Literature

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Looking for Hickories

The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest

By Thomas Springer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Literature, Cultural Studies

A masterfully written collection that establishes a new voice for the spirit of the upper Midwest and Michigan and offers a fresh look at the landscape as well as the everyday lives of the people who make up the region's small communities

Michigan Legends

Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State

By Sheryl James
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, Fiction, History, American History

A collection of stories drawn from Michigan’s rich folk heritage

Open Wound

The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont

By Jason Karlawish
Subjects: Fiction, History, American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, History

A fictionalized case of medical ethics in Northern Michigan

Faithful Unto Death

By Becky Thacker
Subjects: Fiction, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, History, American History

Arsenic shatters a family in 19th-century Michigan

A Story Teller's Story

A Memoir

By Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by Thomas Lynch
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature
Series: Sweetwater Fiction: Reintroductions

A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio

The Goat Bridge

A Novel

By T.M. McNally
Subjects: Fiction, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature
Series: Sweetwater Fiction: Originals

An American photographer in the war-torn Balkans struggles to rebuild his shattered life after the kidnapping of his son

Writing Ann Arbor

A Literary Anthology

By Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literature

A far-reaching collection of essays, poetry, fiction, and writing on Ann Arbor by some of the great thinkers and writers of the last two centuries

The Huron River

Voices from the Watershed

Edited by John R. Knott & Keith Taylor
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, Nature

A collection of prose and poetry that celebrates the river and our lives

Lake Country

A Series of Journeys

By Kathleen Stocking
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, Literary Studies, American Literature

Buckeye Legends

Folktales and Lore from Ohio

By Michael Jay Katz
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature

Letters from the Leelanau

Essays of People and Place

By Kathleen Stocking
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, Literary Studies, American Literature
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