A shrine to the Harley: The new Harley-Davidson Museum is opening July 12-13 in Milwaukee. Tickets are $16, $12 for students and $10 for children 5-17. They're available on-line, but not for the 105th anniversary celebration Aug. 28-31, for which tickets were distributed by lottery.

The first time she was there, she called the wilderness island "hypothermia country'' — and that was summer. Now, in Nevada Barr's new "Winter Study,'' the sharp-tongued ranger is spending her winter studying dwindling numbers of wolves and moose. There's a mysterious death, of course, in which wolves figure prominently.