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Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press, takes its name from the Memorial Union Terrace, located at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Since its inception in 1907, the Wisconsin Union has provided a venue for students, faculty, staff, and alumni to debate art, music, politics, and the issues of the day. It is a place where theater, music, drama, literature, dance, outdoor activities, and major speakers are made available to the campus and the community. Click here to learn more about the Wisconsin Union.

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A Winsome Murder
James DeVita

“James DeVita has written a riveting thriller featuring a deranged killer and a detective who hears snatches of Shakespeare in his head. It’s a terrific read.”
—Michael Hinden, coauthor with Betsy Draine of the Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler mysteries

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Meet Me Halfway
Milwaukee Stories
Jennifer Morales

“Written with a sharp eye and a warm heart, Meet Me Halfway brings us into a multicultural community where people are trying to do the right thing, even when the wrong thing happens and a child dies. Richly textured, funny, and wise.”
—Kelly Cherry, author of A Kind of Dream

Crossing the Driftless
A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape
Lynne Diebel
Illustrated by Robert Diebel
Spring 2015

JD
A Novel
Mark Merlis
Spring 2015

Death at Gills Rock
A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery
Patricia Skalka
Spring 2015

Assault with a Deadly Lie
A Nick Hoffman Novel of Suspense
Lev Raphael
Fall 2014

A Kind of Dream
Stories
Kelly Cherry
Spring 2014

The Body in Bodega Bay
A Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler Mystery
Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
Spring 2014

Space
A Memoir
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Spring 2014

The City of Palaces
A Novel
Michael Nava
Spring 2014

Death Stalks Door County
A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery
Patricia Skalka
Spring 2014

Revertigo
An Off-Kilter Memoir
Floyd Skloot
Spring 2014

The Blind Masseuse
A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
Alden Jones
Fall 2013

Warmed by Windchill
A Tiny Colt’s Fight for Life
Jeffrey L. Tucker
Fall 2013

Troutsmith
An Angler's Tales and Travels
Kevin Searock
Spring 2013

Tamarack River Ghost
A Novel
Jerry Apps
Fall 2012

Sunlit Riffles and Shadowed Runs
Stories of Fly Fishing in America
Kent Cowgill
Fall 2012

A Horse Named Sorrow
A Novel
Trebor Healey
Fall 2012

The Paternity Test
A Novel
Michael Lowenthal
Fall 2012

The Waters of Star Lake
A Novel
Sara Rath
Spring 2012

The Green Suit
Stories
Dwight Allen
Fall 2011

Murder in Lascaux
Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
Fall 2011

Haunted Wisconsin
Michael Norman
Fall 2011

Cranberry Red
A Novel
Jerry Apps
Fall 2010

Catina’s Haircut
A Novel in Stories
Paola Corso
Fall 2010

Across America by Bicycle
Alice and Bobbi’s Summer on Wheels
Alice Honeywell and Bobbi Montgomery
Fall 2010

H. H. Bennett, Photographer
His American Landscape
Sara Rath
Fall 2010

Cafe Indiana Cookbook
Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Jolene Ketzenberger
Fall 2010

The Travels of Increase Joseph
A Historical Novel about a Pioneer Preacher
Jerry Apps
Spring 2010

The Big Bang Symphony
A Novel of Antarctica
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Spring 2010

Sawdusted
Notes from a Post-Boom Mill
Raymond Goodwin
Spring 2010

Blue Shadows Farm
A Novel
Jerry Apps
Fall 2009

Sugarless
A Novel
James Magruder
Fall 2009

The Typewriter Satyr
A Novel
Dwight Allen
Spring 2009

Listen to the Land
Conservation Conversations
Dennis Boyer
Spring 2009

Sweet and Sour Pie
A Wisconsin Boyhood
Dave Crehore
Spring 2009

In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
A Novel
Agate Nesaule
Spring 2009

My Germany
A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped
Lev Raphael
Spring 2009

Crunch!
A History of the Great American Potato Chip
Dirk Burhans
Fall 2008

Voices from the Heart of the Land
Rural Stories That Inspire Community
Richard L. Cates Jr.
Fall 2008

Purebred and Homegrown
America’s County Fairs
Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz
Fall 2008

Night Sisters
A Novel
Sara Rath
Fall 2008

The End of the World Book
A Novel
Alistair McCartney
Spring 2008

In a Pickle
A Family Farm Story
Jerry Apps
Fall 2007

Honorable Bandit
A Walk across Corsica
Brian Bouldrey
Fall 2007

I Hear Voices
A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio
Jean Feraca
Fall 2007

Cafe Indiana
A Guide to Indiana’s Down-Home Cafes
Joanne Raetz Stuttgen
Fall 2007

Death in a Prairie House
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders
William R. Drennan
Spring 2007

Where Bones Dance
An English Girlhood, An African War
Nina Newington
Spring 2007

The Ice Cave
A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Fall 2006

The Deaf-Mute Boy
A Novel
Joseph Geraci
Fall 2006

Cry Rape
The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice
Bill Lueders
Fall 2006

Death of a Department Chair
A Novel
Lynn C. Miller
Fall 2006

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book Three: The Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942–1944
Chava Rosenfarb, Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler
Fall 2006

Somewhere in Germany
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig, Translated by Marlies Comjean
Fall 2006

Plum Wine
A Novel
Angela Davis-Gardner
Spring 2006

Secretly Inside
A Novel
Hans Warren, Translated by S. J. Leinbach
Spring 2006

Giovanna’s 86 Circles
And Other Stories
Paola Corso
Fall 2005

Setting the Lawn on Fire
A Novel
Mack Friedman
Fall 2005

Mr. Brecher’s Fiasco
A Novel
Martin Kessel, Translated by Brigitte Goldstein
Fall 2005

A Mind of Her Own
Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888–1982
Helen L. Laird
Fall 2005

This Tender Place
The Story of a Wetland Year
Laurie Lawlor
Fall 2005

They Change the Subject
Douglas A. Martin
Fall 2005

This Is Not the Tropics
Stories
Ladette Randolph
Fall 2005

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book Two: From the Depths I Call You, 1940–1942
Chava Rosenfarb, Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler
Fall 2005

Alligators May Be Present
A Novel
Andrew Furman
Spring 2005

Glimmering Girls
A Novel of the Fifties
Merrill Joan Gerber
Spring 2005

Barnstorm
Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction
Edited by Raphael Kadushin
Spring 2005

Things No Longer There
A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
Susan Krieger
Spring 2005

The Private Journals of Edvard Munch
We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
Edvard Munch, Edited and translated by J. Gill Holland
Spring 2005

Fred in Love
Felice Picano
Spring 2005

Business Confronts Terrorism
Risks and Responses
Dean C. Alexander
Fall 2004

The Letters of Mina Harker
Dodie Bellamy, New foreword by Dennis Cooper
Fall 2004

Sailing to the Far Horizon
The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship
Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Fall 2004

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side
Photographs by Bruce Davidson, With contributions by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ilan Stavans, Jill Meredith, and Gabriele Werffeli
Fall 2004

Fratricide in the Holy Land
A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Avner Falk
Fall 2004

Death Claims
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
Joseph Hansen
Fall 2004

Fadeout
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
Joseph Hansen, With a new preface
Fall 2004

Murder in Hollywood
Solving a Silent Screen Mystery
Charles Higham
Fall 2004

Giant
George Stevens, a Life on Film
Marilyn Ann Moss
Fall 2004

A Letter to Harvey Milk
Short Stories
Lesléa Newman
Fall 2004

Dancing Away an Anxious Mind
A Memoir about Overcoming Panic Disorder
Robert Rand
Fall 2004

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book One: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
Chava Rosenfarb, Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler
Fall 2004

The Manor and The Estate
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Fall 2004

The Tenement Saga
The Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers
Sanford Sternlicht
Fall 2004

An Emotional Gauntlet
From Life in Peacetime America to the War in European Skies
Stuart J. Wright
Fall 2004

Blue Daughter of the Red Sea
A Memoir
Meti Birabiro
Spring 2004

Level 7
Mordecai Roshwald, Edited and with a new foreword by David Seed
Spring 2004

Black Eye
Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life
Judith Strasser
Spring 2004

Nowhere in Africa
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig, Translated by Marlies Comjean
Spring 2004

The Boom Economy
Or, Scenes from Clerical Life
Brian Bouldrey
Fall 2003

Suspicion
A Novel
Laura Grimaldi, Translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Fall 2003

Telling Moments
Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories
Edited by Lynda Hall
Fall 2003

Cop’s Kid
A Milwaukee Memoir
Mel C. Miskimen
Fall 2003

Inside a Class Action
The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks
Jane Schapiro
Fall 2003

Voices from the Federal Theatre
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz and the Educational Film Center, Foreword by Robert Brustein
Fall 2003

Beijing
A Novel
Philip Gambone
Spring 2003

The Museum of Happiness
A Novel
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Spring 2003

A Friend of Kissinger
A Novel
David Milofsky
Spring 2003