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  • A is for Alpine: An Alphabet Book for Little Hikers

    Intended for backpacking parents who want to introduce their children to the world beyond the roads, A Is For Alpine is part alphabet book (using words and pictures of things that children might encounter hiking and camping), and part inspirational picture books. Photos taken during the authors' family trips with their own two boys feature Western mountain scenery and camping fun. The presence of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Rebel to Realist

    The Career and Legacy of US Congressman Bob Carr

    by Dave Dempsey ...
    Bob Carr of Michigan was one of the Democratic "Watergate Babies" elected as part of the freshman class of the U.S. House in 1974. Carr was among the freshmen who toppled the seniority system that had governed the selection of committee chairs. In only the second full month of his term, he was the driving force behind a Democratic caucus resolution that once and for all cut off funding for the war ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Half Wild

    People, Dogs, and Environmental Policy

    by Dave Dempsey ...
    Humans and canines have been cohabitating for centuries, straddling a boundary that allows us to live together within and across our species. In this empathetic volume, author Dave Dempsey explores this life on the border, the overlapping planes between humans and the nonhuman world that lead to both magnificent creation and appalling destruction. Dempsey’s forty-year career as an environmentalist ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Heart of the Lakes

    Freshwater in the Past, Present and Future of Southeast Michigan

    by Dave Dempsey ...
    Series series Greenstone Books
    The water corridor that defines southeast Michigan sits at the heart of the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem, the Great Lakes. Over forty-three trillion gallons of water a year flow through the Detroit River, providing a natural conduit for everything from fish migration to the movement of cargo-bearing one thousand–foot freighters, and a defining sense of place. But in both government ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ink Trails

    Michigan's Famous and Forgotten Authors

    Long revered as the birthplace of many of the nation’s best-known authors, Michigan has also served as inspiration to countless others. In this entertaining and well-researched book—the first of its kind—the secrets, legends, and myths surrounding some of Michigan’s literary luminaries are explored. Which Michigan poet inspired a state law requiring teachers to assign at least one of his ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ink Trails II

    Michigan's Famous and Forgotten Authors

    From authors of bodice rippers and gallant figures to hometown poetry, hearty men, and tales of American originals, the history of literature in Michigan is deep and rich. The Wolverine State has been the birthplace, home, and inspiration to a tremendous number of men and women of letters, both the well-known and the obscure. Ink Trails II tells the stories of these fascinating and diverse writers ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Half Wild

    People, Dogs, and Environmental Policy

    by Dave Dempsey ...
    Narrated by Melissa Ingells ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 23 min

    Humans and canines have been cohabitating for centuries, straddling a boundary that allows us to live together within and across our species. In this empathetic volume, author Dave Dempsey explores this life on the border, the overlapping planes between humans and the nonhuman world that lead to both magnificent creation and appalling destruction. Dempsey’s forty-year career as an environmentalist ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Great Lakes for Sale

    From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps

    by Dave Dempsey ...
    Narrated by Norm Wheeler ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 2 min

    “Lake Michigan may be coming to Idaho.”That’s what an Idaho radio commentator said in June 2021. Holding approximately 20% of the world’s surface freshwater, the Great Lakes are once again a target for the drought-ridden West, which is facing climate change, massive fires, and shrinking water supplies. And in a potentially far bigger threat, Wall Street is creating markets that could lead to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Great Lakes, The: Fact or Fake?

    by Dave Dempsey ...
    Narrated by Melissa Ingells ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 1 min

    Everybody who looks at the Great Lakes knows they're big, but why are they Great? From sea serpents to sunken ships, from lonely lighthouses to fish on Prozac, this book engages the reader in a quest to find what's really beneath the surface. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition

    by E. B. White ...
    Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, and honest. They evoke E.B. White’s life in New York and in Maine at every stage of his life. They are full of memorable characters: White’s family, the New Yorker staff and contributors, literary types ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Catskills

    Its History and How It Changed America

    The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Wallace Stegner and the American West

    Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention. Now, in this illuminating biography, Philip L. Fradkin goes beyond Stegner’s iconic literary status to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD