Halnon, Emily
Summary: "When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been: adventurous, courageous, inspiring. Emily's mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She learned to swim at sixty so she could do triathlons, and she lived through a grim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In the dusty hills above San Diego, Bob Larsen became America's greatest running coach. Starting with a ragtag group of high school cross country and track runners, Larsen set out on a decades-long quest to find the secret of running impossibly fast, for longer distances than anyone thought possible. Himself a former farm boy who fell into his track career by accident, Larsen worked through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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Summary: At thirty-seven, celebrated journalist, writer, and environmentalist Bill McKibben decided to take a break from living the life of the mind to put himself to the ultimate test: devoting a year to training as a competitive cross-country skier. Consulting with personal trainers, coaches, and doctors at the US Olympic Center, he followed a rigorous training regime better suited to a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.93 MCKVan Cleve, Spike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.664 VANHansen, Dennis R.
Summary: The Trail Atlas of Michigan is the only comprehensive guide of non-motorized trails for Michigan. The Atlas covers hiking, x-c skiing, mountain and road biking, in-line skating and nature trails. The Atlas covers trails in every corner of the state from Monroe County near Lake Erie to Keweenaw County in the Upper Peninsula and hundreds of places in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hansen Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.774 HANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912.774 HANHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUFGristwood, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.05 GRIAmmeson, Jane
Summary: "How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of 40 murders? Born in rural Norway in 1859, "Belle" Storset Sorenson Gunness was constantly dealt bad hands in life-so she decided to take life into her ownhands. In America's Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness, Jane Simon Ammeson traces Gunness's path from a poor teenager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Lightning Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AMMJaggar, Louisa
Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANHansen, Dennis R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hansen Pub. Co. 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 796.93 HANLear, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2001
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Summary: Grandma Mazur is a widow ... again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen ... well, the waiting's over. It's a sad day, but if she can't have Jimmy at least Grandma can have all the attention she wants as the dutiful widow. But some kinds of attention are not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVASummary: Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN UNFByron, M. Christine
Summary: Features the 42 historic sites and buildings officially recognized in the Michigan Register of Historic Sites, or in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leelanau Press 2019
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Strasdin, Kate
Summary: "In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments -- some her own, others donated by family and friends -- she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "Character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day--and yet we barely think of them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.5 LASSchumaker, Heather.
Summary: "Uncommon Conservation, The Story of Saving Grass River chronicles the origins of one of Michigan's oldest and largest nature preserves. In an era that predated heightened environmental consciousness, a handful of visionaries -- that soon grew to hundreds -- have achieved national recognition as the 'Grass River Model.' These volunteer activists protected an irreplaceable resource for the good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chabanelle Media 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 333.3234 SCHEllis, Peter Berresford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2011