The World Needs Your Next Quilt
Zak Foster
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Step-by-step ideas to align every design decision you make to support the story your quilt tells.
The World Needs Your Next Quilt
Zak Foster
Tessa Bailey, Brighton Walsh
Songs for Other People's Weddings
Jens Lekman, David Levithan
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A novel about connection, heartbreak, and the music that gets us through it.
Songs for Other People's Weddings
Jens Lekman, David Levithan
Senator Fred A. Risser, Doug Moe
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A unique peek behind the political curtain from the viewpoint of someone who saw it all.
Senator Fred A. Risser, Doug Moe
Kyle Lukoff
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A groundbreaking, action-packed, and ultimately uplifting examination of the impacts of transphobia.
Kyle Lukoff
Quan Barry
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An astonishing ghost story about the masks we wear and the truths we hide even from ourselves.
Quan Barry
Wisconsin People & Ideas 2025 Poetry and Fiction Contest Winners
Elizabeth Hendricks, John Mulvihill, Hannah Greendale, Alison Thumel, Lex Williams Page, Breanna Grow
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Wisconsin People & Ideas 2025 Poetry and Fiction Contest Winners
Elizabeth Hendricks, John Mulvihill, Hannah Greendale, Alison Thumel, Lex Williams Page, Breanna Grow
Percival Everett
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A brilliant, tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence & compassion.
Percival Everett
Recent Wisconsin Book Festival Events
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
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Ultimately, Malcolm's true legacy is a journey toward anti-racism. Just like history, Malcolm lives.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Rickey Fayne
An audacious debut spanning eight generations of a Black family repeatedly visited by the Devil
Recording Available
Rickey Fayne
The Asking: New and Selected Poems
Jane Hirshfield
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expands our awareness of both breakage’s grief and the possibility for repair.
Recording Available
The Asking: New and Selected Poems
Jane Hirshfield
Steven Espada Dawson, Nate Marshall, Paul Tran
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is an ode to the families that inspire and confound us all.
Recording Available
Steven Espada Dawson, Nate Marshall, Paul Tran
2025 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony
Mandy Moe Pwint Tu
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The 2025 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony.
Recording Available
2025 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony
Mandy Moe Pwint Tu
Mary Annette Pember
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A stark portrait of the legacy of acculturation that has affected generations of Native communities.
Recording Available
Mary Annette Pember
Lunch for Libraries - Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese, Rebecca Makkai
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An unforgettable and stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine.
Recording Available
Lunch for Libraries - Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese, Rebecca Makkai
SCHOOL VISIT: Perspectives and Poetry with Marcie R. Rendon
Marcie R. Rendon
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brings the voices and teachings of her ancestors forward into the new Millennium.
SCHOOL VISIT: Perspectives and Poetry with Marcie R. Rendon
Marcie R. Rendon
2025 Wisconsin Institute For Creative Writing Fellows Reading
Adams Adeosun, Jackie Chalghin, Audrey Gradzewicz, Michael Kaplan, Winniebell Xinyu Zong
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Poetry and fiction from the 2024-25 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows.
Recording Available
2025 Wisconsin Institute For Creative Writing Fellows Reading
Adams Adeosun, Jackie Chalghin, Audrey Gradzewicz, Michael Kaplan, Winniebell Xinyu Zong
Colm Tóibín
Cho Nam-joo, Eunsil Oh
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follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny.
Cho Nam-joo, Eunsil Oh
Drawing on the Past: Jewish Graphic Narratives with Sol Brager
Solomon Brager, Erika Meitner
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is an analog inkwash comic about situating family Holocaust history.
Recording Available
Drawing on the Past: Jewish Graphic Narratives with Sol Brager
Solomon Brager, Erika Meitner
SCHOOL VISIT: A Day of Poetry with Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall
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Nate Marshall will visit two Madison Metropolitan School District high schools.
SCHOOL VISIT: A Day of Poetry with Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall
2025 Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Spring Book Sale
Friends of UW Libraries
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A semiannual sale is organized by the Friends to help to support public events and lectures.
2025 Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Spring Book Sale
Friends of UW Libraries
Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
Dean Spade, Fawzy Qamar
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A manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands.
Recording Available
Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
Dean Spade, Fawzy Qamar
SCHOOL VISIT: Dear You, Dream Big!
Baptiste Paul
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A powerful, lyrical anthem of Black pride celebrating Black creativity, leadership, and innovation.
SCHOOL VISIT: Dear You, Dream Big!
Baptiste Paul
Christine Wenc
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How a group of young misfits from flyover country unintentionally created a cultural phenomenon.
Christine Wenc
SCHOOL VISIT - Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the fight for fairness and equality
Jerrianne Hayslett, Aaron Boyd
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Provides a thorough look at an activist who dedicated her life to making the world a better place.
SCHOOL VISIT - Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the fight for fairness and equality
Jerrianne Hayslett, Aaron Boyd
Curtis Sittenfeld, Susanna Daniel
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A funny, fiercely intelligent collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition
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Curtis Sittenfeld, Susanna Daniel
Nancy Reddy, Jessica Calarco
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pulls back the curtain on the flawed social science behind our understanding of a "good" mom.
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Nancy Reddy, Jessica Calarco
Creative Writing MFA Graduates Poetry Reading
Patrycja Humienik, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, Iqra Khan, juj e. lepe, Jonny Teklit, Andrew Chi Keong Yim
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A reading from the graduating UW-Madison MFA cohort in poetry.
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Creative Writing MFA Graduates Poetry Reading
Patrycja Humienik, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, Iqra Khan, juj e. lepe, Jonny Teklit, Andrew Chi Keong Yim
Amy Tan
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Maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions & beautiful original sketches.
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Amy Tan
Samantha Shannon
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the highly anticipated fifth novel in Samantha Shannon bestselling Bone Season series.
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Samantha Shannon
Eve L. Ewing, Kai Pyle
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An eye-opening look at how American schools helped build and reinforce racial inequality
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Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
Bernadette Atuahene
Puts a face on the pain of racist policies that have impoverished America's democracy
Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
Bernadette Atuahene
Grace Jung
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offers a groundbreaking exploration into this singular form of entertainment.
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Grace Jung
Nickolas Butler, Laura Anne Bird
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A small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, 40 years after their divorce.
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Nickolas Butler, Laura Anne Bird
SCHOOL VISIT: Into the Wind, Above the Clouds
Diane Endres-Ballweg
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Becoming a pilot taught Ballweg about the limitless beauty of life from the skies.
SCHOOL VISIT: Into the Wind, Above the Clouds
Diane Endres-Ballweg
Christina Clancy, Chloe Benjamin
An honest story of what it takes to commit to someone for a lifetime.
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Christina Clancy, Chloe Benjamin