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The 2022 book selections of Two Books Two Communities of Marquette and Alger Counties feature two books by Canadian author Jean E. Pendziwol: The Lightkeeper's Daughters, an adult novel, and Me and You and the Red Canoe, a children's book.

Pendziwol lives in Canada and is the author of more than ten critically-acclaimed books for children, including Once Upon a Northern Night—finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award—and I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree—a 2020 Globe & Mail recommended book. Her bestselling picture book No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons), was selected by McDonald's Restaurants for their Happy Meal literacy program and continues to be used to teach fire safety in a number of countries including the US and UK. Jean's debut adult novel, The Lightkeeper's Daughters, was a Globe & Mail bestseller, shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club selection, and winner of the Northern Lit Award. Her books for both adults and children have been translated into more than twenty languages and are available around the world.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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A new episode of Lynn Domina's Webinar is coming out April 15 at 1pm! She will be talking with Katie Booth, author of "The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness". The biographical book tells the stories of Bell’s world-changing invention of the telephone and his dangerous ethnocide of deaf language. It also charts the rise of deaf activism and the deaf community reclaiming the once-forbidden language.

Listen to the webinar by clicking the following link: https://nmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ob4iD76QTGyZoP2pkSmO1A

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The Northern Michigan University English department head and professor, Lynn Domina, has a new episode of her webinar "Let's Talk About Books at NMU" scheduled for Mar. 18th at 1pm. 
This webinar will introduce Melissa Homestead's book "The Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis". Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In the presentation, Homestead offers a refreshing take on lesbian life in early twentieth-century America. She skillfully reconstructs Cather and Lewis's life together, from their time in New York City to their travels in the American Southwest.

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The Northern Michigan University English department head and professor, Lynn Domina, has a new episode of her webinar "Let's Talk About Books at NMU" scheduled for Feb. 18th at 1pm.

This webinar will introduce Dr. Gail Okawa's 18-year book project "Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawai`i’s Japanese in World War II". The presentation will share her stories of what happened to hundreds of Japanese immigrants arrested after the Pearl Harbor attack and exiled from the Hawaiian Islands to mainland camps in Texas and New Mexico, as well as Wisconsin, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Montana.

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Meet the author, hear him read from his 2020 Michigan Notable Book of poems profiling his year of working three jobs -- as a high school teacher, teen arts director and pizza delivery driver -- and ask your questions! Kass is also the author of three other books. 

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Share your writings, songs and thoughts about food.

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Hear from writers Bonnie Jo Campbell, Anne Dimock and Peggy Wolff. Campbell is the author of the National Bestseller "Once Upon a River," and other novels. Dimock is a playwright and the author of "Humble Pie." Wolff is the editor of "Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie" and an acclaimed food writer.

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Tracy Ross will no longer be traveling to campus due to COVID concerns. The English Department hopes you'll still attend her virtual reading via Zoom on Thursday, September 9th at 7 p.m. (Eastern Time) and help her feel right at home. 

Join us for a great reading & bring your questions too, whether they're about Tracy's work, the writing craft, or freelancing and publishing. Remember to invite your students and community members who might be interested, too. 

Topic: NMU Visiting Writers Presents: Tracy Ross
Time: Sep 9, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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https://nmu.zoom.us/j/92827330982?pwd=NGNxVytRa2dJaWFTa2ZMOGVFM2Ywdz09

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Tracy Ross is an award-winning journalist and contributing editor at Backpacker Magazine, an ASME award–winning outdoor publication with 1.2 million readers. She is the author of The Source of All Things: A Memoir and her essays have been published in the U.S., England, South Africa, and Australia. Her essay “The Source of All Things” has won the National Magazine Award in 2009 and has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Magazine Writing. Her Skiing magazine story “Our Country Comes Skiing in Peace” received a notable mention in Best American Travel Writing, and her work has also appeared in Outside and Women’s Sports Illustrated.  Ross’s assignments have taken her to the wilds of Alaska, the ski slopes of Iran, and the most remote reaches of Ecuador. She writes about exotic places and intriguing people, but mainly about the wilderness and how it intersects with the most important issues in our lives.

Reading followed by Q&A. Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Northern Michigan University Department of English and the Graduate Writers Association.

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The English Department is hosting a welcome back party next Thursday, Sept. 2, from 3-5 p.m. in the Jamrich first-floor lobby area. We'll have snacks, games, prizes, and information about English Department events this year. You'll also be able to meet some of our faculty and other English majors. Please plan to drop by, and feel free to bring your friends.