Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and expanded edition of Kisor's engrossing memoir recounts his life as a deaf person in a hearing world and addresses heartening changes over the last two decades due to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and advancements in cochlear implants and modes of communication.Kisor tells of his parents' drive to raise him as a member of the hearing and speaking world by teaching him effective lip-reading skills at a young age and...

PORCUPINE COUNTY gathers together in an omnibus edition the first three novels in the much-praised Steve Martinez series set in the wilderness of Upper Michigan. The first is about murder by bear, the second about homicide and drugs deep in an underground copper mine, and the third concerns a grisly-and deadly-game played with human bodies. "He really hooks us with his whimsy-free descriptions of life-from wedding dances and town-hall debates to the dead-end future seen in the eyes of a high-school dropout-in this beautiful but economically depressed region," wrote Marilyn Stasio about...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. In SEASON'S REVENGE, the first Steve Martinez mystery, the sleepy town of Porcupine City on the southern shore of Lake Superior comes alive when the body of a powerful resident turns up at a forest campsite, victim of what appears to be a bear attack. Things just don't add up for Sheriff Martinez. He soon discovers that the "random" animal attack might not be so random after all, for quite a few people in town had reason to do in Paul Passoja. The more Steve investigates, the deeper he sinks into a mystery as old as the town itself, and he learns the hard way that whoever...

LARGE PRINT VERSION. Henry Kisor's second mystery featuring Deputy Steve Martinez, A VENTURE INTO MURDER, returns to Porcupine County, where gossip never can be stifled for long. But one secret has been kept quiet for years . . . and those who try to uncover it sometimes wind up dead. Steve had fallen in love with the place after running away from a secret of his own, and had made peace with his past. But the body of a mob hit man is discovered and one of Steve's fellow deputies falls over the long-buried corpse of a man last seen a century before. The two deaths are seemingly unrelated. As...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Porcupine County, a peaceful little place in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, suddenly becomes the unlikely backdrop for a grisly and high-tech treasure hunt when amorous teen-agers stumble upon a headless corpse. When a second cadaver turns up, Deputy Steve Martinez realizes the bodies are someone's twisted idea of a game. Worse, the election for county sheriff is fast approaching. And Steve's relationship with the beautiful Ginny Fitzgerald becomes strained as he searches for a way to connect with her foster son. CACHE OF CORPSES becomes Steve's toughest investigation yet.

Season's Revenge, the first in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan mystery series featuring Steve Martinez, begins during the weeks before Christmas. Big events are stirring for Lakota-born deputy sheriff Steve Martinez. The normally sleepy town of Porcupine City on the southern shore of Lake Superior is uncharacteristically alive with activity after the body of one of its most respected and powerful residents, Paul Passoja, turns up at a forest campsite, the victim of what appears to be a bear attack. From the moment he arrives on the scene, things just don't add up for Steve. Why would Passoja,...

A Venture into Murder, the second whodunit in Henry Kisor's Steve Martinez series, begins in Porcupine County, nestled in the peaceful landscape of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In it lies a small town where the people all know one another and gossip cannot be silenced for long. But there's one secret that a certain resident has tried to keep quiet for years . . . and those who try to uncover it seem to wind up dead. Deputy Steve Martinez - Lakota Sioux by birth, white Easterner by upbringing - lost his heart to the region after running away from a secret of his own. After finding the love of...