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Gary W. Vequist

Wildlife Watching in America's National Parks: A Seasonal Guide

From the Great Smoky Mountains to Point Reyes National Seashore, America’s national parks are home to some of nature’s great wildlife spectacles. Here, Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht, two veterans of the National Park Service, focus on twelve animals that have been imperiled and at risk, bu...

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Superior, Nebraska: The Common Sense Values of America's Heartland

Since the days of “Bleeding Kansas,” people from someplace else have been telling midwesterners how to live, how to vote, and what to believe. In Superior Nebraska, Denis Boyles explodes the myth that hapless Midwesterners have been duped into voting against their own economic interests in ord...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Beyond the Trees: Stories of Wisconsin Forests

Nature writer Candice Andrews weaves together contemporary observations and historical reminisces in Beyond the Trees: Stories of Wisconsin Forests. Readers will journey to some of the most pristine and notable places in the Upper Midwest—Wisconsin’s state and national forests. The diversity ...

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Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming with Horses

Before tractors or steam engines arrived on the farm, horses did all the heavy work. From spring plowing to the fall harvest, the mighty draft horse powered farms across the Midwest. Relied upon to complete a multitude of tasks, including towing threshing machines and plows, hauling milk to the loca...

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Robert A. Birmingham

Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America (American Landscapes)

First comprehensive overview of the effigy mound phenomenon of the Upper Midwest of North America c 700–1100 CE. This book provides an overview of the effigy mound phenomenon of the Upper Midwest of North America, centered on southern Wisconsin. Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people...

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Dolores Johnson

Taking the Wrap : A Mandy Dyer Mystery

In her seventh adventure, Denver's intrepid dry-cleaner/sleuth, Mandy Dyer, encounters a baffling case of mistaken identity---or is it? After dining at a local mountaintop restaurant, Mandy's friend Laura discovers that someone has taken her coat and left another in its place. The only clue to the o...

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Erik S. McDuffie

The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom

In The Second Battle for Africa , Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and en...

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Flyover Country: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as “memorable” (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review ) and “impressive” ( Chicago Tribune ) Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, ...

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Kerri Lukasavitz

Mystery Horse at Oak Lane Stable (Oak Lane Stable Novel Series)

In a world full of horses, how hard can it be to get one of your own? Cassie Piotrowski is upset. After a special morning of horse shopping, the twelve-year-old equestrian is horrified to end up standing in a filthy paddock with four starving horses. The young horse lover is heartbroken when her ...

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Cold Enemies (A Jake Adams International Espionage Thriller)

Jake Adams finds himself on his isolated Montana ranch enjoying early summer, when he gets a call and finds out an old friend has died in a tragic accident. This death brings back old memories for Jake, but the circumstances of the death seem unbelievable. So, together with Sirena, he takes the corp...

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Sweet Home Betrayal (A Max & Robin Kane Mystery)

When brother and sister team Max and Robin Kane are hired to find a missing girl from Eufaula, Alabama, they’re not sure what they might find in this southern town across Lake Eufaula from Georgia. First impressions give them warm feelings of the antebellum past in this quaint little town. But the...

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Chuck Pickett Johnson

The Cowboy Cookbook For Beginners: 250 Authentic Ranch, Campfire, and Grill Recipes that Would Have Made Billy the Kid's Mouth Water

Dig into the delicious flavors of the American Midwest with this fun and creative Cowboy-inspired cookbook! Jam-packed with a mouth-watering collection of 250 authentic and traditional American Ranch recipes , this hearty cookbook reveals tons of amazing recipes for the whole family to dig into. ...

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Sabrina Orah Mark

Sabrina Orah Mark follows up her critically acclaimed debut, The Babies, winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize in 2004 chosen by Jane Miller, with a second collection of prose, Tsim Tsum, centered on two characters, Walter B. and Beatrice, first introduced in The Babies. Unbeknownst to them th...

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Mary Jane Clark

Dancing in the Dark: A Novel (KEY News, 8)

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting ground Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey ...

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Terminal Force (A Jake Adams International Espionage Thriller)

Jake Adams gets a heads up from an old colleague that the Chinese Communist Party has put out a hit on him. This isn’t a new concept for Jake to comprehend. Many have come for him in the past, killing those closest to him. But now Jake has too much to lose. He must retreat and regroup before going...

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Powder Keg (A Max & Robin Kane Mystery)

Brother and sister team Max and Robin Kane are hired by an old high school friend to look into the mysterious death of his brother in a Wyoming mining incident. Max must first break the barrier of small-town law enforcement and the powerful mining company to discover the truth. When Max invariably r...

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50 Hikes with Kids Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio

Discover the 50 most kid-friendly hikes in the Midwest with this book featuring maps and scavenger hunts of items to find along each trail—plus fun extras that will foster a curiosity about the region's flora, fauna, and geology! With its riversides, forests, rock ledges, gorges and prairies, t...

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Dr. Timothy Felton

A Case Study of Black Male Football Student-Athletes' Perception of Engagement

The purpose of this study was to conduct exploratory qualitative research into the perceptions of engagement among Black male football student-athletes at a Midwest university. The researcher used a qualitative single case study method. This study consisted of two research questions: How do Black ma...

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Without Virtue (A Max & Robin Kane Mystery)

Max Kane and his sister Robin are hired to discover what happened to a young Forest Service worker in the vast Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Northern Minnesota. Was she, as the local authorities surmise, attacked and killed by a rogue black bear like her male colleague, or did she simply ...

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Duluthians: A Collection of Short Stories

Duluthians is a collection of short fiction that illustrates the folks who call Northern Minnesota their home. Here you will find stories of transplants who have found themselves reluctantly placed in the wild northland (Heiland Daze), and those where Duluth has always been their home and they would...

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