Contents: Preface / David Haynes -- Introduction: A Festschrift for Professor Magnaghi -- Story maps / Robert Archibald -- An immense world of delight: The U.P. in prose / Ted Bays -- Witness to five centuries: The history of Ste. Anne's Parish, Mackinac Island / Steven C. Brisson -- Hungarians in Michigan's Copper Country / Bernard Cook -- "A most unpleasant circumstance" : Personality and provocation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. NorthernLawlor, Elizabeth P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 LAWLithgow, John
Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITLawlor, Elizabeth P.
Summary: Introduces common living things that continue to make a living during the winter and suggests activities for discovering what each creature looks like, where it lives, and how it survives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.2 LAWSummary: Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BILBlaser, Martin J.
Summary: A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics from the field's leading expert.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615.7922 BLABarbellion, W. N. P.
Summary: "Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, this remarkable memoir addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet Barbellion still manages to write with uplifting eloquence and passion of his love for family, natural history, music, and literature. Told with a thoroughly modern voice, the unjustly overlooked Journal is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARBELLION, W.N.P. BARHicks, Tyler G
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prima Pub. 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 658.1 HICRimer, Graeme.
Summary: Provides details about and illustrations of a variety of firearms, from muskets and pistols, to machine guns and artillery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.4 RIMSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANBaker, G. P. (George Philip)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cooper Square Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAEWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.91 WODWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: Louder and Funnier is a collection of articles written for Vanity Fair, with subjects ranging from Shakespeare and divorce to income tax and ocean liners. Revised by Wodehouse after the initial publication, it features the master's signature reflections on the rich in one of his classic novels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 WODWozniak, Steve
Summary: Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines. They had large screens, cryptic switches, huge boxes, and odd lights. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I. Widely affordable and easily...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WOZNIAK, STEVE WozAntenori, Frank.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.7044 ANTKerasote, Ted.
Summary: Describes how the author adopted a dog living on its own in the wild and his decision to install a dog door in his house so that the dog could live both inside and outside, in a study of the human-dog partnership and animal consciousness and behavior.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.7092 KERWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: Presents the adventures and misadventures of Bertie and his man, Jeeves: love won and lost, broken engagements, midnight strategems, and fake pearls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A feature film version of America's hit comedy concert tour with renowned comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLUThoreau, Henry David
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THOEgan, Timothy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.03 EGASummary: Recounting the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds. Includes never before seen interviews, archival footage, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RICTaylor, A. J. P. (Alan John Percivale)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1964
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 TAYTaylor, A. J. P. (Alan John Percivale)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 TAYSummary: An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles. Breakthroughs in filmmaking technology bring you up close with a cast of unforgettable characters. Told with humor, intimacy and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth Films 2017