by Ryan Place | Mar 20, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
*The Nain! (photo by: Kate Sassak) Detroit legend has it that a taunting, menacing red dwarf with glowing, piercing crimson eyes, sinisterly named The Nain Rouge, terrorizes the City of Detroit for fun. This devious trickster is the ingenious creator of 10,000...
by Ryan Place | Mar 5, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
You have to hand it to John King. He’s a self-made businessman who built a fifty-year powerhouse of books. He’s outlasted Borders Books, watched the rise of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, and survived razor-thin years of the Great Recession. Even with...
by Ryan Place | Feb 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Father Gabriel Richard Brought Michigan’s First Printing Press to Detroit in 1809! “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus” (“We hope for better things. They will rise from the ashes.”) Father Gabriel Richard (Detroit, 1805) In life,...
by Ryan Place | Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Not only did he kick butt from San Fran to Hong Kong and popularize kung fu marital arts globally, Bruce Lee also had an extensive library with over 2,000 books!
by Ryan Place | Jan 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
We are very thankful to people like Lonni Thomas, Dan Carmody, Melissa Thomas, Erin Gaiser and all of the other wonderful people at Eastern Market Corporation. It is because of their foresight, generosity and dedication to Detroit that we are able to launch our...
by Ryan Place | Jan 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hello, everyone! We are proud to announce that we launched the 1st Annual Detroit Festival of Books Facebook event page last Wednesday. 1st Annual Detroit Festival of Books https://www.facebook.com/events/1331258120254171/ In less than one week, we have been...
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