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Domestic Violence Awareness Month

10/11/2022

 
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we've partnered with Green Haven Family Advocates to bring you a list of resources and personal stories regarding partner violence and family violence. Green Haven's 24-hour Crisis Line is (608) 325-7711. Reach out to them if you need assistance.
  • *Why Does He Do That?, Lundy Bancroft, print | ebook
  • It’s My Life Now, Meg Kennedy Dugan & Roger R. Hock, print
  • It Wasn't Your Fault, Beverly Engel, print
  • Invisible Chains, Lisa Aronson Fontes, print
  • Invisible Girls, Patti Feuereisen, print
  • Surviving, Beverly Gooden, print
  • I Just Want Out, Jodi Schuelke, print
  • Goodbye Sweet Girl, Kelly Sundberg, print
  • No Visible Bruises, Rachel Louise Snyder, print | ebook
  • *Surviving Domestic Violence, Elaine Weiss, print
  • A Safe Place for Women, Kelly White, print
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Starred titles are specifically recommended by Green Haven.
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Adults

10/4/2022

 
September 15 - October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month! Take a look at these books from adult nonfiction celebrating Latino and Hispanic Americans and their heritage and cultures. Starred titles are also available in Spanish; see below.
  • Once upon a Quinceañera, Julia Alvarez, print | eaudio
  • *Perfectly You, Mariana Atencio, print
  • Hola Papi, John Paul Brammer, print | ebook | eaudio
  • A House of My Own, Sandra Cisneros, print 
  • Decoding Despacito, Leila Cobo, print 
  • Magical Realism for Non-Believers, Anika Fajardo, print 
  • American Like Me, America Ferrera & others, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Mexicanos, Manuel G. Gonzales, print 
  • *A Dream Called Home, Reyna Grande, print 
  • Happiness Will Follow, Mike Hawthorne, print 
  • *Once I Was You, Maria Hinojosa, print | ebook | eaudio
  • *I Am These Truths, Sunny Hostin, print | eaudio
  • My Broken Language, Quiara Alegría Hudes, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Tell Me How It Ends, Valeria Luiselli, print | ebook
  • In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Mi Cocina, Rick Martínez, print |
  • For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, Prisca Dorcas Mojíca Rodriguez, print |
  • Rita Moreno: A Memoir, Rita Moreno, print |
  • The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, Miriam Pawel, print |
  • *Finding Latinx, Paola Ramos, print |
  • We Heard It When We Were Young, Chuy Renteria, print |
  • *The Man Who Could Move Clouds, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, print |
  • Where I Come from, Aarón Sánchez, print |
  • Crying in the Bathroom, Erika L. Sánchez, print | ebook
  • *App Kid, Michael Sayman, print |
  • My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Translation Nation, Héctor Tobar, print |
  • *Trejo, Danny Trejo, print | ebook | eaudio
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Celebramos el mes de la herencia hispana entre el 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre. Estos libros no ficción para adultos describen personas y culturas latinas en los Estados Unidos. Estos libros están disponibles en español en la biblioteca de Monroe.
  • Perfectamente tú, Mariana Atencio, traducido por los editores, print | ebook | eaudio
  • La búsqueda de un sueño, Reyna Grande, traducido por Víctor Uribe, print 
  • Una vez fui tú, Maria Hinojosa, traducido por Angélica Ramírez, print | eaudio
  • Yo soy estas verdades, Sunny Hostin, traducido por Sheilly Vásquez y Natalia Bird Jové, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Latinx, Paola Ramos, traducido por Hugo López Blanco Calderón, print
  • El hombre que movía las nubes, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, traducido por Mercedes Guhl, print | ebook
  • ​App Kid en español, Michael Sayman, traducido por Melanie Márquez Adams, print 
  • Trejo, Danny Trejo, traducido por Cecilia Molinari, print | ebook
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Oceans & Ocean Animals

6/10/2022

 
  • Aquarela, BLU
  • Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs, Juli Berwald, print
  • Galápagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy, Tui De Roy, print
  • Ocean: A Global Odyssey, Sylvia A. Earle, print
  • Great White Odyssey, DVD
  • Moby-Duck, Donovan Hohn, print | ebook
  • War of the Whales, Joshua Horwitz, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Invasion of the Killer Whales, DVD
  • Citizens of the Sea, Nancy Knowlton, print
  • A Life among Whales, DVD
  • Octopus Seahorse Jellyfish, David Liittschwager, print
  • Ocean Odyssey, BLU
  • The Encyclopedia of Sharks, Steve Parker, print
  • Reef Rescue, DVD
  • Shark Drunk, Morten Strøksnes, print
  • Coral Reef Curiosities, Chuck Weikert, print
  • Below the Edge of Darkness, Edith Widder, print
  • Wild Deep: Seven Continents, DVD | BLU
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Fiction: Islands & Coasts

6/10/2022

 
  • The Last Train to Key West, Chanel Cleeton, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Sweetland, Michael Crummey, print | ebook
  • Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Cantoras, Carolina de Robertis, print | ebook
  • The Lightkeepers, Abby Geni, print 
  • They All Fall Down, Rachel Howzell Hall, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Our Homesick Songs, Emma Hooper, print | ebook
  • Southernmost, Silas House, print | ebook
  • Allie & Bea, Catherine Ryan Hyde, print 
  • Murder on the Rocks, Karen MacInerney, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Lighthouse, Paco Roca, print 
  • The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Something in the Water, Catherine Steadman, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Light between Oceans, M.L. Stedman, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Shark Club, Ann Kidd Taylor, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut, print 
  • Adé: a Love Story, Rebecca Walker, print 
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Ships, Pirates & Islands

6/9/2022

 
  • Anote’s Ark, DVD
  • Rebels at Sea, Eric Jay Dolin, print 
  • 438 Days, Jonathan Franklin, print | eaudio
  • Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History, Ian Graham, print 
  • Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, print 
  • Pirate Hunters, Robert Kurson, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Atlas of Shipwrecks & Treasure, Nigel Pickford, print 
  • Pirates! Scourge of the Seven Seas, DVD
  • Flying Cloud, David W. Shaw, print 
  • In the Kingdom of Ice, Hampton Sides, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Monturiol’s Dream, Matthew Stewart, print 
  • Sealand, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, print 
  • Born to be Hanged, Keith Thomson, print 
  • Sea People, Christina Thompson, print 
  • Six Frigates, Ian W. Toll, print 
  • Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell, print 
  • Atlantic, Simon Winchester, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Pacific, Simon Winchester, print | audio CD 
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Great Lakes & American Waterways

6/8/2022

 
  • Door Way, Norbert Blei, print 
  • The River of Kings, Taylor Brown, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell, print 
  • The Living Great Lakes, Jerry Dennis, print | ebook
  • The Source, Martin Doyle, print 
  • The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, Dan Egan, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region, Wayne Grady, print 
  • Raft of Stars, Andrew J. Graff, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Great Lakes Chronicle: Essays on Coastal Wisconsin, print 
  • Milwaukee: A City Built on Water, John Gurda, print | ebook
  • The River Swimmer, Jim Harrison, print | eaudio
  • Iron Lake, William Kent Krueger, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Sustaining Lake Superior, Nancy Langston, print | ebook
  • Return to Wake Robin, Marnie O. Mamminga, print | audio CD | ebook
  • Where the River Ends, Charles Martin, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Perimeter: A Contemporary Portrait of Lake Michigan, Kevin J. Miyazaki, print | ebook
  • Niagara Falls, DVD
  • Lake Superior, Grace Lee Nute, print 
  • Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages, Sara Rath, print | ebook
  • Great Lakes Lighthouses, Bruce Roberts & Ray Jones, print 
  • Mighty Fitz, Michael Schumacher, print | ebook
  • Death Stalks Door County, Patricia Skalka, print | ebook
  • Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Wisconsin Lighthouses, Ken & Barb Wardius, print | ebook
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Fiction: Ships & Oceans

6/7/2022

 
  • White Plague, James Abel, print | large print | ebook
  • Meg, Steve Alten, print | eaudio
  • The Blue, Lucy Clarke, print
  • In Waves, A.J. Dungo, print
  • Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant, print | ebook
  • Middle Passage, Charles Johnson, print
  • The Unknown Shore, Patrick O’Brian, print
  • The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Whiteness of the Whale, David Poyer, print
  • The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan, print | audio CD | eaudio
  • The Terror, Dan Simmons, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Deep, Rivers Solomon, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne, print | several ebook & eaudio editions available
  • The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk, ​print
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Pollution & Climate Change

6/6/2022

 
  • Chasing Lakes, Katey Walter Anthony, coming in June
  • Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, Lucas Bessire, print
  • The Poisoned City, Anna Clark, print
  • The Atlas of Disappearing Places, Christina Conklin & Marina Psaros, print
  • Extreme Ice, DVD
  • Toms River, Dan Fagin, print
  • The Big Thirst, Charles Fishman, print
  • Flint’s Deadly Water, DVD
  • The Complete Guide to Water Storage, Julie Fryer, print
  • The Water Will Come, Jeff Goodell, print | ebook
  • The End of Ice, Dahr Jamail, print
  • Disasterology, Samantha Montano, print
  • Paradise Falls, Keith O’Brien, print
  • Rising, Elizabeth Rush, print
  • Sinking Cities, DVD (disc 1 | disc 2)
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Fishing & Boating

6/6/2022

 
  • Canoeing and Kayaking South Central Wisconsin, Timothy Bauer, print | ebook
  • Fish of Wisconsin Field Guide, Dave Bosanko, print
  • From a Wooden Canoe, Jerry Dennis, print 
  • The Fish’s Eye, Ian Frazier, print 
  • Gather at the River: 25 Authors on Fishing, ed. David Joy with Eric Rickstad, print 
  • Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, John Gierach, print 
  • The River, Peter Heller, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Last Man Fishing, DVD
  • Riverman: An American Odyssey, Ben McGrath, print | ebook
  • Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gary & Joanie McGuffin, print 
  • Paddle Your Own Kayak, Gary & Joanie McGuffin, print 
  • A River Runs Through It, Norman Mclean, print | ebook
  • Field Guide to Wisconsin Streams, Michael A. Miller, print 
  • The New Fly Fishing Basics, DVD
  • Paddling Wisconsin, Kevin Revolinski, print | ebook
  • Wisconsin’s Statewide Guide to Stand Up Paddleboarding, Ben Shaw, print 
  • Trout Friends and Other Riff-Raff, Bill Stokes, ​print | ebook
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Fiction to mark Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

5/3/2022

 
  • Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo, print | ebook
  • The Wangs vs. The World, Jade Chang, large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Songs of Willow Frost, Jamie Ford, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • A Map of Betrayal, Ha Jin, print | ebook
  • Searching for Sylvie Lee, Jean Kwok, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee, print | ebook
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Minari, DVD | Blu-ray
  • A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen, print | ebook
  • When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian, print | ebook | eaudio
  • China Dolls, Lisa See, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Son of Good Fortune, Lysley Tenorio, print | ebook
  • The Color of Air, Gail Tsukiyama, print | ebook
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu, print | ebook | eaudio
  • O Beautiful, Jung Yun, print | ebook | eaudio​​
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    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

    (LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken. We'll fix them ASAP!)

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