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Millennials Who Say Baby Boomers Are To Blame For Economic Despair Are Right, Author Argues

June 10, 2019 - 3:35pm

Author Joseph Sternberg says while it's true that the Millennials have come of age with comforts and conveniences unknown to previous generations, they were also traumatized by the Great Recession in 2008, they're saddled with student debt and can't afford middle-class economic staples like houses.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

June 10, 2019 - 12:30pm

Monday, June 10 through Tuesday, July 2, 2019. Read by Michele Good.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions. But everything changes when Eleanor and a co-worker, Raymond,...

Librarians Offer Tips On How Kids Can Keep Up With Reading This Summer

June 7, 2019 - 5:25am

When school lets out, students can fall into the summer reading gap trap, where they enter school again in September with deteriorated reading skills. Librarians in Eau Claire Becky Wojahn and Caroline Akervik recommend plenty of options for keeping up with reading this summer.

5 Tips To Start An Urban Garden

May 27, 2019 - 6:30pm

Limited space is no reason to keep you from having the garden of your dreams.

To Travel Well, Be Willing To Listen, Play, Leave The Notebook Behind

May 24, 2019 - 6:00am

Barry Lopez is an anthropologically-minded travel writer with deep interests in environmentalism and human nature. "To the Best of Our Knowledge" executive producer Steve Paulson asked Lopez why he travels, and how he writes about the people he encounters.

All Fishermen are Liars: True Tales for the Dry Dock Bar by Linda Greenlaw

May 20, 2019 - 12:30pm

Monday, May 20 through Friday June 7, 2019. Read by Karl Schmidt.

Fishermen do love to tell stories, and Linda Greenlaw loves collecting them. In this memoir she pulls together a variety of stories into an afternoon at the Dry Dock Bar.

(Hyperion; ISBN-10: 1401300707)

Theme: John Adams: Naive...

New Book Details Some Of Milwaukee County's Strata History, Geologic Significance

May 16, 2019 - 6:00am

Four scientists, and three with ties to Milwaukee, wanted to catalog evidence accumulated over decades of the Milwaukee Formation and mobilize scientists to study what potentially are new species buried in sediment with a new book, "Fossils of the Milwaukee Formation: A Diverse Middle Devonian Biota From Wisconsin, USA."...

Milwaukee Gets 'Noir' Treatment With Short Story Collection

May 8, 2019 - 6:00am

Absent the cynical detective and the femme fatale, Milwaukee is a hub for noir drama. The city's places and events have become the background for a new collection of short stories, "Milwaukee Noir," that is part of a series published by Akashic Books.

Tales Of Dragons That Fight Segregation, And AI That Fights Transphobia

May 3, 2019 - 3:00pm

Victor LaValle is the editor of a collection of short stories where — even in dire situations and terrifying futures — everyone has a place, and a chance at being the hero.

ESPN's 'The Undefeated' Poem Becomes Children's Book

May 2, 2019 - 6:00am

Newbery Medal winning author Kwame Alexander, with the help of illustrator Kadir Nelson, has turned a poem into his 32nd children's book, "The Undefeated," which nods to notable authors, poets and change-makers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Trayvon Martin.

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Millennials Who Say Baby Boomers Are To Blame For Economic Despair Are Right, Author Argues

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Librarians Offer Tips On How Kids Can Keep Up With Reading This Summer

5 Tips To Start An Urban Garden

To Travel Well, Be Willing To Listen, Play, Leave The Notebook Behind

All Fishermen are Liars: True Tales for the Dry Dock Bar by Linda Greenlaw

New Book Details Some Of Milwaukee County's Strata History, Geologic Significance

Milwaukee Gets 'Noir' Treatment With Short Story Collection

Tales Of Dragons That Fight Segregation, And AI That Fights Transphobia

ESPN's 'The Undefeated' Poem Becomes Children's Book

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