Doseff, Lisa
Summary: "Grandma Lisa's garden has it all; wit, rhyme, wisdom and above all, a very important and timely message for parent and child alike."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Doseff 2021Agrawal, Anurag A.
Summary: Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 592 AGRFranklin, Dixie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1997
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Summary: "Tour some of the world's most famous haunted places in Spooky Historical Sites. Young readers will learn about the history, eerie occurrences, and public reactions to several spooky sites. The book also provides historic context and scientific facts that explain what is really going on. Dynamic photos and illustrative details will make readers feel as though they've just visited each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J133.12 WILAdams, Tom
Summary: "A captivating new gift book featuring over 100 real-life mysteries that might just give you goosebumps! Does the Loch Ness monster really exist? Whatever happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste? And where exactly are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Get ready to be amazed as you uncover the world's greatest mysteries, from Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle. Including alien abductions, haunted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.94 ADAJacobson, Ryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Publications 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 133.1 JACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Misc Mys JacobsonOlson, Elsie
Summary: "Tour some of the world's most famous haunted places in Spooky Schools and Libraries. Young readers will learn about the history, eerie occurrences, and public reactions to several spooky sites. The book also provides historic context and scientific facts that explain what is really going on. Dynamic photos and illustrative details will make readers feel as though they've just visited each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J133.12 OLSSteele, Hamish
Summary: "It's been weeks since Dead End was destroyed and as it reopens as a hotel, resident tour guide turned hotel manager Norma is determined to leave the ghosts of the past where they belong. But with her friendship with Barney up in the air and angels and demons using the hotel as their literal wrestling ring, Norma soon finds that unwanted ghosts can appear at any moment, especially when they're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2019
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Summary: Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula plays host to some of the state's most spine-tingling ghost stories. At Old Victoria, a ghostly apparition continues to rock in her favorite chair. Visitors can still hear the screams of miners trapped and killed in the wreckage of the Mansfield Mine disaster. Trampled to death over false claims of fire, the victims of the Italian Hall Disaster linger on in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haunted America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 BILClements, Todd
Summary: Mackinac Island (Michigan) is famous for its fudge, history, and natural beauty -- but it has a darker side, too. Todd Clements, author of Haunts of Mackinac, returns with more tales of the island's legends, ghosts, and tragic tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Misc Mys ClementsHartzman, Marc
Summary: Ghosts are everywhere--whether you believe in them or not. Every town has its local legends, and countless books, movies, and TV shows are haunted by their presence. But our obsession with ghosts runs deeper than we know--and is embedded in the very fabric of American history. Writer and historian Marc Hartzman dons the mantle of tour guide, taking readers on a fascinating journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 HARLekas, Gerry
Summary: "This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.311 LEKMilan, Jon
Summary: Michigan has two beautiful peninsulas that are connected by stories, legends, and mysteries. This book is the perfect glove compartment companion for exploring those paranormal parts of the Mitten State, as most of these hotels, restaurants, theaters, lighthouses, and other places are open to the public. This road trip to "the other side," filled with hauntings, ghost towns, and bizarre tales...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 MILHammond, Amberrose.
Summary: Western Michigan is home to some of the state's most picturesque places and also some of its most chilling tales. Ghost story researcher and enthusiast Amberrose Hammond exposes the mysterious and spirit-ridden world of many beloved Michigan destinations as she skillfully weaves narratives of a world unseen by most. From the lingering spirit forever working in the Grand Theatre and the band of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hounted America/History Press 2009
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Misc Mys HammondHarmon, Daniel E.
Summary: "Ghostly encounters are as old as human history, and are detailed in the Bible and other ancient writings. Stories of hauntings have continued through the Middle Ages and into the modern era. Today, ghost stories continue to fascinate both the superstitious and the skeptical. During the 1800s, it became common for mediums and psychics to claim the ability to contact the dead. Today, paranormal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eldorado Ink 2015
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Summary: "A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 130 HUNSummary: Jack Burton is a big-talking, wisecracking trucker who goes beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to battle an army of spirits when his friend's fiancee is kidnapped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BIGEgan, Timothy
Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US EganNoll, Elizabeth
Summary: "The world is full of mysterious stories of hairy creatures and aliens from outer space. But are those stories true? The answer is up to you"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017
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Summary: In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 WARBachmann, Stefan
Summary: "A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world's most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2023
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Summary: A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. He sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 398.23 ADABartlett, Sarah.
Summary: "Witches and demons, ghosts and vampires, aliens and voodoo spirit...from spooky to chilling to downright weird, signs of the supernatural have terrified -- and fascinated -- people for centuries. Dare to discover some of the world's most puzzling enigmas in this remarkable book, which reveals a dazzling array of haunted castles, forbidden hideaways and otherwise eerie landmarks."--Description...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit BatlettClaybourne, Anna
Summary: Presents true stories about real-life monsters, doomed domains, and strange disappearances, many attributed to ghosts and other supernatural encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017