michigan

Newspaper editor Gus Carpenter, one-time hockey star in the small Michigan town of Starvation Lake, investigates the murder of his former coach when the same snowmobile involved in the coach's supposedly accidental drowning washes up years later in another lake five miles away.

Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.

Michael Smolij is forced to grow up fast when his father leaves--like so many other families in his Detroit neighborhood--and he takes a job at the mall, enrolls in classes at the community college, and tries to make a life for himself.

A memoir in which the author shares episodes from her life, looking from the perspective of middle age on her experiences growing up in the American midwest, discussing her family, school, weight, and sexuality issues.

Presents critical essays on Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Living with her mother and grandparents on their Michigan farm, eleven-year-old Iris tries to find out about her father, who died before she was born, and to solve a local murder mystery involving a friend of her grandmother.

After his family emigrates from Holland, Pieter convinces them to help a girl they met on a coral boat who is trying to get to Michigan to find her father.

Seventeen-year-old Zach, his best friend and state wrestling champion Tank, and Tank's twin sister Sarah, an Ivy League-bound scholar, are desperate to leave their depressing hometown of Blaine, Michigan, after graduation, but plans go awry when Zach uncovers a steroid scandal and falls in love with Sarah.

A brief history of the Wolverine State with a description of its countryside and major cities.

Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village.