Geographic Orientation/Michigan
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Bo’s Warriors
$19.95 Add to cartA giant tsunami hit the staid Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969 when it was announced that Glenn Edward “Bo” Schembechler was to be the new head football coach, replacing the belo… [more below]
- Author: Lieberman, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1629370517
- Language: English
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Michigan Trees & Wildflowers: An Introduction to Familiar Species
$8.95 Read moreMichigan hosts several major forest communities, including pine, boreal, oak-hickory, and beech-maple forests, as well as additional ecosystems like sand dunes, beaches, marshes, and prairies. Across … [more below]
- Series: Pocket Naturalist Guides
- Author: Kavanagh, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 12
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1583552464
- Language: English
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
$17.99 Read moreNAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit–a blend of memoir, l
- Author: Boyd, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346636
- Language: English
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Jacobson’s: I Miss It So!: The Story of a Michigan Fashion Institution
$31.99 Add to cartWinner of the Michigan Notable Book Award for 2012
Join department store historian Bruce Allen Kopytek in this return to the elegance of Jacobson’s, a beloved Michigan institution for well over 100 ye
- Author: Kopytek, Bruce Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1540206068
- Language: English
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Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
$22.95 Read moreIn the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author’s own voice-Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth brings to life the childhood years of a Michigan woman of both Native American and whi… [more below]
- Author: Keewaydinoquay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0472069209
- Language: English
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Michigan Crosswords
$7.99 Read morePuzzle fans across America have asked for more, so here it is: the second edition of Michigan Crosswords. This edition includes all new puzzles and trivia, plus more state history and fun facts than b… [more below]
- Author: Ratermann, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1681571404
- Language: English
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Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan’s Native Americans
$24.95 Read moreA comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region
- Author: Cleland, Charles E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0472064479
- Language: English
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Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$17.95 Add to cartThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan–known as “the U P”–is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150 years have shaped the variet… [more below]
- Series: Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest
- Author: Remlinger, Kathryn A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0299312542
- Language: English
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Michigan: A Bicentennial History
$22.99 Add to cartThe idea that abundance was “inexhaustible–that fatal Michigan word,” as the author calls it–dominated thinking about the state from the days when Commandant Cadillac’s soldiers arrived at Detroit u
- Series: States and the Nation
- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0393301753
- Language: English
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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Read moreThe Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz‘s radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite g
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0816680817
- Language: English
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Canoeing Michigan Rivers: A Comprehensive Guide to 45 Rivers, Revise and Updated
$16.95 Add to cartCaution! You may want to paddle every river! Rapid by rapid, rock by rock descriptions of 1500 miles of canoeing opportunities on 45 blue-ribbon rivers by two experts who personally paddled every mile… [more below]
- Author: Dennis, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1933272333
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of University of Michigan Football
$41.99 Add to cartThe images in this book, Historic Photos of University of Michigan Football, depict 100 years of gridiron action and the players and coaches who competed on three historic fields. The first football
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: O’Brien, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1684420253
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
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Bathroom Book of Michigan Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild
$14.95 Read moreThe Wolverine State has quite a few claims to being a unique region of the country. Some folks in Michigan are actually called “trolls” while others are called “yoopers.” Sault Ste. Marie used to be o… [more below]
- Series: Bathroom Book
- Author: Hudson, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1897278322
- Language: English
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Backpacking in Michigan
$19.95 Read moreWith 65 photographs and 77 detailed maps, this indispensable guide to the state’s hiking trails gives beginners to advanced hikers all the information they need to plan their next Michigan overnight o
- Author: DuFresne, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0472032682
- Language: English
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Ghosts and Legends of Michigan’s West Coast
$21.99 Add to cartA collection of chilling tales from the most haunted places in Western Michigan.
Western Michigan is home to some of the state’s most picturesque places – and also some of its most chilling tales. Ghos
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Hammond, Amberrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596296631
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$21.99 Add to cartMichigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula plays host to some of the state’s most spine-tingling ghost stories. At Old Victoria, a ghostly apparition continues to rock in her favorite chair. Visitors can st… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Billock, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1467140139
- Language: English
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Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli Into a Global Food Community
$29.00 Read moreFrom an accomplished journalist, this illuminating chronicle of the trials, tribulations, and triumph of Zingerman’s–a beloved, $70 million-dollar Michigan-based gourmet food store with global reach-… [more below]
- Author: Maynard, Micheline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164611
- Language: English
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Strike Dog: A Woods Cop Mystery
$18.95 Add to cartThe newest Joseph Heywood mystery novel set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula finds Grady Service out to avenge the murder of his girlfriend and his son. Conservation officers in several states are being … [more below]
- Series: Woods Cop #5
- Author: Heywood, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1493041983
- Language: English
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North of Nowhere
$20.00 Add to cart“I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I’m ready to revisit Paradise, Michigan.” –James Patterson
Step into the vivid, intense universe of North of Nowhere, where mysteries envelop Mic- Series: Alex McKnight #4
- Author: Hamilton, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250029244
- Language: English
