Schopieray, 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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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H.R. Page & Co. 1978

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Ruggles, Glenn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ruggles 1976

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Sprague, Elvin L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: B.F. Bowen 1903

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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

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Sheinkin, Steve

Summary: Presents the story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Nguyen, Bich Minh.

Summary: A memoir of Bich Nguyen and her journey to become a "real" American.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008

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Meno, Joe

Summary: "Between Everything and Nothing is an epic, nonfiction narrative based on Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal's true-life journey from the unjust political system of their homeland in Ghana through the chaos of the United States' failing immigration system. Before ever meeting, both men fled the inhumane social policies of modern-day Ghana, making the perilous odyssey through the jungles of South and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020

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Biskupic, Joan

Summary: "Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of women's abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Today's bench--with its conservative majority--is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Gristwood, Sarah

Summary: "Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated...

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

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Fellows, Deborah Wyatt.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Publications 2004

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Nguyen, Bich Minh.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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Nguyen, Bich Minh.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007

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DeFrank, Thomas M.

Summary: In an series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after his death, the 38th President of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny, reflective, gossipy, strikingly candid. In 1974, journalist DeFrank, then a young correspondent for Newsweek, was interviewing Vice President Gerald R. Ford when Ford...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2007

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Martini, Adrienne

Summary: "Back in the fall of 2016, before casting her vote for Hillary Clinton, Adrienne Martini, a knitter, a runner, a mom, and a resident of rural Otsego County in snowy upstate New York, knew who her Senators were, wasn't too sure who her Congressman was, andhad only vague inklings about who her state reps were. She's always thought of politicians as . . . oily. Then she spent election night curled...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020

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Meyer, Julianne E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n.] 1988

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Nesbit, Jeffrey Asher

Summary: "An incredible expose of the Koch brothers and the tobacco industry's twenty-year plot to manufacture a phony grassroots uprising, this is the true story of the Tea Party"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016

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Kinzinger, Adam

Summary: "From former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a gripping account of the January 6 committee, examining the forces that led to the attacks on the Capitol. On January 6, 2021, America watched in horror as a violent mob led by right-wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of then-President Donald Trump. It was one of the darkest days in recent history, yet to former Illinois...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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DeRose, 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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Smith, Douglas

Summary: "On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure. A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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Sheinkin, Steve.

Summary: "The story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2015

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Brands, H. W.

Summary: "From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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Frank, Barney

Summary: Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first attraction and to keep the second a secret. Now, fifty years later, his sexual orientation is widely accepted, while his belief in government is embattled. Frank: A Life in Politics from the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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