NEWT: The Father of Michigan Men’s Gymnastics.

Newt was a coach like no other. He has been compared to Bo Schembechler and John Wooden for his highly honored place in his sport, but he had a style all his own. He was a champion gymnast, an innovative Navy athletic welfare officer in World War II, a dedicated father and a unique coach. But those outside the Michigan and gymnastics worlds haven’t really had a chance to know this amazing man. Newt’s fascinating life story has never been written … until now.

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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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An Uncrowded Place; The delights and dilemmas of life Up North and a young man's search for home

Reconciling a passion for woods and waters with a love of family, community and home is not easy. Bob Butz does just that with warmth and humor.

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Builder's Apprentice

Imagine abandoning your job, foregoing acceptances at two preeminent graduate schools and pursuing your dream of hammers, nails, and saws. In 1986, Andy Hoffman quit an engineering job, declined acceptances for graduate school at Harvard and Berkeley and accepted a carpenter’s job in Nantucket. Unbeknownst to him, he had entered the world of high-end custom building. Within four years, he was supervising the construction of a 29,000 square-foot mansion on a 180-acre estate in Fairfield County Connecticut.

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Crash Course - Life Lessons That Got Me Back on My Feet

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Marylen Oberman's course was always quick and straight ahead. Always. Only a careening car could teach her about stop and down. A clinical psychologist, Oberman realized she faced years of pain, multiple surgeries, and possibly the loss of both legs. The road to recovery was all but smooth, but Dr. Oberman's spirit and strength paved her way.

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From the Heart

From the Heart is a collection of short stories by Erik Smith, the celebrated anchorman for ABC, Channel 7, early-morning news in Detroit, Michigan. He has transformed his award winning television series "From The Heart" into a treasure of compelling, emotionally charged stories.

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Kindertransport Memory Quilt

The Kindertransport Memory Quilts books are available at a reduced fee for schools and educational institutes. (minimum quantity of 30 books per order) Contact Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan at gkap855@aol.com.

The rescue of children from Nazi Germany and from Nazi occupied Austria and the Czech lands in sealed trains before the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939, has become known as the Kindertransport, and the rescued children as Kinder. The concept was to provide Kinder with avenues other than oral histories to express and share their experiences. Thus Kindertransport Memory Quilt book was born.

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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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Life and Wisdom of Gwen Frostic, The

Sheryl James, Pulitzer Prize winning writer uncovers one of Michigan's most mystical and unusual natural resources, Gwen Frostic. An artist, a writer, a naturalist, and a businesswoman, Gwen Frostic lived in Michigan all 93 years of her life.

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Softcover! Tradition: Bo Schembechler's Michigan Memories

Bo Schembechler: A man synonymous with victory, hard work and dogged determination. Bo gave us a glimpse of his Wolverine victories from the sidelines in Michigan Memories. Now in Tradition we relive Bo Schembechler's Michigan legacy.

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