The author will introduce her book, in conversation with award-winner Michael Kleber-Diggs (“Worldly Things”) at 7 p.m. Richly layers personal, familial, political and environmental histories. Why? She and her mother attend her father’s burial in Kansas and she imagines the final days of her grandfathers. ![]() ![]() “Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide” by Juliet Patterson (Milkweed Editions) - Minneapolis-based author researched a disturbing pattern in her family - her father and both grandfathers died by suicide. ![]() Paul Public Library’s Opus & Olives fundraiser Oct. It’s the story of young men, those who survived and those who did not, and the families and landscapes that shaped them.īissinger, a former Pioneer Press reporter, will be a guest author at Friends of the St. Trash talk led to the regiments playing each other in a football game that became known as the Mosquito Bowl. Their ranks included one of the greats pools of football talent ever assembled: former All-Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly 20 men who either were drafted or would ultimately play in the National Football League. On Christmas Eve, 1944, the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion of Okinawa. “The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death” by Buzz Bissinger (Harper Books) - Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the bestseller “Friday Night Lights” reveals an untold story from World War II. Have the problems of the world finally found the couple and their troubled teenage daughter? SEPTEMBER Then, two strange children arrive by canoe. In “News of the Air” (Black Lawrence Press), a couple flees urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism and live a relatively peaceful life as proprietors of a Northwoods fishing resort. Jill Stukenberg grew up in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. ![]() In doing so, he reinvents the “Midwestern pastoral” genre, confronting questions of science, technology, power, evolution and the effects of a rapidly changing society on a rural area. Michael Stanley is the pen name of Stan Trollip and Michael Sears.Ĭheck out more things to do in our fall arts guide.ĭavid Rhodes, who lives in Madison, Wis., takes characters from his widely-praised novel “Driftless” and “Jewelweed” and imagines them into the future in “Painting Beyond the Walls” from Milkweed Editions. He is sent to an excavation site near a small town where bones of Bushmen are uncovered, leading to a tangle of events that includes murder, corruption over water rights, a Bushman who wants to go home to the ancestors, racism and a pompous local station chief who isn’t happy to see Kubu and his tough boss, Asst. “A Deadly Covenant” (White Sun Books) is the seventh in Michael Stanley’s police procedurals featuring David “Kubu” Bengu, the second prequel in which the large man whose nickname means “hippo” is a newbie detective in the Botswana police force. Three that need mentioning are “Painting Beyond the Walls” by David Rhodes, “News of the Air” by Jill Stukenberg, and “A Deadly Covenant” by Michael Stanley. Most novels published in September are already out in the world and either reviewed or soon will be. There’s a lot of good reading coming our way, and this list is just the tip of the iceberg, with new books from Buzz Bissinger, John Sandford, Brian Freeman, Pete Hautman, Lorna Landvik, Nick Hornby, Marcie Rendon and Linda LeGarde Grover.
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