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Your patrons might be interested to participate in this fun
discussion.Ā Never any cost to participate, but registration in
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UP Notable Book Club presents a Q&A session with Tyler R.
Tichelaar about Odin's Eye šļø A Marquette Time Travel Book</h3>
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style="color:#006400">UP Notable Book Club</span>:</strong> The
Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the
U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled
author events with winners of the <em>UP Notable Book List</em>.
The 35th event is with historian and novelist Tyler Tichelaar who
will take us through how he came up with his Marquette time travel
novel.Ā As the novel begins, our amnesiac protagonist is <span>found
unconscious at the Huron Mountain Club near a mysterious dolmen
("rock pile") and brought back to Marquette, Michigan to
recuperate, everyone assures him it's the year 1900, but somehow
John's memories of automobiles, televisions, and other modern
devices seem to suggest he doesn't belong in this time</span><br>
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<em><strong>When: </strong></em>April 11th, 2024 at 7 pm Eastern /
6 pm Central<br>
<em><strong>Where: </strong></em>on the Zoom platform -- please
contact Evelyn Gathu in advance by <a
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or by phone at (906) 875-3344. We recommend you borrow a copy of
these books from your local library or purchase from your local
bookseller in advance to get the most out of these events.<br>
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R. TICHELAAR</strong>Ā has a Ph.D. in Literature from Western
Michigan University and Bachelor and Masterās Degrees in English
from Northern Michigan University. He is the owner of Marquette
Fiction, his own publishing company; <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=9a1a42d127&e=2efc3cf0fe"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Superior
Book Productions</a>, a professional editing, proofreading, book
layout, and website design and maintenance service; and the former
president of the <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=f4d702c65d&e=2efc3cf0fe"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">U.P.
Publishers and Authors Association</a>. He is also considered a
local expert on Marquette history and is proud to be a
seventh-generation Marquette resident.</p>
<p
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began writing his first novel at age sixteen in 1987. In 2006, he
published his first novel, <em>Iron Pioneers: The Marquette
Trilogy, Book One</em>. Fifteen more books have followed. In
2008, Tyler won first place in the historical fiction category in
the Reader Views Literary Awards for his novel <em>Narrow Lives</em>
(2008). He has since sponsored that contest, offering the Tyler R.
Tichelaar Award for Historical Fiction. In 2011, Tyler was awarded
the Marquette County Outstanding Writer Award, and the same year,
he received the Barb Kelly Award for Historical Preservation for
his efforts to promote Marquette history. Tyler also writes on
such diverse topics as nineteenth-century Gothic fiction and
historical fantasies about King Arthur. Tyler remains engrossed in
writing about Marquette and Upper Michigan as microcosms for the
greater American story.</p>
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<p
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of the best things about this novel is how time and history
change all of us, even if we never travel through time. Each of
Tichelaarās characters changes in some way. Neill reflects on
all this near the end of the novel, before he is even sure if he
will ever see his own time again.</p>
<blockquote
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Neill
understood now that knowing more about the dates when his
ancestors were born or where they came from or even their
parentsā names were not the things that really mattered. What
mattered was what he had inherited from themāand not the titles
or castles, like the dream of being royal or connected famous
peopleābut how he had inherited personality traits, beliefs,
hopes, dreams, and mannerismsāthose were his true inheritance
that had make him part of a family chaināand God willing,
someday he would help to continue it. (pg. 379)</blockquote>
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width="200" height="150" align="right">The complexities and
problems of time travel continue to be explored by the author
and his characters in what becomes a book most readers will not
want to put down and will ponder long afterward. Book clubs will
have an almost endless list of what-ifs and ethical situations
to discuss. For those who have never read a time travel novel
before, start with <a
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Eye</a>āit will make you think!Ā -- Deborah K. Frontiera, <em>U.P.
Book Review<br>
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the complete review at U.P. Book Review</a>.</em></p>
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Established in 1998 to support authors and publishers who live in or
write about Michiganās Upper Peninsula, UPPAA is a Michigan
nonprofit association with over 100 members, many of whose books are
featured on the organizationās website at <a
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Regards,
Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.LHPress.com">www.LHPress.com</a></pre>
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