Contents: Preface: Grim reader -- Ghost anecdote / Laura Kasischke -- Not even lions and tigers / Steve Amick -- Thin air / Elizabeth Kostova -- Backseat driver / James Hynes -- Pier Road / Nicholas Delbanco -- Bones on Bois Blanc / Laura Hulthen Thomas -- Bitchathane / Anne-Marie Oomen -- Estate sale / Kelly Fordon -- Making bakes / Lolita Hernandez -- The devil in Cross Village / Eileen Pollack -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.0873 GHODelp, Michael.
Contents: Commandos -- Traveling Einstein -- The trees growing up around us -- We are living in the future -- Therapy -- Perfect bass -- Mystery park -- As if we were prey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELHernandez, Lolita
Summary: Drawing on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots, Hernandez reveals a hidden community that craves sun and saltwater, dances to calypso, and makes callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSummary: "Bob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series in 2016 but also of the rich history of writing and storytelling in the region. As series editors Michael Delp and M. L....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELCooper, Desiree
Summary: "In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. ... With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cooper 2016Mozina, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZDriscoll, Jack
Summary: A collection of ten short stories from American author Jack Driscoll, focusing on home life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRIFordon, Kelly
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Fordon 2015Mozina, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZZadoorian, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC Zadoorian 2009Campbell, Bonnie Jo
Contents: The trespasser -- The yard man -- World of gas -- The inventor, 1972 -- The solutions to Brian's problem -- The burn -- Family reunion -- Winter life -- Bringing Belle home -- Falling -- King Cole's American salvage -- Storm warning -- Fuel for the millennium -- Boar taint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI S.C. CamDriscoll, Jack
Summary: Ten stories mostly set in Michigan's northern lower peninsula, a landscape as gorgeous as it is severe. If at times the situations in these stories appear hopeless, the characters nonetheless, and even against seemingly impossible odds, dare to hope. These fictional individuals are so compassionately rendered that they can hardly help but be, in the hands of this writer, not only redeemed but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRIFordon, Kelly
Summary: If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon's I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates relationships and characters with crisp, elegant prose and dark wit. The stories in Fordon's latest collection are disquieting, humorous, and thought-provoking. They might catch you off guard, but are always infused with deep humanity and tenderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORLenzo, Lisa
Summary: These nine stories center on Annie Zito, a smart-but-not-always-wise divorced mother, and Marly, her strong yet vulnerable daughter, as they seek and stumble upon an odd cast of boys and men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENWhelan, Gloria.
Contents: Keeping order -- Incomer -- Costumes -- Living together -- Travelogue -- It's going to be all right -- The ark -- Migrating -- When the children grow up -- Hautala country -- Icy miracles -- Keeping your place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2013