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Animals Infancy Fiction Animals Infancy Juvenile fiction Counting Detective and mystery stories, English Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Fiction Immigrants Michigan Detroit History 20th century Fiction Indians of North America Indians of North America Fiction Plot-your-own stories Stories in rhymeCogan, Priscilla
Summary: The Unraveling Thread tells the story of a family exploding in crisis. Harriet McWhinnie, a divorced but successful career woman, arrives home to discover that yet another Agency person has fled, leaving behind Harriet's sweet but demented mother, her adolescent twin girls, one psychotic with an undiagnosed genetic disorder, the other rebellious and resentful of her disabled sibling, a little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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Summary: When an old Indian medicine woman announces she intends to die, her daughter takes her to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist, a white woman, finds she is getting nowhere and slowly the tables are turned, the Indian medicine woman successfully treating the problems of the lonely and divorced white doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2010
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Summary: A cross-cultural romance between an American Indian and a white woman. The heroine is Dr. Meggie O'Connor, a psychologist who studied under an Indian medicine woman who brought them together, even though the Indian is married. By the author of Winona's Web.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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Cogan, Priscilla
Summary: Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the third novel in The Winona Trilogy, continues to explore the deep divide between the modern psychological view of life and the traditional Lakota (Sioux) spiritual perspective, following the same characters: Dr. Meggie O'Connor, the psychologist and Hawk, the Lakota medicine teacher. In Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the two lovers marry but soon find their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2000
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Liu, Cixin
Summary: "With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2015
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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 SMIDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four classic Holmes novels in 2005 created a Holmes sensation. Klinger reassembles Doyle's four seminal novels in their original order, with over 1,000 notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and tantalizing new Sherlockian theories. Inside, readers will find:
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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Summary: "The year is 1910. This summer in the Pacific Northwest has been the driest anyone has seen in a long time. The weather is extremely hot and windy. Crops are drying up everywhere. Then, in August, one of the beggest forest fires in U.S. history is sparked. Will you join the fight to battle the fires and save your town? Do you help lead others to safety or try to escape before the town is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLBerkes, Marianne Collins.
Summary: A counting book in rhyme presents various Arctic animals and their offspring, from a mother polar bear and her "little cub one" to an old father wolf and his "little pups ten." Includes related facts and activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERBerkes, Marianne Collins
Summary: "This counting book in the style of 'Over in the Meadow' presents various riparian habitat animals and their offspring in ten North American rivers, from a mother manatee 'and her little calf one' in the St. Johns River to a father river otter 'and his little pups ten' in the Mississippi. Endnotes present facts, activities, and related games"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 2013