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Human trafficking Fiction Kidnapping victims Fiction Michigan, Northern Fiction Murder investigation Michigan Fiction Nature Fiction Northern Michigan Asylum at Traverse City. Northern Michigan Fiction Ray Elkins (Fictitious character) Fiction Teenagers Fiction Wrongful discharge FictionHerring, Peg.
Summary: When a long-time friendship dies, will murder follow? Decades past junior high, Caroline Batzer is suddenly snubbed by her best friend. At first confused, she's later stunned to learn Sarah Leigh betrayed her in a way she'd never have suspected. In an all-too-public setting, Caroline airs her anger at the woman everyone else in town considers saintly, and when Sarah disappears soon afterward,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERStander, Aaron
Summary: Everything is in place at the Gull Point Estate for the Memorial Day wedding bash—the lawns are perfectly manicured, the caterer is stocked and ready, the champagne is chilled. And the string quartet is brushing up on their Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and Mozart. But before they end their rehearsal, they’d be well advised to have a version of Stormy Weather ready to go just in case the day doesn’t...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writers & Editors, LLC. 0000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stander 2020Stander, Aaron
Summary: In the depths of winter, Cedar County is on occasion literally frozen in place. Roads are impassable; the area schools are closed for days at a time. And the bad guys and gals, they're hunkered down like everyone else until the weather breaks. But this winter isn't the usual. There's arson and murder. The iniquities of some particularly unsavory ancestors are being visited upon the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writers & Editors 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P FIC STAWcisel, Paul
Summary: In a remote corner of northern Michigan, the residents of Leelanau County have a secret society that has been living on the peninsula for thousands of years. They are the bear-transforming descendants of tribes who crossed Lake Michigan millennia ago to escape the destruction of their clan. One evening, a traveler has a chance encounter with a spirit bear and discovers he has a hidden history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paul Wcisel 0000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WCINolan, Alexandria V.
Summary: Celia was mad. She must be if she is committed to this asylum, mustn’t she? It is 1888, and Celia is locked away in the Northern Michigan Asylum. Far away from the life she had known before, with only her own doubts to her sanity, and the kindness of a few new acquaintances to guide her. Does she belong here, shut away from the world? Or is she being hidden for a nefarious purpose? In 2011, Eve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alexandria Nolan 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOLBoyd, Jeffery Allen
Summary: Every victim of human trafficking needs a hero. In Book 2 of the action/adventure mystery thriller, Wolf's Head Bay-The Race for Home, the frightened yet determined group of kids led by Jeremy, make a harrowing escape...taking with them evidence exposing both the Colonel and the global criminal activity. Alone in the remote northern Michigan wilderness, unable to communicate with the outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeffery Allen Boyd 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BoydChalker, Dawn
Summary: Emily moved to northern Michigan with her partner Ryan to take a job at the Nature Center. She loves the outdoors and enjoys helping people understand their relationship to nature. Taking a photograph of a tourist couple ensnares her in an unexpected and dangerous situation. After an encounter with a bear while hiking, Emily finds herself stranded in the woods, unable to remember what happened....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hepatica Books 0000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALevine, Jennifer
Summary: Lauren Breckenridge is trying to keep up with the frenetic pace of her teenagers' lives while satisfying the demands of her workaholic husband. Blindsided by news of an illicit sexual relationship her sixteen-year-old son has been having with an older woman, she tries to restore some sanity to her family's shattered lives by arranging for the four of them to spend an idyllic summer in beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mascot Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVKoch-Krol, Cindy
Summary: What is the Dogman of Michigan? While traveling in the forests of northern Michigan, restaurant reviewer, Tessa Gates has made friends with a lot of interesting people: members of the Ottawa and Ojibwa tribes, a waitress in a small town and her two adult kids, a sheriff, a wildlife biologist and his family including young Kit, who has very special abilities, a wolf, an F.B.I. agent, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KocStander, Aaron
Summary: It has taken more than two decades, but the members of the Leiston School Winter Adventure Group of 1990 are finally reunited near their old school. The intimate gathering opens with the renewal of old friendships at a private Lake Michigan estate near their old school. But the alcohol-fueled camaraderie soon melts away as old rivalries begin to surface, as do old secrets -- one old secret in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writers & Editors, LLC. 0000
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Stander 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P STAZaiss, David
Summary: n The Red Jeep, author David Zaiss adds the third and final part to his tale of wrongful discharge, a direct result of the corporate mentality permeating many public and private institutions across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wong Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Zaiss 2019Stander, Aaron
Summary: Autumn has come to Cedar County. It’s harvest time. The trees and vines in the orchards and vineyards are heavy with ripening fruit. For the tourists flocking to the tasting rooms of the region’s vineyards, the landscapes and seascapes provide an elaborate tapestry of rich colors and textures. However, there is one discordant note in this pastoral splendor, the crumpled body of an international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writers & Editors, LLC. 2015
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC STA1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Stander 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P STAMarks, John
Summary: When a bomb blew a fishing boat out of Lake Michigan, those on board weren’t what they appeared to be … nor were the assassins whom Detective Harlan Holmes now hunts. Disgraced PI Harlan Holmes and his erstwhile, ex-con sidekick Tank return in John Marks’ second Northern Michigan thriller, Scam on the Cove. Thinking he’s washed his hands of his inadvertent ties to the Chicago mob families for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBeery, Karin
Summary: Ashley Johnson moved to northern Michigan to finally meet her fiancé face-to-face, but she arrived in time to attend his funeral. With no home back in Ohio, she decides to stay in what would have been their house, except his cousin Russ lives there too, and Russ has never heard of Ashley. To complicate matters, her fiancé accidentally willed her the family farm house. Eager to please everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guiding Light Women's Fiction 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEESisk, James
Summary: Mitch Paulson, a burnt out Detroit homicide detective, retires to a small, Northern Michigan resort town only to be reluctantly coaxed out of retirement by his brother, the local Chief of Police, to investigate the murder of a beautiful, young female lobbyist from Washington, D.C., whose body is found in a building of an abandoned state mental hospital. In the course of his investigation, Mitch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SISZaiss, David
Summary: In this second novel, David Zaiss continues the tale of wrongful discharge and the corporate mentality taking over private and public institutions across the country. Although the backdrop is a small, quiet Northern Michigan community, the realities in Dismissed have far greater reaches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wong Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAIZaiss, David
Summary: The Ping-Pong Club centers on the realities of wrongful discharge, and is a counter to the corporate mentality taking over both private and public institutions across the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wong Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAIRobertson, Peter.
Summary: Two friends grew up together in Scotland. Now one is missing in Northern Michigan and the other, a successful businessman, has time on his hands. The hunt for the lost man begins as a mystery and evolves into an act of redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibson House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Robertson 2012Boyd, Jeffery Allen
Summary: Every victim of human trafficking needs a hero. A fun-filled camping trip through Northern Michigan's Upper Peninsula abruptly turns into a suspenseful race for survival. Lynn meets and befriends a charismatic teenage boy who helps to abduct her plunging Jeremy Hodak, his younger twin brothers and their friends into the modern-day terrifying world of human trafficking personally. In a bold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeffery Allen Boyd 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BoydMarabell, Peter
Summary: “The case is cold, the leads are dry, the cops care more about watching football and the chief suspect has disappeared.” “Conrad North is hiding something, and he’s scared Russo has found him out.” “Conrad North is a murderer,” the caller said. “People are dead because of him.” It had been two years since Conrad North got away with murder. Two years. The cops didn’t put him away for Camille...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kendall Sheepman Company 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MarabellWalter, Ashlea
Summary: The Up North Alphabet is a literary journey of the ABCs through iconic northern Michigan natural things and places that are unique in this very special place we adore both as residents and vacationers from all over the world. From A is for alewife to P is for Petoskey stone and S is for Sleeping Bear, this journey will sure to delight the young and young at heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinkie Finger Press 0000
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2 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALPayne, Debra
Summary: In the tranquil wilderness of Northern Michigan, school custodian Buddy Robertson finds all that he needs: the rhythms of nature, the unpretentious companionship of Mags and their seven cats, solitude from others — and a safe escape from the loss and abuse of his childhood. During cold months, Buddy fusses with his collections of various treasures. Winter's end brings maple syrup production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PAYBates, M.E.C. (Martha E. Cram)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.4 BATSchanski, Payne
Summary: For fifteen-year-old JB, life couldn't get much worse. He's been grounded for six months after making a huge mistake that's ruined his reputation, and now his life consists of going to school and coming straight home: no more basketball games or adventures with his friends. The word "fun" seems to have been erased from his life, and he's lost all hope-that is, until he hears about a legendary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 0000