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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: fHenderson Print Shop 1939

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

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 977.464 Bar

Copies Available at Peninsula

2 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

Barbas, Samantha

Summary: In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America’s first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars’ secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities’ carefully constructed images...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 050 BAR

Fornes, Mike.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cheboygan Tribune Printing Co. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 FOR

Barber, John Warner

Summary: "Barber and Howe go west! This 1868 collaboration from American historians John Warner Barber (1798-1885) and Henry Howe (1816-1893) surveys twenty-one states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) and nine territories...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2019

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 973 BAR

Barber, John Warner

Summary: "Barber and Howe's collaboration, originally published in 1841, opens with a general history of the state, followed by the details of each town, arranged alphabetically by county, then town, then city or village. Entries contain geographical and architectural descriptions, original Native American place names, political and religious history, population statistics, and interesting anecdotes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2016

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 BAR

Summary: An in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over 60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IRI

Fornes, Mike

Summary: A Michigan icon, Grand Hotel is in its third century as "America's summer place." The ambiance of Mackinac Island combines with the hotel's ultimate level of hospitality, premier dining, and five-star guest experience for an unforgettable stop on any visitor's itinerary. The setting itself has been captured by Hollywood on film, relied upon by politicians and the business community for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 FOR

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Straits Fornes

Barnes, Christine

Summary: Includes Old Faithful Inn: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming ; The Ahwahnee: Yosemite National Park, California ; Paradise Inn: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State ; Timberline Lodge: Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon ; Oregon Caves Chateau: Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon ; Crater Lake Lodge: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon ; El Tovar: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona ;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. West 2002

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 BAR

Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALL

Bartels, Erin

Summary: James Rich has a strange request for Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam: that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos. Having lost her job after a botched investigation, she has nothing but time. At her great-aunt's 150-year-old farmhouse Elizabeth uncovers a series of mysterious items, locked doors-- and hidden graves. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAR

Roker, Al

Summary: Presents an account of the legendary hurricane to assess its destruction of Galveston, role in thousands of deaths, and influence on American history and culture. --Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.8 ROK

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 ROK

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 ROK

Summary: An adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy in which a dashing dandy of the English court tries to defend innocent aristocrats from the violence of the French revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCA

Carr, Barnes

Summary: It remains the most audacious spy plot in American history--a bold and extremely dangerous operation to invade Russia, defeat the Red Army, and mount a coup in Moscow against Soviet dictator Vladimir Ilich Lenin. After that, leaders in Washington, Paris, and London aimed to install their own Allied-friendly dictator in Moscow as a means to get Russia back into the war effort against Germany....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.0841 CAR

Barnes, Ian

Summary: This fascinating book explores the history of the native peoples of North America, from the early arrival of humans from Asia and their migration throughout the continent, the first and subsequently devastating contacts with European explorers and settlers, to the present day plight of the surviving tribes and their attempts to adapt to modern society. Particular emphasis is placed on the role...

Format: cartographic

Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books, an imprint of Book Sales, a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 BAR

Barber, Sally.

Summary: This selection of 12 stories from Michigan's past explores some of the Great Lakes State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 BAR

Haynes, Danielle

Summary: An inauguration is the act of swearing an elected person into office. Inauguration Day is the day that the most important elected official in the United States, the president, takes office. Readers will learn about the history of Inauguration Day in the United States, key aspects of this important day, and how Inauguration Day has changed since 1789, when George Washington took office....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.973 HAY

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023

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

White-Spunner, Barney

Summary: Berlin is as challenging a city as it is vital, and always has been since its medieval foundation as twin fishing villages. In exploring the fascinating history of this city, discover how a people as civilized and religious as the Germans could have supported the Kaiser and the Nazis as they inflicted the misery upon the entire world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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Daynes, Katie

Summary: "Who were the ancient Romans? Where did they go to eat, shop and wash? What did they do for fun? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more about life in Roman times."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2015

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAY

Prince, April Jones.

Summary: Upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, P.T. Barnum and his twenty-one elephants parade across to prove to everyone that the bridge is safe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005

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Bandes, Susan J.

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Summary: From 1940 to 1970 mid-Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alden B. Dow, and the Keck brothers, the text—based on archival research and oral histories—focuses more heavily on regional architects whose work was strongly influenced by international modern styles. The reader will...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2016

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 BAN

Carney-Coston, Barbara

Summary: In 1886, 11-year-old Mihaela embarks on a journey from Croatia to the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. Mihaela's papa had made the trip two years beforehand in order to work the copper mines so that he could send money back home, but a painful eye disease has left him vulnerable in a new land and in need of the skills of his wife, an expert healer. And so Mihaela,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017

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Aly, Götz

Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALY

Barker, Pat

Summary: "A new novel from the Booker Prize winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz (her first portrayal of World War II) and reconfirms her place in the very top rank of British novelists. London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

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