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Stonehouse, Frederick.

Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Local Author, Call number: 920.72 STO
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 STO
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 920.72 STO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STO

Rogers, D. Laurence

Summary: "Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World. Despite a clash of cultures, cooperation created the fur trade that dominated early Michigan history. Subsequent violence and disease all but wiped out the native population. Later, intrepid residents crossed the frozen Straits of Mackinac on foot and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2018

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 ROG

Winn, Raynor

Summary: "Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and to the land? Are we united enough to see protection of the environment as a priority? These are the questions Raynor asks herself as she embarks on her most ambitious walk to date with her husband...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINN, RAYNOR WIN

Russell, Gareth

Summary: This collection of one hundred and one anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, features amusing and fascinating vignettes from her long life, including her coming of age during World War I and the 1936 abdication of her brother-in-law.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH RUS

Ruffin, Amber

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Hsu, Hua

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HSU, HUA HSU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSU

Ackroyd, Peter

Summary: "Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ACK

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B HITCHCOCK ACK

Dench, Judi

6 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig ... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green ... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head ... These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare. For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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