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American poetry Bicycle touring Bicycle touring Michigan Lower Peninsula Guidebooks Bicycle trails Bicycle trails Michigan Lower Peninsula Guidebooks Cycling Indians of North America Great Lakes (North America) Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Michigan Lower Peninsula Ojibwa Indians FictionDownes, Robert
Summary: "'Bicycle Hobo' revisits the story of Moby-Dick in a thriller set on the underside of modern America. When a homicidal motorist kills his wife during a bicycle tour of the South, a man known only as Jake spends months trying to track the killer down through the efforts of the law, social media and a private investigator, all in vain. Driven to the brink of insanity, Jake receives a divine clue....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Wandering Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOW1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC DOW
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Downes 2018Downes, Robert.
Summary: Travels With My Wife offers a funny, informative look at the global phenomenon of backpacking as a low-cost style of adventure travel that has been embraced by hundreds of thousands of wanderers of all ages. Join one couple traveling around the world for seven months. We'll camp our way across Australia and Tasmania before backpacking on through Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Wandering Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 DOWDownes, Robert.
Summary: More than a book about traveling around the world, Planet Backpacker is a celebration of the backpacking lifestyle enjoyed by an estimated 100,000 travelers at any given moment. The global journey packs everything from a love story to encounters with wild women and dangerous men, history, myth, humor, and thoughts on the traveling life. -Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wandering Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 DOWDownes, Robert
Summary: "Packed with more tan 40 cycle routes, funny stories, history and dining recommendations, Biking Northern Michigan will have you ready to ride one of America's top cycling destinations."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Wandering Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 DOWDownes, Robert
Summary: "Packed with more than 35 cycling routes, funny stories, history and dining recommendations, Biking Northern Michigan will have you ready to ride one of the top cycling destinations in the world."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Wandering Press 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 DOWDownes, Robert
Summary: "Just back from Guatemala after three years of tending bar on Lake Atitlan, part-time shaman and aspiring detective Natty Dredd Bumpo returns to Traverse City, Michigan, where he's plunged head-first into solving the murder of millionaire eco-warrior Timothy Bottom ..."--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wandering Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DownesDownes, Robert
Summary: Raw deal explores the theft of Native lands by squatters, speculators, unfair treaties and blatant swindles, focusing on the Indians of the Midwest and the Great Lakes. Although Indian lands were paid for with hard cash and services provided by the U.S. government, it was always for pennies per acre, backed by the threat of removal at the point of bayonets, sabers and guns wielded by government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Wandering Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 DOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 DOWDownes, Robert
Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Downes 2017Downes, Robert
Summary: "Together, Wolf and Willow battle their brutal captors in an odyssey up the Mississippi River, with their fate to be decided at the ancient Indian city of Cahokia near present-day St. Louis. Ranging from the coast of Morocco to the shores of Lake Superior, The Wolf and the Willow weaves a tale of Native America at first contact with Spanish explorers, a time when a thriving Indian civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wandering Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DownesDownes, Robert
Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 133 FIC DOWSummary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Many Americans descend from a variety of European ethnicities, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal are textbook examples of Americans with a rich medley of European immigrant stories in their family trees. Delve into their deep American roots in early colonial communities and meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPFrost, Robert
Summary: Robert Frost reads from a selection of his own poetry.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FROFrank, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steidl 2004