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Indians of North America Superior, Lake, Region Fiction Lake Superior Ojibwa Indians Ojibwa Indians Fiction Ojibwa Indians Juvenile fiction Superior, Lake Fiction Superior, Lake Juvenile fiction Superior, Lake, Region Fiction Superior, Lake, Region History 19th century Fiction Voyages and travels FictionBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Jasmine Richards has always been afraid of dolls, so finding herself in a room full of decorative dolls in an extremely creepy hotel on the north shore of Lake Superior is a nightmare to begin with--but these dolls are at the heart of the deadly secret of the hotel, aptly named Devil's Mooring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BREErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HyperionBooks for Children 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ErdErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDWebb, Wendy (Wendy K.)
Summary: After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction WebErdrich, Louise.
Summary: In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC ERDErdrich, Louise.
Summary: In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction ErdrichErdrich, Louise.
Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012Enger, Leif
Summary: "Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESosin, Danielle
Summary: Lake Superior, the north country, the great fresh-water expanse. Frigid. Lethal. Wildly beautiful. The Long-Shining Waters gives us three stories whose characters are separated by centuries and circumstance, yet connected across time by a shared geography. In 1622, Grey Rabbit-an Ojibwe woman, a mother and wife-struggles to understand a dream-life that has taken on fearful dimensions. As she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOSWebb, Wendy (Wendy K.)
Summary: In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter... As the house's restoration commences, a shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess's late grandfather, beloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bell, hid away for generations. But these appear to be the works of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WebbGodin, Thelma Lynne
Summary: Rhyming text describes nightfall around Lake Superior as the plants and animals, including humans, that call its shores home begin their nighttime routines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GODPendziwol, Jean
Summary: When her late father's diaries are discovered after a tragic accident, Elizabeth, whose eyesight has failed, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at Elizabeth's retirement home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENWebb, Wendy (Wendy K.)
Summary: After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBWebb, Wendy (Wendy K.)
Summary: When the bodies of a murdered woman and infant wash into the shallows of Lake Superior, Kate Granger, who has seen this woman in her dreams, sets out to unravel a centuries-old mystery that, when the truth is revealed, finally rights the wrongs of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WEBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Webb 2018Seymour, Tres.
Summary: Squawking gulls on Lake Superior warn of danger, for the hungry lake has swallowed up many ships, even the mighty Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SeyWilliams, Matthew
Summary: Small-town reporter Vince Marshall faces looming deadlines, an over-the-edge boss, a wife he suspects is cheating, and the challenge of balancing his career while raising a toddler. The last thing he needs is for his mother to become the suspect in a mysterious woman's death- a story he's covering for the local newspaper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION WilliamsErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Bookshelf 2002
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Summary: Follows the yearly cycle of the voyageur Eduoard as he travels to Grand Portage, trading furs for goods that he uses to purchase more furs from the native villages during the winter months.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI WarginCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARPendziwol, Jean
Summary: "Let's go! Experience the magic of skating on wild ice. Two children wake up to hear the lake singing, then the wind begins wailing ... or is it a wolf? They bundle up and venture out into the cold, carrying their skates. On the snow-covered shore, they spot tracks made by fox, deer, hare, mink, otter ... and the wolf! In the bay, the ice is thick and smooth. They lace up their skates, step...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2023
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Summary: Returning to where he spent his childhood vacations, Martin Reed falls in love with a woman who shares his dream of restoring an old house, but her ex-boyfriend will do anything to destroy their happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMOLewis, Anne Margaret.
Summary: The big water called Gitchi Gumee shares his many moods and faces with a young boy who wants to know how to safely sail his mighty waves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEWWilliams, Matthew
Summary: Earl Parsons is a champion musher with a notorious past; he left Apostle Bay as a pariah, and his return for a sled dog race opens both old and new wounds in the community. Ex-FBI agent Steve Olsen is obsessed by the one case he couldn't close, spending his retirement stalking the prime suspect and seeking redemptin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBrockman, Craig A.
Summary: Ghosts of those drowned and never recovered are swarming from Lake Superior. But they are not there to haunt the living. They are fleeing something far more sinister. Adam is a psychologist who returns to resolve his grief over his wife who drowned in the Lake's hungry waters. Soon he is embroiled in a bizarre world of Native legend and the supernatural. From a hermit’s cabin to a rambling old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curve of the Earth Publishing 0000