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Butcher, Tim

Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 BUT

Grünbaum, Irene

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRUNBAUM, IRENE MOR

Floyd, John Lewis

Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Floyd

Longtine, Sonny.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sunnyside Publications 2002

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. Longtine

Hobart, Henry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 HOB

Longtine, Sonny.

Summary: "Explore a collection of 24 legendary murders that spans 160 years of Upper Michigan's history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2014

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Walker, John A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WAL

Emerick, Lon L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Country Pub. 2003

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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 917.74 Emerick 2003

Walker, John A.

Summary: The name of this book may be kind of misleading, beause what started out to be a weekly Fish Report in the local paper turned into tales from a U.P. (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) Game Warden. It kind of became a weekly story about working as a Game Warden and growing up in God's Country, Michigan's U.P.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WAL

Emerick, Lon L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Country Pub. 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 EME

Shiel, Lisa A.

Contents: Quakin' and shakin' -- The wild woods -- Up a creek...or a tree -- The lost and the found -- Flying fists and sharp tongues -- Tales of the rails -- Ripped off -- Done in, done wrong -- The bad guys -- Duped Yoopers -- Tales of the inland sea -- Lore of the folks -- And the rest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 SHI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.49 SHI

Rifkind, Donna

Summary: "The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its "others"; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIERTEL, SALKA RIF

Taylor, Charles Sprague.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4925 TAY

Norman, Michael

Summary: Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2009

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 940.54 NOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 NOR

Walker, John A.

Contents: Yooper Reality Check -- Hunting Shacks -- A Game Warden's Wifee -- Buddies in Uniform -- Yesteryears -- Proper Training, But Maybe Not To Bright -- Dedication Story -- Grandpa's Big Buck -- My Opinion -- Judges, Make For Interesting People -- Lucky Me -- Kids, Please Listen -- Youth -- I really Shouldn't Tell You This, But -- I Hate Trailers -- Christmas of the 90's?

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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A.W.'s Pub. 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WAL

Korda, Michael

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Summary: "His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 KOR

Olson, David C. B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branden Press 1974

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 OLS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 OLS

Tresch, John

Summary: "A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POE, EDGAR ALLAN TRE

Seiple, Samantha

Summary: Looks at the life and accomplishments of Allan Pinkerton, covering his early life and detective agency work, as well as his later espionage work for Abraham Lincoln.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PIN

Rydholm, C. Fred.

Contents: v.1,bk.1. The north end of the Bentley Trail. -- v.1,bk.2. White Deer Lake country: the south end of the Bentley Trail. -- v.2,bk.3. The Andersens and the Yellowdog Plains. -- v.2,bk.4. My friends, family, and life in these north woods.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C.F. Rydholm 1989

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 Ryd v.2
Call number: MIO 977.49 RYD v.1
2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.49 RYD V1
Call number: NEL 977.49 RYD V2

Meyer, Julianne E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: s.n.] 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 MEY
2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 MEY

Copies Available at Peninsula

3 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.46 MEY
Call number: LHR 977.464 Mey

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Michigan Room Oversized, Call number: MIO 977.464 Mey

Van Stappen, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Oak Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7751 van

Schilling, Dan

Summary: "The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPMAN, JOHN SCH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War Schilling

Fellows, Deborah Wyatt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Publications 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 FEL
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 917.749 FEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.74 FEL

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