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Welcome to Apostle Islands Booksellers

Apostle Island Booksellers is a full-service, locally-owned, independent bookstore located in Bayfield, Wisconsin on the south shore of Lake Superior. Our collection of books emphasizes the history, cultures, nature, lifestyle, cuisine and activities of our locale – the Apostle Islands, the Chequamegon region, Lake Superior, the Great Lakes, Ojibwe Country and the Northwoods.
 
We offer carefully selected general fiction and non-fiction titles of interest to residents of Bayfield, Washburn, Ashland and the surrounding communities as well as the many visitors who journey to the unique and spectacular settings of Madeline Island, the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and the Gaylord A. Nelson National Wilderness Area. We also carry a selection of quality accessories, maps and charts, and gift items with a regional flavor.
 
You will find us on Rittenhouse Avenue in the heart of historic Bayfield, Wisconsin across from the Big Water Café and Coffee Roasters. Come in and browse. If we don’t have just what you want, we can usually get it for you quickly or find an excellent alternative. Check our Events calendar and join us for author readings, book groups and other events to add a literary dimension to your Bayfield experience.
 

 

Howard Paap Reading & Signing

Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Local Favorite, Howard Paap, hosts reading and signing!

Join us at Big Water Cafe & Coffee Roasters on May 20th at 2pm for a special reading from local author Howard Paap's latest collection, A View From the Creek: Notes From Lake Superior's Ojibwe Country. Howard resides in Bayfield with his wife, where he spends most of his time writing. Howard is also the author of A Northern Land, a memoir of his time of the nearby Red Cliff Ojibwe Reservation, and Raspberry River, a collection of short stories.

Here are a few comments from Claire Duquette, former editor of the Ashland Daily Press:
"Howard Paap observes his beloved northwoods with the insight of an academic and the passion of a man who has devoted his life to understanding northern Wisconsin and the people living here. Whether out walking his four-legged friends on a sun-dappled country road in the autumn sun or taking part in the life of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa community, when something "sets him to thinking," this master essayist offers up a gentle tale guaranteed to make you think, too."

When: Sunday, May 20th at 2pm
Where: Big Water Cafe & Coffee Roasters, 117 Rittenhouse Avenue
with signing to follow at Apostle Islands Booksellers, 112 Rittenhouse Avenue
Cost: FREE!

How Much of "History" Is Fiction?

At the March meeting of our AIB Book Group, we discussed Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff.  While many of us found good reasons to read this book, virtually everyone agreed that it was poorly written and surprisingly so since the author had won a Pulitzer Prize for an earlier biography and Cleopatra, itself, was named a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. But, it just wasn’t a compelling read. It kept wandering away from the main subject and the writing was scattered and disjointed. It was almost as if the author had taken all her note cards, thrown them in the air and then pieced them together wherever they happened to fall. We had to keep rereading paragraphs and even sentences just to follow the thought thread. Personally, I have never seen a book that used so many dashes to offset ideas and factoids that sometimes were completely unrelated to the sentence in which the offset appeared. Others felt the same way about the footnotes.
 

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