Category: UP Notable Book Club
2023 U.P. Notable Books List honors the year’s best U.P. authors and their books
MARQUETTE, MI (January 3rd, 2023)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 4th Annual U.P. Notable Books List this week. UPPAA Notable Books chairman Mikel Classen (Sault Ste. Marie) initiated the effort in 2019 as a response to the lack of representation of U.P. writers in other…
Meet Sharon Kennedy — The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 25th event is with Sharon M. Kennedy whose book The SideRoad Kids:Tales of Chippewa County presents stories…
Q&A Session with Carole Hare – author of The Legend of Kitch-iti-kipi
CAROLE HARE graduated from high school in Manistique, Michigan and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in business education from Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She taught school for three years in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. She later received her master’s degree in counseling from…
Q&A session with Brad Blair & Tim Ellis, authors of the award-winning 👽 “Great Lakes Monsters and Mysteries”
Phill Bellfy on U.P. Colony – The Story of Resource Exploitation in Upper Michigan
Season 3: Episode 3–The UP Notable Book Club presents author Phil Bellfy speaking about his book U.P. Colony. 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…
Joanna Walitalo’s “Woodburning: The First Five Years” on U.P. Notable Book Club
Season 3: Episode 2–The UP Notable Book Club presents author Joanna Walitalo speaking about her book Woodburning: The First Five Years. 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…
Ellen Airgood author of “Tin Camp Road” taped appearance on U.P. Notable Books Club
Season 3: Episode 1–The UP Notable Book Club presents author Ellen Airgood speaking about her book “Tin Camp Road” 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…
UP Notable Book Club presents a virtual Q&A with Mikel B. Classen, author of Points North
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 16th event is with Mikel B. Classen whose travelogue Points North visits 40 unique locales in the…
3rd Annual U.P. Notable Books List
For Immediate Release… Contact: Victor Volkman (734) 417-4266 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces 3rd Annual U.P. Notable Books List Books by U.P. authors and about the U.P. to be honored MARQUETTE, MI (January 4th, 2022)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 3rd Annual…
Mikel Classen appearance on UP Notable Book Club
MIKEL B. CLASSEN has been writing and photographing northern Michigan in newspapers and magazines for over thirty-five years, creating feature articles about the life and culture of Michigan’s north country. A journalist, historian, photographer and author with a fascination of the world around him, he enjoys researching and writing about…
U.P. Notable Book Club features Susanna Ausema, author of “I Spy🔎… Isle Royale” on Sep 9th 2021
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 9th event is with U.P. author and park ranger Susanna Ausema who will present her award-winning…
UP Notable Book Club presents a virtual Q&A with U.P. author Ann Dallman, author of the award-winning Cady and the Bear Necklace 🐻
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 6th event is with U.P. author Ann Dallman whose award-winning Cady and the Bear Necklace has the…
Announcing the U.P. Notable Book Club 2nd Wave Authors Events 2021-2022
Read Books—Zoom with Authors—Get Educated and Entranced by Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula Do you love to read? Do you love the raw, untamed, beautiful U.P? Are you longing to engage with intelligent people such as yourself in meaningful discussions? Then here is just the thing for you—Join the U.P. Notable…
Episode 5 – Michael Carrier, author of Murder on Sugar Island / The Jack Handler Thriller series
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 5th event is with U.P. author Michael Carrier whose Jack Handler thriller series has the brought modern…
Meet Michael Carrier, author of Murder 🔪 on Sugar Island / The Jack Handler Thriller series
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 5th event is with U.P. author Michael Carrier whose Jack Handler thriller series has the brought modern…
Phil Bellfy – UP Notable Book Club – Episode 2
Phil Bellfy (Enrolled Member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa) is a professor emeritus of American Indian studies at Michigan State University. He is also the author of Indians and Other Misnomers: A Cross-Reference Dictionary of the People, Persons, and Places of Native North America. You’ll be joined…
2023 U.P. Notable Books List honors the year’s best U.P. authors and their books

MARQUETTE, MI (January 3rd, 2023)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 4th Annual U.P. Notable Books List this week. UPPAA Notable Books chairman Mikel Classen (Sault Ste. Marie) initiated the effort in 2019 as a response to the lack of representation of U.P. writers in other…
Meet Sharon Kennedy — The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County

UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 25th event is with Sharon M. Kennedy whose book The SideRoad Kids:Tales of Chippewa County presents stories…
Q&A Session with Carole Hare – author of The Legend of Kitch-iti-kipi

CAROLE HARE graduated from high school in Manistique, Michigan and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in business education from Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She taught school for three years in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. She later received her master’s degree in counseling from…
Q&A session with Brad Blair & Tim Ellis, authors of the award-winning 👽 “Great Lakes Monsters and Mysteries”
Phill Bellfy on U.P. Colony – The Story of Resource Exploitation in Upper Michigan

Season 3: Episode 3–The UP Notable Book Club presents author Phil Bellfy speaking about his book U.P. Colony. 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…
Joanna Walitalo’s “Woodburning: The First Five Years” on U.P. Notable Book Club

Season 3: Episode 2–The UP Notable Book Club presents author Joanna Walitalo speaking about her book Woodburning: The First Five Years. 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…
Ellen Airgood author of “Tin Camp Road” taped appearance on U.P. Notable Books Club

Season 3: Episode 1–The UP Notable Book Club presents author Ellen Airgood speaking about her book “Tin Camp Road” 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…
UP Notable Book Club presents a virtual Q&A with Mikel B. Classen, author of Points North

UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 16th event is with Mikel B. Classen whose travelogue Points North visits 40 unique locales in the…
3rd Annual U.P. Notable Books List

For Immediate Release… Contact: Victor Volkman (734) 417-4266 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces 3rd Annual U.P. Notable Books List Books by U.P. authors and about the U.P. to be honored MARQUETTE, MI (January 4th, 2022)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 3rd Annual…
Mikel Classen appearance on UP Notable Book Club

MIKEL B. CLASSEN has been writing and photographing northern Michigan in newspapers and magazines for over thirty-five years, creating feature articles about the life and culture of Michigan’s north country. A journalist, historian, photographer and author with a fascination of the world around him, he enjoys researching and writing about…
U.P. Notable Book Club features Susanna Ausema, author of “I Spy🔎… Isle Royale” on Sep 9th 2021

UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 9th event is with U.P. author and park ranger Susanna Ausema who will present her award-winning…
UP Notable Book Club presents a virtual Q&A with U.P. author Ann Dallman, author of the award-winning Cady and the Bear Necklace 🐻

UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 6th event is with U.P. author Ann Dallman whose award-winning Cady and the Bear Necklace has the…
Announcing the U.P. Notable Book Club 2nd Wave Authors Events 2021-2022

Read Books—Zoom with Authors—Get Educated and Entranced by Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula Do you love to read? Do you love the raw, untamed, beautiful U.P? Are you longing to engage with intelligent people such as yourself in meaningful discussions? Then here is just the thing for you—Join the U.P. Notable…
Episode 5 – Michael Carrier, author of Murder on Sugar Island / The Jack Handler Thriller series

UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 5th event is with U.P. author Michael Carrier whose Jack Handler thriller series has the brought modern…
Meet Michael Carrier, author of Murder 🔪 on Sugar Island / The Jack Handler Thriller series

UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 5th event is with U.P. author Michael Carrier whose Jack Handler thriller series has the brought modern…
Phil Bellfy – UP Notable Book Club – Episode 2

Phil Bellfy (Enrolled Member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa) is a professor emeritus of American Indian studies at Michigan State University. He is also the author of Indians and Other Misnomers: A Cross-Reference Dictionary of the People, Persons, and Places of Native North America. You’ll be joined…