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Michigan Fiction
The burning of Rachael Hayes by Doug Allyn
Company man: a novel by Joseph Finder
Eden Springs: a novella by Laura Kasischke
Freshwater boys by Adam Schuitema
The river swimmer: novellas by Jim Harrison
Ford Road by Amy Kenyon
Say nice things about Detroit by Scott Lasser
Detroit Fiction
Looking for Przybylski by K.C. Frederick
Detroit breakdown by D.E. Johnson
Say nice things about Detroit by Scott Lasser
Grand River and Joy by Susan Messer
Trigger man: more tales of the Motor City by Jim Ray Daniels
See what I see by Gloria Whelan
Sparks by Laura Bickle
The dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
Pure Michigan Travel
Of woods and water: a photographic journey across Michigan by Ron Leonetti and Christopher Jordan ; foreword by Dave Dempsey
The paddler's guide to Michigan by Jeff Counts
Hiking Michigan by Roger E. Storm, Susan M. Wedzel
Belle Isle to 8 Mile: an insider's guide to Detroit by edited by Andy Linn, Emily Linn and Rob Linn
Twelve classic trout streams in Michigan: a handbook for fly anglers by Gerth E. Hendrickson ; fully revised by Jim DuFresne
Ethnic Michigan
Arab Americans in Metro Detroit: a pictorial history by Anan Ameri ; Yvonne Lockwood
Arab Americans in Michigan by Rosina J. Hassoun
Chaldeans in Michigan by Mary C. Sengstock
Michigan in Song
Check out some of these tunes that mention Michigan or its cities:
Even More Fascinating Michigan History
Michigan by David Lee Poremba
Bold women in Michigan history by Virginia Law Burns
State of war: Michigan in World War II by Alan Clive
Bath massacre: America's first school bombing by Arnie Bernstein
Lives and legends of the Christmas tree ships by Fred Neuschel
Eyes on fire: witnesses to the Detroit Riot of 1967 by edited by Heather Buchanan, Sharon Stanford, Teresa Kimble
The Way-Back Room: A Memoir of a Detroit Childhood by Minock, Mary
More Fascinating Michigan History
Michigan remembered: photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936- 1943 by edited by Constance B. Schulz ; with introductory essays by Constance B. Schulz and William H. Mulligan, Jr
Father Abraham's children: Michigan episodes in the Civil War by Frank B. Woodford ; new foreword by Arthur M. Woodford
A drive down memory lane: the named state and federal highways of Michigan by LeRoy Barnett
The Potawatomis, keepers of the fire by R. David Edmunds
Picturing Hemingway's Michigan by Michael R. Federspiel
Lumberjack: inside an era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by William S. Crowe ; editors, Lynn McGlothlin Emerick, Ann McGlothlin Weller
Michigan Authors
Michigan is home to many noted authors. Whether native born or longtime residents, writing fiction, nonfiction or poetry, the following authors have produced a remarkable body of work.
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
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