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<p>Please feel free to recommend these events to your patrons! Any
questions? Reply to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:president@uppaa.org">president@uppaa.org</a><br>
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#202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style:
normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing:
normal;text-align: left;">U.P. Notable Books Club Announces 2023
Meet-the-Author Events</h3>
<br>
<strong><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=b1a30ad871&e=fd2c186103"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;"><img alt="Official Seal of the U.P. Notable Books"
data-file-id="5478685"
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0px;border: 0;height: auto !important;outline:
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width="213" height="209" align="right"></a></strong>Reading
local authors has great informational and educational value and
contributes toward cultural enrichment. Continuing into their 4th
year of book selections,<strong> the U.P. Notable Books Club </strong>is
hosting a series of discussions with authors of Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula to engage community members with local authors. All
residents of Michigan are invited to participate with no cost or
obligation. To date, 25 authors have already appeared in the
program and their appearances can be replayed on the<a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=f43e68ba51&e=fd2c186103"
target="_blank" title="Click to watch past presentations!"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;"> <strong>http://video.UPPAA.org</strong></a>
channel.<br>
<br>
>From March 9, 2023 to January 11, 2024 nine new authors will do
Zoom talks with readers. These events will reveal new background
details as well as answering live reader questions about their work.
Readers can buy these nine books, or check them out from their local
library in order to discuss with the authors. Many are available in
eBook editions at the Great Lakes Digital Library thanks to the
efforts of Superiorland Library Co-op. Authors participating in the
upcoming fourth year include:
<ul>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=71cfb6b5c5&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><em>The
Big Island; a Story of Isle Royale </em></a>– Julian May
and John Schoenherr </li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=64d91a2af5&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><em>North
of Nelson: Stories of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula</em></a> –
Hilton Everett Moore </li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=44dc34494f&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><em>We
Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula </em></a> – Phyllis Michael Wong </li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=48f3df2bad&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><em>Dissecting
Anatomy of a Murder</em></a> – Eugene Milhizer </li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=6f32ed670a&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><em>Shipwrecked
and Rescued, Cars and Crew: The City of Bango</em>r</a> –
Larry Jorgensen </li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=5a2867bb6c&e=fd2c186103"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Dorothy is Moving Mountains, a True Story</a> –
</em>Dorothy Paad and Matthew Forgrave </li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=69023bf6c6&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><em>The
Biting Cold</em></a> <em>– </em>Matthew Hellman</li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=e3d9b36153&e=fd2c186103"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;"><em>Superior Voyage</em> anthology</a> –
Marquette Poet's Circle, Ed. by Rick Rastall </li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=00fc5e260d&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><em>Cady
and the Birchbark Box: A Cady Whirlwind Thunder Mystery</em></a>
<em>– </em>Ann Dallman </li>
</ul>
The complete event schedule is available online at <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=f0af246052&e=fd2c186103"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">www.UPNotable.com</a>, click on the "Join Book Club"
button<br>
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“What inspires me the most about our club is the positive feedback
from local authors and patrons alike,” says Evelyn Gathu, Director
of the Crystal Falls District Community Library, who is the creator
and organizer of the club. “After every book club meeting we have, I
get emails from patrons thanking me for creating the club.” She
tells that the library circulation has definitely increased because
of the book club, indicating an increased love of reading the works
of local authors in the community.
<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Portraits of Dorothy
Paad, Eugene Milihizer, and Phyllis Michael Wong"
data-file-id="7804508"
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span
style="font-size:13px">UP Notable Books Club 2023 authors:
Dorothy Paad, Eugene Milihizer, Phyllis Michael Wong</span></strong></div>
Why local authors are less read, on the whole, than those widely
publicized in mainstream media seems a matter of presumption or
prejudgment. And Gathu agrees:
<blockquote style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;">“I think some people do not believe that books written by
local authors are as good as those produced nationally, and this
book club is really helping to deflate that stigma!”</blockquote>
She tells that she had read in the local paper that the first ever
U.P. Notable Books List was created by the editors of the <em>U.P.
Reader</em> and UPPAA (Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors
Association) in January 2020. This led her to contact UPPAA
President, Victor R. Volkman, and he was thrilled with the idea of
local authors interacting with the readers in the community. More
information about the U.P. Notable Book list, <em>U.P. Book Review</em>,
and UPPAA can be found at <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=528fec768b&e=fd2c186103"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">www.UPNotable.com</a>.<br>
<strong> </strong>
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height="133" align="right"></a>About the Upper Peninsula
Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)</strong></div>
<strong> </strong>Established in 1998 to support authors and
publishers who live in or write about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
UPPAA is a Michigan nonprofit association with more than 100
members, many of whose books are featured on the organization’s
website at <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=764d8c6cb8&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">www.uppaa.org</a>. UPPAA
welcomes membership and participation from anyone with a UP
connection who is interested in writing and publishing books. <br>
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Regards,
Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.LHPress.com">www.LHPress.com</a></pre>
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