Cultural Region/Great Lakes
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Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
$17.95 Add to cartWith the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of en
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Broker, Ignatia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: March 15, 1983
- ISBN10: 0873511670
- Language: English
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When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary Edition
$22.95 Read moreIn this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and review
- Author: Link, Mardi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0472037226
- Language: English
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The Water Dancers
$14.99 Add to cartA stunning debut novel from a new voice in literary fiction, set on Lake Michigan following World War II, The Water Dancers limns the divide between the worlds of the wealthy elite “summer people” and
- Author: Gamble, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25, 2004
- ISBN10: 0060542675
- Language: English
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The Turtle of Michigan
$9.99 Add to cart“Celebrates the power of human connections.”—School Library Journal (starred review)
“Humorous, sensitive, and poignant.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The stand-alone companion to National Book Awa
- Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063014173
- Language: English
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We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$19.95 Read moreWITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY–Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed in… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Phyllis Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1611864208
- Language: English
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The Star That Always Stays
$10.99 Add to cartWhen bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule: Never let anyone know you’re Ojibwe.
“INSPIRING.”–Kirkus Reviews “A NEW CLASSIC.”–Southern Books- Author: Johnson, Anna Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0823456102
- Language: English
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The Christmas Tree Ship
$15.95 Add to cartOn November 21, 1912, the schooner Rouse Simmons set sail from a small northern Michigan town across Lake Michigan. Affectionately dubbed the “Christmas Tree Ship,” this was an annual trek for the Rou… [more below]
- Author: Crane, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1585362859
- Language: English
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The Game of Silence
$9.99 Read moreWinner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.
- Series: Birchbark House #2
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13, 2006
- ISBN10: 0064410293
- Language: English
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The Legend of Michigan
$17.95 Add to cartLong, long ago, the ancient people of the forest gathered around warm fires and told the tale of a time long past, when the land known as “Michigane” was covered with ice and snow. For thousands of ye… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 1585362786
- Language: English
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Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)
$8.99 Add to cartThe Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father–from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Ha… [more below]
- Series: Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf)
- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: 14-Sep-04
- ISBN10: 0553494104
- Language: English
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The Broken Blade
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1800, thirteen-year-old Pierre LaPage dreams of becoming a voyageur and paddling a fur trade canoe. But this is something that older, more experienced men do. However, when Pierre’s father has an a
- Author: Durbin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: 13-Oct-20
- ISBN10: 057875231X
- Language: English
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The Edmund Fitzgerald: The Song of the Bell
$18.99 Add to cartLeaving port from Superior, Wisconsin on a sunny November day, the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald is looking forward to a routine crossing of deep Lake Superior. Heading for a port in Cleveland, the gi… [more below]
- Series: True Story
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1585361267
- Language: English
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Paddle-To-The-Sea
$13.99 Add to cartA 1942 Caldecott Honor Book
A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle’s journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlan- Author: Holling, Holling C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 19, 1980
- ISBN10: 0395292034
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Death Trip
$34.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 191
- Series: Wisconsin
- Author: Lesy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0826321933
- Language: English
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The Legend of the Petoskey Stone
$17.95 Add to cartThe sixth tale in our Legend series, The Legend of the Petoskey Stone focuses on the naming of this unique fossil, found only on the shores of Lake Michigan. From the ancient, warm sea that covered mo… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 26 2004
- ISBN10: 1585362174
- Language: English
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M Is for Mitten: A Michigan Alphabet
$18.99 Read moreWhere was the first mile of highway paved? Who was the 38th President of the United States? What is the nation’s most remote National Park? What was the first bottled soda pop in this country? Find th… [more below]
- Series: Discover America State by State (Hardcover)
- Author: Appleford, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 1886947732
- Language: English
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Lord of the Flies
$17.00 Add to cartBefore The Hunger Games there was Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrai- Author: Golding, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 1573226122
- Language: English
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The Birchbark House
$9.99 Add to cartThis National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling one hundred years in the life of one Ojibwe fa
- Series: Birchbark House #1
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063064162
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun
$8.95 Add to cart“Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened… [more below]
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0679755330
- Language: English
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Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region
$19.95 Read moreNow in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North A
- Author: Barnes, Burton V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 447
- Publish Date: January 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0472089218
- Language: English
