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Funny, You Don't Look Funny

Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.

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The Orchestra of Wind Chimes

Thought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.

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Divining, A Memoir in Trees

Essays exploring the intimate yet universal intersection of one human life with trees.

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The Lyric Essay as Resistance

Resistance and representation manifests in the subversive genre of the lyric essay.

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Parks and Recreation

"Treat yo’ self" to this captivating analysis of critically acclaimed, fan-favorite television series Parks and Recreation.

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Queer Imaginings

Discovering the queer auteur and their seductive cinematic delights and possibilities.

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Paper Valley

Booklist raves, Paper Valley "is a compelling human-interest tale on par with Erin Brockovich and Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action."

The compelling true story of a hard-fought environmental win, set in motion by a tenacious government scientist and a committed journalist – resulting in the polluting companies paying for the $1 billion, 20-year clean-up.

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The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition

An explosive, award-winning novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-year-young classic that provides commentary on the racial inequities in the US in the late 1960s - and today.

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Nothing Special

Lively illustrations depict the close bond between grandfather and grandson during a child’s summer visit to the South.

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Latin Via Ovid

Using an introduction to mythology by the master storyteller Ovid himself, the authors have prepared a unique teaching tool designed to achieve proficiency at Latin in one year at the college level, two years at the high school or intermediate level.

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Mighty Mac

This impressive photograph collection captures the struggles and the hardships, as well as the determination and the pride of the men who labored to build the Mackinac Bridge.

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Let's Read

A classic reading-instruction text, updated to be more contemporary and teacher- and user-friendly.

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The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes

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

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When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double

Poems about being a survivor and the choices we make to protect ourselves, our homes, and our hearts.

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You Are My Joy and Pain

A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.

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A Fine Canopy

A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness.

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How Other People Make Love

Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?

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Gun/Shy

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

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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds

A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.

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Mortality, with Friends

A collection of intensely personal lyrical essays about mortality, living well, art, and love.

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