Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: At the beginning of the twentieth century, two things were invented that would spawn the two biggest industries in history. One was the automobile. The other was organized crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTDean, Karen.
Summary: A family visit to historical sites on Michigan's Mackinac Island including Fort Mackinac, Aron Rock and the Grand Hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Proctor Publications 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 917.74 DEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.74 DEALupica, Mike.
Summary: Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LUPJohnson, D. E. (Dan E.)
Summary: "Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson's friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will's hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help save them, causes him constant pain, forcing him into a morphine addiction. He lives for nothing except revenge against the people who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2011Shabazz, Ilyasah
Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHAHernandez, Lolita
Summary: "These twelve stories bring to life the people who populated Detroit's Clark Street Cadillac factory until its last smokestack was airlifted out in 1994. Each story is a tribute to the grit, passion, and bravado that transformed Detroit into the Motor City and the Cadillac into America's premier luxury car."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHenderson, Craig
Summary: "From a brilliant new voice in crime fiction comes Welcome to the Game, a gripping thriller that races through Motor City at heart-stopping pace as a getaway driver and a local mobster swerve to avoid danger at every turn. Craig Henderson screeches onto the scene with this fast-paced debut starring ex-rally driver Spencer Burnham. Having moved his family from England to Detroit and opened a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENJohnson, D. E. (Dan E.)
Summary: "Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancee, Elizabeth. He's barely kept his job at his father's company--Detroit Electric, 1910's leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth's new fiancee and Will's one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. Will agrees, and when he arrives there, he finds Cooper dead, crushed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohnson, D. E. (Dan E.)
Summary: Thwarting an attempt on Elizabeth Hume's life only to be accused of having a hallucination, Will Anderson resolves to prove his sanity against a backdrop of key suffrage legislation that is further complicated by a suspicious death and Detective Riordan's secretive behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews! A New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the Year American Street is an evocative and powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBSharma, Nisha
Summary: Born and raised in the US, Tara Bajaj hides her family secrets. With beautiful clothes, a popular social media presence, and a spot on the Rutgers High Bollywood dance team, she does it well--until her carefully cultivated image shatters. Shut out by friends and with her future in flux, Tara accepts a guide position for a youth group's temple tour through North India. Rediscovering the heart of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHASmith, Colby Cedar
Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIStilton, Géronimo.
Summary: Geronimo Stilton participates in the Race Across America on his bicycle with his friend Bruce Hyena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, c2009. 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama" -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to a mountainside, they are surprised to find farmers nearby. Then they learn that the farmer's baby llama has been stolen, and Jack and Annie vow to bring the little animal back to its owners. But the journey is treacherous--they must climb to the peak of Machu Picchu and climb back down in order to complete this mission. Jack and Annie have been...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC OSBZadoorian, Michael
Summary: "Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children or a mortgage, as their Midwestern values (and parents) seem to require. Now on the cusp of forty, they are both working at jobs that they're not even sure they believe in anymore, but with significantly varying returns. Ana is successful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZADMay, Kyla
Summary: When their friend Jack cannot join them, Bub the pug and his human, Bella, vow to bring him souvenirs from their road trip, and despite some bumps along the way, Bub calls their trip a big success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MAYSummary: Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Broad Green Pictures 2015
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WALCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED RCochrun, Alison
Summary: A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. After graduation, they went ten years without speaking. Now in their thirties, Logan and Rosemary find they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperbacks 2024
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Summary: The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird that stayed for a few days in his family's garden.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WHIKhan, M. T. (Maeeda Tariq)
Summary: Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: The discovery of an old map by his sister Thea leads Geronimo and his family to search for buried treasure on a faraway island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STIBartels, Erin
Summary: "On the night of December 31, 1989-as the Berlin Wall is coming down, the Soviet Union is inching toward democracy, and anything seems possible-a down-on-his luck musician crashes a party and crosses paths with the accomplished and enigmatic young heir to a fading musical dynasty, forever altering both of their futures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015