![]() ![]() The criminal justice system is highly local. Setting politics aside, here’s what to know about Wisconsin's sentencing laws. Tony Evers over the parole of state inmates who had been convicted of violent crimes. Those questions are playing into the Wisconsin governor's race, as Republican Tim Michels has criticized Democratic Gov. ![]() More: Michels wants to halt all paroles in Wisconsin, citing release of violent offenders under Evers. Set in the same world as the Madison novelist's fantasy "The Goblin Emperor," "Witness" follows a troubled middle-aged cleric as he investigates several deaths in this class-stratified, racially complicated, polytheistic society, including the murder of an opera diva and the unexplained death and hasty burial of a young wife.What’s the difference between parole and probation? How do people get out early from behind bars? "The Witness for the Dead" (Tor), by Katherine Addison. MORE: 'Squirrel Hill': How a close-knit community responded to Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting ![]() In this even-handed but incisive chronicle, Oppenheimer charts how the community responded in the year following the murder of 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. "Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood" (Knopf), by Mark Oppenheimer. RELATED: 45 new books for holiday gifts in 2021, from a Giannis biography to murder mysteries MORE: Real family letters from Nazi era heighten 'Send for Me,' Lauren Fox's novel about women separated by the regime Her novel is not a catalog of horrors, but it does show how thin the membrane is between good fortune and unfathomable heartbreak. This Shorewood writer's novel draws partly on family history and incorporates bits of her great-grandmother's letters in chronicling four generations of German Jewish women disrupted by the Holocaust. In stories and a novella, Johnson probes the tensions of being Black and Virginian past, present and future in sharply etched words and imaginative concepts. "My Monticello" (Henry Holt), by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. But this is also an excellent memoir about growing up and growing in confidence as an adult woman, and about coping with changing relationships with parents as they age. Yes, a veteran doctor makes the grand rounds of her career for the benefit of younger people. "Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes From a Medical Life" (Norton), by Suzanne Koven. True crime meets Irish history in Kavanagh's account of the 1882 Phoenix Park murders in Dublin, which derailed the Irish drive for independence. "The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England" (Atlantic Monthly Press), by Julie Kavanagh. For readers 12 and older, but many adults will love this book, too. Trying to figure out who she is now puts her through some changes. In this smart and funny graphic novel, teenage Huda moves from a town where she sticks out because she wears a hijab, to Dearborn, where everyone is a hijabi girl. "Huda F Are You?" (Dial), written and illustrated by Huda Fahmy. MORE: 21 recommended books by Wisconsin writers from the 21st century "Around the World in 80 Books" (Penguin Press), by David Damrosch.Ī comparative literature scholar, grounded by COVID-19 and inspired by Jules Verne, reads books from around the globe, making unexpected connections between them. MORE: Gripping biography details how Milwaukee's Mildred Harnack led resistance to Hitler while living in Berlin One of her descendants pieces together her remarkable story. Mildred Fish Harnack, who grew up poor in Milwaukee, led a resistance movement to Hitler from her apartment in Berlin and was executed by the Nazi regime. "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler" (Little, Brown), by Rebecca Donner. ![]()
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