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Hartig, John H.

Summary: "The stories of fourteen people who led efforts to clean up environmentally degraded areas of the Great Lakes are told to inspire others to get involved and care for the place they call home"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.72 HAR

Summary: From the Publisher: Women lighthouse keepers, fur traders, cooks on sailing vessels, missionaries, and fearless travelers all wrote of their lives on the Great Lakes, both publicly and in quiet testimonies such as letters, logbooks, and diaries. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the present, are now collected in this anthology. Compiled in response to historical accounts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2000

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Stonehouse, Frederick.

Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Local Author, Call number: 920.72 STO
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 STO
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 920.72 STO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STO

McClelland, Ted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 MCC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav USA McClelland

Hall, Ron

Summary: The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALL, RON HAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem Hall

Mark, Nikki

Summary: In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark's perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They're still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park into a state-of-the-art athletic field, honoring...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023

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Summary: A collection of stories, poems, and essays about people and places of the Great Lakes Region by a variety of authors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 917.7 GRE

Rachlin, Benjamin

Summary: "When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 RAC

Stonehouse, Frederick.

Summary: From Books Back Cover: Great Lakes Crime: murder, mayhem, booze & broads. -- It may not have been the "Spanish Main" but pirates did sail the Great Lakes as did all manner of thieves and murderers. The great Sweetwater Seas had their fair share of criminal activity. Captains sunk their ships to collect the insurance and honest light keepers were "done in" for their meager savings! Throughout...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2004

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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 364 STO
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 364 STO

Brockes, Emma.

Summary: Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, PAULINE DULCIE BRO

Dennis, Jerry.

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 DEN

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Malby-Anthony, Françoise

Summary: "Françoise Malby-Anthony's The Elephants of Thula Thula is a powerful, gripping story about an extraordinary herd of elephants and the woman dedicated to keeping them safe. 'Somehow, the elephants got into my soul, and it became my life's work to see them safe and happy. There was no giving up on that vision, no matter how hard the road was at times.' Françoise Malby-Anthony is the owner of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.67 MAL

Dennis, Jerry.

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: Jerry Dennis discusses his experiences with the Great Lakes during a particular winter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DEN
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: REF NEL 817.7 DEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.704 DEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.704 DEN

Dutton, Fred W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DUT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUT

Dennis, Jerry.

1 hold on 4 copies

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 DEN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 DEN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 DEN

Hsu, Hua

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSU

Kotzian, John

Summary: "This book tells the life story of the Reverend William H. Law, a story that has never been told before. The Reverend Law was in peril on the Great Lakes and was rescued by a U.S. Life-Saving Service Station crew. As a result of that rescue, seeing their heroic efforts first hand, Reverend Law dedicated the rest of his life to the men and women stationed at Light and Life-Saving stations...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAW, WILLIAM H. KOT

Fleming, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022

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MacDowell, Marsha.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Museum in collaboration with the Association of Michigan Basketmakers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.412 MAC

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Museum 1995

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 709.04 SIS

Klang, Jack.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jack Klang Marine Consultants 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1 KLA
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 KLA

Stonehouse, Frederick.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 STO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STO

Zerwick, Phoebe

Summary: In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 ZER

Anthony, Lawrence.

Summary: In this inspiring, heartfelt account, Lawrence Anthony, conservationist and coauthor of The Elephant Whisperer, traces his efforts to save the endangered northern white rhino.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.66 ANT

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