Boulley, Angeline
Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC BOUBoulley, Angeline
Summary: A groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who goes undercover to root out the crime and corruption threatening her community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOUKim, Hanna
Summary: The first day of school in Michigan is a nightmare for Korean-American fourth-grader Ben Lee, who grew up in Los Angeles surrounded by Korean stores and restaurants, but his new schoolmates laugh at the Korean delicacies he eats -- until his unexpectedly magic lunch box teaches them all a lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIMHahn, Erin
Summary: "18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what's left of the family she never knew existed. While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor's kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship about the church. The clock is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Hahn 2021Patchett, Ann
Summary: In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC PATMcFarland, Jeni
Summary: "River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving, but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return--Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend's only black daughters, now a mother of two who'd planned to raise her own children anywhere else--their paths collide under Beth's father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFErickson, J. R.
Summary: "Deep in the forest, far back on Spellway Road, sits a long forgotten mansion. The curtains billow despite the still day, and in the dark, shadowy rooms lie a secret kept under lock and key for two decades. The cursed, however, do not simply stay dead and buried. Twenty years ago, Liv did a horrible thing. Now the past seeks to right those wrongs. Skeletal fingers reach into her dreams. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIHughes, Linda
Summary: "Summer Rose Krause tries Ư-- really she does -- but she simply can't manage to stay out of trouble. It's 1965 and at only 21 years old -- hailing from a prominent Michigan family, no less -- she finds herself in jail for the second time. When the judge renders a sentence of community service in a small, hick town Summer's never heard of, the young woman is certain she's doomed. Little does she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deeds Publishing 2019
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Summary: "Roland Spencer, a well-known bass singer in the Holy Living Waters Church choir, dies following a rehearsal for The Messiah. The choir director and organist, Belle Franklin is the last person to see him alive, landing her at the top of the suspect list. To prove her innocence--and find the real killer--the budding detective must solve the case. Once again, Rich Baldwin weaves a tale of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALHellewell, Amber Lynn
Summary: A family wakes up to the magic of a Michigan summer, enjoying the forests and the lake's beaches. Includes a nature art activity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HELCass, Laurie
Summary: With the help of her rescue cat Eddie, librarian Minnie Hamilton is driving a bookmobile based in the resort town of Chilson, Michigan. But shed better keep both hands on the wheel, because its going to be a bumpy ride.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Summary: "When Juniper Kowalski, a mediocre artist and graduate of one of the best art schools in the country, gets pregnant by her married lover, she ends up back in Gobles, Michigan, living in her dead grandma's trailer. She fears that her new life as a hotel maid, and as the best friend of a subrural call girl, has fulfilled some bleak fate. But Juniper's pregnancy also ignites a will to create....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowsnest Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNFrankenhuyzen, Gijsbert van
Summary: Easy-to-read text and illustrations of nature scenes in Michigan celebrate what makes each season of the year special. Includes nature craft activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VANPatchett, Ann
Summary: "In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023
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Summary: To gain viewers as a local meteorologist, Sonny throws herself into all the holiday shenanigans hosted by a widowed father and Chamber director whose genuine love for the town, winter, and Sonny may just thaw her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Shipman 2021Baldwin, Richard L.
Summary: Product Description: Judge Winston Breckinridge, a Republican candidate for a seat in the Michigan Legislature, is murdered at the Ingham County Fair while manning his party's booth. It seems the judge was not well-liked by many, but who would go to such extremes? Once again, mystery writer Richard Baldwin gives readers what they crave-a good plot, interesting characters, some excitement, and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALErickson, J. R.
Summary: It's the start of summer vacation in 1983. Twelve-year-olds Ashley and Sid are excited for three months of swimming at the pit, playing arcade games, and getting lost in the woods. But the woods aren't safe. Kids are going missing in their small town. One of them has been found dead. The cops are indifferent, the parents are clueless, and a summer of fun is slowly turning into a summer of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIZimmerman, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joker's Conundrum 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZIMAgria, Mary A.
Summary: "Author Mary Agria continues her love affair with Northern Michigan and gardens in this novel about the power of new beginnings--as long-time Little Traverse Bay cottager Maggie Aron struggles to confront her own mortality and the 'sciatica of the soul' that can rob life of its meaning and hope"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mary A. Agria 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGRBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: The State of Michigan is awarded a huge federal contract to build a speed-rail line from Port Huron to New Buffalo. In celebration, the U.S. President, the Prime Minister of Canada, and the Michigan Governor board the train and set off on a Victory Ride... but who won t make it to their final destination? Assassination at High Speed features stops at several Michigan locations, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: Lonely widow, Henrietta Wormly seeks a boarder who will be a handyman and a companion. Against her friends' best efforts to change her mind, she accepts Peter "Lucky" McNeal into her life only to soon see the error of her ways. During a cruise on the Rhine in Germany, the boarder is killed. Lou Searing and jack kelly are called in to solve the crime and they do. Justice wins, but only after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: From Publisher's Website: A physician's investment club makes an error in judgment that costs members millions. When Dr. Brad Prescott commits suicide, his family is devastated to the point of seeking revenge. Dr. Prescott's son, Jake-following in his father's footsteps-is denied entrance into medical school, which feeds his repressed anger towards others in the investment club. Murderous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALErickson, J. R.
Summary: "More than a decade ago, six kids witnessed unspeakable horror. Not all of them lived to tell. Riza is no longer that kid--troubled, angry, and filled with secrets. She's grown up, and when she stumbles upon an on-line forum about the shuttered Northern Michigan Asylum, she tries to pretend it never happened--not the years of experimentation, nor the strange midnight writings, and most of all,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2020
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Summary: Layken and Will's relationship has endured through hardships, heartache, and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together. But the two lovers could not have expected that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the things that tear them apart. Their connection is on the brink of being destroyed forever and it will take an extraordinary amount of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2012