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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
Henry Ford
An Interpretation
A reprint of the rare and controversial biography of Henry Ford, first published in 1923, written by Ford’s close associate.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333679
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335376

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In Line for the Exterminator
Poems
A collection by one of America’s foremost poets of city life and work, In Line for the Exterminator brings Jim Daniels back to his native Detroit.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333815
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335482

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"My Brave Mechanics"
The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War
An important and little-known chapter of Michigan’s Civil War history, drawn from the letters, diaries, and regimental records of the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics regiment.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814332924

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A Pocketful of Passage
A fictionalized account of the life of a lighthouse keeper’s daughter and her family on the Great Lakes in the 1940s, written for young readers ages 8 and up.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333419
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335550

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House of Fields
Memories of a Rural Education
The follow-up to Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields is a collection of evocative personal essays that recall the many facets of a young girl’s formal and informal education in rural Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332856
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335666

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To Keep the South Manitou Light
An exciting story laced with regional history, young readers will be captivated by the adventures of a twelve-year-old girl as she learns about courage and responsibility in a late-nineteenth-century Lake Michigan lighthouse.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332368
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814332351
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339961
My Forty Years with Ford
An unflinching eyewitness account of the Ford story as told by one of Henry Ford’s closest associates.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332795
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335697

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Under Michigan
The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils
An exciting trip below the surface of Michigan’s rocks and fossils.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814330883
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336496

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"I Hope to Do My Country Service"
The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
A revealing firsthand account of the Civil War as told through the letters of a Michigan regimental surgeon.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814331705
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337349
The Fords of Dearborn
A new edition of this illustrated history of the Ford family and its various branches.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780972784313

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Eight Steamboats
Sailing Through the Sixties
Recounting his sailing and land roving expeditions during the tumultuous 1960s, Patrick Livingston presents a series of tales centered on ships of the Great Lakes and the men who sail them.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331750

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Pulling Down the Barn
Memories of a Rural Childhood
Blending artful language and style with the dirt, blood, and sweat of farm life, this collection of essays tells a moving story of growing up in rural Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332337
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335796
Roy D. Chapin
The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company
Now back in print, this is the only biography devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin—one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's independent automotive industry.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331842
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336045
Graveyard of the Lakes
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332269
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339411

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Angels in the Architecture
A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum
An intimate photographic journey into 115 years of history inside a nineteenth-century asylum.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332122
The Last Good Water
Prose and Poetry, 1988-2003
In his latest collection of poetry and prose, Michael Delp takes the reader back to nature and details his spiritual awakening within the freshwater of Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331712

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A Hanging in Detroit
Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law
The first historical study—and a riveting account—of the last execution in Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331330
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814331323
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337394
Great Lakes Journey
A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast
A detailed picture of the status of the Great Lakes at the end of the twentieth century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814328378
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339992
Beyond the Windswept Dunes
The Story of Maritime Muskegon
The first book to document the maritime history of the port city Muskegon combining historical detail and good storytelling.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331279
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340011