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A Spy on the Bus: Memoir of a Company Rat

A Spy on the Bus: Memoir of a Company Rat

by Margean Gladysz

 

There will never be another book like this. There simply could not be another Margean Gladysz, who as a young woman was paid by Greyhound, Trailways and other companies to ride buses thousands of miles all over the country in the 1940’s. She was there to spot and report back on drunk, stealing, reckless and nutty bus drivers who should be fired. And its all in her diary-like letters that she sent home at the time. A Spy on the Bus is a treat and a half. I promise.

Jim Lehrer, PBS NewHour anchor.

Summary

Asylum for the Insane:

A History of the Kalamazoo State Hospital

by former Medical Superintendent

William A. Decker, M.D.

Book Reviews

Book Description and About the Author

Photos from Signings and Talks

 

Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region

by Christine Byron and Thomas Wilson.

Signing schedule

Reviews

 

Hope For Carsonville: A Daughter's Memoir

by Erin Q. Hartman

Signing Schedule

Reviews

"I ...LOVED it. I’m a pretty tough cookie and the crying jag at the end did me wonders."

Mary Rogers,   Mary In the Morning

WSRT 106.7 FM

Coming this summer (2008)

Page One: Whiteout

Nancy Barr's web site

Story Circle Review

Interview with Barr on Motivated Writer

Set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula

Nancy Barr is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She writes from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where it is very cold most of the time.

William Murphy's love of the open road is conveyed through his

Motorcycling Across America series.

"The old roads have soul,

They follow the contour of the land, around the hills, down into the valleys. They trace Indian and pioneer trails, the real country, the old country."

      --Bill Murphy

 

 

 

 
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