Central Wisconsin author and longtime Wausau educator Julianna Burmesch explores childhood trauma, resilience and healing in her memoir, “Life with Less of Me.”

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Edgerton, a Wisconsin community of just over 6,000 people, has become a sensation in Japan for its ties to a famous pet raccoon.

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A young Wisconsin scientist puts her life on hold to work in a kitchen in Antarctica. While there, she gets involved in a scientific mystery that could give her a second chance to reverse one of the lowest points in her life. That’s the launching point of the new novel “Under Story” by author Chloe Benjamin,

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At age 64, Madison poet and novelist Jesse Lee Kercheval picked up a pencil set and started to draw. In her first solo exhibition, “Drawn Lives,” dozens of Kercheval’s pastel works are on display at Edgewood University Gallery in Madison.

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Reading is a major part of childhood. But what makes a good children's book? For award-winning children's book author-illustrator and Wisconsin native Kevin Henkes, it's all about the timing.

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Pioneering Jewish social activist Lizzie Kander turned a recipe book she made for new immigrants in Milwaukee into the most successful charitable cookbook in American history. A new book examines the impact of “The Settlement Cook Book” for generations of women.

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