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The Drummond Girls : a story of fierce friendship beyond time and chance
\"An inspiring and heartfelt memoir about the friendship between eight women forged over two decades. The eight Drummond Girls first met in 1991 at Peegeo's Food & Spirits in northern Michigan where, at the time, they were all waitresses, bartenders, or regular customers. When one of them got engaged, they celebrated with a trip to Drummond Island-- their first trip together to the remote 36-mile chunk of rock, dive bars, dirt roads, and beautiful forests-- and it's where they became bonded forever.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Wicked takes the witness stand : a tale of murder and twisted deceit in Northern Michigan
\"On a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug dealer was curled up on his side on the truck's bare metal, pressed against the tailgate, clad only in jeans, a checkered shirt, and cowboy boots. Inside the cab of the truck was a fresh package of expensive steaks from a local butcher shop--the first lead in a case that would be quickly lost in a thicket of bungled forensics, shady prosecution, and a psychopathic star witness out for revenge. Award-winning author Mardi Link's third book of Michigan true crime, Wicked Takes the Witness Stand, unravels this mysterious and still unsolved case that sucked state police and local officials into a morass of perjury and cover-up and ultimately led to the separate conviction and imprisonment of five innocent men. This unbelievable story will leave the reader shocked and aching for justice. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Elemental
Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction comes to us from twenty-three of Michigan's most well-known essayists. A celebration of the elements, this collection is both the storm and the shelter. In her introduction, editor Anne-Marie Oomen recalls the ritual dousing of her storytelling group's bonfire: wind, earth, fire, water-all of it simultaneous in that one gesture. . . . In that moment we are bound together with these elements and with this place, the circle around the fire on the shores of a Great Lake closes, complete. The essays approach Michigan at the atomic level. This is a place where weather patterns and ecology matter. Farmers, miners, shippers, and loggers have built (or lost) their livelihood on Michigan's nature-what could and could not be made out of our elements. From freshwater lakes that have shaped the ground beneath our feet to the industrial ebb and flow of iron ore and wind power-ours is a state of survival and transformation. In the first section of the book, Earth, Jerry Dennis remembers working construction in northern Michigan. Water includes a piece from Jessica Mesman, who writes of the appearance of snow in different iterations throughout her life. The section Wind houses essays about the ungraspable nature of death from Toi Dericotte and Keith Taylor. Fire includes a piece by Mardi Jo Link, who recollects the unfortunate series of circumstances surrounding one of her family members. Elemental's strength lies in its ability to learn from the past in the hope of defining a wiser future. A lot of literature can make this claim, but not all of it comes together so organically. Fans of nonfiction that reads as beautifully as fiction will love this collection.
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The Hot Cold Case
Link discusses her experiences writing a true crime book. In 1968, a family of six from Detroit had been murdered inside their summer cottage.
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No way to treat state history
The smell of oxidized India ink; the feel of aging linen fibers woven into an old and ornate paper document; the thrill of touching history with your fingertips, even while wearing white cotton gloves.
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Armchair detective takes on a cold case
In 2011 Renner, who knows this turf well -- he's been anthologized in \"The Best American Crime Writing\" -- took up the cold case and began looking for her in the New England countryside, in the details of the case, and, most interestingly of all, inside his own head.Each of these locales is mysterious and Renner is a tantalizing and almost gleeful tour guide to and through the impulses of the armchair detective.His blog, mauramurray.blogspot.com, takes the story past the last page and is indispensable for true crime obsessives.Mardi Jo Link is the author of the New York Times bestseller \"Wicked Takes the Witness Stand,\" among other books.
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Did reclusive duke lead a double life?
[...]both men (or, one man living a double life) guarded their personal privacy with fanatical focus that is detailed in Piu Marie Eatwell's new book, \"The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue.\"
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The haunting memoir of a murderers friend
From the fire escape outside her apartment in Gettysburg, Pa., Butcher watched a pink sky usher in the new moon, then cast shadows over the student dorms until all she could see was a tour guide's swinging lantern, lighting the way for ghost-hunting Civil War tourists.
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A saucy awakening
Special to the Star Tribune It might seem difficult to believe, but in modern culinary history there was a time when America's standard diet -- not to mention the menu of the Flinn family of Hope, Mich. -- was devoid of pepperoni. [...]1960, Milton Flinn and his young wife, Irene, had taken the recipes of their Swedish and Irish ancestors --
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