TURNING WHITE:
A MEMOIR OF CHANGE
By Lee Thomas { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
In his thought-provoking memoir, Turning White, Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster Lee Thomas shares the physical and mental battle he is waging with vitiligo — a skin disorder that is literally turning him white.
At age 25, Thomas had a dream job in a dream city —
a feature/entertainment reporter for the ABC network’s flagship TV station in New York. Then he discovered a few white spots on his scalp, the small beginnings of a disease that has spread to half his face — a fact he covers with makeup when on camera.
As someone in the very public eye, vitiligo has transformed not only Thomas’ color, but his life. “Even people who have known me for years avoid eye contact when they see my face without makeup for the first time,” he writes.
Hardcover | 176 Pages | $14.95 Your Price: US $10.17
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EIGHT DOGS NAMED JACK:
AND FOURTEEN OTHER STORIES FROM THE DETROIT STREETS AND MICHIGAN WILDERNESS
By Joe Borri { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
These short stories are a mixture of pulp, noir, humor, and drama, set against the backdrop of Detroit’s East Side, their characters often roaming to Northern Michigan or Canada. While “up north,” the street smarts the characters possess are tested.
Hardcover | 320 Pages | $24.95 Your Price: $19.96
SHOOTING STAR:
THE AMAZING LIFE OF ANN MARSTON
By Alana Paluszewski { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
Child model. International archery champion. Beauty pageant queen. Detroit rock band promoter. Ann Marston accomplished all of these things and more during her all-too-short life.
In Shooting Star: The Amazing Life of Ann Marston, author Alana Paluszewski tells the story of this former Miss Michigan from Wyandotte who refused to allow debilitating diabetes to get in the way of her goals. Paluszewski uses Ann’s personal diaries, family albums, interviews and other primary research to share Ann’s untold biography.
Whether you remember her or not, you cannot help but be touched and inspired by the story of Ann Marston, whose star shone briefly on the national stage, then was gone.
Hardcover | 176 Pages | $19.95 Your Price: $15.96
DEATH’S DOOR:
THE TRUTH BEHIND MICHIGAN’S LARGEST MASS MURDER
By Steve Lehto { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
On Christmas Eve 1913, more than six dozen people were crushed to death as they scrambled to flee the Italian Hall in Calumet, Mich. Someone had cried "Fire" at the top of the stairs that led to the meeting hall on the building's second floor. There was no fire. The entire event was over in a flash, but the tragedy would scar the psyche of the region for decades. Was the call of "fire" a tragic error or a calculated action designed to cause chaos?
In Death's Door: The Truth Behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder, author and attorney Steve Lehto wades through the conflicting news reports, transcripts, and other documentation to set the record straight.
Paperback | 276 Pages | $19.95 Your Price: $15.56
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CONDO LIVING:
A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO BUYING, OWNING
AND SELLING A CONDOMINIUM
By Robert M. Meisner, ESQ. { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
When it comes to understanding the legal rights of condominium owners, as well as the dynamics of condo association boards, nobody knows condos like Robert M. Meisner!
An attorney specializing in community association law, adjunct professor at two Michigan law schools, extensive lecturer and prolific author, Meisner is a nationally recognized specialist on condominiums. In Condo Living, Meisner shares his wit and wisdom accumulated from more than 35 years of practicing community association law.
If you’ve ever thought about buying or selling a condo, or joining a condo board, read this book first!
Paperback | 192 Pages | $24.95 Your Price: $18.21
BOB-LO:
AN ISLAND IN TROUBLED WATERS
By Annessa Carlisle { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
It’s been a picnic ground, an amusement park and home to million-dollar mansions, but few know the complex story behind the Canadian island adopted by Detroiters as their own.
Bob-Lo: An Island in Troubled Waters brings to life with vivid detail not only the numerous changes that have swept over the island with the tides of time, but specifically the impact it has had on its longest-residing private citizen, Dorothy Tresness. Her story is as turbulent as the history of the island itself. The beloved Bob-Lo Boats are gone, the rides are dismantled but the story of Bob-Lo is far from over as Dorothy, in her 80s, steadfastly holds claim to her private slice of island paradise.
Paperback | 100 Pages | $19.95 Your Price: $11.97
SHANGHAI REMEMBERED:
STORIES OF JEWS WHO ESCAPED TO SHANGHAI FROM NAZI EUROPE
By Berl Falbaum { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
In the 1930s, anti-Semitism was spreading like a cancer throughout the world, and even though Hitler's regime was criticized for its treatment of Jews, no one stepped forward to help them.
Through word of mouth or information from travel agencies, Jews from various parts of Europe discovered that Shanghai was an open port. No visas or passports were required. About 20,000 refugees made the decision to flee from impending extermination — leaving behind their highly civilized and sophisticated culture for a haven that could not have been more unlike the life they had experienced.
Shanghai Remembered is a collection of first-person accounts telling how these refugees found themselves traumatized, stateless and penniless in a strange and inhospitable place.
Paperback | 256 Pages | $27.95 Your Price: $16.77
THE WAY IT WAS:
GLIMPSES OF DETROIT’S HISTORY THROUGH THE PAGES OF HOUR DETROIT MAGAZINE
If you have fond memories of the days when streetcars rumbled through Detroit's avenues, of shopping downtown at Hudson's and Kern's, or spending lazy days on Belle Isle or even if you're too young to have experienced the city's heyday The Way It Was will transport you to a time when Detroit pulsated with energy.
Paperback | 156 Pages | $29.95 Your Price: $17.97
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SIRENS OF CHROME:
THE ENDURING ALLURE
OF AUTO SHOW MODELS
By Margery Krevsky { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
Sirens of Chrome includes dozens of photographs, programs, and posters culled from libraries, corporate files, and auto enthusiast portfolios, capturing decades of hot vehicles and torrid models. Discover whose “body” inspired the Rolls-Royce hood ornament or sit in a “rumble seat” with 1930s silver-screen goddess Joan Blondell. Gawk at the over-the-top opulence of the Somali leopard pelt-upholstered 1950 Cadillac Debutante, sing along with Dinah Shore while you “See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet,” or shake your head in wonder at the fur bikini-clad model atop a Soviet-built Lada. Enjoy the ride!
Hardcover | $24.95 { BUY NOW }
MICHIGAN’S COLUMBUS:
THE LIFE OF DOUGLASS HOUGHTON
By Steve Lehto { ABOUT THE AUTHOR }
The name “Houghton” is well-known to Michiganians. It graces a city, a county, a lake, waterfalls, schools, and more. But what made Douglass Houghton such a “star?” As the fledgling state’s first geologist, he found more than any explorer before him — from salt springs to gypsum. His reports helped launch a “rush” to the Keweenaw Peninsula’s Copper Country. He also found time to be elected mayor of Detroit and teach at the University of Michigan, all before the age of thirty-six. Here’s his story.
Paperback | $19.95 { BUY NOW }
2009
Michigan
Notable
Book
2010
Michigan
Notable
Book
A RASCAL’S CRAFT:
MUSINGS OF A FINNISH-AMERICAN IMMIGRANT
By Eelu Kiviranta | Translated by Lillian Lehto
A Rascal’s Craft captures the musings of Eelu Kiviranta, a turn of the 20th century Finnish immigrant and poet, who describes his feelings about departing the old country and establishing a new home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A snapshot of life in Finland and Michigan’s Copper Country is depicted in this series of poems, many of which are written in the Finnish storytelling tradition of arkkiveisu, describing a variety of contemporary events. Presented in their original Finnish and translated into English for the first time.
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