"Inscrutable, inaccessible, indefinable. Even at the end. That’s what her mother had always been to her." InSeasonal Roads, L. E. Kimball introduces Norna, Aissa, and Jane—mother, daughter,
While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different
Scholar and diplomat Brian L. Evans gives us the first English-language biography of Chester A. Ronning (1894-1984): diplomat, politician, educator, and one of Canada's major public figures. This fasc
These twelve essays constitute a groundbreaking volume of new work prepared by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, constitutional law, political science, and sociology, who identi
In Detroit's Historic Places of Worship, authors Marla O. Collum, Barbara E. Krueger, and Dorothy Kostuch profile 37 architecturally and historically significant houses of worship that represent 8 den
The deaths in the Jonestown community of northwestern Guyana on November 18, 1978, marked the largest non-natural loss of American civilian life before September 11, 2001, yet the event has been large
Harborless, a collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, is part history and part imagination. These poems explore tragic wrecks in rivers and lakes, finding and forming artistic meaning
This is a stunning book of risk, movement, and deep feeling. With wild, leaping detail and surprising connections, the author catapults the reader into the visceral world where the whole body lives. T
Elmore Leonard said about Jack Driscoll’s stories, "The guy can really write." And in The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot, he once again demonstrates in every sentence the grace and grit of a true stor
Newton’s Law holds that only an unbalanced force can change a state of motion. For the men and women in States of Motion, imbalance is a way of life. Set in Michigan small towns both real and fictiona
In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribut
Steve Hughes wrote Stiff with an audience in mind. As creator of The Good Tyme Writers Buffet—a literary series/potluck which runs out of a neighborhood art spaceR
