In 2025, Fifth Avenue Press released five new titles by authors in our community. Since 2017, the library’s non-profit publishing imprint has been elevating the voices of local authors writing about a variety of topics and titles for readers of all ages.
Check out our 2025 releases below and visit the Fifth Avenue Press website to see all of our titles for kids, teens, and adults. |
The Story of The First Pawpsicle
by Ariel Ojibway
Did you ever wonder who made the first popsicles? Or if your ancestors made snow cones with maple syrup?
Wabooz has a brand new idea for a delicious treat, but will everything turn out as he hoped? Travel with him through the lands where the pawpaws grow in search of the perfect fruit!
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RUGGED RAX: The Little Satellite That Could by Suzanne Jacobs Lipshaw
Imagine you are part of an engineering team tasked with designing and building a mini but mighty satellite—a CubeSat named RAX. Your CubeSat’s mission? Gather space weather data to help scientists prevent massive blackouts caused by solar storms.
RUGGED RAX is the true story of CubeSat RAX and is packed with a payload of space science and engineering for STEM enthusiasts.
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Music For Evenings
by Gerald Siclovan
Music for Evenings is a set of three long stories that do not constitute a unified thematic arc or conventional plot line. Extremely minimal links exist between the three stories, which are otherwise independent of one another. Borderline, a three-part narrative with fantastical and heavily satirical elements, begins and ends the book. Charlie, inserted between parts 1 and 2 of Borderline, traces the career of a gifted young sculptor whose professional fortunes flourish even as his personal life deteriorates. Rose and Nicole, which precedes part 3 of Borderline, follows the lives of a two-woman family: Nicole, the mother, is a gifted, semi-professional watercolorist, and her daughter, Rose, a (professional) flute virtuoso.
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Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love by Michelle Yang
After Michelle emigrates to the U.S. from the tight-knit ethnic Chinese enclave in Incheon, South Korea, she must adapt quickly to survive. With a dominant, impulsive father in charge—who protects the family from everyone but himself—and a mother who never finds her power, Michelle craves safety and security.
Like tumbleweeds, Michelle and her family bump across the country in a Ford Dixie van before settling in Phoenix, Arizona. Working at their family-owned Chinese takeout restaurant by age 12, Michelle drowns in pressures beyond her age.
Ultimately, Michelle finds love, not only the romantic kind, but an enduring self-love, which allows her to heal, never give up, and thrive while successfully managing what later becomes a bipolar 1 diagnosis.
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Running Around Town
by Stephen K. Postema
This collection of essays shares the observations of an energetic boy living in an anything-but-simple time: the mercurial decades of the 1960s and 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Part coming-of-age impressions, part family and societal portraits in miniature, part love story, Running Around Town is ultimately a tapestry of transformative everyday interactions, woven together with the cultural influences and music of the times.
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Below is a selection of Fifth Avenue Press books of local interest set in and about Michigan! |
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