Wrap Up Your Holiday Shopping with These Books as Gifts!
Wrap Up Your Holiday Shopping with These Books as Gifts!
By Wayne State University Press
There's something everyone on this list: angler, history buff, poet, foodie, journalist, mermaid, TV aficionado –– oh, and kids, too!
The Salmon Capital of Michigan: The Rise and Fall of a Great Lakes Fishery
Carson Prichard
$26.99Ecology, fishing, and the experiences of everyday people - told in their own words.
Rust Belt Reporter: A Memoir
John Gallagher
$26.99The changes in journalism over the last 40 years, and the fall and rise of midwest cities.
The Lake Huron Mermaid: A Tale in Poems
Anne-Marie Oomen, Linda Nemec Foster, et al.
$24.99A beautiful tale of mermaids and sisterhood.
Picnics and Porcupines: Eating in the Wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Candice Goucher
$26.99How did people used to picnic and what did they liked to eat? Complete with recipes (including porcupine stew!).
Kin: Practically True Stories
V Efua Prince
$19.99An interwoven story of family, told in narrative, verse, poetry and a play.
We Live Here: Poems for an Ojibwe Calendar Year
Lois Beardslee
$19.99An exquisitely illustrated collection of poetry inspired by a traditional Anishinaabe seasonal year.
When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
Felicia B. George
$29.99Learn about the Black history that's been omitted from textbooks.
The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy
Charles K. Hyde
$24.99The history, legacy, and influence of these two brothers who met with early deaths.
The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875
Michael W. Nagle
$26.99A biography of the "Andrew Carnegie before there was an Andrew Carnegie."
What Can the Matter Be?
Keith Taylor
$17.99The history of one man's work during the Great Migration to create a cultural cornerstone for Detroit's African American community.
Diver Beneath the Street
Petra Kuppers
$17.99True crime meets ecopoetry at the level of the soil, bringing together life and death.
Enough to Lose
Rs Deeren
$19.99Stories of the small-town struggle to reconcile tradition with inevitable change.
Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West
Russell Brakefield
$17.99Bold yet vulnerable poems that traverse family, friendship, grief, Americana, and the writer's life.
Bound Up: On Kink, Power, and Belonging
Leora Fridman
$28.99A provocative look at historical trauma as bound, incarnated, and processed through intimate and sexual expression.
Return to the Place I Never Left
Tobias Schiff
$24.99A personal testament in poetry to survival, resilience, and the complex legacy of the Holocaust.
For Times Such as These: A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year
Jessica Rosenberg and Ariana Katz
$29.99A revolutionary guide to Jewish practice rooted in social justice, feminism, and queer liberation.
Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials
Jennifer Caplan
$44.39Humor on film and TV and in literature as a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.
Queer Jews, Queer Muslims: Race, Religion, and Representation
$35.99
Groundbreaking essays on the intersection of Jewish, Muslim, and LGBTQ identities.
Michigan's Venice: The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape, 1640-2000
Daniel F Harrison
$47.99A chronicle of a unique waterscape and how its inhabitants navigated, claimed, and reshaped the region.
Paper Valley: The Fight for the Fox River Cleanup
Susan Campbell and P. David Allen
$26.99The compelling true story of a hard-fought environmental win, set in motion by a tenacious government scientist and an unrelenting journalist.
Divining, a Memoir in Trees
Maureen Dunphy
$19.99Captivating essays on our human relationships with nature and trees. A selection of the Sierra Club.
Science Fiction Theatre
J. P. Telotte
$19.99Embark on an odyssey through the series that galvanized the television sci-fi anthology genre.
That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World
Cristi Smith-Jones and Rochelle Riley
$17.99 $16.73Biographies on African Americans who will inspire today's youth.
Rosie, a Detroit Herstory
Bailey Sisoy Isgro and Nicole Lapointe
$19.99For young readers, an illustrated true story about the women workers of World War II.
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