Gypsy Moth
The gypsy moth although beautiful is deadly to trees. Defoliation can kill a plant and this moth does just that. Read all about the moth and the controls used to stomp it out. Range from Montreal to North Carolina to Ohio and northern Michigan. ... [... more]
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John Smolens
JOHN SMOLENS is the director of Northern Michigan University's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. He is an acclaimed short story and fiction writer, the author of one collection of stories and three novels. He lives in Marquette, ... [... more]
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The Boy Who Ran to the Woods
 Beautiful, uncoventional story of redemption through nature: This is a well crafted book. In story and illustration, it reminds me of children's books of 30 years ago; the tone is soft tone and colors subdued. Harrison, a wild man of a novelist and poet, [... more]
CDN$20.50
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The Definitive Collection
From Amazon.com: The mid-70s belonged to a group of hopelessly plaid Scotsmen who named themselves after a northern Michigan resort town. With an affect on fans that resembled Beatlemania in terms of screaming, fainting, and pledges of undying love, the [... more]
CDN$12.99
Amazon CA |
The Loon Feather
rich characterization, lyrical prose: This is one of the best books I've read in years, along with Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. The characters are richly portrayed-believable, and the author avoids stereotyping the whites and the Indians. There' [... more]
CDN$16.95
Amazon CA |
Off to the Side
From Amazon.com: Rarely does one encounter a memoir so filled with the details of a life lived. Whether recalling bits of his past as a depressed child, manual laborer, Hollywood screenwriter, aspiring poet, novelist, or alcoholic husband, Jim Harrison [... more]
CDN$20.95
Amazon CA |
Silent Scream
"When the hood appears.....friends Disappear!" Not that this is a bad thing: When I actually used to go to theaters to see splatter flicks instead of waiting for them to come out on videotape (this was a long time ago, like, last century), I [... more]
CDN$15.61
Amazon CA |
Slake's Limbo
A heartwrenching tale: A heartwrenching story about a boy who lives in the subway for 121 days, Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman is a winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, an ALA Notable Book, and a YASD Best Book for Young Adults. Slake lives with his [... more]
CDN$5.99
Amazon CA |
The Best American Travel Writing 2000
From Amazon.com: The world may be getting smaller, but that doesn't mean it's any less varied, surprising, or exotic--as is made evident by the 25 essays collected in the inaugural edition of the Best American Travel Writing series. In search of America' [... more]
CDN$15.95
Amazon CA |
Anatomy of a Murder (Full Screen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Otto Preminger turned this 1959 courtroom drama, based on the popular novel, into terrific adult drama. James Stewart stars as a small-town lawyer who defends an army officer (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a bartender who [... more]
CDN$26.95
Amazon CA |
The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling And The Outdoors
good stuff: I'm not sure that anyone's ever adequately explained the fact that fishing, baseball, boxing, golf, and horse racing have produced nearly every page of worthwhile sports writing. Baseball has more truly great writing than the others--from [... more]
CDN$18.00
Amazon CA |
Blood is the Sky: An Alex McKnight Novel
From Amazon.com: One of the most promising secondary figures in Steve Hamilton's series about reluctant northern Michigan PI Alex McKnight has always been his teetotaling Ojibwa Indian pal, Vinnie LeBlanc. But Vinnie remained mostly to himself through [... more]
CDN$9.99
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