Author John Bates of Mercer has written a book chronicling the last remaining 140 wild lakes out of the more than 15,000 lakes that pepper Wisconsin.
Author John Bates of Mercer has written a book chronicling the last remaining 140 wild lakes out of the more than 15,000 lakes that pepper Wisconsin.
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Recently there have been a ton of great children’s books to choose from — more than what could fit here. But here are some of the best, ranging from preschool picture books to chapter books for middle schoolers.
From memoirs to interviews and a collection of songs and drawings, there's a little something for everyone here.
Just about a foot. That’s how close you are to making ends meet every month: close, but not quite there. A few dollars short, and nowhere near solvency. You feel awful about it, of course, but as author Alissa Quart says, the situation might not be your fault. In her book “Squeezed: Why Our …
You’re going down. Down, defeated, beaten, and sent home. You’re losing, not winning, and you need to know how it happened so it won’t happen again. Winners are champs, losers are chumps, and the latter is no fun. Besides, as in the new book “Us Against You” by Fredrik Backman, losing can ta…
Your cookies are no good today. They’re too crumbly, too soft, too… something. They don’t taste right, maybe because you’re missing an essential from your fridge. Ach, no snacks for you; instead, you might as well dunk into “Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas” by Mark Kurlansky.
It was not your typical romance. She played hard-to-get, but she was a beauty and she was worth every ounce of effort. A catch like her doesn’t come along every day, and in the new book “Born to Fish: How an Obsessed Angler Became the World’s Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman” by Tim Gallagher…
Click. No stamps. And: email sent. You didn’t have to hunt an envelope down, and no trip to the mailbox; within a minute or so, the recipient of your missive read it and he can reply as quickly, even if he lives on the other side of the world.
Your Fairy Godmother is slacking. There’s no magic spell for you, no white-mice-into-horses, and Meghan Markle gets the Prince. You’ll never have a diamond-studded crown. You’ll never have your own castle. As in the new book “All the Ever Afters” by Danielle Teller, maybe there is no Fairy G…
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