Triplett, Dawn.
Summary: "Brave boys were they! contains the biographies of over four hundred Civil War veterans who lived in Kalkaska County, Michigan. More than two hundred veterans are interred in Kalkaska County cemeteries, some in unmarked graves that are only now being marked with military headstones. The book chronicles the events and activities of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief Corp that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Triplett 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 TRI1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.465 TRI
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 973.7479 TRIOvermyer, Leonard G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overmyer Historicals 1999
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2 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 977.4635 OVECall number: NEL 977.4635 OVE
Graham, Adeline
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.411 GRADeRose, Chris (Christopher)
Summary: "The incredible, untold story of the WWII vets who overthrew their corrupt hometown government--the only successful armed rebellion on US soil since the War of Independence. Corrupt politician Paul Cantrell was in complete control of McMinn County, Tennessee, his whims enforced by the violent Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies. On Election Day, Cantrell and the sheriff seized the ballot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 DERGreen, Daniel R.
Summary: "Daniel R. Green offers a unique and much-needed perspective on war veterans and the transitions they go through upon returning home, using his own experience following five military and civilian tours of Afghanistan and Iraq"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 GREHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUFChappel, Bernice M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Lakes Books 1981
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CHABufka, Norbert
Summary: Good Harbor Michigan is about a thriving community in central Leelanau County. A lumbering town sprang up in the mid 1880’s only to die as the result of a fire. The community continued and this is their story, based on primary source material, especially the Leelanau Enterprise which began publishing its weekly paper in 1880. citations are included for the serious historian and the people data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4635 BUF1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 BUF
Kizzia, Tom.
Summary: Kizzia captures an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.805 HALE, ROBERT KIZSummary: U.S. health care has changed dramatically during the past century. A new breed of physicians use new machines, vaccines, and ideas in ways that have touched the lives of virtually everyone. How and why did these changes occur?
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.774 MEDChambers, Cassie
Summary: "Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, CASSIE CHAClaiborne-West, Joyce
Summary: "Amy knows how to listen to her head and to her heart--and most importantly, when to listen to which. Amy Coney Barrett is one of the busiest women in America. Along with being a United States Supreme Court justice, she is also the mother of seven children, two of whom she adopted from Haiti. And she insists on baking all their birthday cakes herself. Not just because she has a flair for fancy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heroes of Liberty Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARCrawford, Kim
Contents: Witness to Murder : Saginaw, 1802 -- The Saginaw Trail -- Trouble in Detroit -- War Clouds -- War in the Michigan Territory -- The Arrest of Jacob Smith -- I Pray You Inform Me ... : The Character of Jacob Smith -- Abduction to Saginaw -- The Return of the Boyer Children -- Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815 -- Peace -- Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay -- The Treaty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.403 SMITH, JACOB CRASchopieray, Julie.
Summary: "In 1883, after falling in love with the beauty of the area, George and Cornelia Lathrop purchased ten acres of land on the lower part of the Old Mission Peninsula in Grand Traverse County. And thus began the community of Edgewood Resort. Edgewood thrived as a destination resort from the 1880s into the 1950s. At its heyday, fifteen cottages were in operation. Although the resort no longer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bacon Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.464 SCHThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEMeltzer, Brad
Summary: This volume of ordinary people change the world features Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. She is proof that with opportunity comes justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am SotomayorRappaport, Doreen
Summary: As a student, teacher, lawyer, and judge, Ruth often experienced unfair treatment. But she persisted, becoming a cultural icon, championing equality in pay and opportunity. Her brilliant mind, compelling arguments, and staunch commitment to truth and justice have convinced many to stand with her, and her fight continues to this day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GINCarter, W. C. (William C.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regional Pub. Co. 1975
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 974.841 CARCharles, Tami
Summary: "Discover the incredible story of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and eventually became the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court in this picture book biography."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JACShulkin, David J.
Summary: The former VA secretary describes his fight to save health care from politics and money-and how it was ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials with influence in the Trump White House. Known in health care circles for his ability to fix ailing hospitals, Dr. David Shulkin was originally brought into government by President Obama, in an attempt to save the broken Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHULKIN, DAVID SHUFerguson, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FERRoss, Cindy
Summary: "Cindy Ross, founder of River House PA, an organization that helps veterans get out into nature to hike, paddle, and mountain bike, profiles sixteen individual veterans in depth, telling their personal stories and experiences. The broader story of the trauma veterans endure and how nature can help them to recover is interwoven throughout"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2021