Cultural Region/Great Lakes
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The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry
$24.95 Read more“An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber expertly narrates the history of a dispute conducted by fa
- Author: Faber, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0472050540
- Language: English
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A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag
$34.95 Read moreBandolier bags, or gashkibidaaganag–the large, heavily beaded shoulder bags made and worn by several North American Indian tribes around the Great Lakes–are prized cultural icons here and around the… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Marcia G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340291
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
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Ships and Men of the Great Lakes
$14.95 Add to cartShips and men of the Great Lakes spans more than a century of Great Lakes history in a series of true, thoroughly documented dramas, most of them describing the misadventures of vessels and the men wh… [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Dwight
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0912514515
- Language: English
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The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes
$16.95 Read more“Our country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore—his
- Author: Dennis, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0472035258
- Language: English
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon,
- Author: Bernstein, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327957
- Language: English
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Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan’s Anishinaabe Sharpshooters
$16.99 Read more“Hits the mark.”–Kirkus
An engaging middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who bravely fought in the Civil War from Sibert Award-winning author Sally M. Walker. More than 2- Author: Walker, Sally M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1250833221
- Language: English
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Blue Reign!: The Story of the 2023 Michigan Wolverines’ Legendary Run to the National Championship
$16.95 Add to cartBlue Reign! chronicles the Michigan Wolverines’ dominant run to their first national championship in 26 years and the 12th in their storied history. This commemorative book showcases stunning action p… [more below]
- Author: Detroit Free Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1637276621
- Language: English
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The Settlers: The Emigrant Novels: Book III
$27.95 Read moreConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #03
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513215
- Language: English
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Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong
$14.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
Long before there was a Duluth, Minnesota, the- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1517911931
- Language: English
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29 Missing: The True and Tragic Story of the Disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Read moreOn November 10, 1975, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a giant freighter, sank with its entire crew of 29 aboard, in one of the most violent storms ever witnessed on Lake Superior. In 29 Missing, Kantar tells th
- Author: Kantar, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: June 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0870134469
- Language: English
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Grit, Noise, & Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock ‘n’ Roll
$18.95 Read more“. . . a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene.”
From the early days of John Lee Hooker to the heyday of Motown and beyond, Detroit has enjoyed a long
—Marshall Crenshaw- Author: Carson, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0472031902
- Language: English
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The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings
$19.95 Add to cartA documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is … [more below]
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 151790644X
- Language: English
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The Legend of the Lady’s Slipper
$17.95 Add to cartThe Legend of the Lady’s Slipper is a suspenseful tale of a young maiden’s run through the forest in an attempt to save the people of her village. Dashing through the forest, with starlight at her hee… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1886947740
- Language: English
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The Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale: Restoring an Island Ecosystem
$21.99 Read moreIn this exhilarating installment of the award-winning Scientists in the Field series, journey to the isolated islands of Isle Royale National Park where the longest predator/prey study in the world is
- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Castaldo, Nancy F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0358274230
- Language: English
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Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1914 crew members of the lighthouse tender Hyacinth rescued a stray puppy from the Milwaukee River and named him Sport. For the next twelve years, this charming Newfoundland-retriever mix lived the… [more below]
- Author: Cameron, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209140
- Language: English
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The Mystery on the Great Lakes
$7.99 Add to cartStatement of responsibility taken from cover.
- Series: Real Kids! Real Places! (Paperback) #30
- Author: Marsh, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0635074486
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Paddle
$19.99 Add to cartVoyageur is the French word for “traveler,” but in the Great Lakes region during the seventeenth century it described those men who made their living trading furs and goods along water routes. Traveli… [more below]
- Series: Myths, Legends, Fairy and Folktales
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1585360074
- Language: English
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
$19.00 Add to cartAn explosive expos? of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff
“One cannot read Mr. LeDuff’s amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold ey- Author: Leduff, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124463
- Language: English
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Cruisin’ the Original Woodward Avenue
$31.99 Add to cartIn the 1950s, cruising swept the nation. American street became impromptu racetracks as soon as the police turned their backs. Young people piled into friends’ cars and cruised their main streets with… [more below]
- Author: Ambrogio, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 153162426X
- Language: English
