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You've Got Mail!
A fascinating look at personal correspondence throughout history:
Dear America: letters home from Vietnam by edited by Bernard Edelman for The New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission; [with a new introduction by Senator John McCain; foreword by William Broyles, Jr.]
The 50 greatest love letters of all time by [selected] by David H. Lowenherz
Letters of the century: America, 1900-1999 by edited by Lisa Grunwald & Stephen J. Adler
Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters by [by] Justin G. Turner [and] Linda Lovitt Turner. With an introd. by Fawn M. Brodie
Letters from Black America by edited by Pamela Newkirk
Teen Fiction Set in Michigan
Looking for a novel that takes place in our very own great state? Check out these novels set throughout Michigan, from Detroit to Flint to the shores of Lake Michigan.
Albatross by Josie Bloss
Queen of secrets by Jenny Meyerhoff
Cheated by Patrick Jones
The goddess test by Aimée Carter
The morgue and me by John C. Ford
Belle by Beverly Jenkins
Chasing tail lights by Patrick Jones
Time Travel Fiction
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court by written by Mark Twain ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
From time to time: a novel by Jack Finney
The house on the strand by Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907-1989
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Life, the universe, and everything by Douglas Adams
Lightning by Dean R. Koontz
Making history: a novel by Stephen Fry
Children's Historical Fiction Set in Michigan
Travel back in time to various points in Michigan history with these historical fiction novels:
Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
The log cabin wedding by Ellen Howard ; illustrated by Ronald Himler
Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff
The locked garden by Gloria Whelan
The sign of the sinister sorcerer by Brad Strickland
The shadow of the wolf by Gloria Whelan ; illustrated by Tony Meers
Children's Fiction Set in Michigan
Ellie McDoodle: have pen, will travel by Ruth McNally Barshaw
Mom for mayor by Nancy Edwards ; illustrated by Michael Chesworth
Sparrow Road by Sheila O'Connor
Gator on the loose! by Sue Stauffacher ; illustrated by Priscilla Lamont
The Danger Box by Blue Balliett
Hidden by Helen Frost
The batboy by Mike Lupica
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
Imported From Detroit
Read about some of Detroit's greatest hits!
Brewed in Detroit: breweries and beers since 1830 by Peter H. Blum
The Vernor's story: from gnomes to now by Lawrence L. Rouch
TV land—Detroit by Gordon Castelnero
The birth of the Detroit sound: 1940-1964 by Marilyn Bond and S.R. Boland
Fired magic: Detroit's Pewabic pottery treasures by Marcy Heller Fisher ; illustrated by Marjorie Hecht Simon
100 years of Ford: a centennial celebration of the Ford Motor Company by David L. Lewis and the auto editors of Consumer Guide
The story of Motown by Peter Benjaminson
Michigan Reads! Books for Kids
2013:
Woolbur by Leslie Helakoski ; illustrated by Lee Harper
2012:
Moose on the loose by Kathy-jo Wargin ; illustrated by John Bendall-Brunello
2011:
Memoirs of a goldfish by Devin Scillian ; and illustrated by Tim Bowers
2010:
The runaway garden: a delicious story that's good for you, too! by Jeffery L. Schatzer ; illustrations by Jeffrey Ebbeler
2009:
The pout-pout fish by Deborah Diesen ; pictures by Dan Hanna
2008:
Teens Get Your Fiction Game On
The Big Game of Everything by Chris Lynch
Swim the fly by Don Calame
Whale talk by Chris Crutcher
Winger by Andrew Smith
Rush for the gold: mystery at the Olympics by John Feinstein
Vanishing act by John Feinstein
Summer ball by Mike Lupica
The batboy by Mike Lupica
Geeky Reads for Kids
Geek n.
- An unfashionable or socially inept person.
- A person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest: "A computer geek".
We have lots of books in our Children's Library starring geeks. And quite often, they are the heros. Check one out today.
Notes from an accidental band geek by Erin Dionne
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society by Michael Buckley; illustrations by Ethen Beavers
Geek chic: the Zoey zone by Margie Palatini
The homework machine by Dan Gutman
Sixth-grade glommers, norks, and me by Lisa Papademetriou
Nerd girls: the rise of the dorkasaurus by Alan Lawrence Sitomer