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Articles tagged with 'books'

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Milwaukee author Jenny Benjamin talks debut novel

Published May 16, 2013

Jenny Benjamin talks to OnMilwaukee.com about her debut novel, "This Most Amazing," which tells the story of a Milwaukee poet who has a strange connection to a long-dead Italian soldier.

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Milwaukee Public Library summer reading program kicks off today

Published May 13, 2013

The Milwaukee Public Library kicks off their annual Super Reader Summer Reading Program today. The program encourages children to read or be read to every day during the summer, while tracking reading progress in a folder and earning incentives like free food and free admission to Milwaukee attractions.

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UWM Special Collections offers books of glass, on pillows and in jars

Published May 8, 2013

Not everything is check-out-able at libraries, a fact made clear to us during a recent visit to the Special Collections at the UWM Golda Meir Library where we encountered all sorts of unconventional materials from 15th century volumes to invisible books.

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Wisconsin author talks debut novel

Published May 7, 2013

Wisconsin author Andrea Lochen's debut novel, "The Repeat Year," comes out today and explores an interesting question: if you wrong someone in a year that you had lived through but seems to exist for no one else, did it really happen?

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Milchman pulls you in with "Cover of Snow"

Published March 4, 2013

Novels like Jenny Milchman's "Cover of Snow" prove that there's still no better way to pass an afternoon than lying on your couch, elbows-deep in a good mystery story.

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Gallas' new book rescues some really good stuff

Published March 3, 2013

Milwaukee writer Louisa Loveridge Gallas' "Rescue the Good Stuff" is the story of Madeleine Kidd, an insightful, spunky 11-year-old who is the only child of a con-man father and a frustrated, disappointed-with-life mother. OnMiwaukee.com recently chatted with Gallas about the book and more.

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Milwaukee author, illustrator team up to pen their first children's book

Published Feb. 8, 2013

Jamie Vacho Knisbeck hadn't written a book before, so she was surprised when the idea for a children's story came to her while journaling in her garden several years ago. It was only through a friend of a friend that she met illustrator Charlie Christman and her idea came to life. A year and a half later, "Ivy Grace and the Birthday Monster" was born.

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I don't understand the online used book business

Published Feb. 5, 2013

I'm using my own book as an example in this posting, but so you don't think it's merely for shameless self-promotion, I won't use the title. But, seeing copies of the book for sale online has me wondering how this online used bookselling game works.

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"Hitchcock" - fact or fiction?

Published Dec. 15, 2012

Patrick McGilligan wrote "Alfred Hitchcock: Life in Darkness and Light" in 2003 and currently teaches a class at Marquette University on the famed auteur. I sat down with the local author to discuss "Hitchcock" and to differentiate between Hitchcock facts and Hollywood fabrications.

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Tarlach roots for the villain in her debut novel

Published Oct. 25, 2012

Gemma Tarlach has produced a brilliant debut novel chronicling a medieval executioner's struggle to find his runaway daughter as the Black Plague ravages the German countryside.

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Murder in Wauwatosa: Hoffman recounts a tragic murder close to home

Published July 29, 2012

"I know who killed the Schumacher boy." Wauwatosa native Paul Hoffman, a journalist now based in Indiana grew up hearing that from his elderly neighbor Lillian Harwood. Decades later, that line resulted in Hoffman's new book, "Murder in Wauwatosa: The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher," published in paperback by The History Press.