Reading Grand Rapids

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Art and Architecture

Almost Lost: Building and Preserving Heritage Hill by Thomas Logan, 2004

Mathias J. Alten: Journey of an American Painter by GR Art Museum, 1998

Artists of Grand Rapids 1840-1980 by J. Sweeney Gray, 1981

Outdoor Sculpture in Grand Rapids by Fay Hendry, 1980


Autobiography and Memoir

Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Grand Rapids edited by Reinder VanTil and Gordon Olson, 2007

Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen, 2007

Growing Up in Old Lithuanian Town by Edward Gillis, 2000

A Time to Heal: the Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford 1979

The Yesterdays of Grand Rapids by Charles Belknap, 1922


Fiction Set in Grand Rapids

Murder on Sacred Ground (A Reverend Calvin Turkstra Mystery) by Christopher H. Meehan, 2006

Death Goes Dutch by Albert A,. Bell Jr., 2005


Furniture Industry

Strike: How the Furniture Workers Strike of 1911 Changed Grand Rapids by Jeffrey Kleiman, 2006

Grand Rapids Furniture: the Story of America's Furniture City by Christian Carron, 1998


General History

Heart and Soul: the Story of Grand Rapids Neighborhoods by Linda Samuelson et al., 2003

Grand Rapids A City Renewed: History Since WW II by Gordon Olson, 1996

Grand Rapids Goes to War: the 1940s Homefront by Richard Harms and Robert Viol, 1993

A Grand Rapids Sampler by Gordon Olson, 1992

The Story of Grand Rapids by Z.Z. Lydens, 1966


Landmarks of our Life in Community

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park: Growing a Masterpiece by Alex Rosas et al., 2005

A Free Library for Everyone: the History of the Grand Rapids Public Library by Gordon Olson, 2003

The Presence of the Past: the Public Museum of Grand Rapids at 150 by Julie Christianson Stivers, 2004

Gathered at the River: Grand Rapids Michigan and its People of Faith by James D. Bratt and Christopher H. Meehan, 1993


Picture This!

Grand Rapids in Stereographs 1860-1900 by Thomas R. Dilley, 2007

Grand Rapids: Community and Industry by Thomas R. Dilley, 2006

Grand Rapids in Vintage Postcards 1890-1940 by Thomas R. Dilley 2005

Vintage Grand Rapids: A Kaleidoscope of Photographs Vol. 1 by the Grand Rapids Press, 2006

Pictorial History of Grand Rapids by Lynn Mapes, 1976


Poetry

The Ripening of Pinstripes by Rodney Torreson, 1998 (Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids 2007-2008)

My Father on a Bicycle by Patricia Clark, 2005 (Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids 2005-2006)

Amber Necklace from Gdansk by Linda Nemec Foster (Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids 2003-2004)


Race and Ethnicity

African Americans in the Furniture City: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids by Randal Jelks, 2006

Flight to Freedom: the Story of the Vietnamese in West Michigan by GR Historical Commission, 2004

People of the Three Fires: the Ottawa, Potawatomi and Ojibway of Michigan by James Clifton et. al., 1986


Special Interests

Where the Star Came to Rest: Stories of the Catholic People in West Michigan by Gaspar F. Ancona, 2001

Grand Rapids Night After Night: the Photography of Brian Kelly 2000

Arts and Crafts Furniture Design: the Grand Rapids Contribution 1895-1915 by Don Marek,1987


Too Busy to Read?

Gerald R. Ford: a Final Farewell by WOOD-TV 8, 2007

Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History a DVD by Mike Grass and Rob Byrd, 2004

From Saigon to Sanctuary: a History of the Vietnamese Resettlement in West Michigan a video by Huan Le et al. And the Grand Rapids Historical Commission, 2002

Grand Rapids Made a video by William Jamerson in association with Central Michigan University Public Broadcasting, 1998

Voices from the Rapids a video by Paul M. Shope and the Grand Rapids Historical Commission, 1995


Young Readers - Nonfiction

Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum by Amy Margaret, 2004

Grand Rapids and its People by April Donaker, et. al. Project Coordinator, Gordon L.Olson, 2003

Penrod's New Home: a Story about the Grand Rapids Children's Museum by Georgia Gietzen, 2000


Young Readers – Fiction Set in Grand Rapids

Gruesome Ghouls of Grand Rapids (Michigan Chillers series) by Jonathan Rand, 2007

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, 2000

Yolondas Genius by Carol Fenner, 1998 (Grand Rapids is the fictional town of “Grand River”)

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