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Anderson, Candace.

Contents: Side 1: Madame La Framboise -- Pamela Thomas -- Sojourner Truth -- Mary Wallace. Side 2: Madelon Stockwell Turner -- Jenny Justine Jokala -- Viola Corrigan -- Josephine Casey -- Closing song.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hermonikher Records 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL LOCAL AND

Harley, Rachel Brett.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Women's Studies Association 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: R 920 HAR

Harley, Rachel Brett.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Women's Studies Association 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 305.4 HAR

Pferdehirt, Julia

Contents: Magdelaine la Framboise, 1780-1846 -- Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883 -- Laura Smith Haviland, 1808-1898 -- Julia Wheelock Freeman, 1833-1900 -- Sara Emma Edmonds, 1841-1898 -- Anna Howard Shaw, 1847-1919 -- Rebecca Shelley, 1887-1984 -- Ana Clemenc, 1888-1956 -- Marguerite Lofft de Angeli, 1889-1987 -- Gwen Frostic, 1906-2001 -- Rosa Parks, 1913-2005 -- Nancy Harkness Love, 1914-1977.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 PFE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History Pferdehirt

Harley, Rachel Brett.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: R 920 HAR

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1963

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 920 MIC

Hill, Emita Brady

Summary: Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming looks at the female culinary pioneers who have put northern Michigan on the map for food, drink, and farming. Emita Brady Hill interviews women who share their own stories of becoming the cooks, bakers, chefs, and farmers that they are today-each even sharing a delicious recipe or two. These stories are as important to tracing the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 HIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 641.5 HIL

Majher, Patricia

Summary: "A series of sketches that chronicle the well-known – and lesser-known – young women of Michigan who achieved great things before the age of 20."--from Good Reads website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MAJ

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MAJ

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: J920 MAJ

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 920.72 Majher 2015

Majher, Patricia.

Summary: From the Publisher: Michigan once led the country in the number of lighthouses, and they're still a central part of the mystique and colorful countryside of the state. What even the region's lighthouse enthusiasts might not know is the rich history of female lighthouse keepers in the area. Fifty women served the sailing communities on Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, as well as on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.155 MAJ

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 386 MAJ

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Maritime Majher

Campbell, Bonnie Jo

Summary: An anthology of stories on human relationships. The story, Eating Aunt Victoria, traces the relationship of teenagers and their mother's lesbian lover, while in Bringing Home the Bones an accident in which a woman loses a leg improves her relations with her children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Priscilla Press 1993

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 MAS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 920 BIR

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Women's Studies Association 1987

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 920 HIS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 920 HIS
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 920 HIS

Hine, Darlene Clark.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Published by the Historical Society of Michigan 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.4 HIN
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 HIN

Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane

Summary: Escaping the city, and her coed-chasing ex-husband, part-time journalist and full-time failed mystery writer Emily Kincaid has moved into a cozy cabin nestled in the woods of northern Michigan. Emily spends her days writing for the local newspaper and crafting her latest forgettable novel. Then one morning her quiet life turns grisly when a severed head tumbles out of her garbage can.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Buzzelli

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUZ

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BUZ

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Mystery Buz

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P Buz

Croghan, Melissa

Summary: "This book turns the spotlight on thirteen women who were leaders on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the 19th and early 20th centuries"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Rus

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 207 FIC RUS

Dimond, Paul R.

Summary: "Born at the turn of the twentieth century in Glen Arbor, near the dunes of Northern Michigan, young Belle is the first child of a gruff stove-works boss and a crippled mother who weaned Belle on the verse of Emily Dickenson. When a natural disaster results in her mother's death and nearly takes the life of her younger brother Pip, Belle creates a fierce, almost ecstatic farewell song. Thus...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cedar Forge Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIM

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dimond

Granholm, Jennifer.

Summary: Recounts the former Michigan governor's struggles to solve the problems of unemployment and budget deficits with the auto industry collapse and global financial crisis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANHOLM, JENNIFER Gra

Summary: "The Kresge Eminent Artist Award celebrates an exceptonal artist in the visual, performing or literary arts for lifelong professional achievements and dedication to metropolitan Detroit's cultural community. Marie Woo is the 2020 Kresge Eminent Artist. This monograph celebrates her life and work."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Kresge Foundation 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.92 CHR

Smith, Colby Cedar

Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMI

Graham, Adeline

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.411 GRA

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RUS

Griffin, Gail B.

Summary: "Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door. The terrain of memoir is full of stories of grief, though Grief's Country: A Memoir in Pieces is less concerned with the biography of a love affair than with the lived phenomenon of grief itself-what it does to the mind, heart, and body; how it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFIN, GAIL B. GRI

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