Traverse City Record-Eagle

Books

  • Books in Brief: 08/02/2009

    Butz signign books in Glen Arbor; Book sale benefits Father Fred families

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  • Books in Brief: 05/31/2009

    Young adult book set in Northport; Neurotic couple at center of story; Small town story has eerie similarities; Wayne Lobdell pens his memoirs

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  • Books Calendar: 05/31/2009

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  • Books in Brief: 5/24/2009

    'Dumb Jock' author from Boyne City; Book explores backroads, byways; Murder story takes place in northwoods; St. Lawrence is detailed in book; Soldier signing at Horizon Friday; Book chosen for statewide program

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    May 28, 2009 8:10 am
  • Quick Takes: 5/17/2009

    One of the pleasures of living in northern Michigan is the wealth of images worth photographing. The Traverse Area District Library offers patrons ideas on the subject with its Imagining Michigan Bookmark: Michigan in Photography.

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  • Books in Brief: 5/17/2009

    Former deckhand pens his stories; Little Traverse tribe book updated; Pavilions day care needs kids books

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  • Book Calendar: 5/17/2009

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  • Saturday, May 9, 2009
  • Books in Brief: 05/10/2009

    Leave this book lying around; Notable authors meet with governor; Best-selling author will sign book

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  • Saturday, May 2, 2009
  • 'Horse Soldiers: Well written, researched
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    Doug Stantons latest book, Horse Soldiers, is a modern-day Odyssey written with a journalists penchant for detail and Homers gift for telling a warriors story. Stanton takes readers from the freezing interior of a high-tech Chinook helicopter -- flying higher than it safely can -- to the mountains of Afghanistan delivering soldiers to desert gunfights fought on horseback.

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  • Books in Brief: 5/3/2009

    Historical images featured in book; Teens invited to join book club

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  • Saturday, April 25, 2009
  • Books in Brief: 4/26/2009

    Author's first book has sci-fi roots; 'Isabella' uses region as its setting; Treasure hunt roams through Michigan; Teens invited to join book club at Horizon; Historical images featured in book

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  • Saturday, April 18, 2009
  • Books in Brief: 04/19/2009

    'Bath Massacre' details school attack; Updated hiking book has new trails

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  • Friday, April 10, 2009
  • Books Calendar: 4/12/2009

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  • Books in Brief: 4/12/2009
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    Northern Michigan writer and educator Marsha Barber Clark has published "Ponder Picture Prosper: A Proven Method for Getting What You Want in Life, Love, and Work."

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  • Friday, April 3, 2009
  • Books Calendar: 04/05/2009

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  • Friday, March 13, 2009
  • Books in Brief: 03/15/2009

    Fictional town is 90 miles north of GR; Borders celebrates educators this week; Port Oneida farm detailed in booklet

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  • Saturday, March 7, 2009
  • Books in Brief: 03/08/2009

    'Roadside Guide' identifies flora; Northport native pens sci-fi book; Book has photos of state musicians

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  • Saturday, February 28, 2009
  • Books In Brief: 03/01/2009

    Notable author to speak in Kalkaska; 'L&O' star's memoir to be featured

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  • Friday, February 13, 2009
  • Books Calendar: 02/15/2009

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  • Saturday, January 31, 2009
  • Books in Brief: 02/01/2009

    Sheehan has 'More Words to the Wise'; Cadillac author pens poetry book; Life coach writes guide for women

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  • Saturday, December 6, 2008
  • Local writers pen adventure

    Three local writers have published books, one celebrating a young man's adventures in the Upper Pennisula after World War II, another about a 1979 ex-Marine's adventure in China, and one in which famous mystery writers are invited to a university to be honored but instead die one by one.

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  • Saturday, October 18, 2008
  • On the Shelf: A look at Alden history

    Moving to Alden five years ago, Priscilla Miller has written "Reflection at the Water's Edge: An Illustrated History of the Alden Area." Using oral histories and interviews with natives, longtime residents and "resorters," Miller has compiled stories that look at Torch Lake life from the Stone Age to the present. (Plus more books.)

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  • Books Calendar: 10/19/2008

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  • Saturday, July 19, 2008
  • On Books: Patchett takes a 'Run'

    Of what is a family made? Is it genes and blood and familial memories stretching back into the far reaches of time? Is it a similar nose? A chin in common? Is it a talent shared due to good snagging in the family gene pool?

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  • On Books: Rural Michigan backdrops frame several new memoirs

    Humorist Will Rogers noted, "There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs." Despite that observation, plenty of authors have put their lives in print, causing a number of memoirs and biographical projects to hit my desk recently.

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