MSU Press 2021 Holiday Book Sale: Up to 70% Off Select Books!

DON’T MISS THIS SALE ON SELECTED BESTSELLERS!  Holiday sale prices will be applied in our shopping cart. Remember to use the special code MSUPHOLLY21 when completing your purchase.
Sale ends December 31, 2021.


ART

Mid-Michigan Modern: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie
Susan J. Bandes, 9781611862164, 320 pages, hardcover, $49.95     SALE $25

Emotional Impact: American Figurative Expressionism
April Kingsley, 9781611860849, 154 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Apollo and Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700
Guido Guerzoni, 9781611860061, 384 pages, hardcover, $54.95     SALE $17


BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

At the Crossroads of Fear and Freedom: The Fight for Social and Educational Justice
Robert L. Green, 9781611861938, 258 pages, paperback, $39.95    SALE $30

Bleeder: A Memoir
Shelby Smoak, 9781611860696, 214 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6

Speechwright: An Insider’s Take on Political Rhetoric
William F. Gavin, 9781611860177, 172 pages, hardcover, $24.95    SALE $7

Joining Africa: From Anthills to Asmara
Charles Cantalupo, 9781611860368, 282 pages, paperback, $27.95    SALE $9

Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age
Richard Selzer, 9780870136030, 300 pages, paperback, $21.95    SALE $6

My Grandfather’s Book: Generations of an American Family
Gary Gildner, 9780870136399, 253 pages, hardcover, $26.95    SALE $8

Still Pitching: A Memoir
Michael Steinberg, 9780870136979, 250 pages, hardcover, $27.95    SALE $9

Death in Reverse: A Love Story
Ruth L. Schwartz, 9780870137068, 151 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Amp’d: A Father’s Backstage Pass
Gary Fincke, 9780870137297, 189 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

John H. Burdakin: Railroader
Don L. Hofsommer, 9781611861778, 126 pages, hardcover, $29.95    SALE $10

John H. Burdakin and the Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Mary Sharp and Frederick J. Beier, 9781611862218, 127 pages, hardcover, $24.95    SALE $7

Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer
Clifton R. Wharton, 9781611861716, 630 pages, hardcover, $34.95    SALE $10

Blackbird’s Song: Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa People
Theodore J. Karamanski, 9781611860504, 322 pages, hardcover, $39.95    SALE $12

The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir
Valerie Miner, 9780870136405, 259 pages, paperback, $14.95    SALE $4

The Canals of Mars: A Memoir
Gary Fincke, 9780870138805, 232 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Nothing Like Sunshine: A Story in the Aftermath of the MLK Assassination
Ben Kamin, 9780870138829, 138 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

In the Shadow of the Bear: A Michigan Memoir
Jim McGavran, 9780870139819, 153 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Let Burn
Rachel K. Wentz, 9781611860719, 286 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance
Janice Gary, 9781611860726, 246 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief, and Home Repairs
David Hlavsa, 9781611861860, 136 pages, paperback, $16.95    SALE $5

Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson
Lawrence M. Glazer, 9780870139710, 322 pages, hardcover, $39.95    SALE $12


Fiction

Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Edited by Ronald Riekki, 9781611861631, 282 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Eight Mile High
Jim Ray Daniels, 9781611861426, 176 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Sovereign Traces, Volume 1
Edited by Gordon D. Henry Jr. and Elizabeth LaPensée, 9781938065064, 112 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Sovereign Traces, Volume 2
Edited by Elizabeth LaPensée, 9781938065118, 144 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6

The Knight and His Shadow
Boubacar Boris Diop, 9781611861532, 204 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Smoke Dancing: A Novel
Eric Gansworth, 9780870137082, 235 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6

Abundant Light: Short Fiction
Valerie Miner, 9780870137198, 190 pages, paperback, $16.95    SALE $5

The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow
Edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Haeja K. Chung, 9780870137563, 259 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Mr. Pleasant
Jim Ray Daniels, 9780870138065, 176 pages, paperback, $15.95    SALE $5

The Perp Walk
Jim Ray Daniels, 9781611863161, 208 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

The Indian Who Bombed Berlin and Other Stories
Ralph Salisbury, 9780870138478, 210 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

As She Was Discovering Tigony
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum, 9781611862096, 274 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks
Boubacar Boris Diop, 9781611862140, 328 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

The Lieutenant of Kouta
Massa Makan Diabaté, 9781611862270, 128 pages, paperback, $20.00    SALE $5

The Cat Who Taught Me How to Fly: An Arab Prison Novel
Hashem Gharaibeh, 9781611862287, 182 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Ottawa Stories from the Springs: Anishinaabe dibaadjimowinan wodi gaa binjibaamigak wodi mookodjiwong e zhinikaadek
Edited by Howard Webkamigad, 9781611861372, 250 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Laughing Whitefish
Robert Traver, 9781611860146, 246 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

The Battle is Not Yours
Rita J. Bunton, 9780870137990, 418 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Document of Expectations
Devon Abbott Mihesuah, 9781611860115, 202 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Detroit Tales
Jim Ray Daniels, 9780870136627, 184 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6

Lies to Live By
Lois Beardslee, 9780870136634, 143 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Somewhere Geese are Flying: New and Selected Stories
Gary Gildner, 9780870137334, 240 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Fortune Teller Miracle Fish
Cathryn Hankla, 9781611860047, 181 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City
Jim Ray Daniels, 9781611860184, 156 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

You as of Today My Homeland: Stories of War, Self, and Love
Tayseer Al-Sboul, 9781611862102, 120 pages, hardcover, $21.95    SALE $6

Wolf’s Mouth
John Smolens, 9781611861976, 267 pages, hardcover, $26.95    SALE $8

OUT
John Smolens, 9781611863123, 344 pages, hardcover, $26.95    SALE $8


HISTORY

Twelve Twenty-Five: The Life and Times of a Steam Locomotive
Kevin P. Keefe, 9781611862027, hardcover, $49.95    SALE $35

West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860
Kenneth E. Lewis, 9780870135514, 514 pages, hardcover, $64.95    SALE $20

Once upon a Time at the Opera House
James Berton Harris, 9781611863017, 250 pages, hardcover, $54.95    SALE $25

Michigan’s State Forests: A Century of Stewardship
William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore, 9780870137808, 201 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan’s Rarest River
Jeff Alexander, 9780870137860, 214 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Michigan State University: The Rise of a Research University and the New Millennium, 1970-2005
Douglas A. Noverr, 9780870137884, 316 pages, hardcover, $39.95    SALE $12

Mapping in Michigan & the Great Lakes Region
Edited by David I. Macleod, 9780870138072, 375 pages, hardcover, $69.95    SALE $20

Edge of Empire: Documents of Michilimackinac, 1671-1716
Edited by Joseph L. Peyser and José António Brandao, 9780870138201, 192 pages, hardcover, $39.95    SALE $12

Prairies and Savannas in Michigan: Rediscovering Our Natural Heritage
Ryan P. O’Connor, Michael A. Kost, and Joshua G. Cohen, 9780870138454, 139 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Food in the Civil War Era: The North
Edited by Helen Zoe Veit, 9781611861228, 250 pages, hardcover, $29.95    SALE $9

A Selection of Modernized Recipes from Food in the Civil War: The North
Edited by Helen Zoe Veit, 9781611861563, 48 pages, paperback, $12.95    SALE $4

Food in the Civil War Era: The South
Edited by Helen Zoe Veit, 9781611861648, 266 pages, hardcover, $29.95    SALE $9

A Selection of Modernized Recipes from Food in the Civil War: The South
Edited by Helen Zoe Veit, 9781611861679, 48 pages, paperback, $12.95    SALE $4

Food in the American Gilded Age
Edited by Helen Zoe Veit, 9781611862355, 344 pages, hardcover, $34.95    SALE $10

Tsodilo Hills: Copper Bracelet of the Kalahari
Edited by Alec Campbell, Larry Robbins, and Michael Taylor, 9780870138584, 179 pages, paperback, $39.95    SALE $12

The Journals of Jeffery Amherst, 1757-1763, Volume 1: The Daily and Personal Journals
Robert J. Andrews, 9781611861266, 620 pages, hardcover, $124.95    SALE $37

The Journals of Jeffery Amherst, 1757-1763, Volume 2: A Dictionary of People, Places, and Ships
Robert J. Andrews, 9781611861259, 508 pages, hardcover, $99.95    SALE $25

Rethinking Michigan Indian History
Patrick Russell LeBeau, 9780870137129, 215 pages, mixed media, $29.95    SALE $9

The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534–1701
Jon Parmenter, 9781611861396, 524 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin
Erik M. Redix, 9781611861457, 294 pages, paperback, $34.95    SALE $10

Woman in the Wilderness: Letters of Harriet Wood Wheeler, Missonary Wife, 1832-1892
Nancy Bunge, 9780870139789, 264 page, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

The Daring Trader: Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825
Kim Crawford, 9781611860269, 320 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1
Edited by Ken Wachsberger, 9780870139833, 361 pages, paperback, $39.95    SALE $12

Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!: A Brief History of the Prisoners’ Digest International
Joseph W. Grant. Edited by Ken Wachsberger, 9781611860610, 258 pages, paperback, $39.95    SALE $12

Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature: Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney
Ronald B. Tobias, 9781611860016, 320 pages, hardcover, $39.95    SALE $12

Room 306: The National Story of the Lorraine Motel
Ben Kamin, 9781611860498, 200 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers
Ben Kamin, 9781611861310, 268 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6

The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War
Martin N. Bertera and Kim Crawford, 9780870139734, 412 pages, hardcover, $44.95    SALE $13

The Poetry of the American Civil War
Edited by Lee Steinmetz, 9781611860436, 312 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Black November: The Carl D. Bradley Tragedy
Andrew Kantar, 9780870137839, 69 pages, paperback, $16.95    SALE $5

Deadly Voyage: The S.S. Daniel J. Morrell Tragedy
Andrew Kantar, 9780870138638, 109 pages, paperback, $16.95    SALE $5

Tahquamenon Country: A Look at Its Past
Sprague Taylor, 9780870138331, 135 pages, paperback, $14.95    SALE $4

Everyday Klansfolk: White Protestant Life and the KKK in 1920s Michigan
Craig Fox, 9780870139956, 274 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Ink Trails: Michigan’s Famous and Forgotten Authors
Dave Dempsey and Jack Dempsey, 9781611860603, 200 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Murder at Small Koppie
Greg Marinovich, 9781611862768, 267 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7


LITERARY COLLECTIONS

Ink Trails II: Michigan’s Famous and Forgotten Authors
Dave Dempsey and Jack Dempsey, 9781611862072, 150 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6

Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan
Edited by Michael Steinberg, 9780870135446, 270 pages, paperback  , $24.95    SALE $7

Stray Truths: Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi
Edited by Annmarie Drury, 9781611861822, 126 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball
Edited by Todd Davis, 9781611860351, 234 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

From Curlers to Chainsaws
Edited by Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls,
9781611861907, 335 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9


LITERARY CRITICISM

Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory
Nidesh Lawtoo, 9781611862188, 480 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods)
Simon Pokagon, 9780870139871, 215 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6


MEDICAL

The Quest for Cortisone
Thom Rooke, 9781611860337, 284 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7


NATURE

Cold, Clear, and Deadly: Unraveling a Toxic Legacy
Melvin Visser, 9780870138027, 192 pages, hardcover, $24.95    SALE $7

Michigan Wildlife Viewing Guide
Phil T. Seng, 9780870133503, 152 pages, paperback, $9.95    SALE $3

Shepherd: A Memoir
Richard Gilbert, 9781611861174, 318 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Lakeshore Living: Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers
Paul J. Radomski and Kristof Van Assche, 9781611861181, 228 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $7

Whose Dog Are You?
Martin Wallen, 9781611862584, 182 pages, hardcover, $49.95    SALE $25


PHOTOGRAPHY

The Waters of Michigan
David Lubbers and Dave Dempsey, 9780870138300, 84 pages, 11 in x 11 in, hardcover, $29.95    SALE $7


POETRY

Some Heaven
Todd Davis, 9780870138003, 133 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Malaria, Poems
Cameron Conaway, 9781611861440, 80 pages, paperback, $16.95    SALE $5

The Infinity Room
Gary Fincke, 9781611863109, 118 pages, paperback, $15.95    SALE $5

Stands Alone, Faces, and Other Poems
Patrick Russell LeBeau, 9780870135330, 84 pages, paperback, $17.95    SALE $6

Body & Field
Terry Blackhawk, 9780870135187,107 pages, paperback, $17.95    SALE $6

Bread Upon the Waters
Lorene Erickson, 9780870135798, 75 pages, paperback, $15.95    SALE $5

The Urban Stampede and Other Poems
F. D. Reeve, 9780870135941, 67 pages, paperback, $18.95    SALE $6

The Moon and Other Failures
F. D. Reeve, 9780870135149, 65 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Child of the Ocmulgee: The Selected Poems of Freda Quenneville
Edited by Garrick Davis, 9780870136108, 94 pages, paperback, $21.95    SALE $6

Lunatic
Crystal Williams, 9780870136429, 69 pages, paperback, $18.95    SALE $5

In the Kingdom of the Ditch
Todd Davis, 9781611860702, 112 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Native Species
Todd Davis, 9781611863154, 110 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

My Father on a Bicycle
Patricia Clark, 9780870137419, 89 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Sunday Rising
Patricia Clark, 9781611860689, 100 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Citizens of Beauty: Poems of Jean Sénac
Jean Sénac, 9781611861990, 82 pages, hardcover, $26.95    SALE $8

Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems
Alvin Aubert, 9780870133695, 56 pages, paperback, $11.00    SALE $3

Yardbird Suite, Side One: 1920-1940. A Biopoem: Fictionalized Accounts of Events Real and Imagined from the Life of Charles Yardbird Parker
Bill Harris, 9780870134357, 119 pages, paperback, $14.95    SALE $4

Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame
Anita Skeen, 9780870135125, 109 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Trying to Catch the Horses
Dan Gerber, 9780870135347, 69 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Walking with the Bear: Selected and New Poems
Judith Minty, 9780870135477, 173 pages, paperback, $22.95    SALE $6

Water
Robert VanderMolen, 9780870138461, 93 pages, paperback, $14.95    SALE $4

National Monuments
Heid E. Erdrich, 9780870138485, 96 pages, paperback, $16.95    SALE $5

Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq
Edited by Sadek Mohammed, Soheil Najm, Haider Al-Kabi, and Dan Veach, 9780870138423, 96 pages, paperback, $14.95    SALE $4

The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles
Edited by Sholeh Wolpé, 9781611860344, 182 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Desert Sorrows: Poems by Tayseer al-Sboul
Tayseer Al-Sboul, 9781611861617, 154 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Love Is My Savior: The Arabic Poems of Rumi
Rumi, 9781611862003, 108 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5

Follow the Blackbirds
Gwen Nell Westerman, 9781611860924, 80 pages, paperback, $16.95      SALE $5

The Unauthorized Audubon
Laura B. DeLind and Anita Skeen, 9781611861143, 56 pages, paperback, $14.95    SALE $4

Redoubted
R. Vincent Moniz Jr., 9781938065071, 152 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7

Wine of Reunion
Rumi, 9781611862638, 120 pages, paperback, $19.95    SALE $5


POLITICAL SCIENCE

Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter
Craig R. Smith, 9781611861136, 394 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

My Odyssey Through the Underground Press
Michael Kindman. Edited by Ken Wachsberger, 9781611860009, 256 pages, paperback, $39.95    SALE $12


SCIENCE

The Great Lake Sturgeon
Edited by Nancy Auer and Dave Dempsey, 9781611860788, 208 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

In Quest of Great Lakes Ice Age Vertebrates
J. Alan Holman, 9780870135910, 230 pages, hardcover, $59.95    SALE $18

For Love of Lakes
Darby Nelson, 9781611860214, 224 pages, paperback, $24.95    SALE $7


SOCIAL SCIENCE

Malcolm X’s Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies
Edited by Rita Kiki Edozie and Curtis Stokes, 9781611861624, 316 pages, hardcover, $39.95    SALE $12

The Sweetness of Freedom: Stories of Immigrants
Martha Aladjem Bloomfield and Stephen Garr Ostrander, 9780870139772, 392 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Western Fictions, Black Realities: Meanings of Blackness and Modernities
Edited by Isabel Soto and Violet Showers Johnson, 9781611860443, 336 pages, paperback, $39.95    SALE $12

Hidden in the Heartland: The New Wave of Immigrants and the Challenge to America
Nancy Brown Diggs, 9780870139970, 186 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

Nosotros: A Study of Everyday Meanings in Hispano New Mexico
Alvin O. Korte, 9781611860290, 384 pages, paperback, $34.95    SALE $10

The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, 9781611860221, 288 pages, hardcover, $29.95    SALE $9

Indian Country: Telling a Story in a Digital Age
Victoria L. LaPoe and Benjamin Rex LaPoe, 9781611862263, 146 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9

My Eyes Feel They Need to Cry: Stories from the Formerly Homeless
Martha Aladjem Bloomfield, 9781611860917, 208 pages, paperback, $29.95    SALE $9


TRANSPORTATION

Railroads for Michigan
Graydon M. Meints, 9781611860856, 640 pages, hardcover, $68.40    SALE $47

The Thirty-Year War
Neil J. Lehto, 9781611862300, 338 pages, hardcover, $39.95    SALE $28

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