"It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer 'Fish' Branson and Dale 'Bread' Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don't talk about. One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors...

"Years of long workdays and little sleep as a political campaigner are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey's boss is entering the White House. But when her estranged older sister, Alice, unexpectedly dies, Lucy is drawn back to Nilson's Bay, her small, close-knit Wisconsin hometown. An accident in her teens left Alice mentally impaired, and she was content to stay in Nilson's Bay. Lucy, meanwhile, got out and never looked back. But now, to meet...

An evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom and Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. She is taken under the wing by Mason, an agent from the Program. Carter is Mason's daughter, who works after school at a nearby bait shop. Rosalinda, now known as Rosie, helps Carter overcome her insecurities...

Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were first introduced on TV's Happy Days, and their ensuing spin-off series, co-starring Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine and the rest of the Milwaukee gang, soon became a smash-hit sitcom with audiences nationwide, in one of television's all-time greatest comedies!

Left with her white grandparents, a biracial girl deals with abandonment in a 1970s rural Wisconsin town that doesn’t easily accept change.
Michelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin—a small town that had been entirely white before her arrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends her time reading, avoiding fights, and roaming the countryside...

Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were first introduced on TV's Happy Days, and their ensuing spin-off series, co-starring Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine and the rest of the Milwaukee gang, soon became a smash-hit sitcom with audiences nationwide, in one of television's all-time greatest comedies!

Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were first introduced on TV's Happy Days, and their ensuing spin-off series, co-starring Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine and the rest of the Milwaukee gang, soon became a smash-hit sitcom with audiences nationwide, in one of television's all-time greatest comedies!

Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were first introduced on TV's Happy Days, and their ensuing spin-off series, co-starring Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine and the rest of the Milwaukee gang, soon became a smash-hit sitcom with audiences nationwide, in one of television's all-time greatest comedies!

The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by childhood memories after discovering a cougar in his haymow. The former drifter who forever alters the ties that bind a community. In his first novel in 30 years,...

"Chaya and her strange, brilliant, little brother Asher depart for Chicago only to discover that the Gilded Age is as empty a façade as the beautiful Columbian Exposition attracting thousands to Lake Michigan's shore. They scrape together a meager living--she in a cigar factory; he, roaming the city and stealing books and jewelry to share with the poor, until they find different paths of escape. Chaya's becomes a deeply conflicted love story and...