it's going to
be. She finds that storytelling and fantasies are the only places
where she can find solace and control.
Racine
Public Library 13 copies
Bean
Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Meet Taylor Greer. Clear-eyed and spirited, she grew up poor in
rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away.
She succeeds on both counts when she buys a '55 Volkswagen and
heads west.
Racine
Public Library 13 copies
Because
of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Waupaca Area PL 24 copies
Bee
Season by Myla Goldberg. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable
nine-year-old, sweeps her school and district spelling bees in
quick succession, much to the astonishment of her gifted but troubled
family.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Before
Women had Wings by Connie May Fowler
Arrowhead Library System 10 copies
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Arrowhead Library System 20 copies
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8
copies
Johnson Creek Public Library 14
copies
Marathon Co. Public Library 5
copies
Racine Public Library 14 copies
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
In writing Beloved, Morrison said she had set out to "disentangle
the grip of history while remaining in its palm." She based
the story of Beloved on an article she came across in Harper's
Weekly, a true story of a woman who attempted to kill all her
children to keep them from enslavement.
Racine Public Library 6 copies
Betrayals
: Fort William Henry and the "massacre"
by Ian K. Steele
Arrowhead Library System 20 copies
Beyond
1492 by James Axtell
IArrowhead Library System 20 copies
Big Fish
by Daniel Wallace
Independence Public Library 3 copies
Biohazard
by Ken Alibek
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Bird by
Bird: some instructions on writing by Anne Lamott
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Birds of
America by Lorie Moore
Arrowhead Library System 12 copies
Black dahlia
avenger by Steve Hodel
Independence Public Library 3 copies
Black Earth City: when Russia ran wild by Charlotte Hobson
Chippewa Falls Public Library 5 copies
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Blood runs
like a river through my dreams by Nasdijj
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Bloodlines
by Janet Campbell Hale
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Breath,
eyes, memory by Edwidge Danticat
Door County Library (Sturgeon
Bay) 8-10 copies
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Muskego Public Library 22 copies 2 kits
Bud, not
Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Waupaca Area Public Library 25-Jan
Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
Arrowhead Library System 20
copies
Door County Library (Sturgeon
Bay) 8-10 copies
Marathon Co. Public Library
5 copies
Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar
Manitowoc Public Library 14 copies
Ceremony
by Leslie Silko
Arrowhead Library System 10 copies
Door County Library (Sturgeon
Bay) 8-10 copies
A Child
Called It by Dave Pelzer
Chippewa Falls Public Library
8 copies
Children's
Story by James Clavell
Arrowhead Library System 7 copies
Manitowac Public Library 7 copies.
Cider House
Rules by John Irving
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
Close Range: Wyoming
stories by Annie Proulx
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Coast of Chicago
by Stuart Dybek
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Cold
Mountain by Charles Frazier. A wounded and disillusioned Confederate
soldier decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains
and to Ada, the young woman he left there years before.
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
Manitowoc Public Library 9 copies
Color of
Water by James McBride
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Muskego Public Library 10 copies 2 kits
Community
on the American Frontier : Separate but Not Alone
by Robert V. Hine.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
Complete
stories and poems of Edgar Allen Poe
by Edgar Allen Poe
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Copper
Beech by Maeve Binchy.
La Crosse Public Library 15 copies
Corrections
by Johnathan Franzen
Marathon
Co. Public Library 5 copies
Cracking
India by Bapsi Sidhwa
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Crispin:
The cross of lead by Avi
Waupaca Area Public Library 25-Jan
The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Chippewa
Falls Public Library 8 copies
The
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8 copies
Daisy
Bates in the desert by Julia Blackburn
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Dance of the spirit by Maria Harris
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Dandelion
Wine by Ray Bradbury
Merrill Public Library 15 copies
Daughter
of Fortune by Isabel Allende. Raised in the British colony
of Valparaíso, Chile, after being abandoned as a baby, a pregnant
Eliza follows her lover, Joaquín Andieta, to California at the
height of the Gold Rush and finds adventure and adversity on her
road to independence and love.
Manitowoc Public Library 16 copies
Daughter
of Time by Josephine Tey.
La Crosse Public Library 16 copies
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Death comes
for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Traces the friendship and adventures of Bishop Jean Latour and
vicar Father Joseph Vaillant as they organize the new Roman Catholic
diocese of New Mexico. Latour is patrician, intellectual, introverted;
Vaillant is practical, outgoing, sanguine.
Racine
Public Library 12 copies
Death of
Vishnu by Suri Manil
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Muskego Public Library 10 copies
Dispatches
by Michael Herr
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. After struggling
with painful childhood memories, Siddalee Walker grows to understand
and accept her colorful and troubled mother Vivi through an appreciation
of her mother's lifelong friendships with the women who belonged
to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Arrowhead Library System 5 copies
Manitowoc Public Library 12 copies
Marathon Co. Public LIbrary 5 copies
Double
Helix by James Watson
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Dreaming
in Color by Charlette Vale Allen
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
The
Drifters by James Michener. A departure from James Michener’s
novels of historical fiction which follow families through the
generations, The Drifters follows the adventures of six
youths.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Eagle
Catcher by Margaret Coel.
La Crosse Public Library 16 copies
East of
Eden by John Steinbeck
Independence Public Library 3 copies
Eleanor
Roosevelt, first lady of American liberalism
by Lois Scharf
Arrowhead Library System 19 copies
End of
the Affair by Graham Green
Set during World War II, this is an intense story of an adulterous
love affair and its mystical aftermath.
Racine
Public Library 10 copies
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Waupaca Area Public Library 25
copies
The
Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. An alternative history set in
the past where the Crimean War has never ended and featuring the
resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Fall on
Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8
copies
Far from
the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Final
Judgment by Richard North Patterson.
La Crosse Public Library 20 copies
Fire
Within : a Civil War narrative from Wisconsin by Kerry Trask.
This remarkable book blends the experience of several Wisconsin
men who fought in the Civil War with the course of events back
home in Manitowoc Wisconsin.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
First Ladies
by Betty Caroli
Arrowhead Library System 16 copies
First Person
Plural by Cameron Weast
Arrowhead Library System 3 copies
First they
Killed my Father by Loung Ung
Appleton Public Library 10
copies
Fleur de
Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
Arrowhead Library System 19 copies
Flipped
by Wendelin Van Draanen
Waupaca Area Public Library 25
copies
Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
Muskego Public Library 30 copies
Fools Crow
by James Welch
Arrowhead Library System 9 copies
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Founding
Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
Arrowhead Library System 7 copies
Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Muskego Public Library 10 copies
From
the Ground Up : the Story of a First Garden by Amy Stewart.
This how-not-to gardening memoir tells the story of a young woman’s
determination to create a garden in which the plants struggle
to live up to the gardener’s vision.
Manitowoc Public Library 14 copies
Fugitive
Pieces by Anne Michaels
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Gabriel's
Rebellion: the Virginia slave conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
by Douglas R. Egerton
Arrowhead Library System 19 copies
Galileo's
Daughter by Dava Sobel
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Girl
with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. A poor seventeenth-century
servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes
Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors
circulate throughout the town.
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Manitowoc
Public Library 12 copies
The
Giver by Lois Lowry.
La Crosse Public Library 13 copies
& 3 audio
Waupaca
Area Public Library 24 copies
Muskego Public Library 30 copies
God
of Small Things by Arundhati
Roy
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
Good man
is hard to find by Flannery O'Conner
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
Good Scent
from a Strange Mountain
by Olen Robert Butler
Appleton
Public Library 16 copies
Gracelin
O'Malley by Ann Moore. Irish woman Gracelin O'Malley has married
the English landlord, but openly defies him as she feeds the desperate
people knocking on her door. As political unrest sweeps across
nineteenth century Ireland, Grace harbors rebels, including her
own brother.
Manitowoc Public Library 17 copies
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
Greatest
Generation by Tom Brokaw. The NBC-TV anchorman describes the
World War II generation by chronicling the stories of 50 individuals
who grew up in the Great Depression, fought and won World War
II and came home to rebuild our nation.
Appleton
Public Library 19 copies
Manitowoc
Public Library 12 copies
Guns, germs and
steel by Jared Diamons
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
H
Hatchet
by Gary Paulson
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
Heart
is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Independence
Public Library 3 copies
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Hemingway
book club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Here
on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
His
Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis
Appleton Public Library 12 copies
Home:
American writers remember rooms of their own
Arrowhead Library System 8 copies
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
Waupaca Area
Public Library 25 copies
Horse
Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
The
Hours by Michael Cunningham
Appleton
Public Library 16 copies
Chippewa
Falls Public Library 8 copies
The
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Appleton
Public Library 10 copies
Gateway Technical College,
Elkhorn campus 12 copies
House
of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
Independence Public Library 3 copies
How
to make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
Marathon Co. Public
Library 5 copies
Hunting
Badger by Tony Hillerman
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
If
you want to write by Brenda Ueland
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Muskego Public Library 10 copies
In
the Lake of the Woods Tim
O'Brian
Arrowhead Library System 7 copies
Indians'
new world: Catawbas and their neighbors from European contact
through the era of removal
by James Hart Morrell, 1953
Arrowhead Library System 20 copies
Inn
at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman. A young Jewish woman finagles
an invite to a "Gentiles-only" inn and through this
humorous book, succeeds in entering the world that excludes her.
Manitowoc Public Library 8 copies
Interpreter
of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
Inventing
the truth: the art and craft of memoir
by Russell Baker
Appleton
Public Library 30 copies
J
Jewel
by Bret Lott
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
K
Killer
Angels by Michael Shaara
Appleton
Public Library 10 copies
Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Independence Public Library 3 copies
Lake
Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor. Learn
about the statue of the Unknown Norwegian and why Lake Wobegon
never made it onto the map, and many other small-town stories.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
Laura
Ingalls Wilder's Little Town : where history and literature meet
by John E. Miller. Miller illustrates how
Wilder's novels enhance her readers' understanding of history
and how a historical perspective framed Wilder's fiction, while
chronicling Rose Wilder Lane's efforts to publish and promote
her mother's sentimental yet believable tales of family life on
the frontier.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
Law
of Similars by Chris Bohjalian. A lawyer gets romantically
involved with the homeopath who is trying to help him and ends
up ethically challenged when his office prosecutes her because
one of her patients falls into an allergy-induced coma.
Manitowoc Public Library 9 copies
Leah's
Way by
Richard Botelho
Arrowhead Library System 10 copies
Learning
from Hannah: Secrets for a Life Worth Living
by Willaim Thomas H.
Like a fable, Learning from Hannah divulges deep truths about
human nature while imparting a timeless moral message.
Racine
Public Library 11 copies
Lesson before dying
by Ernest Gaines
Appleton
Public Library 8 copies
Letters
of a Woman Homesteader by Elinor Pruit tStewart
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Appleton
Public Library 16 copies
Long way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Waupaca Area
Public Library 24 copies
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
Appleton
Public Library 10 copies
Love that
dog by Sharon Creech
Waupaca Area
Public Library 25 copies
Low
Country by Anne Rivers Siddens.
La Crosse Public Library 13 copies
Madeleine's
Ghost by
Robert Girardi
Arrowhead Library System 12 plus 1 cy large
type
Main
Street on the Middle Border by Lewis Eldon Atherton.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
Making a Literary
Life by Carolyn See
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8 copies
Many thousands
gone: the first two centuries of slavery in north America
by Ira Berlin
Arrowhead Library System 17 copies
Map of
Love by Ahdaf Souei
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Map of
the World by Jane Hamilton
Marathon Co. Public Library
5 copies
Mary Todd
Lincoln, a biography by Jean H. Baker
Appleton
Public Library 25 copies
Mask carver's
son by Alyson Richman
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Meadow
by James Galvin
Arrowhead Library System 14 copies
Memoirs
of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. In this fictional memoir, Sayuri,
a renowned geisha tells her life story, from her childhood in
a poor fishing village to being sold into near slavery and training
to become a geisha in Kyoto.
Manitowoc Public Library 11 copies
Racine
Public Library 7 copies
Memories
of the Great and the Good by Alistair Cooke
This small volume is a collection of 23 essays about Americans
Cooke has known. These are not capsule life histories; rather,
each person is highlighted in laconic prose of the highest order.
Racine
Public Library 12 copies
Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. While this
book reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, it is actually
a magical non-fiction rendering of a secluded and hauntingly beautiful
city in which an infamous murder took place.
Arrowhead Library System 5 copies
Manitowoc Public Library 8 copies
Midnight's
Children by Salman Rushdie
Two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947-the
moment at which India became an independent nation-are switched
in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is
sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir
to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his
unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Rushdie is also the
author of The Satanic Verses.
Racine
Public Library 11 copies
Mill on
the floss by George Eliot
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
Modern
American Poets
Arrowhead Library System 14 copies
Montana
1948. by Larry. Watson
Manitowoc Public Library 14 copies
Motherland:
beyond the Holcaust: a mother-daughter journey to reclaim the
past
by Fern Schumer Chapman
A moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to
rediscover their past and face the Holocaust tragedy that haunts
them.
Racine
Public Library 21 copies
Mountain
wolf woman by Nancy Lurie
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
My boyhood
and youth by John Muir
New Holstein
Public Library 18 copies
My Sister's
Keeper: a novel by Jodi Picoult
Chippewa
Falls Public Library 8 copies
The
Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Based on
real-life experiences, this novel is the inside story on the lives
of the rich and privileged from the women who know all their secrets
--the nannies.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Neither
east nor west by Christine Bird
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
Nine parts
of desire by Geraldine Brooks
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
No. 1 Ladies
Detective Agency by Alexander Smith
McCall
Appleton Public Library
15 copies
Nostromo by Joseph
Conrad
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
O
On Gold
Mountain by Lisa See
Appleton
Public Library 21 copies
On Writing
by Stephen King
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
Once and
Future King by
T. H. White
Arrowhead Library System 10 copies
One Continuous
Mistake: four noble truths for writers
by Gail Sher
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
One Hundred
Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This book was chosen as one of the twelve best books of 1970 by
Time. The book relates the story of the rise and fall of the mythical
town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. This
fiction masterpiece is alive with inventive, unforgettable men
and women.
Racine
Public Library 10 copies
One True
Thing by Anna Quindlen
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
Orchard by Larry Watson
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Ordeal
by Fire, v.1 - The coming of war by James McPherson
Appleton
Public Library 10 copies
Ordeal by fire. v.II - The Civil War by James McPherson
Arrowhead Library System 8 copies
Oresteia
by Aeschylus
Arrowhead Library System 7 copies
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Muskego Public Library 10 copies
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Appleton
Public Library 10 copies
Out of Egypt : a memoir by Andre Aciman
Manitowoc Public Library 14 copies
Parasite
Rex by Carl Zimmer
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Patchwork
Planet by Anne Tyler. The story of Barnaby Gaitlin, the black
sheep of a Baltimore family, who embarks on a journey of self-awareness.
Arrowhead Library System 38 plus 1 cy
in audio
Manitowoc Public Library 12 copies
Peace Like
a River by Leif Enger
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8
copies
Perfect
Match by Jodi Picoul
Independence Public Library 3 copies
Perfect
Storm by Sebastian Junger.
La Crosse Public Library 17 copies
Perloo
the Bold by Avi
Waupaca Area Public Library 25
copies
The
Physician by Noah Gordon. The tale of an eleventh century
English boy who becomes a traveling barber-surgeon/seller of tonics/entertainer,
then disguises himself as a Jew so he can study medicine in Persia.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
The Pilot's
Wife by Anita Shreve
Arrowhead Library System 11 copies
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8
copies
Pioneer
Women by Johanna Stratton
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Place Where
the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf. Set in a small town in the plains of Colorado,
this novel tells the interrelated stories of eight characters
whose lives undergo radical change during the course of one year.
Manitowoc Public Library 11 copies
Poets in
Person (Book and 7 Audiotapes)
Arrowhead Library Ststem 9 copies
Poisonwood
Bible by
Barbara Kingsolver
Arrowhead Library System 9 copies
Pope
Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. Based on the life of one of
the most fascinating, extraordinary women in Western history,
Pope Joan, a controversial figure of historical record who, disguised
as a man, rose to rule Christianity in the 9th century as the
first and only woman to sit on the throne of St. Peter.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Poppy
by Avi
Waupaca Area Public Library 25 copies
Portia,
the world of Abigail Adams by Edith Gelles
Arrowhead Library System 38 copies
Postville
by Stephen Bloom
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Private
Mary Chesnut: the unpublished Civil War Diaries
by Vann C. Woodward
Arrowhead Library System 13 copies
Rain
of Gold by Victor Villasnor
Door County Library (Sturgeon
Bay) 8-10 copies
Rapture
of Canaan by Sherri Reynolds
Arrowhead Library System 8 plus 1cy in large type
Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies [1 cy in large print]
Reconstruction: After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Arrowhead Library System 7 copies
The
Red Pony by John Steinbeck.
La Crosse Public Library 14 copies
The
Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Skillfully interweaving biblical
tales with events and characters of her own invention, Diamant's
novel re-creates the little-known life of Dinah, daughter of Leah
and Jacob, mentioned in Chapter 34 of the Book of Genesis.
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
Manitowoc Public Library 14 copies
Redwall
by Brian Jacques.
Chippewa Falls Public Library
6 copies
Renovations
: a Father and Son Rebuild a House and Rediscover Each Other
by John Marchese. When the author decides to buy a house and renovate
it, he turns to his father for help. In the process of rebuilding
the house, father and son rediscover each other.
Manitowoc Public Library 15 copies
Restoring
the Goddess by Barbara Walker
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
Return
of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Appleton
Public Library 10 copies
River where
blood is born by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Road
from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway. A memoir, beginning with
the author's experiences as a child on a sheep ranch in the Australian
outback, through her coming of age and adult life.
Appleton
Public Library 20 copies
Manitowoc Public Library 11 copies
Road from
Home by David Kherdian
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Rocket
Boys by Homer Hickam
Appleton
Public Library 10 copies
Room of
one's own by Virginia Woolf
Appleton Public Library 25 copies
Rudy &
friends by Rudy Ruettinger
Marathon Co. Library 5 copies
Samurai's
Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Door County Library (Sturgeon
Bay) 8-10 copies
Sand
County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Conserve School 15 copies
The
Searchers by Alan LeMay.
La Crosse Public Library 16 copies
Second
Glance by Jodi Picoult
Independence Public Library 3 copies
Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Secret
of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Independence Public Library 3 copies
Seedfolks
by Paul Fleischman
Waupaca Area Public Library 25 copies
Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Shadow
of the Dragon by Sherry Garland
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Sharpest
Sight by Louis Owens
Arrowhead Library System
10 copies
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
She's ComeUndone
by Wally Lamb
Arrowhead Library System
5 copies
Chippewa Falls Public Library
8 copies
Shining
thread of hope: the history of black women in America
by Darlene
Clark Hine
Arrowhead Library System
18 copies
The
Shipping News by Annie Proulx.
Quoyle
retreats with his two daughters to Newfoundland where he must
confront his private demons.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Shizuko's
Daughter by Kyoko Mori
Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)
8-10 copies
Simon's Night by Jon Hassler.
La Crosse Public Library 14 copies
Sister
of my Heart by Chitra Divakaruni
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Skellig
by David Almond
Waupaca Area Public Library 25-Jan
Snow crash
by Neal Stephenson
Appleton Public Library 9 copies
Snow Falling
on Cedars by David Guterson
Arrowhead
Library System 5 plus 1 cy in large type
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
Song of
the Lark by Willa Cather
Willa Cather's partially autobiographical novel about a young
woman's struggle to achieve her destiny - a struggle that takes
her from a small Colorado town to the opera stages of the world
-was chosen to be part of Masterpiece Theatre's programs on PBS.
Racine
Public Library 11 copies
Songs in
Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
Marathon Co. Library 5 copies
The
Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. In 2019, a group of men and
women sent by the Jesuits to try to understand the inhabitants
of the planet Rakhat discover that a desire to do good is no proof
against doing incalculable harm.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Stars in
their Courses: the Gettysburg Campaign by Shelby Foote
The book focuses on the role of "fate" in determining
the defeat of General Robert E. Lee at the Civil War battle of
Gettysburg. It is a Chapter excerpted from Mr. Foote's three-volume
Civil War narrative.
Racine
Public Library 12 copies
Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
Appleton Public Library 20 copies
Stories
from the Round Barn by Jacqueline Dougan Jackson. Using
stories, anecdotes, history, and even veterinary science, Jacqueline
Dougan Jackson recreates life on the Dougan Guernsey Farm Dairy,
founded in 1911 by W.J. Dougan near Beloit, Wisconsin.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
The
Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir. This
memoir of the early years of John Muir details his boyhood in
Scotland, his awakening love for nature, emigration to America,
the hardships endured on a 19th-century farm, and his final break
to begin a life of wilderness adventure.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
Stuck in
Neutral by Terry Trueman
Edgerton Public Library 20 copies
A
Sudden Change of Heart by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
La Crosse Public Library 11 copies
Sugar
by Barbara McFadden
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Surrounded
by D'Arcy McNickle
Arrowhead Library System 10 copies
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Sweet
Hereafter by Russell Banks. The story begins with a school
bus accident. Four different narrators address the question, when
the worst thing happens, who do you blame?
Manitowoc Public Library 15 copies
Swiftly
Tilting Planet by Madelein L'Engle
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Tale of
TwoCities by Charles Dickens
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Talk Before
Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
Arrowhead Library System 13 copies
Tender
is the Night by Scott Fitzgerld
Set in the French Riviera in the 1920's, this is the tragic romance
of the young actress Rosemary Hot and the stylish American couple
Dick and Nicole Driver. Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole,
whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own.
Racine Public Library 7 copies
Tess of
the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Theodore Rex by
Edmund Morris
Appleton Public Library 12 copies
Theory
of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Gordon McKenna and his
family take comfort in raising his sister's suddenly orphaned
one-year-old daughter until the adoption is challenged by the
family of his sister's husband.
Manitowoc Public Library 11 copies
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8
copies
These is
my Words by Nancy Turner
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
The Thief
Lord by Cornelia Funke
Chippewa Falls Public Library
4 copies
Things
they carried by Tim O'Brien
Arrowhead Library System 25
copies
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
To the
Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Tracks
by Loiuse Edcrich
Arrowhead
Library System 10 copies
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Trail Through
Leaves by Hannah Hinchman
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Twins
by Tessa de Loo
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
Two Roads
to Sumter by Bruce and William Catton
Arrowhead Library System 4 copies
U
Uncle Tom's
Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Appleton Public Library 16 copies
Arrowhead Library System 6 copies
Under
the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. Frances Mayes brings a poet's
voice, the eye of a seasoned traveler, and the discerning palate
of a cook and food writer together to create an enchanting and
lyrical book about the life, traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Unfinished life:
John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Unredeemed
Captive by John Demos
Appleton
Public Library 20 copies
Arrowhead Library System 20 copies
Unreliable
Truth by Maureen Murdock
Appleton
Public Library 15 copies
V
Vein of
Gold by Julia Cameron
Appleton
Public Library 12 copies
Vinegar
Hill by A. Manette Ansay
An Oprah Book Club® Selection for November 1999,
Vinegar Hill is an appropriate address for the characters who
populate A. Manette Ansay's novella. After all, when Ellen Grier
and her family return to the rural hamlet of Holly's Field, Wisconsin,
it's not exactly a happy homecoming. Her husband, James, has been
laid off from his job in Illinois. And for the moment, the family
has moved in with Ellen's in-laws, Fritz and Mary-Margaret, an
unhappy pair who dislike their daughter-in-law almost as much
as they despise each other. Ansay paints a searing portrait of
the Midwest's dark side, of a rural culture infected with despair
and ruled over by an unforgiving God.
Arrowhead
Library System 3 copies
Racine
Public Library 11 copies
Virgin's
Knot by Holly Payne
Door
County Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
A
Virtuous Woman by Kay Gibbons
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and
he was 40. She was the daughter of Carolina gentry. He was a skinny
tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. They didn't
fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on
for dear life. This was also an Oprah Book Club® selection.
Racine
Public Library 12 copies
Waiting
by Ha Jin. In the Communist China of 1966, Lin Kong, an army doctor,
falls in love with young nurse Manna Wu, but Lin has a wife at home.
Each year, Lin tries to divorce his wife but is defeated. By the
time 18 years have passed -- the interim after which a man can divorce
his wife even without his consent -- what had begun as a sweet and
passionate romance has turned into something more complicated and
more real.
Door
County Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Walk
in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Bill Bryson, known in England
as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the
States and walks the Appalachian Trail, or at least some parts
of it.
Manitowoc Public Library 11 copies
Walking
Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton. Seventy-eight year old Mattie
Rigsbee is "slowing down", but she still cuts her own
grass and runs the Lottie Moon missions fund drive at Listre Baptist
Church in North Carolina. This is the scene into which Edgerton
drops Wesley Benfield -- adolescent, illegitimate, and delinquent,
with a mouth full of foul language and bad teeth and a craving
for good food.
Manitowoc Public Library 13 copies
Watsons
go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Waupaca Area Public Library 23 copies
Wau-bun
: the "early day" in the North-west by Juliette
M. Kinzie. A first person account from a female
perspective of the early life on the frontier of Wisconsin in
the 1830's.
New Holstein Public Library 18 copies
We
Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Chippewa
Falls Public Library 8 copies
We
Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol
Oates
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8
copies
Wedding
by Dorothy West
Arrowhead
LIbrary System14 copies
Well Wished by Franny Billingsley
Muskego Public Library 30 copies
Where the
Heart is by Billie Letts
Arrowhead LIbrary System 5 plus
1 cy in large type
Chippewa Falls Public Library 8
copies
Where
Trouble Sleeps by Clyde Edgerton.
La Crosse Public Library 17 copies
White
Noise by Don Delillo. Tells the story of the Gladney family
— Jack, Babette, and their four kids (two by previous marriages)
— as they come to terms with their own fears and desires, with
the strangeness of contemporary American culture, and with the
omnipresence of death and catastrophe.
Manitowoc Public Library 11 copies
White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
Chippewa
Falls Public Library 8 copies
Wild Swans:
three daughters of China by Jung Chang
In Wild Swans, Jung Chang recounts the evocative and unsettling
story of how three generations of women in her family fared in
the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's
grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently-raised mother
struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution
and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist
Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang
herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept
in over the excesses of his policies and purges.
Door
County Library (Sturgeon Bay) 8-10 copies
Racine Public Library 13 copies
Winterdance by
Gary Paulsen
Appleton Public Library 10 copies
World Below
by Sue Miller
Independence Public Library 3 copies
World's
Fair by E. L. Doctorow.
La Crosse Public Library 15 copies
Writing
Life by Marie Arana
Appleton Public Library 15 copies
Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte
Marathon Co. Public Library 5 copies
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