Reading Grand Rapids
From GRPLpedia
Selected Titles
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
Grand River by Kathryn Kent, 1997
The Agency in Suite 309 by Kendall G. Morgan, 1988
Saddlebag Doctor by William Ryerson Vis, 1964
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”)
