Memoir
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Yiddishlands
A Memoir, Second Edition
A remarkable family story and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present—updated in a second edition.
Paperback
eBOOK
Divining, A Memoir in Trees
Essays exploring the intimate yet universal intersection of one human life with trees.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348420
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348437

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The Plum Tree Blossoms Even in Winter
A leader’s journey of identity, resilience, and triumph.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814349809
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349816

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Scratching the Surface
Adventures in Storytelling
The inspiring story of one of Detroit’s most creative and prolific storytellers.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344743
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344750
Stories of Jewish Life
Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985
Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814347652
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347669
Invisible Ink
The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814347591
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347607
ISBN: 0814347592

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Grief's Country
A Memoir in Pieces
An intimate look at widowhood.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347393
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347409

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Black Indian
A moving memoir exploring one family’s legacy of African Americans with American Indian roots.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345801
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345818
Sing This at My Funeral
A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
A global journey of four generations of fathers and sons as they cope with grief and loss.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814347218
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344866
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344873

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Welcome to Replica Dodge
A story about place, interfaith, and what it means to come home.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345573
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345580
The Forgetting Tree
A Rememory
A personal narrative of past and present racial violence and resistance to terror in the United States.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344262
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344279
The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story
A literary memoir of exile and survival in Soviet prison camps during the Holocaust.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814344392
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344132
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344149

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Saving Arcadia
A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes
A David and Goliath conservation story set on Lake Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342046
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342053

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The People's Lawyer
The Life and Times of Frank J. Kelley, the Nation's Longest-Serving Attorney General
The nation’s longest-serving attorney general tells the story of a life that spanned two centuries and a career that helped transform consumer protection and public interest law.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814341322
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341339

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Love, Sex, and 4-H
A unique take on the tumultuous 1960s from a young woman growing up in rural Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340783
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340790
Star Songs and Water Spirits
A Great Lakes Native Reader
Set in the natural environment of the seasonal year, the selections explain cultural concepts and show how modern Native literature reflects tradition.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780984334001

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Race and Remembrance
A Memoir
Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814333709
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337493
Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl
The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik
The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334218
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337332
When You Come Home
A Wartime Courtship in Letters, 1941-45
The story of two Wayne State University students who were separated by World War II, told through the letters that they exchanged.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333341
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335581
Life with Mae
A Detroit Family Memoir
A memoir of growing up on Detroit’s East Side in the 1930s and 1940s combined with an often hilarious biographical portrait of Shine’s mother, Mae.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814332986