Michigan
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Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway
A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.
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The Salmon Capital of Michigan
The Rise and Fall of a Great Lakes Fishery
Local voices reveal the personal stories and cultural legacy of a once-flourishing fishing town impacted by environmental change.
Paperback
eBOOK
Enough to Lose
Character-driven stories of small-town folks struggling to reconcile tradition with inevitable change.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814350409
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814350416

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The Dodge Brothers
The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy
Biography of John and Horace Dodge and the history of their company.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332474
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814332467
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337806

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The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes
Eber Brock Ward, 1811–1875
A Gilded Age industrialist - surrounded by scandal - becomes Michigan’s wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814349939
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349946

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Justus S. Stearns
Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933
Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348826
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814341261
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341278

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Gun/Shy
Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348789
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348796
How Other People Make Love
Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348369
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348376

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Getting to the Heart of the Matter
My 36 Years in the Senate
Former senator Carl Levin’s memoir demonstrates the value of pragmatism, empathy, and compromise.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814348390
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348406
I Hope This Reaches You
An American Soldier’s Account of World War I
A medic’s account of life during World War I.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347072
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347089
A Lincoln Legacy
The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Examines the history of the federal trial courts in Western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814348048
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348055

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When Lions Were Kings
The Detroit Lions and the Fabulous Fifties
An in-depth look at one of the most storied dynasties in Detroit sports history.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814350997
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814334270
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814334287

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Northern Harvest
Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming
Pays tribute to the women behind the local, sustainable, and quality foods of northwestern Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347133
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347140

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Gut Botany
Poetry that inhabits and queers bodies and lands in an ecosomatic investigation - by a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient!
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347638
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347645

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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

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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

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Elemental
A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction
New creative nonfiction by some of Michigan’s most well-known and highly acclaimed authors.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345672
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345689

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John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age
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
ISBN: 9780814345306
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345313
Alexander Girard, Architect
Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpieces
Showcases the bold, innovative, and colorful architectural designs of Alexander Girard.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814343654
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343661
Bold Boys in Michigan History
Biographical sketches of twenty notable young men with ties to Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344545
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344552