University Of Michigan Regional imprint: 59 books
Living the Faith
A Life of Tom Monaghan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Who is Tom Monaghan?
Is he the four-year-old kid whose father died on Christmas Eve and whose mother sent him to an orphanage and then a juvenile detention home?
Is he the entrepreneurial genius who built Domino's Pizza from a hole-in-the-wall pizzeria in Michigan into an American brand...
The Lone Wolverine
Tracking Michigan's Most Elusive Animal
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
It began in late winter of 2004. Almost 100 years had passed since the last spotting of a wild wolverine in Michigan when coyote hunters caught a glimpse of one of the animals in a frozen farm field in the northern thumb region. For the next six years, Jeff Ford, a local science teacher...
Pigeon River Country
A Michigan Forest
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The long awaited new edition of a classic offers memories, myths, and meanings of the largest contiguous piece of wild land in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
This updated edition explores more deeply why and how the outdoors moves and compels us. It’s a book about mice who sing, elk who wear...
by Susan Jayne Newhof
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
It's a mystery and a ghost story, all wrapped up in one.
A newly married couple buys an old house in a small lakeshore town in West Michigan and finds it haunted by the dramatic secrets of its past inhabitants. As the couple settles in, disturbing events prompt them to investigate who those...
The Windward Shore
A Winter on the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
"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 newest effort---is a beautifully written and elegiac memoir of outdoor discovery. Highly recommended!"
---Douglas...
The Best of Bacon
Select Cuts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
From the Preface:
“I wrote these stories between 1992 and 2018. They cover a dozen different sports for a dozen different media outlets, from the Ann Arbor News to National Public Radio, and they stretch from a couple pages to a dozen. But they have one thing in common: they all meant a lot to me...
Open Wound
The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
A shotgun misfires inside the American Fur Company store in Northern Michigan, and Alexis St. Martin's death appears imminent. It's 1822, and, as the leaders of Mackinac Island examine St. Martin's shot-riddled torso, they decide not to incur a single expense on behalf of the indentured fur trapper....
by Mardi Link
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
In 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 reviewing all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical...
How Like an Angel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
"How Like an Angel is a powerfully imagined, lyrically wrought novel, overflowing with the senses. Jack Driscoll is a marvel."
---Rick Bass
"How Like an Angel is a lyrical, lonely ode to fatherhood, an aria in words that looks forward and backward at once. Jack Driscoll is a...
Bath Massacre
America's First School Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."
---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights
"A chilling and...
Deckhand
Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats.
With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand...
Idlewild
The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and...
The North Country Trail
The Best Walks, Hikes, and Backpacking Trips on America’s Longest National Scenic Trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The North Country Trail is the longest of America’s eleven congressionally designated National Scenic Trails. Winding through seven states—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota—the NCT’s 4,600 miles attract more than one million visitors annually. These...
by Marjorie K Cole
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"I couldn't put it down."
---Barbara Kingsolver
In 1955, Mary and Jim Leader have the American dream: careers in medicine; a young and healthy family; and even a vacation home---a shabby resort far from bustling Chicago. But one hot afternoon changes everything. Mary, now a widow,...