Auction

Quan Barry

7:00pm - Quan Barry travels the globe in her signature quest into the existential nature of experience

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair

Mercury Stardust

6:00pm - Feel more safe at home and in control of your own life

Seafood Simple

Eric Ripert, Judith Siers-Poisson

7:00pm - Step-by-step techniques alongside 85 accessible recipes for preparing incredible fish at home.

Dry Land

B. Pladek

5:30pm - In order to survive, Rand must upend everything he believes about nature, love, and himself.

Generation Anxiety

Dr. Lauren Cook

5:30pm - Millennials and Gen Z-ers are considered two of the most anxious generations in history

The Supermajority

5:30pm - A revelatory examination of the Supreme Court

Ginseng Roots

Craig Thompson

7:00pm - Explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing & the bond between two brothers

Mammoths at the Gates

Nghi Vo

7:00pm - Cleric Chih sorrows may be more powerful than anyone could anticipate

2023 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture: Warrior Girl Unearthed

Angeline Boulley

7:30pm - A high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history

Silicon Heartland

Rebecca Fannin

4:00pm - Timely documentation about a reviving economy & the importance of family and heritage

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win

Helen Shiller

4:30pm - The true story of a radical organizer & a 40-year struggle for justice in Chicago

Idlewild

James Frankie Thomas

4:30pm - Darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense queer adolescence

Kind of Blue

Christopher Chambers

4:30pm - These are stories of wanderlust and music, loss and misdirection, disasters large and small

The Devil’s Element

Dan Egan

5:00pm - Eye-opening account that urges us to pay attention but little-known environmental issues of our time

American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability

Russ Castronovo

6:00pm - The fear of uncertainty, and the anxieties produced by unending racial threat

My Life In The Sunshine

Nabil Ayers

6:00pm - A thoughtful meditation on biracial identity, intimacy, and finding true community

Optimal Illusions

Coco Krumme

6:00pm - How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach

River Spirit

Leila Aboulela

6:00pm - A powerful tale of corruption, coming of age & devotion—to one's cause, faith and family

No Crying in Baseball

Erin Carlson

7:30pm - Unheralded piece of American history into a perennial cinematic favorite

This Is Salvaged

Vauhini Vara

7:30pm - Pushes intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty

Where The Dead Sleep

Joshua Moehling

7:30pm - There's a dangerous legacy in quiet Minnesota town and someone will do anything to keep it hidden

Have You Been Long Enough At Table & Sweet Movie

Leslie Sainz, Alisha Dietzman

9:00pm - Joint poetry reading

We Read Youth Voices Writing Contest: Author's Reception

Madeleine Bohn, Diya Dhawal, Eliza Thwing, Hazel Krueger

10:00am -

A Winter's Rime

Carol Dunbar

10:30am - A harrowing & emotional novel of one woman's journey to find peace and healing from a violent past

Death's Door

Barbara Joosse, Renee Graef

10:30am - Illustrated graphic novel for children ages 8–11 from Great Lakes maritime history

Suddenly Diverse

Dr. Erica Turner

10:30am - How school districts manage race and inequality

When I'm Dead

Hannah Morrissey

10:30am - Karma has finally come to collect

Confidence

Rafael Frumkin

12:00pm - The American Dream is just another pyramid scheme

Never Givin' Up

Kurt Dietrich

12:00pm - Never Givin’ Up celebrates a Milwaukee hometown hero and global sensation

Owner Of A Lonely Heart

Beth Nguyen

12:00pm - A powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement

Planting An Idea

Jerry Apps, Natasha Kassulke

12:00pm - Critical and creative thinking about environmental issues

My Murder

Katie Williams

1:30pm - What if the murder you had to solve was your own?

Promises of Gold

José Olivarez

1:30pm - Those homies who are there all along, cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant

Small-Town Wisconsin: Fun, Surprising, And Exceptional Road Trips

Mary Bergin

1:30pm - Enduring character of unusual burgs of Wisconsin

Through The Groves

Anne Hull, David Maraniss

1:30pm - A memoir that will speak to anyone who’s ever left home to cut a path of their own

Dreaming In Spanish

Sara Alvarado

3:00pm - An epic love story of the dance between cultures

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

Taylor Byas

3:00pm - Subverting monolithic ideas about the South Side of Chicago

The Book of Charlie

David Von Drehle, David Maraniss

3:00pm - A nation of Charlies in the rollercoaster pursuit of a good and meaningful life

Wine People

Michelle Wildgen

3:00pm - Escape into the cutthroat world of wine and the complicated terrain of women’s friendship

Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story Of Assimilation And Erasure

Robert Lopez

4:30pm - An American story of assimilation and erasure

Dream Street & The Jazz Loft Project

Sam Stephenson

4:30pm - Photographs and tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965

Homestead

Melinda Moustakis

4:30pm - An unflinching portrait of a marriage, a love letter to the Alaskan landscape

The Death of Public School

Cara Fitzpatrick

4:30pm - Education is poised to become a private commodity rather than a universal good

A Council Of Dolls

Mona Susan Power

6:00pm - With stunning prose, weaves a spell of love and healing that comes alive on the page

Mapping The Darkness

Kenneth Miller

6:00pm - The visionary scientists who unlocked the mysteries of sleep

Removal Acts

Erin Marie Lynch

6:00pm - Labyrinth of distances and absences haunting the American colonial experiment

Symphony Of Secrets

Brendan Slocumb

6:00pm - Caught in the crosshairs, a powerful organization will stop at nothing to keep their secret hidden

Artificial

Amy Kurzweil

7:30pm - Guides us through nuanced questions about art, memory, and technology

He/She/They

Schuyler Bailar

7:30pm - A guide that changes the conversation about gender identity and how we talk about it

Witness

Jamel Brinkley

7:30pm - What does it cost us, both to see and not to see?

Chinese Prodigal

David Shih

10:30am - A probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified United States

Crossroads of Ideas: Comparing the Creative Process in Science and Art

Chloe Benjamin, Claudia Solis-Lemus, Michelle Wildgen

10:30am - A special Crossroads of Ideas conversation

Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Emma Törzs

10:30am - A vast world filled with mystery and magic, romance, and intrigue

Eve

Cat Bohannon

12:00pm - How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution

Organs of Little Importance

Adrienne Chung

12:00pm - A debut poetry collection about psychology, love, and memory

Wellness

Nathan Hill

12:00pm - Witty and poignant novel about modern marriage & our tech-obsessed health culture

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

1:30pm - A unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds, present-day Earth

How Minds Change

David McRaney

7:00pm - The surprising science of belief, opinion, and persuasion

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2023 Fiction and Poetry Contest Winners

Matt Cashion, Susanna Daniel, Holly Hilliard, Taylor Kirby, K.E. McCoy, Sheryl Slocum, Nicholas Gulig

7:00pm -

Among the Braves

Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin

7:00pm - Hope, struggle, and exile in the battle for Hong Kong and the future of global democracy

The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez

6:00pm - A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time

Cozy

Jan Brett

5:00pm - A gorgeous tale of sharing, friendship, and living in harmony