January, 1951: while the country is in the grip of war in Korea, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and Senator Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, the residents of St. Adele, Michigan, are more concerned with staying warm and shoveling snow...
Michigan
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Author:Nelson, James CarlSummary:In August 1918, the 339th regiment of the US Army-roughly 5,000 soldiers, most hailing from Michigan-sailed for Europe to fight in World War I. But instead of the Western Front, these troops were headed to Archangel, Russia, a vital...
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Detective Sunderson confronts his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan.
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Author:Toni MorrisonSummary:Morrison narrates for three hours and lays out before us the complex lives and backgrounds of four generations of black family life in the south. Central is the character Milkman--an unfortunate nickname owed to his lengthy nursing...
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Author:Hills, KathleenSummary:A grizzled Lake Superior fisherman with a massive allergy to bees dies very early one morning alone on his boat. Was he stung to death? John McIntire, retired from a career in military intelligence and striving to regain a place in his...
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Author:Morris, BillSummary:Willie Bledsoe is driving some smuggled guns to the Motor City with the hopes of jump-starting his dream of writing a memoir. But there at Tiger Stadium on opening day of the 1968 baseball season, Willie learns he is the prime suspect...
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Author:Summary:The goal of Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? is to free us from an economic growth and development paradigm that threatens our social and physical well-being. While we accumulate wealth, we also accumulate harmful pollution...
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Author:Shapiro, J. H.Summary:A picture book biography of urban environmental artist Tyree Guyton, discussing his childhood in 1950s Detroit and the way he used art to transform his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into an internationally-recognized exhibit.
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:A Love Means... Story Spurned by his father and driven from his home, Stone Hillyard is struggling to find shelter in the Michigan winter when he lucks upon the horse farm run by Geoff Laughton and his partner Eli. They take him in,...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:A Love Means... Story Four months ago Robert Edward “Arie” Hawkins lost his sister and the rest of her family in a plane crash. Now his parents have decided it’s time for him to marry and carry on the family name. Arie knows it’s most...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:A Love Means... Story Len Parker is laid off during the recession in the early eighties and decides to go back to college at home in rural Michigan, where he reconnects with his best friend from high school, Ruby. He's overjoyed when...
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Author:Brown, SueSummary:Sequel to The Isle of… Where? After a whirlwind vacation on the Isle of Wight, where he found the love of his life, Sam Owens sends Liam Marshall home to Michigan to tie up loose ends so they can be together forever. When all...
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Author:Hills, KathleenSummary:Autumn in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula means hunting season, and the fall of 1950 finds most everyone in St. Adele township hunting for something—deer, grouse, uranium; love, redemption, escape; a story, a husband, a murderer. When the...
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Author:Erno, JeffSummary:2nd Edition Jeff Irwin is short, timid, and studious. A bit of a social outcast, he lives quietly in the shadows of the popular kids at his school, his life ruled by his ever-present fear of rejection or failure. Enter high school...
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Author:Miles, TiyaSummary:Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated...
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Author:Stroh, FrancesSummary:Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company was the largest private beer fortune in America. But when Detroit's economy collapsed, the Stroh family found their wealth and legacy disappearing. They could not...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:Au début des années 80, Len Parker perd son emploi pendant la récession et décide de reprendre ses études dans sa ville natale du Michigan, où il renoue des liens avec Ruby, sa meilleure amie durant ses années de lycée. Len est fou de...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:Len Parker viene licenziato durante la recessione dei primi anni Ottanta e decide di tornare a casa per frequentare l’università nel Michigan rurale, dove riesce a riallacciare una vecchia amicizia delle scuole superiori con Ruby. È...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:Len Parker es despedido durante la Recesión de los años ochenta, y decide volver a su tierra natal, Michigan, donde se reencontrará con una vieja amiga del instituto, Ruby. Está contentísimo cuando ella se casa con Cliff Laughton, pero...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:Un libro de la saga Amar significa… Rechazado por su padre y expulsado de su casa, Stone Hillyard lucha por conseguir refugio en el invierno de Michigan, cuando tiene la suerte de encontrar una granja de caballos, propiedad de Geoff...
