FOR MORE RECOMMENDATIONS
Try these resources. For assistance in learning to use any of the following,
please ask at Information & Reference. We’re here to help you!
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MORE Catalog—Recommendations based on Goodreads
database.
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Novelist—Read-alikes and genre suggestions galore.
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Book Link—Personalized book recommendations prepared by our
staff. Available on the library’s website under the Services tab.
SOURCES used in creating this Book Link brochure:
The Local Store. Volume One. http://thelocalstore.org/collections/books/
localbooks. Accessed June 10, 2016.
“Local Author Eau Claire.” MORE Catalog. http://www.more.lib.wi.us/
search~S43?/dLocal+author+%28Eau+Claire%29/dlocal+author+eau+claire/
-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=dlocal+author+eau+claire&1%2C145%2C.
Accessed July 30, 2016.
“Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame.” Milwaukee Public Library. http://www.mpl.org/
about/wisconsin_writers_wall_of_fame.php. Accessed July 30, 2016.
Roberts, James P. 2002. Famous Wisconsin Authors. Oregon, WI: Badger
Books Inc.
Cover photo by Justin Patchin, used with permission.
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Local
Authors
A BOOK LINK GUIDE
Intro to Local Authors
Non-Fiction by Local Authors
The Chippewa Valley is home to many talented
people. Well-known for its music scene, the valley is
also a treasure trove of incredible authors. Whether it’s
fiction, non-fiction, or a collection of poems, there’s a
book you’ll enjoy that was written by someone you’ve
passed in the grocery store . . . or the library!
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Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and
the Road to Roughneck Grace / Michael Perry
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A Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the
Legend of Eau Claire Baseball / Jerry Poling
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Kiddie Cocktails / Stuart Sandler
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Kindling for the Devil’s Fires: Journals of
an Infantryman / Roy M. Campbell
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Blaze Orange: Whitetail Deer Hunting
in Wisconsin / Travis Dewitz
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When Did My Life Become a Game
of Twister? / Mary Pierce
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Curtain Up, Light the Lights!: A History of
the Green Ram Theatre / Wil Denson
Fiction and Poetry Books
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Shotgun Lovesongs / Nickolas Butler
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Hunger Wide as Heaven / Max Garland
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Legacy / Cayla Kluver (Legacy series)
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Angels Don’t Get Tattoos / CeCelia R. Zorn
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Love’s Bluff / Patti See
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A Beirut Heart: One Woman’s War / Cathy Sultan
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On the Banks of the River: A Family and
a Wisconsin Town Grow Up Together /
R.S. Oatman
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Frozen Assets: Reflections on Winter in
Northern Wisconsin / Joe Knight
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She’s Not There / Marla Madison
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The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam’s Twins in
19th-Century America / Joseph Andrew Orser
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Sugar’s Dance / Katie Mettner
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Zebra: Poems / Nadine S. St. Louis
Visionary Leadership: A Proven Pathway
to Visionary Change / William A. Ihlenfeldt
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Where Everything and Nothing Makes
Sense / M. M. Walker
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Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the
Last Lynching in America / B.J. Hollars
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Taking of Hill 1052 / J. Birney Dibble
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Disillusion / Kirk Stiles
Occupying Aging: Delights, Disabilities, and
Daily Life / Katherine Schneider
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A Horse Named Viking / Caroline Akervik
Picture Books by Local Authors
Kids will love these beautiful picture books!
Beyond the Valley: Other Wisconsin Authors
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Clint: A Retrospective / Richard Schickel
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and
the War Years / Carl Sandburg
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A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl / Peter Straub
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An August Derleth Reader / August Derleth
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Cat Tales: Mews by Gracie / Debbie Waite
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A Prince of a Dog: Garfy Adopts a Family /
Mary Turner Heimstead
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Comin’ Down to Storytime / Rob Reid
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It All Began with a Bean / Katie McKy
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Psycho / Robert Bloch
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Wakanda Whooper: The Curious Cinnamon
Crane / Sandia Kosmo
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The Stalking Moon / T.V. Olsen
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Little House on the Prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder