U.P. Notable Books Club

Season 4: Episode 9--The UP Notable Book Club presents Matt Hellman speaking about his book "The Biting Cold." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNotable.com   w...

Season 5: Episode 1--The UP Notable Book Club presents Jennifer McGraw speaking about her book "The Unsolved Mysteries of Father Marquette's Many Graves." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www....

Season 4: Episode 8--The UP Notable Book Club presents Larry Jorgensen speaking about his book "Shipwrecked and Rescued." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNotable.c...

Season 4: Episode 6--The UP Notable Book Club presents four authors from the Marquette Poets Circle speaking about "Superior Voyage." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www....

Season 4: Episode 6--The UP Notable Book Club presents Ann Dallman author of "Cady and the Birchbark Box." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNotable.com   www.a...

 Season 4: Episode 5--The UP Notable Book Club presents Eugene Milihizer author of "Dissecting Anatomy of a Murder" The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNotable.co...

Season 4: Episode 4--The UP Notable Book Club presents Hilton Everett Moore author of "North of Nelson The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNotable.com   HILTON EV...

Season 4: Episode 3--The UP Notable Book Club presents Ian Schoenherr whose father John Schoenherr (1935 - 2010) illustrated the book "The Big Island: A Story of Isle Royale. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit t...

Season 4: Episode 2--The UP Notable Book Club presents author Dorothy Paad speaking about her book Dorthey is Moving Mountains. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNot...

Season 4: Episode 1--The UP Notable Book Club presents author Phyllis Michael Wong speaking about her book We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please v...

Season 3: Episode 9--The UP Notable Book Club presents author Terri Martin speaking about her book The Home Wind. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNotable.com &nbsp...

Season 3: Episode 8--The UP Notable Book Club presents author Sharon Kennedy speaking about her book The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.o...

Season 3: Episode 7--The UP Notable Book Club presents author Carole Hare speaking about her book The Legend of Kitch-iti-kipi. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNot...

Season 3: Episode 6--The UP Notable Book Club presents author Karen Dionne speaking about her book The Wicked Sister. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA.org   www. UPNotable.com &...

Season 3: Episode 5--The UP Notable Book Club presents authors Brad Blair and Tim Ellis speaking about their book Great Lakes Monsters and Mysteries. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  For more information please visit the links below www. UPPAA...

The UP Notable Book Club presents author Raymond Luczak speaking about his book Once Upon a Twin. The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List.  Make sure to like and subscribe so you don't miss any future UP Notable Book Club speakers! For more information...

The UP Notable Book Club presents author Phil Bellfy speaking about his book "U.P. Colony". PHIL BELLFY, PhD, is the Editor and Publisher of the Ziibi Press, Enrolled Member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Indigenous Border Issues (CSIBI), and Professor Emeritus of American Indian Studies, Michigan State University. He has been involved in...

The UP Notable Book Club presents author Joanna Walitalo speaking about her book Woodburnings: The first Five Years.   Note: This epesode talks about images that were shown durning the presentation. To see these pictures please visit the UPPAA Youtube channel or visit Joanna Walitalo's website to see more. https://jwalitalowoodburning.com/  https://youtu.be/DixKE7do3pM  JOANNA WALIT...

The UP Notable Book Club presents author Ellen Airgood speaking about her book "Tin Camp Road". Ellen Airgood grew up on a farm in Michigan’s thumb, where her favorite things to do were read books, ride horses, swing in her tire swing, and write stories. She almost left the University of Michigan after her first year to go back home and farm, but did return to school after her parents offered to c...

The UP Notable Book Club presents author Mary Doria Russell speaking about her book "The Women of the Copper Country". Widely praised for her meticulous research, fine prose, and compelling narrative drive, Mary Doria Russell is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow, Children of God, A Thread of Grace, Dreamers of the Day, Doc, and Epitaph. Dr. Russell holds a PhD...

The UP Notable Book Club presents author Mikel B. Classen speaking about his book "Points North: Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula" Mikel B. Classen has been writing and photographing northern Michigan in newspapers and magazines for over thirty-five years, creating feature articles about the life and culture of Michigan’s north country. A journalist, histor...

Jane Kopecky reveals the nearly-forgotten story of Camp Germfask, where some of the most ardent war-resisters among World War II conscientious objectors were held for 13 months in 1944 and 1945. Opponents of the war and conscription on a variety of religious, pacifist, or political grounds, these recalcitrant dissenters dared imprisonment as they refused to cooperate with rules of Selective Servic...

If you’ve got a taste for hockey nostalgia, the local history of the Copper Country, or you just enjoy one of Michigan’s most popular winter pastimes, you will enjoy William J. Sproule’s Houghton: The Birthplace of Professional Hockey for the humanity it brings to the players and their cold winter sagas of the early 1900s. Dr. William Sproule, a recently retired professor of civil and environmenta...

Author Craig Brockman talks with the U.P. Notable Books Book Club about his award winning novel "Dead of November". CRAIG A. BROCKMAN is the author of Dead of November: A Novel of Lake Superior and the middle-grade novel Marty and the Far Woodchuck. He has been a regular contributor to the U.P Reader and other publications. In 2017 an article in the Ontonagon Herald chronicled the final 140 miles...

Author Susanna Ausema talks with the U.P. Notable Books Book Club about her award winning picture book "I Spy...Isle Royale" SUSAN AUSEMA spent her childhood summers on Isle Royale. Her father was a park ranger and her mother was a park volunteer for many years. After moving away in her teens, she returned to work at Isle Royale as a seasonal ranger during her college years. There she met her husb...