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Barnes, Al

Summary: The Traverse region gave birth to at least two classic tales. One was the Indian legend of the sleeping mother bear and her two lost cubs. The other was the true story of the region's first settlement in 1839 by Indian Missionary Peter Dougherty and his wife Martha That tale is told beautifully by Al Barnes in this, his first book. But "100 YEARS" is only a part of the book. Barnes goes on to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: fHenderson Print Shop 1939

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Local Author, Call number: 977.464 BAR
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 BAR
2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 BAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 BAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 977.464 Bar

Copies Available at Peninsula

3 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.46 BAR
Call number: REF LHR 977.46 BAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Barnes

Barber, Charles

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once in a generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table. This tragedy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 BAR

Krogh, Egil

Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KRO

Midorikawa, Emily

Summary: "Out of the Shadows tells the stories of six enterprising Victorian women whose apparent ability to move between the realms of the dead and the living allowed them to cross rigid boundaries of gender and class, and to summon unique political voices. The clairvoyance of the Fox sisters from upstate New York inspired some of the era's best-known female suffrage activists and set off an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9092 MID

Abrams, Dan

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Theodore Roosevelt, the boisterous and mostly beloved legendary American hero, had accused his former friend and ally, now turned rival William Barnes of political corruption. Furious, Barnes responded by suing Roosevelt for an enormous sum that could have financially devastated him. In May, 1915, more than fifty newspapers sent reporters to cover the trial. Accounts from inside and outside the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 ABR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 345.73 ABR

Gaines, James R.

Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAI

McCully, Emily Arnold

Summary: "Prepare to discover new heroes among these twenty-one women who challenged the status quo, championed others, and made their voices heard. From Jane Addams to Alice Waters, from groundbreaking artists and social justice advocates to scientific pioneers and business innovators, a strong thread of trailblazing women runs through American history. Written in compelling, accessible prose and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MCC

Sanders, Rob

Summary: Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MIL

Brosier, Emily Travis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BaySide Print. 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4632 BRO
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4632 BRO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Brosier

Summary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BRO

Taylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)

Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAY

Colletta, John Philip

Summary: Genealogical and historical information about George F. Ring, his brother Joe and Joe's wife Barbara Ring. Joseph was born in 1832 in France and married Barbara Miller. Their children were Magdalena, Anna, Joseph, George F., John M., Peter and Michael. Joseph's brother George F. was born in 1834 in France and married Catherine Hill. The "Rolling Fork tragedy" refers to a fire that occurred...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Direct Descent 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 COL

Anderson, Dianna E.

Summary: "For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures invented by politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve their own discourse, born out of the work of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.768 AND

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