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Voodoo Shack By Terri Martin
Roadkill Justice: Featuring Yooper Woodswoman Nettie Bramble by Terri Martin
Review by Jon C. Stott Roadkill Justice: Featuring Yooper Woodswoman Nettie Bramble is set somewhere in the north-central section of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (I think, maybe, in Baraga County), there’s a place called Budworm. Residing there are such people as Sammy Snert, Miss Linda Figgy (aka Miss Figgy), Tag Elder,…
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
A Second Home by David Curtis
Review by Donna Winters A Second Home is compelling, well-paced, and saturated with sound values. It offers preteen and early teen boys an excellent adventure chock full of interesting characters and excellent advice on dealing with bullies. The story opens in June 1957. The main character, 13-year-old Roger Tucker, runs…
Odin’s Eye By Tyler Tichelaar — Review by Deborah Frontiera
Roadkill Justice: Featuring Yooper Woodswoman Nettie Bramble by Terri Martin
Mack Hassler reviews: Odin’s Eye, A Marquette Time Travel Novel, by Tyler R. Tichelaar
Olav Audunssøn -IV – Winter by Sigrid Undset and translated by Tiina Nunnally
The Midwife’s Touch, by Sue Harrison
Voodoo Shack by Terri Martin
Boats Can’t Jump: The Story of the Soo Locks by Laura Barens
Review by Deborah K. Frontiera Boat’s Can’t Jump: The Story of the Soo Locks is a delightful nonfiction picture book explains with words and illustrations why the locks at Sault Ste. Marie were built and how they work. Young children learn from both pictures and words, and this author/illustrator pair…
The Lady of the Lighthouse By Terri Greening
I Married a Troll; My Husband Married a Yooper, by Mary Brandt Goloversic
The Side Road Columnist: Observations from an Upper Michigan Author by Sharon M. Kennedy
Review by Mack Hassler “It’s who you are when time’s up that matters.” Obituary for Anne Perry, NY Times, 4/13/23 Non-fiction, investigative reporting, and autobiography are so important to me for lively and vital UP literature. Sharon Kennedy, who has lived and worked “above the bridge” but not quite into…
North Country, A Pedagogical Almanac, by Carolyn J. Dekker
Three Fires Unity: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands by Phil Bellfy
Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Phil Bellfy’s book Three Fires Unity: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands provided a revolutionary view of the Three Fires confederacy and a history of multiple Native American tribes, the British, the French and the rising American population. Bellfy has a residence in Sault Ste. Marie,…
Sandtown Survivor: Growing up Indian in the Twentieth Century by Clearing Sky Woman
Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Clearing Sky Woman’s Sandtown Survivor: Growing Up Indian in the Twentieth Century delivers a powerful and heartfelt message about living the life of a poor Indian girl and woman and her demonstration of steadfast resiliency. The story begins in 1946 when she attends her first day of…