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Ghost stories Great Lakes Great Lakes (North America) Fiction Great Lakes (North America) Juvenile fiction Great Lakes Region (North America) Fiction Indians of North America Great Lakes (North America) Fiction Michigan Juvenile fiction Ojibwa Indians Fiction Ships Time travel Juvenile fictionFenzel, J. Ryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ironcroft Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FENBryan, Kinley
Summary: "It's 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream--to open a restaurant back home--but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves. In Sunny's Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Mug Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYBrennan-Nelson, Denise.
Summary: "Tallulah the mermaid realizes that she is different from the other mermaids in the ocean and finds that she truly belongs in the Great Lakes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Brennan-Nelson 2015Peterson, Tracie
Summary: "Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father's freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a "respectable life" with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she's bound to the ship and her deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETBehrend, Carl.
Summary: Based on a true story about the Great Lakes and the famous Christmas Tree Ship circa 1911 Chicago, Illinois. Includes 70 Historic photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Old Country Books & Records] 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEHBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Somebody is vandalizing exhibits at the Capitol City Museum of American History, and it is up to twelve-year-old Raining Sam and his friends to find the culprit before irreparable damage is done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BREPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "Fulfilling a promise to her dying mother, Elise Wright watches over her father as cook on his Great Lakes schooner. But the behavior of a new sailor unsettles her and first mate Nick Clark, who secretly begins investigating. When tragedy strikes, Nick and Elise must rely on their faith and each other as they confront their greatest fears"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRice, Waubgeshig
Summary: "When a community of Anishinabe people, with their natural resources dwindling, needs to find a new home, Evan Whitesky leads a dangerous mission back to their ancestral home in the Great Lakes region, during which they encounter other survivors, some who thrive on violence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 133 FIC DOWTrembath, Carol
Summary: This children's fiction story is a tribute to the Native American women and men who have walked endless miles to draw attention to the condition of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lakeside Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TREPanagopoulos, Janie Lynn.
Summary: At Michigan's Straits of Mackinac, eight-year-old Charles quickly learns the importance of the "Castle at the Straits" and the work he will help his uncles, the "wicki," or lighthouse keeper, and his assistant, do there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island State Park Commission 2003
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Summary: Here is a tale of life on the Great Lakes, in particular along the western shore of Lake Michigan, and engaging weave of fact and fiction during the early rough and rowdy shipping era. Echoes provides readers with a well written, well researched novel, complete with maps, which are so instructive and helpful in clarifying a sense of place, especially the arrangement of the five Great Lakes -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lord & Allerton 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC JOHOleszewski, Wes
Summary: The author is a Great Lakes research historian and he has taken the time to tell some of the best stories he has heard about "strange happenings" on the Great Lakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 OLEDownes, Robert
Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Downes 2017Johnston, Donald.
Summary: The year is 1915, and Benjamin Corvet, founder of the ship-owning firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, suddenly disappears, sparking events and questions that baffle even those who are close to him.Constance Sherrill, an attractive, sheltered young woman, feels strangely responsible for what may have happened to him--her father's best friend and coworker. Alan Conrad arrives in Chicago searching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHBarker, Charles Ferguson.
Summary: "A fascinating, entertaining, and cautionary story about what the Great Lakes would look like without water"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARHolling, Holling Clancy.
Summary: A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1969
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.7 HOL1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOL
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLWoolson, Constance Fenimore
Summary: With this volume Library of America presents the biggest and best edition of Woolson’s short fiction ever published. Here are twenty-one stories chosen from her four collections—Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875), Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880), The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895), and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896)—as well as two uncollected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOPanagopoulos, Janie Lynn.
Summary: While on a family camping trip to Isle Royale, Allie and Shoo meet Bloodaxe, a Viking who has come back through time by the beam of the island lighthouse. In search of his stolen runestones that tell of possible Viking exploration in the area over a thousand years ago, he is sure that Allie and Shoo know where the stones are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: River Road Publications 2000
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Summary: A little boy and his mother discuss where the frieghters on the lake sail to and what they do along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ferne Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BASKET MILOldenburg, E. William
Summary: Six children find themselves transported back several centuries to a time in which the forests around their home were inhabited by Potawatomi Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLDPanagopoulos, Janie Lynn.
Summary: As the family waits for the key to the cottage where they will be staying, Shoo reads an historical marker about the French explorer La Salle that launches his parents into a history lesson. But they are interrupted by L. T. Dimitrius, an old man with his own story to tell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: River Road Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PANTrembath, Carol
Summary: This children's fiction story is a tribute to the Native American women and men who have walked endless miles to draw attention to the condition of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Enviro IssuesBlanchard, B. L.
Summary: "Twenty years ago to the day, Chibenashi’s mother was murdered and his father confessed. Ever since, caring for his still-traumatized younger sister has been Chibenashi’s privilege and penance. Now, on the same night of the Manoomin harvest, another woman is slain. His mother’s best friend. This leads to a seemingly impossible connection that takes Chibenashi far from the only world he’s ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2022