SOFTCOVER WITH MATTE INTERIOR PAGES. STORM STRUCK: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest Michigan It was a hundred-year storm, said some. Thin trees snapped like matchsticks; thick ones toppled, one atop another, like felled soldiers. The storm’s straight-wind blast left houses with gaping holes, thousands of residents with no power for days, a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore that is, said one official, unrecognizable, and a cleanup that could take years. A UNIQUE, CROWD-SOURCED BOOK FROM THE COMMUNITY Following a social media blast by Mission Point Press, over 70 local or visiting photographers submitted their visions of the storm, resulting in well over 300 photos from Leelanau County, Traverse City, Old Mission Peninsula, Acme, Williamsburg, Alden, Frankfort, Mackinaw, Kalkaska and Antrim County. Mission Point Press, a Traverse City publisher, will release a book on Sept. 27, 2015, chronicling the historic, tragic event. Titled Storm Struck: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest Michigan, it will include: • The storm’s anatomy ... what caused it, and why it was so devastating. • A foreword by Bob Sutherland, founder of Cherry Republic. • Mapped details of the path it followed. • Extensive photographs showing the storm and the impact on Leelanau, Grand Traverse and Antrim counties – and more – from more than 70 different photographers. • Stories of the people affected — their heroics and the swift response to repair the damage.

Storm Struck: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest Michigan

Science & Math

Campbell, Robert

Sutherland, Bob

Mission Point Press

Earth Sciences

Cops & FBI compete to find Ellen... or her body. No one knows what happened to Ellen – not her husband; not Tycon Technologies, where Ellen is an executive involved with military projects; not her friends, neighbors or family. Police detectives McFarland and Harris suspect Ellen was murdered. They suspect her husband. Not discounting these possibilities, the local FBI agents focus on espionage and kidnapping. While the detectives butt heads with the FBI, Ellen’s insurance money pours in and her husband takes a powder. What’s going on?

Where's Ellen? (Mystery) (A Joe McFarland -- Ginny Harris Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Safft, Stuart

Mystery

Are you a caregiver, family member or activity director caring for seniors or someone with dementia?
Are there days when you're short on time and energy and wish your job could be easier? Do you prefer to focus on what people can do instead of only focusing on the support they need? Would you like to help awaken memories, bring happiness, and truly connect with fun and meaningful activities that everyone can enjoy?
THIS GUIDE IS FOR YOU
Includes a digital download code for Mary Sue’s Recordings of 18 Sing Along Favorites
Spend five minutes (yes, that's all you need) to learn the benefits. You can try one idea in the guide, or try them all. Turn on the music, follow the simple directions, and get ready for some joy!
"Mary Sue Wilkinson's guide truly offers ways to sustain or regain connections that we thought were lost or impossible." -Teepa Snow, leading advocate and educator on dementia care
"The music is like a chisel that chips away the exterior of the dementia. Every song opens more light to Jean's real true being." -Kim Spencer, caregiver
"Every Life Enrichment Coordinator will benefit from having Mary Sue's 'Songs u Know by He art' CD and easy to follow guidebook as a resource. This is my go to, especially when I need to lift spirits-it works every time." -Karen Bell, Life Enrichment Coordinator, Bay Ridge Assisted Living Center
SONGS INCLUDING IN THE SINGING HEART TO HEART RECORDING:
I Got Rhythm
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
Always
My Little Margie
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Peg O' My Heart
Bicycle Built for Two
Four leaf Clover
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Shine On Harvest Moon
Put Another Nickel In
Music! Music! Music!
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
My Wild Irish Rose
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Side By Side
You Are My Sunshine
When You're Smiling
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Contact Mary Sue Wilkinson at marysue@singinghearttoheart.com

Songs You Know By Heart: A Simple Guide for Using Music in Dementia Care

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wilkinson, Mary Sue

Mental Health

Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother’s retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world. Overcoming many adversities, Shen became part of the 3% of all foster care children who get into college, and the 1% who graduate. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman’s journey to over- come her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.

Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Chefalo, Shenandoah

Professionals & Academics

You are the leader of the organization called “You.” This book is about you and the organizations where you contribute your time and talent. It explores a simple, impactful leadership concept along with specific tactics you can use to influence your organizations, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, small or large, to become cultures of valued leadership. “Life is far too short to allow our valuable professional and volunteer time to be spent in organizational environments where we do not ‘get to play’... to contribute leadership.” “Organizations create opportunities to positively advance by, first, finding ways to listen and learn. They, then, continue to positively progress by finding ways to teach and coach. Each of us creates opportunities to contribute valued leadership by doing those same things, in that order.” “When metrics dominate organizational conversations, purpose becomes background noise and opportunities are missed. Purpose, not metrics, inspires people to deliver valued leadership.”

Creating a Culture of Valued Leadership: Engaging and Retaining Talented People in Your Organization

Business & Money

Gerken, Michael G.

Management & Leadership

PRAISE FOR WINTER’S BLOOM:For over three decades, Rock Graham has carried the physical and emotional scars from a tour in Vietnam. He is a decorated war hero, but guilt from what happened one dark night in a steaming southeast Asia jungle is always lying in ambush, waiting for an unguarded moment to set his demons free. When he tries to find solitude at a cottage on Lake Michigan in the dead of winter, a chance encounter on the desolate, frozen shoreline changes his life forever.
John Wemlinger has written a powerful novel about a veteran suffering from PTSD and the unlikely path that leads to his salvation. Winter’s Bloom is a poignant tale of loss, love and redemption that will keep you turning the pages.
— Frank P. Slaughter, author of The Veteran and Brotherhood of Iron

Winter's Bloom: A Novel

Romance

Wemlinger, John

Military

The most valuable and illuminating account yet of the Flint water crisis. It took more than a year for the truth to finally, painfully emerge – that Flint, Mich., residents had been drinking lead-poisoned water despite months of complaints about foul smells, discoloration and, worse, ill children. Based on the award-winning journalism of Bridge Magazine, Poison on Tap provides a riveting, authoritative, in-depth account of the government blunders, mendacity and arrogance that produced the water crisis in Flint: • How state-appointed emergency managers put cost-cutting ahead of public safety. • How state experts misinterpreted basic safeguards, while federal regulators dithered for months about warning the public. • How a governor missed the many red flags. And how a series of heroes refused to accept the pat dismissals of government agencies, needling and fighting until their voices were heard. Poison on Tap is a compelling case study in how government at all levels can go very wrong – and yet shows the power of the human spirit to overcome. “Sometimes truth is stranger and scarier than fiction—such is the case with the Flint Water Crisis. Bridge Magazine staff painstakingly document one of the most significant cases of environmental injustice in U.S. history.” —Marc Edwards, Virginia Tech professor whose work helped prove that the regulators were wrong

Poison on Tap (A Bridge Magazine Analysis): How Government Failed Flint, and the Heroes Who Fought Back

Politics & Social Sciences

The Staff of Bridge Magazine

Social Sciences

“Will Castor serves in Battery D, 1st Regiment, Michigan Light Artillery, sending shells into the ranks of Confederate infantry whenever he’s ordered to do so. When his unit’s position is overrun at the Battle of Chickamauga, Will witnesses and commits ghastly horrors to survive the day. Separated from his army and incapacitated with a broken leg, he hooks up with a Confederate deserter who takes him home to Tennessee and shelters him.... Haunted by the traumas of the war, the wilds present Will with an unexpected opportunity for redemption—though it may prove to be an even greater battle than the one at Chickamauga.
“Slaughter is a fastidious writer, summoning the worlds of Civil War artillery and the 19th-century lumber industry in all their gritty details.... Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the story is its postwar period and its depiction of Will’s PTSD. The reader feels great empathy for this broken veteran, stumbling about in an era when the language for such aftereffects had not yet been established.
“An ornate, gruesome, and rigorously crafted Civil War novel.” — Kirkus Reviews

The Veteran (Castor Family Trilogy)

Literature & Fiction

Slaughter, Frank P.

Genre Fiction

Nothing could have prepared award-winning documentarian Keith Famie for terminally-ill cancer patient Maire Kent. What began as a documentary interview evolved into great friendship as 23-year-old Maire, who was facing a lonely final year on earth, found genuine care and concern in Keith. He became giver of unconditional support, promise keeper, and helper on her journey from abandonment to connectedness. After her death, blind master carpenter George Wurtzel crafted a small pine sailboat to carry her ashes to the ocean. The little vessel’s journey would touch the lives of hundreds of strangers, unknowingly working in unison to fulfill Maire’s final wishes. A behind-the-scenes look at the documentary film Maire’s Journey, this book will make readers ask of themselves: Who am I? What is my purpose? What will be my legacy? To learn about the film and see a trailer, please go to http://mairesjourney.com/index.html. A portion on the proceeds from this book and the tour will go to the Maire Kent Memorial Fund for Sarcoma and Cardiac Tumor Research. See http://mairesjourney.com/support.html. This book is the full-color edition. A black and white version is also available. PRAISE FOR MAIRE’S JOURNEY TO THE SEA Rich Homberg, President and CEO, Detroit Public Television As American society looks to find new ways to approach end-of-life issues, Maire’s journey and all the Keith has envisioned could become a national dialogue that celebrations life, a genuine sense of community and death. Marie’s passion, matched with Keith’s relentless commitment, makes for something that could be transformative. Arthur Horwitz, Publisher/Executive Editor with the Detroit Jewish News In the midst of this young woman’s struggle against a terminal diagnosis, she takes an interest in Keith’s documentary work relating to the Holocaust and receives significant reinforcement in her determination to “survive.” While the story of her life has the inevitable ending, the “journey” Maire is about to embark upon is nothing short of astounding and uplifting. Dottie Deremo, RN, MSN, MHSA, FACHE, Executive Emeritus, Hospice of Michigan, Principal Partner &amp; CEO Maire’s Journey powerfully communicates that there is another, enlightened way. Through this 23 year old’s passage, we witness Maire coming to terms with her mortality, how she wants her life and death to teach others, and, how families, even the most fractured, can come to a place of healing. Maire positively changes everyone she touches—her doctor, the filmmaker, her family, and all of us as she so generously shares her journey. Rabbi Bunny Freedman, Chaplain/Executive Director of The Jewish Hospice &amp; Chaplaincy Network The power of “Maire’s journey” is that through Marie we come to realize that embedded within each of us is likely a very powerful legacy. If your willing “to” risk sharing it with those we love, we may be able to turn it into a eternal legacy. Marty Fischhoff, Director Taubman Institute, University of Michigan Maire’s story is not one you will ever forget. Her journey is ultimately one we all take, and we can only hope we travel it with as much dignity and courage as she has. You cannot see this movie without wanting to help make her final wish come true. Laura Varon Brown, Executive Director &amp; CEO Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit Maire’s Journey and the storied life of this young woman allows all of us to reflect on the true meaning of support and a kind embrace. Maire’s support came late in her young life. It came at a time of despair. Maire fought her way to find kindness and a final wish. Both fulfilled by physicians who were once strangers and through an improbable friendship with the incredible Keith Famie. What Keith gave to Maire, she returned tenfold to him. And all of us.

Marie's Journey to the Sea: A Voyage Inspired by Hope and the Thousands Who Traveled With Her

Famie, Keith

The backyards of beautiful Leelanau County, Michigan, hold a world of wonder as seasons pass, animals and insects pause, plants thrive, bloom, go dormant. All are there to nurture the natural environment and display their unseen wonders. Photographer Bob Jones' passion and insights are captured in rarely seen aspects of Leelanau's natural world. "For many of us, our love of the natural world started not through the great wonders of the world like the Grand Canyon, but with being in awe of the beauty, intricacy, and delicacy of nature on a small scale in our own local area and even our own backyards. Here, linked to Michigan's beautiful Leelanau County, is a lovely pictorial exploration of the same local natural world that tugged at our hearts in our youth as we watched flowers, butterflies, bees, and frogs. For some of us, this changed our lives." - Anton Reznicek, Curator of Vascular Plants, University of Michigan Herbarium

Nature's Unseen World: Leelanau County's Backyard

BOB JONES

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