Mission Point Press
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Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy
$14.95 Add to cartThe Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation’s political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed farmers who launched that movement. Their call for a widening democracy to coun
- Author: Babson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363790
- Language: English
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Pbb: Michigan Chemical Poisoning Reverberates 50 Years Later
$24.95 Add to cartPBB: An Environmental Disaster – Michigan Chemical Poisoning Reverberates 50 Years Later is intended to provide the reader with an understanding of the chemical catastrophe that occurred in Michigan i
- Author: Corbett, T. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363820
- Language: English
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Pot for the People: The plant, the people, and the shop policies of cannabis
$19.99 Add to cartWhether you call it marijuana, pot, weed, cannabis, or any of the dozens of other names, this ancient plant is here to stay. You may be all for it. You may be strongly against it. Or, you may have mor
- Author: Roullier, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1961302136
- Language: English
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Sand, Stars, Wind, & Water: Field Notes from Up North
$16.95 Add to cartIn 2011, Good Morning America viewers voted Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northwest lower Michigan the “Most Beautiful Place in America.” Long before the park was ranked as a national favo
- Author: Mulherin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1954786174
- Language: English
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Terrorized: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and Coming Home
$18.95 Add to cartFred Thelen, a Catholic priest, embarks on a mission to Peru, only to confront a growing terrorist movement that will shatter him.
In his gripping memoir, Terrorized, Thelen recounts his immersion in
- Author: Thelen, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1965278000
- Language: English
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Terrorized: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and Coming Home
$27.95 Add to cartFred Thelen, a Catholic priest, embarks on a mission to Peru, only to confront a growing terrorist movement that will shatter him.
In his gripping memoir, Terrorized, Thelen recounts his immersion in
- Author: Thelen, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302993
- Language: English
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Old Bones, Young Spirit: An Experienced Cyclist’s 15 Day Adventure Around Lake Michigan
$16.95 Add to cartAn entertaining account of an active retiree taking a solo and self-supported 15-day bike trip around Lake Michigan, starting from and finishing in Chicago. The adventure began with McShea crossing th
- Author: McShea, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302675
- Language: English
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What Was Said at the Burns Supper: Speeches about Robert Burns and Really Bad Scottish Jokes Best Washed Down with a Wee Dram
$16.95 Add to cartRobert Burns. The flawed hero of Scottish culture, a poet who inspired a nation, a man loved by the ladies despite his debauchery, appreciated by the menfolk in the pubs with his songs and stories, a
- Author: McColl, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1958363375
- Language: English
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Guardians of the Manitou Passage: A Chronicle of Service to Lake Michigan Mariners, 1840-1915
$19.95 Add to cartVoices heard from the dark water: “There’s hope! I think I see a flare! Help will be on the way! Lifesavers are on the shore! Our creaking old schooner will be saved, and we will not drown in the icy
- Author: Hawley, Jonathan P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1954786492
- Language: English
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Ghetto Classics: How a Youth Orchestra Changed a Nairobi Slum
$16.95 Add to cartSituated next to the Kenyan capital’s largest garbage dump, the Nairobi slum of Korogocho might seem like one of the least likely places on the planet where a youth orchestra has found itself a home.
- Author: Brownell, Ginanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363502
- Language: English
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It’s Hard Being You: A Primer on Being Happy Anyway
$17.99 Add to cartSurviving your life – making your way through the good and bad – nudges you to make a record of it, to leave signposts for those who come after, especially your children.
That was Sharon Emery’s plan
- Author: Emery, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954786565
- Language: English
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Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders, 1700s to Present
$24.95 Add to cartBefore Michigan became a state, there were witch trials, scalp collectors, dirty sports and a massacre of epic proportions. The lumber era that followed made Michigan as much of a wild, wild west as D
- Series: Great Lakes Mayhem #1
- Author: Carr, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1943995362
- Language: English
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Great Lakes for Sale: Updated Edition
$14.95 Add to cart“Lake Michigan may be coming to Idaho.”
That’s what an Idaho radio commentator said in June 2021. Holding approximately 20% of the world’s surface freshwater, the Great Lakes are once again a target fo
- Author: Dempsey, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: December 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1954786581
- Language: English
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Long Exposure: My Life In and Beyond the Copper Country
$19.95 Add to cartLong Exposure is a lively and probing self-portrait by Joe Kirkish, a living legend of Michigan’s Copper Country. Renowned as a photographer, a Michigan Tech humanities professor, a pioneering public
- Author: Kirkish, Joseph B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1954786751
- Language: English
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MI Bad: Robbers, Cutthroats & Thieves in Michigan’s Past & Present
$16.95 Add to cartTrain robberies, stage-coach holdups, posses, breakouts and shoot-em-ups step out of the darker pages of Michigan’s past and spring to life in Tom Carr’s MI Bad: Robbers, Cutthroats and Thieves in Mic
- Series: Mitten Mayhem #2
- Author: Carr, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1943995834
- Language: English
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Citizen of the World: Soon-Young and the U.N.
$29.95 Add to cartAs a North Korean refugee, Soon-Young Yoon understood from an early age that people’s destinies are connected to international events. This book is a collection of her reflections as a feminist who ha
- Author: Yoon, Soon-Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1954786719
- Language: English
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His Sword a Scalpel: General Charles Stuart Tripler, MD, USA
$24.95 Add to cartCharles Stuart Tripler built a sterling reputation in the antebellum US Army. Veteran of the Seminole and Mexican-American wars, chief medical officer on the typhoid-ravaged voyage commanded by U.S. G
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 196130225X
- Language: English
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How Thin the Veil: A Memoir of 45 Days in the Traverse City State Hospital
$16.95 Add to cartJack Kerkhoff was born to the news. His parents both worked at the Grand Rapids Herald, and Jack got an early start at the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Bigger papers followed: the Detroit News, New Yor
- Author: Kerhoff, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1961302039
- Language: English
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Change the Way You Communicate: Why You Should. How You Can.
$24.95 Add to cartThe ability to communicate effectively is frequently ranked the number one key to success by leaders in business, government and the professions. In one survey, executives earning more than $250,000 p
- Author: Haseley, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1954786085
- Language: English
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The Outgoing: A Spinnerfall Thriller
$16.95 Add to cartArthur Jenkins, recently widowed and adrift in grief and the morass of middle age, retreats to a cabin in his native state of Michigan, hoping for a fresh start. That’s when his oldest friend, Eddie F
- Series: A Spinnerfall Thriller #1
- Author: Buhr, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: May 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363642
- Language: English
