Product Description: LARGE PRINT VERSION. Henry Kisor’s second mystery featuring Deputy Steve Martinez, A VENTURE INTO MURDER, returns to Porcupine County, where gossip never can be stifled for long. But one secret has been kept quiet for years . . . and those who try to uncover it sometimes wind up dead...read more

Product Description: LARGE PRINT EDITION. In SEASON’S REVENGE, the first Steve Martinez mystery, the sleepy town of Porcupine City on the southern shore of Lake Superior comes alive when the body of a powerful resident turns up at a forest campsite, victim of what appears to be a bear attack...read more

The peace and quiet of Porcupine City, a tiny town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is destroyed by the discovery of a headless corpse, wrapped in plastic and accompanied by clues to another headless corpse.

Product Description: Whether dashing through the Plains, creeping over the Rockies, hurtling across the Great Basin, or threading the Sierra Nevada, the California Zephyr is an earthbound cruise ship bearing as many as 300 passengers, each with a story to tell over the train's 51-hour run from Chicago to San Francisco Bay...read more

Product Description: PORCUPINE COUNTY gathers together in an omnibus edition the first three novels in the much-praised Steve Martinez series set in the wilderness of Upper Michigan. The first is about murder by bear, the second about homicide and drugs deep in an underground copper mine, and the third concerns a grisly—and deadly—game played with human bodies...read more

Product Description: Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and expanded edition of Kisor's engrossing memoir recounts his life as a deaf person in a hearing world and addresses heartening changes over the last two decades due to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and advancements in cochlear implants and modes of communication...read more

When one of his small town's leading citizens, Paul Passoja, is killed in an apparent bear attack, Lakota Deputy Sheriff Steve Martinez becomes suspicious and launches an unofficial investigation into the killing, only to discover that the seemingly random animal attack may not have been so random after all. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by Merker, Hannah

The author recounts how he turned around a middle-age crisis by learning to fly, a skill he put to the test in a reenactment of the first coast-to-coast flight, a journey of self-discovery. National ad/promo. Tour. (view table of contents)

A journalist recounts his experiences and the people he met on a trip aboard Amtrak's 'California Zephyr' as it traveled across America's most storied transcontinental rail route

A biographical study of what it is like to be deaf explains how a deaf boy learned to read and speak, went to school, and grew up to become a newspaper editor and author, detailing the challenges of lipreading and new technologies that have made communication easier.