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Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties

Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

Philip P. Mason

A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.

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Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814351048
$25.99
Hardback
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814325834
$39.99
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Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814351055

The Salmon Capital of Michigan

The Rise and Fall of a Great Lakes Fishery

Carson Prichard

Local voices reveal the personal stories and cultural legacy of a once-flourishing fishing town impacted by environmental change.

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Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814351130
$26.99
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Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814351147

Enough to Lose

Stories by RS Deeren

Character-driven stories of small-town folks struggling to reconcile tradition with inevitable change.

Paperback
Published: September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350409
$19.99
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Published: September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350416
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The Dodge Brothers

The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy

Charles K. Hyde

Biography of John and Horace Dodge and the history of their company.

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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814332474
$24.99
Hardback
Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814332467
$36.99
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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814337806
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The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes

Eber Brock Ward, 1811–1875

Michael W. Nagle

A Gilded Age industrialist - surrounded by scandal - becomes Michigan’s wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349939
$26.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349946
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Justus S. Stearns

Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933

Michael W. Nagle

Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky.

Paperback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348826
$26.99
Hardback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814341261
$39.99
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Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814341278
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Gun/Shy

Poems by Jim Daniels

Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.

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Published: August 2021
ISBN: 9780814348789
$17.99
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Published: August 2021
ISBN: 9780814348796

How Other People Make Love

Stories by Thisbe Nissen

Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?

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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814348369
$19.99
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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814348376
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Getting to the Heart of the Matter

My 36 Years in the Senate

Carl Levin

Former senator Carl Levin’s memoir demonstrates the value of pragmatism, empathy, and compromise.

Hardback
Published: March 2021
ISBN: 9780814348390
$29.99
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Published: March 2021
ISBN: 9780814348406

I Hope This Reaches You

An American Soldier’s Account of World War I

Hilary Connor

A medic’s account of life during World War I.

Paperback
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814347072
$32.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814347089

A Lincoln Legacy

The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

David Gardner Chardavoyne
with Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr.

Examines the history of the federal trial courts in Western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.

Hardback
Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814348048
$44.99
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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814348055
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When Lions Were Kings

The Detroit Lions and the Fabulous Fifties

Richard Bak

An in-depth look at one of the most storied dynasties in Detroit sports history.

Paperback
Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814350997
$29.99
Hardback
Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814334270
$39.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814334287
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Northern Harvest

Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming

Emita Brady Hill

Pays tribute to the women behind the local, sustainable, and quality foods of northwestern Michigan.

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Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814347133
$26.99
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Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814347140
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Gut Botany

Poems by Petra Kuppers

Poetry that inhabits and queers bodies and lands in an ecosomatic investigation - by a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient!

Paperback
Published: March 2020
ISBN: 9780814347638
$17.99
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Published: March 2020
ISBN: 9780814347645
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Black Indian

A Memoir by Shonda Buchanan

A moving memoir exploring one family’s legacy of African Americans with American Indian roots.

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Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780814345801
$26.99
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Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780814345818
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Welcome to Replica Dodge

A Memoir by Natalie Ruth Joynton

A story about place, interfaith, and what it means to come home.

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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814345573
$20.99
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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814345580
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Elemental

A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction

Edited by Anne-Marie Oomen

New creative nonfiction by some of Michigan’s most well-known and highly acclaimed authors.

Paperback
Published: November 2018
ISBN: 9780814345672
$24.99
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Published: November 2018
ISBN: 9780814345689
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John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age

Brian C. Wilson

John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age is the remarkable story of the spiritual search of one of Michigan’s most successful entrepreneurs, a search that culminated in the Fetzer Institute whose ambitious mission is nothing less than the spiritual transformation of the world.

Hardback
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814345306
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814345313

Alexander Girard, Architect

Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpieces

Deborah Lubera Kawsky
Foreword by Ruth Adler Schnee

Showcases the bold, innovative, and colorful architectural designs of Alexander Girard.

Hardback
Published: June 2018
ISBN: 9780814343654
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2018
ISBN: 9780814343661

Bold Boys in Michigan History

Patricia Majher

Biographical sketches of twenty notable young men with ties to Michigan.

Paperback
Published: June 2018
ISBN: 9780814344545
$14.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2018
ISBN: 9780814344552

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