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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.
Picnics and Porcupines
Publication Date: September 2024
Drawing on themes from Indigenous knowledge and the African American experience to labor activism and women's history, this tantalizing chronicle offers a taste of Americana, seasoned by the changing global forces of industrialization, transportation, immigration, tourism, war, and climate.
The Salmon Capital of Michigan
Publication Date: April 2024
Complementing an ecological understanding of events, this narrative details the significance of the fishery and its loss as experienced by the townspeople whose lives it touched.
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.
Saving Arcadia
Publication Date: January 2017
Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award; The Next Generation Indie Book Award; and the Michigan Notable Book Award.
A Beaver Tale
Publication Date: April 2016
Young readers aged 8 to 12 will enjoy the unique natural and cultural history in A Beaver Tale.
Lake Invaders
Publication Date: April 2016
Those interested in the history and future of the Great Lakes region, invasive species, environmental policy making, and ecology will enjoy this informative and thought-provoking volume.
Up the Rouge!
Publication Date: April 2009
Anyone interested in environmental issues or conservation of Michigan’s waterways will appreciate this unique and attractive volume.
If the World Becomes So Bright
Publication Date: February 2009
General readers of poetry, as well as fans of Taylor's other work, will enjoy If the World Becomes So Bright.
His Very Silence Speaks
Publication Date: May 1989
Lawrence illuminates Comanche's significance through the many symbolic roles he has assumed at different times and for various groups of people, and reveals much about the ways in which symbols operate in human thought and the manner in which legends develop.
The Late, Great Lakes
Publication Date: May 1987
Ashworth systematically deals with the wild life that once flourished in the region—beaver, salmon, whitefish, and trout—and describes the threatening elements which have displaced them—the predatory sea lamprey, the alewives, toxic waste, and volatile solids.
