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Louis Graveraet Kaufman
Publication Date: June 2025
Author Ann Berman highlights Kaufman's remarkable journey from "barefoot boyto trailblazing branch banking giant, proving LG was not just a man of his time but one worth reading about over a century later.
Spirography
Publication Date: April 2025
Writing from ten years after her father's death, she traces her experiences of becoming a stepparent, carrying on her dad's legacy, and, in unimaginable ways, bringing him back to life.
Coach of Champions
Publication Date: April 2025
's legacy reveals the enduring power of believing in others.
Return to the Place I Never Left
Publication Date: January 2025
As racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia resurge and continue to pollute the modern era, his pain—imparted through concise, rhythmic verse—serves as a reminder of our collective humanity and a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
The Promise of Language
Publication Date: January 2025
Each encounter brings clarity and a new lens through which to understand the world, revealing how language shapes our lives and how our lives shape language.
The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes
Publication Date: October 2024
And yet, despite his countless successes, Ward's captivating life was filled with ruthless competition, labor conflict, familial dispute, and scandal.
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit
Publication Date: October 2024
Bradby's efforts as an activist and "race leaderby examining the role the minister played in high-profile events, such as the organizing of Detroit's NAACP chapter, the Ossian Sweet trial of the mid-1920s, the Scottsboro Boys trials in the 1930s, and the controversial rise of the United Auto Workers in Detroit...
Bound Up
Publication Date: September 2024
Both timely and timeless, this work is an address to history and the contemporary moment, relevant to Jews, diasporic scholars, and all exploring ethical relationships with history and with other humans.
Rust Belt Reporter
Publication Date: September 2024
Alongside sage insight into the difficulties and decline of traditional media, Gallagher's experience and advice inspire hope, often underscoring and celebrating the surprising and happy reinvention of heartland cities like Detroit.
Ma Lineal
Publication Date: April 2024
This powerful and structurally innovative work lends new categories of meaning to those who would strive to find their place, hope, and sense of belonging in efforts to fight against systemic racism and lead lives characterized by openness and love.
Invisible Ink
Publication Date: March 2024
To that end Stern's memoir provides hope, strength, and graciousness in times of uncertainty.
Yiddishlands
Publication Date: October 2023
Yiddishlands is essential reading for students of the recent Jewish past and the living Yiddish present.
Stories of Jewish Life
Publication Date: October 2023
Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre's stories.
The Plum Tree Blossoms Even in Winter
Publication Date: September 2023
The journey to this unlikely outcome is an engrossing tale of outside forces that shape racial and cultural identity, the importance of mentorship and friendship, and the lasting impact of an unstable and often heartbreaking family dynamic.
"No Equal Justice"
Publication Date: July 2023
This book introduces him to a new generation of readers, historians, and social justice activists.
From Left to Right
Publication Date: February 2023
Based on over forty-five archival collections, From Left to Right chronicles Dawidowicz’s life as a window into the major events and issues of twentieth-century Jewish life.
Divining, a Memoir in Trees
Publication Date: February 2023
While technology, screens, and the stress of the modern world directs our attention elsewhere, Dunphy brings the reader back to the trees right outside our windows.
Psych Murders
Publication Date: September 2022
Psych Murders adds a vital layer of lived experience of electroshocks and suicidal ideation to the growing body of literature of madness and mental health difference.
Hadha Baladuna
Publication Date: June 2022
This engaged stance is not a byproduct of culture, but a new way of thinking about the US in relation to one's homeland.
Raising Bean
Publication Date: June 2022
Comical and engaging, the essays in Raising Bean will appeal to readers of all backgrounds and interests, especially those with a curiosity in language, perception, humor, and the ways in which Native people guide their families and friends with stories.
You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids
Publication Date: March 2022
A notable work in the landscape of Asian American literature as well as Midwest and Michigan-based literature, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids features a clear and powerful voice that brings all people together in these political and pandemic times.
Grief's Country
Publication Date: October 2021
Those interested in the subject area of death and dying will find it useful as a book that bypasses recovery narratives, truisms, and "stages of griefto get as close as possible to the experience itself.
Our Blessed Rebel Queen
Publication Date: October 2021
Longtime fans of Carrie Fisher and her body of work will welcome this smart and thoughtful tribute to a multimedia legend.
The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
Publication Date: October 2021
This book is indispensable to anyone interested in the history of intellectual endeavor in America, Africana studies and classical studies, in particular, as well as those familiar with the associations and institutions that welcomed and valued Scarborough.
Mortality, with Friends
Publication Date: September 2021
Readers with a fondness for memoir and appreciation for art will be dazzled by the beauty of this collection.
Justus S. Stearns
Publication Date: September 2021
American history scholars, as well as general readers interested in Michigan's lumbering era and Kentucky's mining history, will enjoy this biography of an exceptionally influential businessman.
Scratching the Surface
Publication Date: March 2021
His approach is to, in a very supportive and non-threatening way, combine both introductory and advanced storytelling in one fell swoop."
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Publication Date: March 2021
Readers with an interest in politics, history, facts, and perseverance will find kinship in this book.
I Hope This Reaches You
Publication Date: November 2020
I Hope This Reaches You is a tapestry of human experience woven from the narrative threads of love, loss, loyalty, sacrifice, triumph, and tragedy that will call to any reader of historical memoirs.
These Are Love(D) Letters
Publication Date: October 2019
As poetic as it is visually enticing, the book offers both an unconventional and queer(ed) understanding of the documentarian form, which will excite both readers and artists across and beyond genres.
The Queen Next Door
Publication Date: October 2019
The Queen Next Door offers fans a personal and unseen look at an extraordinary woman in her most natural moments—both regal and intimate—and highlights her devotion to her family and her hometown Detroit—"forever and ever."
Black Indian
Publication Date: August 2019
But every family has its own truth, and Buchanan's search for hers will resonate with anyone who has wondered "maybe there's more than what I'm being told."
Sing This at My Funeral
Publication Date: July 2019
Students, scholars, and general readers of memoirs will enjoy this deeply personal reflection on family and grief.
The Desk on the Sea
Publication Date: June 2019
Sustained by an unwavering belief that words can help us fully occupy our lives, and that imagination and empathy can transform suffering into what John Keats called "soul-making,Johnson offers readers a raw look at love and loss.
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson
Publication Date: May 2019
Readers will see how Michelson's newspaper work fueled her imagination as a fiction writer and how she adapted narrative techniques from fiction to create a body of journalism that informs, provokes, and entertains, even a century after it was written.
Welcome to Replica Dodge
Publication Date: March 2019
Anybody who has ever felt like they didn’t belong will take comfort in this enchanting memoir.
John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age
Publication Date: August 2018
It will be read with interest by those wishing to learn more about this enigmatic Michigan figure, as well as those looking for an engaging introduction into America's rapidly shifting spiritual landscape.
Eli's Story
Publication Date: August 2018
Both scholars and general readers interested in Holocaust narratives will be moved by this monograph.
Beyond Method
Publication Date: June 2018
Film and theater scholars, as well as those interested in gender studies, are sure to benefit from this thorough study.
Bold Boys in Michigan History
Publication Date: June 2018
Readers between the ages of 8 and 12 will love getting wrapped up in the stories of boys their own age who have lived extraordinary lives.
Building the Modern World
Publication Date: April 2018
Anyone interested in architecture, architectural history, or the history of Detroit will relish this stunning work.
Toast of the Town
Publication Date: February 2018
An influential insider’s perspective, Toast of the Town fills a void in the documented history of Detroit’s black and entertainment community from the 1920s to the present.
Independent Man
Publication Date: February 2018
This book reveals the life of a truly unique and inspirational man.
The Iron Hunter
Publication Date: February 2018
His autobiography reflects the energy and enthusiasm of a reformer inspired by the Progressive Movement, but it reveals the poetic spirit of an adventurer who fell in love with Michigan's Upper Peninsula after traveling the world.
Maurice Sugar
Publication Date: February 2018
Maurice Sugar represents a force in American life that bears recalling in these barren years of plant closings.
The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn
Publication Date: February 2018
Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.
Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn
Publication Date: February 2018
Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.
Harry Bertoia, Sculptor
Publication Date: February 2018
The author's own critical analyses of individual pieces are based on direct observations made during trips to the various cities in which Bertoia's sculptures are located.
All-American Anarchist
Publication Date: December 2017
Including passages from Labadie's vast writings, poems, and letters, All-American Anarchist traces America's recurring anti-anarchist and anti-radical frenzy and repression, from the 1886 Haymarket bombing backlash to the Red Scares of the twentieth century.
