Virtual Book Display: Michigan Book Display

• Michigan by Elizabeth M. Johnson

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL NON-FICTION 977.4 J66

  ISBN: 9780516223162

  Publication Date: 2002-03-01

  Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, culture and people of the state of Michigan
• The Legend of the Lady's Slipper by Kathy-jo Wargin; Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (Illustrator); Kathy-jo Wargin; Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (Illustrator)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL PICTURE BOOKS P W274

  ISBN: 9781585361687

  Publication Date: 2003-06-30

  The Legend of the Lady's Slipper is a suspenseful tale of a young maiden's run through the forest in an attempt to save the people of her village.
• Michigan Ghost Towns by Roy L. Dodge

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 977.404 D645

  Publication Date: 1970

  Very little has been written about Michigan ghost towns. This series of books is the first ever published on the subject. Ghost towns are usually thought of as being located in the far West, where actually very few ghost towns exist compared to the thousands of abandoned towns and locations that dotted Michigan maps of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
• Michigan by Willis F. Dunbar; George S. May

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 977.4 D899 1995

  ISBN: 9780802870551

  Publication Date: 1995-09-05

  This standard textbook on Michigan history covers the entire scope of the Wolverine State's historical record -- from when humankind first arrived in the area around 9,000 B.C. up to 1995. This third revised edition of Michigan also examines events since 1980 and draws on new studies to expand and improve its coverage of various ethnic groups, recent political developments, labor and business, and many other topics. Includes photographs, maps, and charts.
• Portraits of Michigan: a history and facts on Michigan by Michigan Legislature

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 977.428 P853 1995

  Publication Date: 2003
• Michigan Butterflies and Skippers by Mogens C. Nielsen; Fred Stehr (Contribution by); Alicia Burnell (Designed by); Leslie Johnson (Editor); Larry West (Photographer); Kurt Stepnitz (Photographer)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 595.78 N669

  ISBN: 9781565250123

  Publication Date: 1999-05-01
• Michigan Legends by Sheryl James

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 398.2 J29

  ISBN: 9780472071746

  Publication Date: 2013-04-16

  Over the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. In Michigan Legends, Sheryl James collects these and more stories of the legendary people, events, and places from Michigan's real and imaginary past. This book will appeal to all Michiganders and anyone else interested in good folktales, myths, legends, or lore.
• Michigan's Marguerite de Angeli by William Anderson

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 813.54 D284Y

  ISBN: 9780961008864

  Publication Date: 1987-01-01
• Nature preserves in Michigan, 1920-1979 by Susan R Crispin (Susan Rae)Michigan Botanical Club.Michigan Natural Areas Council.

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 333.95 C932

  Publication Date: 1980
• Little Michigan by Denise Brennan-Nelson; Michael Glenn Monroe (Illustrator)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL NON-FICTION 977.4 B838

  ISBN: 9781585364794

  Publication Date: 2010-02-04

  State birds, flowers, trees, and animals brought to board book form for the youngest book lovers. Toddlers will delight in these books filled with rhyming riddles framed by brightly painted clues, introducing elements that make each state so special.
• Upper Peninsula of Michigan by Russell M. Magnaghi

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 977.49 M196

  ISBN: 9781387016815

  Publication Date: 2017-07-13

  For the first time in over a century, a complete history of the U.P.-from prehistoric origins to the present-is available. Drawing on oral histories, newspapers, census data, archives and libraries, Russell M. Magnaghi has written the seminal history of a very ""special place"" as seen through the eyes of the men and women who have lived here-the famous and not so famous.
• Mighty Fitz by Michael Schumacher

  Call Number: 917.749 S392

  ISBN: 9781582346472

  .Michael Schumacher relays in vivid detail the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its many productive years on the waters of the Great Lakes, its tragic demise, the search effort and investigation, as well as the speculation and the controversy that followed in the wake of the disaster.
• Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss

  Call Number: 977.434 M311

  ISBN: 9781476748382

  * Winner - Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (2016) * "Before people trotted out the grab bag of rust belt infirmities--from harsh weather to high labor costs--and competition from abroad to explain Detroit's collapse, one could see the signs of a city's ruin. Detroit at its peak was threatened by its own design. It was being abandoned by the new world. Yet so much of what Detroit gave America lasts"
• Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli

  Call Number: 307.1 B612 2013

  ISBN: 9781250039231

  Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest--and, finally, into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future.
• Michigan Voices by Joe Grimm (Compiled by)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 977.4 M624

  ISBN: 9780814319673

  Publication Date: 1987-09-01