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Abused women Fiction Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 Industrial Workers of the World. Large type books Magic Fiction Strikes and lockouts Copper mining Talismans Fiction Teenage girls Fiction Telephone Emergency reporting systems Fiction United States History 20th century FictionKibuishi, Kazu
Summary: Copper is curious, and Fred is fearful. And together boy and dog are off on a series of adventures powered by Copper's limitless imagination. The two friends have a knack for getting into all sorts of odd situations, but Copper's good cheer always smoothes the way--and Fred can usually be won over if there's food involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix/Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KIBSimons, Donna Searight.
Summary: "In 1913, Paul Weyburn and his fellow copper miners have tolerated dangerous working conditions for too long. Some of their workmates are being maimed or killed thousands of feet underground. . .which one of them will be next? Paul leads some of the miners on a labor strike to bring attention to the dangers of blasting and drilling copper for low pay. Marie, his wife, struggles to raise their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCopper, Jenny
Summary: 'Little one, I love you so, more than you could ever know.' A heartfelt, rhyming story book that is perfect for reading at bedtime, with a glittery heart to shake, shimmer and sparkle. Shake the book to create a colourful cascade of glitter and foil shapes inside the heart, which is secured to the inside of the book so you can make the heart shake, shimmer and sparkle on each page. The gentle,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine That 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Francis, Sage
Contents: Pressure cooker -- Grace -- ID thieves -- Cheat code -- Dead man's float -- Over under -- Make em purr -- Vonnegut busy -- Thank you -- The set up -- The place she feared most -- Once upon a blue moon -- Say uncle -- Maint reqd.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strange Famous Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP FRASummary: Set in 1860s New York City, the drama is centered on Kevin Corcoran, an intense, rugged, Irish-American cop working in the city's notorious Five Points neighborhood. He struggles to maintain his moral compass while embarking on a quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DRASugar (Musical group)
Contents: The act we act -- A good idea -- Changes -- Helpless -- Hoover Dam -- The slim -- If I can't change your mind -- Fortune teller -- Slick -- Man on the moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUGBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: Beautiful Keweenaw is the setting for a ring of thieves who supply Karl Carlson with the copper he sells to European jewelers. Soon enough, the thieves tire of the low return on their efforts and approach Carlson with demands to become partners. When Carlson balks and is murdered, detectives Lou Searing and Belle Franklin seek justice for the retired Indiana police officer .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBinchy, Maeve.
Summary: In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BINKrentz, Jayne Ann.
Summary: Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in dealing with paranormal books. After a deadly incident in the library of a collector, Abby receives a threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared. Convinced she needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard, she hires Sam Coppersmith, a specialist in paranormal crystals. Passion flares...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD KREGibson, Julia Mary.
Summary: The year is 1906, and twelve-year-old Violet Blake unearths an ancient talisman--a copper hand--beside the stream where her mother used to harvest medicine. Violet's touch warms the copper hand and it begins to reveal glimpses of another time. Violet is certain that the copper hand is magic--and if anyone is in need of its powers, it's Violet. Her mother and adored baby brother are gone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Gibson, Julia Mary.
Summary: "The year is 1906, and twelve-year-old Violet Blake unearths an ancient talisman -- a copper hand -- beside the stream where her mother used to harvest medicine. Violet is certain that the copper hand is magic--and if anyone is in need of its powers, it's Violet. Her mother and adored baby brother are gone, perhaps never to return. Her heartbroken father can't seem to sustain the failing farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GIBRay, Shann.
Summary: An epic that runs from the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the ore and industry of the 1930s, American Copper is a novel not only about America’s hidden desire for regeneration through violence but about the ultimate cost of forgiveness and the demands of atonement. It also explores the genocidal colonization of the Cheyenne, the rise of big copper, and the unrelenting ascent of dominant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbridled Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAYComstock, Lyndon.
Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMMaki, Wilbert B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.89 Maki,Jones, Janey
Summary: It is autumn in Peaseblossom Woods and time for the arrival of the Copper Queen and her masked dance--but when Basil the bear cub falls down a hole and the wind covers the forest in falling leaves, it is up to the Superfairies to rescue him, with some help from the Copper Queen herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JONCoble, Colleen
Summary: "As a 911 dispatcher, Dana Newell takes pride in being calm in tough circumstrances. In addition to her emotionally-charged career, she's faced enough emergencies in her own life. She recently escaped her abusive fianc©♭ to move to tranquil Rock Harbor where she hopes life will be more peaceful. But the idyllic town hides more danger and secrets than it first appeared. Dana is continually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC COBCoble, Colleen
Summary: "As a 911 dispatcher, Dana Newell takes pride in being calm in tough circumstances. In addition to her emotionally-charged career, she's faced enough emergencies in her own life. She recently escaped her abusive fiancé to move to tranquil Rock Harbor where she hopes life will be more peaceful. But the idyllic town hides more danger and secrets than it first appeared. Dana is continually drawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBHogan, Ray
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1998
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W HOGDeaver, Jeffery.
Summary: Middleton is drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M COPSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISMcDougall, Christopher
Summary: McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 MCDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.42 McDRendell, Ruth
Contents: A pair of yellow lilies -- Paperwork -- Mother's help -- Long live the queen -- Dying happy -- The copper peacock -- Weeds -- The fish-sitter -- An unwanted woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1991