To many ordinary Downriver Detroit, Monroe, Toledo, and across the Detroit River in Canada residents, Prohibition didn't mean the Purple Gang and criminal activity. Many Downriver residents needed bootlegging and rumrunning money to survive the Depression. To others smuggling liquor meant adventure, and to some, defying the Prohibition law meant showing the government their opinion of what they considered an unjust and intrusive law. Here are some of their stories.

Emma, the Christmas Trree Ship, and Captain Santa is the first book in the Hello History! series for children. Emma's father is lost on Lake Michigan and she asks Captain Santa, the skipper of the Christmas Tree Ship, to help find him.

Ghosts have a way of making their sometimes undignifed, always supernatural appearances in history from ancent Athens to Napoleon Bonaparte to William Stead on the Titanic. Here are some of their eerie stories.

Dear Readers,When I set out to write this book, I had no idea that Andy would take over the story. I wanted to include an autistic child as an important character, because I had a brother, who although not autistic, was developmentally disabled. I wanted to make the point in my story that disabled people are more "abled" than disabled, and can accomplish many things and lead happy, productive lives.But I was going to focus this work on fiction on the romance between Sandy a...

Pig Tales is a look into the secret lives of pigs with pig poems, songs, and stories.

Molly visits her Grandma Sarah and discovers Mason Jar doll Mathilda, and how Grandma Sarah ironed money during something called the Depression.

Jeb is happy with his brother Tim and Ma and Pa and their life on the homestead farm. He enjoys his pet pig Pinky and his dog Moses and he even likes going to school until he discovers that Miss Snider, the new teacher will be boarding with them for the next year. Can Jeb survive having Miss Snider live with them and making friends with Al the Girl?

Mary Walker and her parents and brother Jacob are moving into a lighthouse in New York Harbor. Mary's mother Katie isn't happy living in the light house, but Mary and her brother Jacob think living there and rowing to the mainland to school every day is an adventure. Until their father dies. Can they survive and continue to keep the light burning?

Since her mother died, Sara wants to be with her father and help him with his archaeological digs more than anything else in the world. Her father wants her to stay home with her aunt and be safe. Sara is determined to help on her fatherr's Johnny Appleseed dig. Will she succeed in helping her father, yet keeping her promises to him to be safe?

Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse tells the story of the Ecorse Rowing Club which traces its beginnings to the rowing skills of the Montie Brothers in 1873 and chronicles how the small group of rowers in ten oared barges developed their art into rowing shells and international competition.Rafting The Waters is the story of how tiny Ecorse with the help of coaches Charles Tank and Jim Rice and its home town rowers developed team after team of championship rowers.

Freddy and Francine try to help their grandmother Godfroy grow up. Will they succeed?

Umbrella Tales tells the up close and personal stories of umbrellas. Umbrellas have historical roots in ancient cultures and played roles in the lives of important historical figures. They are also featured in umbrella poems, stories, and songs for National Umbrella Day. Learn about the colorful lives of umbrellas.