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Detroit's Lost Poletown: The Little Neighborhood That Touched a Nation
Poletown was a once vibrant, ethnically diverse neighborhood in Detroit. In its prime, it had a store on every corner. Its theaters, restaurants and schools thrived, and its churches catered to a multiplicity of denominations. In 1981, General Motors announced plans for a new plant in Detroit and pointed to the 465 acres of Poletown. Using the law of eminent domain with a quick-take clause, the city planned to relocate 4,200 residents within ten months and raze the neighborhood. With unprecedented defiance, the residents fought back in vain. In 2004, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the eminent domain law applied to Poletown was unconstitutional--a ruling that came two decades too late.
Sprouts
SPROUTS is a collection of contemporary meditations on faith, hope, and love by more than twenty-five poets, artists, authors, and contemplatives from as many faith backgrounds. These creatives share their remarkable journeys to joy and sustenance.Gentle, humble, ecumenical, these meditations create moments of wonder and solace to reflect that this journey is one we walk together. Even when we don't know how, faith sprouts up where we least expect it. Simple scriptures accompany both prose and poetry to remind you there are seasons of rest and renewal for your heart, mind, and spirit. This book glows with beauty. Illustrated with luscious pastels and paintings by featured artist Cheryl Moran, in addition to more than four dozen original works by meditative artists. Travel the seasons of the inner life, from doubt to fullness, from sorrow to joy, from sprout to harvest. This uplifting collection is a unique spiritual retreat for the creative soul.
Contemplative Vision
Docent Juliet Benner began showing people how to meditate on Christian art treasures, which led to her much-beloved "O Taste and See" columns from the spiritual formation journal Conversations, now expanded into this book. In each chapter you'll encounter a passage of Scripture and a corresponding piece of art to lead you in a new experience of prayer in God's presence.
Poletown
More than 4,200 residents of Detroit's "Poletown" community lost their homes in the 1980s when the neighborhood was razed to accommodate construction of a Cadillac plant on land where generations of Polish immigrants had lived, worked, and worshipped. Poletown is the story of the only group in Detroit to oppose the construction plan: the Poles and blacks who fought side by side to save their neighborhood, one of the city's oldest integrated communities. "This book is about the ramifications of raw corporate power going unchecked." -- John Conyers, Michigan congressman "Racial class is a fundamental problem in America. But Poletown demonstrates that economic class is even more fundamental." -- Rev. Jesse Jackson
Prairie Avenue
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer.
Paczki Day
This book is a mix of stories about growing up in Detroit, going to Catholic school, and the Polish people in the fifties and sixties. The author tried his best to present everything in this book accurately despite not having a research staff like the famous writers have. He only had himself, his computer, his memory, a big pile of books, and note cards that he painstakingly used to put this story together. As a fireman, one of the things the author learned was that it takes three things to make a fire: air, fuel, and heat. Remove one, and you can't have a fire. He believes that it takes three things to make everything. Similar to making fire, there are three things that it took to make this book: the city of Detroit, the Catholic Church, and Polish ancestry. If you have one or two or maybe all three of these things, you may like this story. So if your mom wore a babushka, if nostrovia is your toast, if you had a last name that kids made fun of, or if you grew up reading your catechism while looking at church steeples and smokestacks, maybe this book is for you. Bob Dombrowski also wrote, 38 Years: A Detroit Firefighter's Story.
Proper Mourning
From AWARD-WINNING author, Angelina Faye Spezia, 'PROPER MOURNING' is a literary examination of grief, love, slavery, and freedom. Set during the American Civil War, horseback riding, trouser-wearing country girl, Lily Dunoway, is strong-willed and eccentric with her best friend, Robert Pickett, by her side. The two have a happy childhood together and are rarely apart. So when Robert suddenly moves to Detroit, Lily fears she will never recover from losing him. Feeling her loss as a heavy burden for the family to bear, her father adopts Daniel, an orphan from Scotland, in hopes the boy will eventually assist him in his medical practice. Lily and Daniel soon develop a deep friendship and eventually love. It seems Lily has forgotten Robert, but when he returns hoping to win her heart, Lily finds herself making compromises which are both painful and triumphant amidst the raging egos of men.
Ruusbroec and His Mysticism
"A Michael Glazier book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165).
The Hamlet Fire
"Captivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [The Hamlet Fire] will provide readers with insights into our current national politics." —The Washington Post A "gifted writer" (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have become the new American norm For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses searching for cheap labor with little or almost no official oversight. One of these businesses was Imperial Food Products. The company paid its workers a dollar above the minimum wage to stand in...
