"Faced with the intrusion of an air conditioner, the builder's granddaughter reflects on how the cottage has batled change as it fulfills its purpose -- cosseting lovers, defying gangsters, sheltering wounded animals and children, and facing unique problems such as a porcupine in the basement, badger under the support posts and a refrigerator in the bedroom. We watch the cottage adjust to history, fight for survival and always remain itself -- a small...

Anishinabe, Saulteur, Ojibwe, Chippewa - all names of a people who have lived in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin for the past three centuries. Ojibwe oral tradition speaks of life as a circular path, with parents passing on knowledge to children and grandchildren. Over the past 300 years, contact with Europeans and settlement by Americans have forced them to adapt in order to survive. The challenges each generation has faced - whether at treaty...

"Through these behind-the-scenes accounts based on interviews with more than 30 state-wide law enforcement officers, Wisconsin 5-0 gives an insider's look behind the badge. Readers will feel the adrenaline rushing to the scene, the heartbreak of discovering the victim, and the resolve in confronting the weapon-wielding suspect. They'll also learn that oftentimes officers struggle to come to terms with an incident, its lingering effects staying with...