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HISTORY

Reflections of the Great Lakes.

Michigan’s rich history offers plenty to think about. For the those who love the Motor City, Detroit Across Three Centuries by Richard Bak, follows the its triumphs and tragedies. Or perhaps you prefer learning about the history “up north.” Vintage Views of Leelanau County by M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson offers a sentimental scrapbook, capturing one of Michigan’s most beloved counties throughout the years.

Do You Have A Beaumont Doctor?

This is the remarkable story of building one of America’s most successful Health Care Systems. What do poets, cave explorers, musicians, Army medics, writers, soldiers, philanthropists, inventors, sailors, entrepreneurs, and the youngest survivor of the Andrea Doria have in common? In this book, they’re all doctors. BEAUMONT: ONE OF AMERICA’S BUSIEST HOSPITALS.

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Liberty, Equality, Consensus & All That Jazz At The Del Rio Bar

Relive the history of the Del Rio through the eyes of its founder. Every revolution needs a good bar. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, that bar was the Del Rio. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ann Arbor morphed from a quiet, Republican university town to an epicenter of the “counterculture” and liberal-left politics.

In Liberty, Equality, Consensus & All That Jazz, social scientist / epidemiologist and former Del Rio owner Ernie Harburg shares the “warts and all” story of the social experiment that was this business establishment —somehow, miraculously run by consensus, right down to hiring and firing. And amazingly, the bar stayed open, sometimes just barely, until 2004.

In one quixotic bar is the story of a generation.

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A Journey Through Medicine

"A Journey Through Medicine: A doctor's lessons from his patients reflecting medical practice during the mid and late twentieth century" Is it possible to write a memoir of your life's mistakes and feel good about it? Well, yes and no. As Dr. Robert Green recounts his years in the medical care and treatment of countless patients he describes to us those times there was an error in his judgment in diagnosis and treatment; and the importance of the lessons learned when something went differently than he expected. Contained in these stories are the lives of people that became frozen in his mind. Bob takes us on a journey of his medical career introducing us to the patients lives he became a part of and the relationships he forged that made them memorable.

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Vintage Views of Leelanau County

Vintage Views of Leelanau County

Take an incredible look back in time at Leelanau County, known as the "Land of Delight."

$36.00 | Order | Details »

Distant Thunder - Michigan in the Civil War
Winner of the Michigan Notable Book Award!

Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War, A

87,000 Michigan citizens served in uniform during the Civil War: One in six lost their lives in battle. The story of the Wolverine State during America’s greatest conflict is filled with tales of uncommon sacrifice, epic adventure and heroic service, and it springs to life in A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War.

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