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Love, Sex and 4-H: The Story of the Story
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Submitted 10-19-2015 under
As the 1960s dawned in small-town Michigan, Anne-Marie Oomen was a naive farm girl whose mother was determined to keep her out of trouble—by keeping her in 4-H. In Love, Sex and 4-H, Oomen sets the wholesomeness of her domestic lessons in 4-H...Jonestown Survivor: An Insider's Look
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Submitted 09-17-2015 under
When 914 members of the Peoples Temple and four visiting Americans died in Guyana, South America on November 18, 1978, Laura Johnston Kohl survived. She was one of 87 who lived through the trauma. An activist who fought for civil rights and free...Jonestown Survivor: An Insider's Look
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Submitted 09-17-2015 under
When 914 members of the Peoples Temple and four visiting Americans died in Guyana, South America on November 18, 1978, Laura Johnston Kohl survived. She was one of 87 who lived through the trauma. An activist who fought for civil rights and free...Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity
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Submitted 08-18-2015 under
Well-known Michigan author John Gallagher's new book, Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity, examines the life and art of famed architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986). Best known for designing the now-lost World Trade Center in New York,...When to Keep Secrets and When to Tell Truths: the Nuances of Writing About Your Family and Their History
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Submitted 07-17-2015 under
After 15 years researching the stories and letters of her German-Jewish family from the Holocaust, author Barbara Stark-Nemon preserves their legacy in her debut novel, Even in Darkness. As a child, Stark-Nemon grew up listening to her grandfather...One Book, One City for Kids Author Visit: Meet Rita Williams-Garcia
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Submitted 01-19-2015 under
Meet the author of the 2015 One Book, One City for Kids selection Rita Williams-Garcia! Williams-Garcia is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the Newbery Award, the Coretta...A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps
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Submitted 01-19-2015 under
Medical anthropologist Barbara Rylko-Bauer will discuss her book A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps. The book details her mother's experience after she was arrested in 1944 for suspicion of resistance activities. For 15 months she endured three...Ice Caves of Leelanau
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Submitted 11-24-2014 under
Ice, in all its glorious forms seen on and near Lake Michigan, is fleeting, even in the coldest of winter seasons. Last winter's polar vortex created beautiful ice caves. Author Ken Scott, an avid outdoor photographer, made frequent trips to the...Still Missing: Michigan's Mysterious Unsolved Disappearances
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Submitted 08-15-2014 under
What do a mild-mannered grocery store manager from Michigan and the infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper have in common? How can a married couple and the aircraft they were traveling in just disappear over a populated area? What happened to the freighter...Short Story Sampler: New Work from Local Writers
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Submitted 08-14-2014 under
Let September be the month of the Short Story! Lisa Lenzo, author of Strange Love and winner of the Hemingway Days Festival Award, Monica McFawn, author of Bright Shards of Someplace Else and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award,...