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May 17: Mary Jane Doerr at the Elk Rapids Historical Society
May 18: Terry Blackhawk at the Loft Poetry Conference in Minneapolis
May 19: Jean Alicia Elster at Flint Public Library Book Expo

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Wayne State University Press

Founded in 1941, Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles.

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The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers: 1920-1950

Examines in text and vivid photographs a high-flying thirty-year span of Detroit Tigers baseball.

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New Releases
	Coney Detroit Katherine Yung and Joe Grimm A lively and thorough history of Detroit’s culinary icon: the coney island hot dog. More Info »

	The Golem Redux From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction Elizabeth R. Baer Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television. More Info »

	Lake Superior Profiles People on the Big Lake John Gagnon Introduces readers to ordinary, offbeat, and interesting people living on and around Lake Superior. More Info »

	The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan People, Law, and Politics David Gardner Chardavoyne A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present. More Info »

	Gilligan's Island Walter Metz An analysis of the under-studied sitcom Gilligan’s Island that addresses key questions about American social life in the 1960s. More Info »

	The World of a Few Minutes Ago Stories by Jack Driscoll Stories in the realistic tradition of lives overlooked, voices unheard, and characters trying to overcome and transcend confining circumstances. More Info »

	allegiance Poems by francine j. harris A sharp, haunting, and lyrical collection that attempts to understand what we owe the spaces we inhabit. More Info »

	The Light Between Poems by Terry Blackhawk Poems of stylistic and emotional range that journey widely through love’s losses and connections. More Info »

	To Embroider the Ground with Prayer Poems by Teresa J. Scollon A beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and the seasons of life. More Info »

	Booker T & Them A Blues As Presented by Bill Harris A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century. More Info »