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U.P. Notable Books Club

U.P. Notable Books Club

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Each month, the U.P. Notable Books Club brings you another award-winning author Q&A from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. These writers have been awarded the U.P. Notable Books Award and host a lively discussion with a dial-in audience as moderated by Evelyn Gathu, Director of the Crystal Falls District Community Library in Crystal Falls, Michigan.

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  • S6 E6 How to Hike the North Country Trail-Not Quite a Guide with Joan H. Young
    Jul 11 2025
    Season 6: Episode 6 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Joan H. Young speaking about her book "How to Hike the North Country Trail: Not Quite a Guide." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. Make sure to like and subscribe so you don't miss any future UP Notable Book Club speakers! For more information please visit the links below www.UPPAA.org www.UPNotable.com booksleavingfootprints.com/index.htm JOAN H. YOUNG has enjoyed the outdoors her entire life. Highlights of her outdoor adventures include Girl Scouting, which provided yearly training in camp skills, the opportunity to engage in a 10-day canoe trip, and numerous short backpacking excursions. She was selected to attend the 1965 Senior Scout Roundup in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, an international event to which 10,000 girls were invited. She rode a bicycle from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean in 1986 How to Hike the North Country Trail is a planning guide. She writes an award-winning outdoor column for the Ludington Daily News and Mason County Press. For the past 12 years, she has also written fiction, including short stories, mysteries, and mysteries for children.
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    1 h et 5 min
  • S6 E5 The Last Huck with J.D. Austin
    Jun 15 2025
    Season 6: Episode 5 --The UP Notable Book Club presents J.D. Austin speaking about his book "The Last Huck." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. Make sure to like and subscribe so you don't miss any future UP Notable Book Club speakers! For more information please visit the links below www.UPPAA.org www.UPNotable.com www.amazon.com/Last-Huck-J-D-Austin/dp/1615998055 J.D. AUSTIN was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and has been moving gradually north since the age of fourteen. After dropping out of college in November of 2019, he worked as a kayak guide, a wedding server, bar security, lighting designer, stage carpenter, ski technician, and in the nursery department at a Home Depot. His fiction has appeared in The Incandescent Review and U.P. Reader Volume #7. The Last Huck is his first novel and his most recent book What You Find in the Woods is a collection of short stories about the Uppper Midwest.
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    1 h et 4 min
  • S6 E4 Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak out with Sharon Brunner
    May 9 2025
    Season 6: Episode 4 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Sharon M. Brunner speaking about her book "Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out." The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) presents author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. Make sure to like and subscribe so you don't miss any future UP Notable Book Club speakers! For more information please visit the links below www.UPPAA.org www.UPNotable.com https://www.amazon.com/Michigan-Indian-Boarding-School-Survivors/dp/1615998020 SHARON M. BRUNNER has worked with the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians as an Education/Disabilities Coordinator for the tribal Head Start Program and as an Education Coordinator for the Johnson O’Malley Program. Sharon served as a private consultant for the Department of Health and Human Services as a federal reviewer of tribal Head Start Programs in the U.S. and was a professor for the Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college. As a member of the aforementioned tribe, she served on the Child Welfare Committee for many years. Sharon has spent a good portion of my life either providing service or writing about Native Americans. On May 17th, 2025 she will be presenting a workshop on “Addressing the Needs of Native Americans in Literature.” at the 27th annual Spring Conference of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette, Michigan.
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    1 h et 5 min

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