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Regional Studies Categories: Regional Studies, Art & Architecture, Detroit, History, Literature, Science, Automotive History, Maritime History, Young Readers
Regional Studies Series: Detroit Biography Series for Young Readers, Great Lakes Books Series, Painted Turtle Series
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The Blue CityBy Sean Thomas Dougherty Sean Thomas Dougherty fashions a series of intertwined noir chapters that draw on real and imagined Eastern European history. Price: $14.95s (Paper) | |||
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The Healing Work of Art
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In Line for the ExterminatorBy Jim Daniels A major new 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. Price: $17.95s (Paper) | |||
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House of Fields
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To Keep the South Manitou LightBy Anna Egan Smucker 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. Price: $13.95L (Paper) | |||
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The Blue City Sean Thomas Dougherty fashions a series of intertwined noir chapters that draw on real and imagined Eastern European history. |
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The Healing Work of Art In 1968 Detroit Receiving Hospital, through the generosity of Michigan artists and friends of the hospital, began an art collection designed to provide an environment colorful, attractive, and beneficial to patients, their families, and the hospital staff. Today, that collection includes more than a thousand works of art. The Healing Work of Art documents this amazing collection, highlighting the diversity of its holdings as well as its history. |
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In Line for the Exterminator A major new 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. |
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House of Fields 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. |
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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. |
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Pulling Down the Barn 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. |
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The Last Good Water 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. |
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New Poems from the Third Coast Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry, and Josie Kearns have balanced the old and the new and combined them in a strong contribution to contemporary poetry. |
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Michigan in the Novel, 1816-1996 Michigan in the Novel records 1,735 novels published from 1816 through 1996 that are set wholly or partially in the state of Michigan. Consulting literally thousands of novels and visiting scores of libraries, Robert Beasecker spent more than twenty years |
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The Coast of Nowhere In The Coast of Nowhere, Michael Delp explores the way rivers, lakes, and streams seep into our daily lives and into our consciousness. The organization of the text, a collection of short prose meditations and poetry, embraces the motion and rhythm of mov |
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