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2011 Wisconsin Book Festival Titles

Please Note that this is not a comprehensive list. We will continue to add titles as we are able!


Aldo Leopold's Shack: Nina's Story
Nancy Nye Hunt

American Boy, Montana 1948
Larry Watson

American Busboy
Matthew Guenette

And Then Came the Liberators
Solveig Schavland

And Then Came the Liberators; Once Upon An Island
Richard Quinney

Apple: A Global History
Erika Janik

Ashes
Ilsa Bick
Discussion Guide

As if a Bird Flew by Me
Sara Greenslit

Between Light and Shadow
Jacob Wheeler

Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars
Joseph Glatthaar

Beyond the Trees: Stories of Wisconsin Forests
Candice Gaukel Andrews

Birds of Paradise
Diana Abu-Jaber

Bluefish
Pat Schmatz

Campfires and Loon Calls
Jerry Apps

Coming Home to Door: Vignettes & Recipes Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Door County Literary Guild
Mary "Casey" Martin

Cows: A Closer Look
Paul Thoresen

Crackin' Up
Wayne "Swank Master" Murphy

Creating Dairyland
Ed Janus

Drowing Tucson
Aaron Michael Morales

Eat Smart in France
Ronnie Hess

Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows
Douglas Armstrong
Discussion Guide

Farmstead Chef
Lisa Kivirist

For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics
Bruce Mouser

Good Graces
Lesley Kagen
Discussion Guide

Good Night, Little Sea Otter & Star of the Sea: A Day in the Life of a Starfish
Janet Halfmann

Grandma's Chocolate/El chocolate de Abuelita
Mara Price

Green Travel Guide to Northern Wisconsin
Lynne Diebel

Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
Parker Palmer

House Divided
Raul Ramos y Sanchez
Discussion Guide

I Hear Voices
Jean Feraca

"I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't" and Other Plays
Sonia Sanchez

Inventory at the All-Night Drug Store; Ideal Cities; Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls
Erika Meitner

Last Seen
Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Liberty’s Surest Guardian: Nation Building from the Founders to Obama
Jeremi Suri

Miracle Beach
Erin Celello
Discussion Guide

Mothers and Daughters
Rae Meadows
Discussion Guide

Murder in Lascaux
Betsy Draine

Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey
Bill C. Malone

My American Unhappiness; Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
Dean Bakopoulos
Discussion Guide

My Kill Adore Him
Paul Martinez Pompa

Nesting
Erin Ruzicka Trondson

No Word for Welcome
Wendy Call

Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell

On Maggie's Watch
Ann Wertz Garvin
Discussion Guide

Ordinary Angels
Bridget Birdsall

Out of Egypt
André Aciman

People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942
Tom Jones

Putting Down Roots
Marcia Carmichael

Reservation Road; Northwest Corner
John Burnham Schwartz
Discussion Guide

Rookery
Traci Brimhall

Second Nature; The Deep End of the Ocean
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Song I Sing
Bao Phi

The Book of Life
Stuart Nadler

The Cardboard Valise
Ben Katchor

The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany
Paul Salsini

The Common Man
Maurice Manning

The False Friend
Myla Goldberg
Discussion Guide

The Green Suit
Dwight Allen

The Home for Wayward Clocks
Kathie Giorgio

The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World
John Carlos

The Katyn Order
Douglas W. Jacobson

The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq
Bronson Lemer

The Lifting Dress
Lauren Berry

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
Kelly O'Connor McNees
Discussion Guide

The Love of my Youth
Mary Gordon
Discussion Guide

The Marriage Plot; Middlesex; The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Discussion Guide

The Oracle of Stamboul
Michael David Lukas
Discussion Guide

The Orchard
Theresa Weir
Discussion Guide

The Reinvention of Edison Thomas
Jacqueline Houtman
Discussion Guide

The Story of Jules Verne, A Watch Pocket Dog
Wayne Simmons

Third WI Poet Laureate. Titles include: Subject to Change; Going Wrong
Marilyn L. Taylor

Three Days As the Crow Flies; I Dreamed My People Were Calling But I Couldn't Find My Way Home
Danny Simmons, Jr.

Toys Come Home
Emily Jenkins

Unforgettable: Harrowing Futures, Horrors & (dark) Humour
Paul McComas

Vaudeville in the Dark
R.M. Ryan

Vintage Wisconsin Gardens
Lee Somerville

What It Is
Lynda Barry

Whorled
Ed Bok Lee

Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-based Writing
Alison Townsend

Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights
Robert McChesney

Wingshooters
Nina Revoyr
Discussion Guide

Wisconsin Local Foods Journal
Joan Peterson

Wisconsin Women & Their Quilts: Stories in the Stitches; Notes from a Small Island
Ellen Kort

Wisdom's Kiss
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and The New Land
Paul Buhle