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Time Marches On!
History is full of days and years which have special meaning. 1492? Columbus discovered America. 1776? America declared its independence. 1929? The stock market crashed. We all learned about these significant dates in school. However, these are just some of the years in history worth remembering - for better or for worse. Check out the following list for more:
69 A.D.: the year of four emperors by Gwyn Morgan
The year 1000: what life was like at the turn of the first millennium: an Englishman's world by Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger
1066: the year of the conquest by David Howarth; illustrations to chapter headings by Gareth Floyd
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Michigan Eats
Michigan herb cookbook by Suzanne Breckenridge & Marjorie Snyder
Guide to Michigan vegetable gardening by James A. Fizzell
The Midwest fruit and vegetable book by James A. Fizzell
Our Michigan: ethnic tales & recipes by edited by Carole Eberly ; cover by Toni Gorkin, ill. by Beverly Woodard
The history of Michigan wines: 150 years of winemaking along the Great Lakes by Lorri Hathaway & Sharon Kegerreis
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Pure Michigan
Visit the Pure Michigan site and earn your My Mitten badge by visiting or exploring one of the numerous vacation spots in our great state. From bike trails to museums to the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, you're sure to find something to do this summer!
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Fascinating Michigan History
Traveling through time: a guide to Michigan's historical markers by edited by Laura Rose Ashlee
Michigan, the Great Lakes state: an illustrated history by George S. May, JoEllen Vinyard
The sweetness of freedom: stories of immigrants by Stephen Garr Ostrander & Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
The Toledo War: the first Michigan-Ohio rivalry by Don Faber
Michigan ghost towns of the Upper Peninsula by compiled by Roy L. Dodge
The Underground Railroad in Michigan by Carol E. Mull
I invented the modern age: the rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow
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Michigan Biography
Life with Mae: a Detroit family memoir by Neal Shine
The Dodge brothers: the men, the motor cars, and the legacy by Charles K. Hyde
William G. Milliken: Michigan's passionate moderate by Dave Dempsey
Empire builders: how Michigan entrepreneurs helped make America great by Burton W. Folson, Jr
Detroitland: a collection of movers, shakers, lost souls, and history makers from Detroit's past by Richard Bak
The situation in Flushing by Edmund G. Love
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Detroit ... Remember When?
Hudson's: Detroit's legendary department store by Michael Hauser and Marianne Weldon
Sanders confectionery by Greg Tasker
From Soupy to nuts: a history of Detroit television by Tim Kiska
Hydroplane racing in Detroit, 1946-2008 by David D. Williams and the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum
Detroit's Belle Isle: island park gem by Michael Rodriguez and Thomas Featherstone
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Michigan at the Movies
Check out some of these films set in Michigan!
Anatomy of a murder [videodisc] by Columbia ; Otto Preminger presents — Upper Peninsula
The road to Wellville [videodisc] by Columbia Pictures — Battle Creek
Semi-pro [videodisc] by New Line Cinema presents a Mosaic Media Group production — Flint
Answer this! [videodisc] by Wrekin Hill Entertainment and ; Neka Films present ; produced by Mike Farah, Anna Wenger ; written & directed by Christopher Farah — Ann Arbor
Zebrahead [videodisc] by an Ixtlan Production ; Triumph Releasing Corporation — Detroit
Grosse Pointe blank [videodisc] by Hollywood Pictures in association with Caravan Pictures, New Crime Productions — Grosse Pointe
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Visit a Michigan Sand Dune
Some of the most spectacular sand dunes in the nation are right here in Michigan. In fact, the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was recently voted as the most beautiful place in America by viewers of Good Morning America. Take in some awe-inspiring scenery and earn you My Mitten badge at the same time by visiting some of these natural wonders.
Sleeping Bear, yesterday and today: including ghost towns, lighthouses, and shipwrecks of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore by George Weeks ; preface by James Ridenour
Sand dunes of the Great Lakes by photographs by C.J. Elfont ; text by Edna A. Elfont
The legend of sleeping bear by text by Kathy-jo Wargin ; illustrations by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
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Michigan Notable Books 2013
The Michigan Notable Books program annually selects 20 of the most notable volumes published that year that best reflect the state's diverse ethnic, historical, literary and cultural experiences. Most of the winning titles can be found in the Library's collection. From fiction to nonfiction, the following list offers a variety of choices:
American Poet by Vande Zande, Jeff
The amphibians and reptiles of Michigan: a Quaternary and Recent faunal adventure by J. Alan Holman
Bear has a story to tell by written by Philip C. Stead ; illustrated by Erin E. Stead
The boy governor: Stevens T. Mason and the birth of Michigan politics by Don Faber
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As Time Goes By
Enjoy these films about the passage of time:
Around the world in 80 days [videodisc] by a Harmony Gold & ReteEuropa production ; in association with Valente/ Baerwald
The big clock [videodisc] by a Paramount picture
The clock [videodisc] by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
Clockwatchers [videodisc] by Goldcrest Films International
The devil at 4 o'clock [videodisc] by directed by Mervyn LeRoy ; written by Liam O'Brien
(500) days of Summer [videodisc] by Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Watermark production
Friday night lights [videodisc] by Friday Night Lights, LLC. ; Imagine Entertainment
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Upper Peninsula Fiction
Cold: a novel by John Smolens
North of nowhere: an Alex McKnight mystery by Steve Hamilton
Anatomy of a murder by Traver, Robert, 1903-
Returning to earth by Jim Harrison
Without a trace by Colleen Coble
The dream catcher tour by Paula Buermele
Ursula, under: a novel by Ingrid Hill
Red jacket: a Lute Bapcat mystery by Joseph Heywood
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History is Not Boring!
Check out some of these fascinating stories that you probably never learned in history class:
All the presidents' children: triumph and tragedy in the lives of America's first families by Doug Wead
American heroes: profiles of men and women who shaped early America by Edmund S. Morgan
American history revised: 200 startling facts that never made it into the textbooks by Seymour Morris
America's hidden history : untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women and forgotten founders who shaped a nation by Kenneth C. Davis
Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about history but never learned by Kenneth C. Davis
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Recent Michigan Nonfiction
The boy governor: Stevens T. Mason and the birth of Michigan politics by Don Faber
Driving Detroit: the quest for respect in Motown by George Galster
Hockeytown doc: a half-century of Red Wings stories from Howe to Yzerman by John "Jack" Finley ; [foreword by Gordie Howe]
The glory years of the Detroit Tigers: 1920-1950 by William M. Anderson ; with a foreword by Dan Dickerson
Detroit's historic places of worship by compiled and edited by Marla O. Collum, Barbara E. Krueger, Dorothy Kostuch ; photographs by Dirk Bakker ; with a foreword by John Gallagher
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Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
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Michigan Mysteries
The left-handed dollar by Loren D. Estleman
The chocolate moose motive: a chocoholic mystery by JoAnna Carl
Bad things happen by Harry Dolan
The hanging tree: a Starvation Lake mystery by Bryan Gruley
The Detroit electric scheme by D. E. Johnson
Bleeding maize and blue by Susan Holtzer
The wedding game by Susan Holtzer
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