2006 Michigan Notable Books
We had an entry about the 2006 Michigan Notable Books a few weeks ago. But now the list has been officially announced last week. At least two of the authors are from the Grand Rapids area. GRPL's very own Chris Byron was the winner for the book Vintage Views of the Charlevoix-Petoskey Region! The full list is below.
- Beast of Never, Cat of God: The Search for the Eastern Puma by Bob Butz
- Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick
- Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans by Thomas Lynch
- The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars and the Legacy by Charles K. Hyde
- Grit, Noise & Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock n Roll by David A. Carson
- Harry Sue by Sue Stauffacher
- How Like an Angel: A Novel by Jack Driscoll
- The Lake, the River & the Other Lake: A Novel by Steve Amick
- Legends of Light: A Michigan Lighthouse Portfolio photographs by Ed Wargin
- Made in Detroit: A South of 8 Mile Memoir by Paul Clemens
- Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-grant Philosophy, 1855-1925 by Keith R. Widder
- Michigan Shadow Towns: A Study of Vanishing and Vibrant Villages by Gene Scott
- Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Michael Schumacher
- Please Don't Come Back From the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos
- Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church and the Transformation of America by Nick Salvatore
- Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams by Thomas J. Noer
- The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison
- Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils by Charles Ferguson Barker
- Vintage Views of the Charlevoix-Petoskey Region by M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson
- Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-up Journey by Robert Sabuda