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Death on a Starry Night
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Death on a Starry Night
Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
Spring 2016

Women Lovers, or The Third Woman
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Women Lovers, or The Third Woman
Natalie Clifford Barny
Spring 2016

Eugenia
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Eugenia
A Fictional Sketch of Future Customs
Eduardo Urzaiz
Edited and translated by Sarah A. Buck Kachaluba and Aaron Dziubinskyj

Spring 2016

JD
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JD
A Novel
Mark Merlis
Spring 2015

Meet Me Halfway
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Meet Me Halfway
Milwaukee Stories
Jennifer Morales
Spring 2015

A Winsome Murder
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A Winsome Murder
James DeVita
Spring 2015

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

The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County
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The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County
A Novel
Jerry Apps
Fall 2014

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

Little Reef and Other Stories
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Little Reef and Other Stories
Michael Carroll
Spring 2014

A Kind of Dream
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A Kind of Dream
Stories
Kelly Cherry
Spring 2014

Murder in Lascaux
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Murder in Lascaux
A Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler Mystery
Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
Spring 2014

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

The City of Palaces
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The City of Palaces
A Novel
Michael Nava
Spring 2014

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

A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories
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A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories
Glenway Wescott, Edited and with an introduction by Jerry Rosco
Fall 2013

Tamarack River Ghost
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Tamarack River Ghost
A Novel
Jerry Apps
Fall 2012

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

Midnight Catch
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Midnight Catch
A Novel
Norman Gilliland
Fall 2012

A Horse Named Sorrow
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A Horse Named Sorrow
A Novel
Trebor Healey
Fall 2012

The Paternity Test
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The Paternity Test
A Novel
Michael Lowenthal
Fall 2012

The Time of the Goats
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The Time of the Goats
Luan Starova, Translated by Christina E. Kramer
Fall 2012

The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club
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The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club
Dave Crehore
Spring 2012

Love and Fatigue in America
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Love and Fatigue in America
Roger King
Spring 2012

The Waters of Star Lake
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The Waters of Star Lake
A Novel
Sara Rath
Spring 2012

My Father’s Books
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My Father’s Books
Luan Starova, Translated by Christina E. Kramer
Spring 2012

The Green Suit
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The Green Suit
Stories
Dwight Allen
Fall 2011

Ambientes
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Ambientes
New Queer Latino Writing
Edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano
Spring 2011

Remembrance of Things I Forgot
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Remembrance of Things I Forgot
A Novel
Bob Smith
Spring 2011

Cranberry Red
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Cranberry Red
A Novel
Jerry Apps
Fall 2010

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

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

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

Bai Ganyo
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Bai Ganyo
Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian
Aleko Konstantinov, Edited by Victor A. Friedman
Spring 2010

Blue Shadows Farm
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Blue Shadows Farm
A Novel
Jerry Apps
Fall 2009

Sugarless
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Sugarless
A Novel
James Magruder
Fall 2009

The Typewriter Satyr
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The Typewriter Satyr
A Novel
Dwight Allen
Spring 2009

Christmas Stones & The Story Chair
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Christmas Stones & The Story Chair
Justin Isherwood
Spring 2008

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

In a Pickle
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In a Pickle
A Family Farm Story
Jerry Apps
Fall 2007

The Flight of the Condor
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The Flight of the Condor
Stories of Violence and War from Colombia
Translated and compiled by Jennifer Gabrielle Edwards, Foreword by Hugo Chaparro Valderrama
Fall 2007

The Theatre of Genocide
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The Theatre of Genocide
Four Plays about Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia
Edited and with an introduction by Robert Skloot
Fall 2007

Other Witnesses
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Other Witnesses
An Anthology of Literature of the German Americans, 1850–1914
Edited and with introductory essays by Cora Lee Kluge
Spring 2007

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

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

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
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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
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Somewhere in Germany
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig, Translated by Marlies Comjean
Fall 2006

Plum Wine
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Plum Wine
A Novel
Angela Davis-Gardner
Spring 2006

Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages
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Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages
An Abridged Audiobook
Sara Rath, As read by Jim Fleming on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chapter a Day
Spring 2006

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

Jagged with Love
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Jagged with Love
Susanna Childress
Fall 2005

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

Setting the Lawn on Fire
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Setting the Lawn on Fire
A Novel
Mack Friedman
Fall 2005

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

They Change the Subject
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They Change the Subject
Douglas A. Martin
Fall 2005

This Is Not the Tropics
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This Is Not the Tropics
Stories
Ladette Randolph
Fall 2005

Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages
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Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages
A Novel
Sara Rath
Fall 2005

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
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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

Farm Crossing
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Farm Crossing
The Amazing Adventures of Addie and Zachary
Jack Bushnell, Illustrated by Laurie Caple
Spring 2005

Alligators May Be Present
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Alligators May Be Present
A Novel
Andrew Furman
Spring 2005

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

Sand Mansions
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Sand Mansions
A Novel
Norman Gilliland
Spring 2005

The German Officer’s Boy
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The German Officer’s Boy
Harlan Greene
Spring 2005

Barnstorm
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Barnstorm
Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction
Edited by Raphael Kadushin
Spring 2005

Fred in Love
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Fred in Love
Felice Picano
Spring 2005

A Fire in His Head
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A Fire in His Head
The Adventures of Wandering Aengus
Loreto Todd
Spring 2005

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

The Inhabited Woman
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The Inhabited Woman
Gioconda Belli, Translated by Kathleen March
Fall 2004

Ballad of Another Time
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Ballad of Another Time
A Novel
José Luis González
Fall 2004

Death Claims
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Death Claims
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
Joseph Hansen
Fall 2004

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

The Bonjour Gene
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The Bonjour Gene
A Novel
J. A. Marzán
Fall 2004

A Letter to Harvey Milk
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A Letter to Harvey Milk
Short Stories
Lesléa Newman
Fall 2004

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
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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

<em>The Manor</em> and <em>The Estate</em>
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The Manor and The Estate
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Fall 2004

Sitti Djaoerah
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Sitti Djaoerah
A Novel of Colonial Indonesia
M.J. Soetan Hasoendoetan, Translated by Susan Rodgers
Spring 2004

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

Voices from the Thai Countryside
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Voices from the Thai Countryside
“The Necklace” and Other Stories by Samruam Singh
Samruam Singh, Edited and Translated by Katherine A. Bowie
Spring 2004

Life in the Damn Tropics
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Life in the Damn Tropics
A Novel
David Unger, Foreword by Gioconda Belli
Spring 2004

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

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

Don Juan in the Village
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Don Juan in the Village
A Novel
Jane DeLynn
Fall 2003

In Thrall
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In Thrall
A Novel
Jane DeLynn
Fall 2003

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

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

Tent of Miracles
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Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado, Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello
Spring 2003

Tieta
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Tieta
Jorge Amado, Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello
Spring 2003

Beijing
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Beijing
A Novel
Philip Gambone
Spring 2003

Building Fiction
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Building Fiction
How to Develop Plot and Structure
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Spring 2003

The Museum of Happiness
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The Museum of Happiness
A Novel
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Spring 2003

Latin Moon in Manhattan
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Latin Moon in Manhattan
A Novel
Jaime Manrique
Spring 2003

Twilight at the Equator
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Twilight at the Equator
A Novel
Jaime Manrique
Spring 2003

A Friend of Kissinger
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A Friend of Kissinger
A Novel
David Milofsky
Spring 2003

Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
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Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
Melvin Jules Bukiet
Fall 2002

Mazel
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Mazel
Rebecca Goldstein
Fall 2002

Beatrice of Bayou Têche
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Beatrice of Bayou Têche
Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Introduction by Thomas H. Fick and Eva Gold
2001

Bryher: Two Novels
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Bryher: Two Novels
Development and Two Selves
Bryher, With an introduction by Joanne Winning
Fall 2000

Something Inside
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Something Inside
Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers
Edited by Philip Gambone
Spring 1999

Wisconsin Fiction
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Wisconsin Fiction
Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Issue
Edited by Marshall Cook
Spring 1998

Kallocain
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Kallocain
Karin Boye, Translated by Gustaf Lannestock
Spring 1966

The Werewolf
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The Werewolf
Aksel Sandemose
1966