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It’s 1915. Bias thrives in Idlewild, a black resort village in northwest Michigan, and a small town, white woman learns the power of honor and the impact of subjugation in all its forms. Abby and her Irish father run a hotel in Idlewild, Michigan, a small-town resort for middle class Negros. Through fire, KKK painted crosses, the rape and beating of her black friend, and marriage to a local man, she learns the destructive power of oppression in all its forms and the value of honor. Over 30,000 people vacationed in Idlewild every summer from 1915 to 1964 when the Civil Rights Act made the ...

It's 1890 and the lumber boom transforms Hersey, a small Michigan farming town. It brings lumberjacks, money, corruption and seven saloons to the once peaceful village. Beautiful, young Kate defies convention, falls in love with Mark, a dubious lumberjack, and grows into womanhood. Kate also loves her family, a philosophical hobo, a cussing, moonshine drinking woman, a red dog with an attitude, and Mel, her faithful friend. Elephant in the Room is about character, family, life and love.

Spanish flu attacks Hersey, ravaging the village, and Kate fears for her family. She struggles to keep them safe as one daughter leaves home, one gets pregnant and one is kidnapped. Strong women of three generations define their relationships with one another, and with those they love, as America enters WWI and young boys leave to fight. Light in the Forest is about frailties, strengths, and what we mean to others. It's about a spark of light in a dark place.

When catastrophe shakes a small mining town in Michigan's wilderness, it throws two unlikely people together. You will ask how Heddi and James can tolerate the sight of one another because their pasts are not simply different, they collide. Red Jacket Angels is about an unlikely relationship formed from the ashes of disaster and revealed from two distinct, challenging perspectives.

She wanted to remember the pleasant nights and wished they all had been, but wishes were paper that burned into ash and floated to the sky. The Harley rider paid no attention to the posted signs and drove down her driveway, so Sophie grabbed her shotgun. She knew how to use it and was ready to protect her goats and fowl, her babies. But why hadn’t the peacocks screeched a warning? John Wayne, fresh from Iraq, finds serenity on Sophie’s land, but it’s clouded by mysteries she clarifies in her own good time through stories told while watching flames in a campfire. Tales of her life from...

"Damn! Sorry," she says, and means it -- almost every time. Kate, a single mother of four daughters, struggles to survive in the forest cabin she loves during the declining lumber boom. Willful grit still rules her. She washes dirty lumberjack clothes and grows her own food. With Harley, the scruffy, philosophical hobo's wisdom, Bug's eye rolling antics, hellishly handsome Jack's protection, and Mel's deep, abiding love, she finds contentment and learns to say thank you. Angels in the Corner is a portrait of changing relationships ... among friends, loved ones and between the unique yet ...

Only a few people knew the girl who raised herself in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With a coyote pup named Red and a crow, Heddi ate fish, mushrooms and berries and survived. In Keweenaw Stump Juice, it is now 1918. Prohibition causes upheaval. Lumbering wanes, WWI takes young men off to war, and Heddi matures. She is more comfortable in woodland isolation but allows a few relationships to develop. In the first part of the book, she learns to embrace Bizaan, Pete and Cookie, her lumberjack buddies. In the second part, she finds unlikely friendships with quirky characters like ...

A stranger comes to Hersey, bringing bigotry, selling lies, and sowing distrust, causing some to flee and some to fight: Kat and John for their clinic, Kate and Mel for Sammy, Becca for love, and others for survival. Heart strings and funny bones are tangled with the eighty-five year old Baxter twins, who say what others only think; with Harley and Verna, who find love on the banks of the Mississippi; and two fear-provoking, eye-rolling wolves. Place in the Circle is about love, family, and friendship . . . a shelter in the howling winds of change.

An old man and a baby create heartache and joyful triumph in a 1920s Michigan resort town. When Pastor Jenkins yells “Get the log out!” everyone understands what he’s talking about, and they pluck the offending timber from their eyes. Irish Abby, a small-town woman, and her father run two hotels in Idlewild, a growing resort in Michigan’s north west. They host church services, funerals, meetings and baptisms. Upstairs, the lodgings house famous activists such as W.E.B. Dubois, novelists like Charles Chesnutt, and too many entertainers to count. It is the “roaring twenties” when ...

“Kajika memaangoshens, kaa gwaii?” The nun gasped. “That heathen language is not allowed at Holy Childhood, Sir! What did you say to them?” “I told them my name, Sister.” He raised his eyebrows. “But maybe you have a number for me, too. Oh, yes, and I told them I was a mule.” Jesse and her friends fight to save the Odawa tribe’s children from the sisters of Holy Childhood Indian Boarding School and the Odawa men from prison. The three-story brick building is ominous, a fortress where Indian youth are kept captive, forbidden to speak their own language, their clothing ...

“I’m not sure of any of this, but I’m tired of hating you. I’m tired of being afraid, so . . . I’ll be there at church. Can’t say I’m forgiving you because I just don’t know. We’ll have to see about that part.” Idlewild boasts lakes, rivers and forests, a nature lover’s dream. In the twenties, it planted seeds of integration while Michigan became a hotbed of Klan activity. But black families found peace in Idlewild, a nest of tranquility surrounded by horrific, discriminatory activities to the north and south. Abby shoves headlong into trouble trying to do the right ...

THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS DAMSELFLY. Cora stared at her son’s face but didn’t see his eyes were glassy and fixed, the pupils large. She didn’t notice his bluish hands and bare feet or see the inflexibility of his small body. Her own hands were stiff claws grasping him, and Jesse swallowed again and again trying to dislodge the wet lump stuck there, trying to speak when there was nothing good to say; words couldn’t change anything. When diphtheria hits Pere Cheney, Jesse and her mother treat the sick using medicinal herbs cultivated from the forest surrounding their log ...

It’s 1893, and Jesse leads the Juhasz caravan west and north to escape persecution. With her baby beside her, she and her family and friends - including six orphan children – ford rivers, battle raging blizzards, and forage to survive in north Michigan woods. Jesse meets Kajika, Odawa Indian; Wyanet, a shaman healer; and Ahanu, an outcast. She heals the Odawa chief’s son, puts Bean Pole’s broken bones back together after a lumbering accident, and beats land baron John McGinn with a shovel when he burns the Odawa Burt Lake village. And Esther sings daily – sometimes in two or three...