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Rivers of Michigan seriesLane, Kit
Summary: There were more than 20,000 people living in Detroit, and Michigan had already been a state for ten years when the first permanent white settlers arrived in 1847 at the head of Grand Traverse Bay, the future site of Traverse City. The draw was the magnificent stands of white pine lining the banks of a river which would later be called the Boardman. By the 1890s all of the easy pine had been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Press 2014
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.46 LANDennis, Jerry.
Summary: There is nothing in the universe like water. It is unique and beautiful and without it there could be no life on earth. Little wonder, then, that people have always expressed such awe, delight, and reverence for it. The Bird in the Waterfall is a celebration of the wonders of water and the creatures that live in it. While exploring waterfalls and artesian springs, ocean waves and tidal bores,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 508.3 DenCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.316 DEN1 available in Local Author, Call number: 508.316 DEN
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 508.316 DEN
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 508.316 DENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Earth DennisSmedley, Harold Hinsdill
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1938
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF 799.1 SmeJones, Robert P. (Robert Patrick)
Summary: "The story of three locations in the United States--in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma--where the indigenous people were driven out by European colonists, where vicious racial killings took place in the last century, and how these places are coming to terms with the past, creating new organizations dedicated to racial repair and reconciliation as they aspire to a more inclusive, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JONBaum, Kelly
Summary: Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BAUSeeger, Pete
Contents: Well may the world go (2:36) -- My rainbow race (3:43) -- Huddie Ledbetter (4:08) -- The water is wide (6:14) -- All mixed up (3:28) -- Sailing down my golden river (3:15) -- Kisses sweeter than wine (3:48) -- Living in the country (2:28) -- How can I keep from singing (3:00) -- Garbage (3:44) -- Natural history (spider's web) (1:17) -- Old devil time (2:33) -- Of time and rivers flowing (4:39)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Living Music 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEEBenjamin, Vernon
Summary: A history of the Hudson River Valley, which, because of its unique geography and proximity to Canada, was the site of many battles, chronicles its discovery all the way to its rise as a center of culture and commerce that is still evident today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BENRivers, Caryl.
Summary: " For the first time in history, women make up half the educated labor force and are earning the majority of advanced degrees. It should be the best time ever for women, and yet... it's not. Storm clouds are gathering, and the worst thing is that most women don't have a clue what could be coming. In large part this is because the message they're being fed is that they now have it made. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 RIVBennetts, Leslie
Summary: "Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016