Laken, Valerie.
Summary: Hoping to rekindle their troubled marriage while renovating a historic house in Ann Arbor, Kate and Stuart Kinzler learn that the house had been the scene of a devastating crime thirty years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAKBidlack, Russell E. (Russell Eugene)
Summary: Details the life of Ann I. Allen, Ann Arbor's first lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLEN, ANN I. BIDSummary: 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 MEDBrown, T. Scott (Timothy Scott)
Summary: "A memoir, a coming of age story, an exploration of father-son relationships, a social history, and a how-to-succeed-in-business book in one page-turning tome. Tim Brown writes about a unique time and place in Michigan lore, but his is a quintessential American story. It vividly and touchingly portrays a young man trying to wrest respect from his stern father, make his way in the world and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, T. SCOTT BROKeyes, Edward.
Summary: The true story of the savage coed killings---by the boy who could have lived next door! Southeastern Michigan was rocked in the late 1960s by the terrifying serial murders of young women, whose bodies were dumped in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. In each case, few clues were left at the scene, and six separate police agencies were unable to end the horror. Then, almost by accident, a break came. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 KEYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 KEYSummary: "Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.H. Nanry 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 NANRY FAMILY NANComstock, Lyndon.
Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMSoderstrom, Robert M.
Contents: 1. The prologue -- 2. 1922: The season that laid the cornerstone -- 3. The building and naming of Yost Field House -- 4. 1923: The season that built the foundation -- 5. The founding of the Big Ten Commissioner -- 6. 1924: The decisive season, "the dedication season" -- 7. The crucial spring of 1925 -- 8. 1925: "The greatest football team I ever saw" -- 9. The Day Committee report -- 10. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Huron River Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 SODMaynard, Micheline
Summary: "From an accomplished national journalist, a lively look at the inception, growth, future, and unique management style of Zingerman's-a beloved, $70 million-dollar Michigan-based specialty food store with global reach. Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of those places. Over the years the flagship deli has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 MAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Misc MaynardBurkhardt, D. C. Jesse
Contents: Rolling tonnage: moving the double A's freight -- Passenger trains -- Tracks on the water: the carferry fleet -- Terminals: Elberta, Cadillac, Owosso, Ann Arbor, and Toledo -- The war years -- We have the connections -- After the carferries -- Addendum: the Ann Arbor carferry fleet (1892-1982).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.097 BURLivingston, Stanley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.63 LIVLivingstone, Natalie
Summary: "For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden estate. Overlooking the Thames, the mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 LIVStanley, Jerry
Summary: The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLENguyen, Bich Minh
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, BICH MINH NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUFrederickson, Arthur C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Printed by the Patriot Pub. Co. 1949
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.2234 FREWarrick, Robert I.
Summary: "The Ann Arbor Railroad was as much a steamship line as a railroad. This text rich volume follows Michigan's most distinctive railroad from beginning to end with stunning photographs that will surprise readers."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morning Sun Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 WARTasker, Greg.
Summary: "Each hike features an individual trail map, elevation profile, and at-a-glance information, helping readers quickly find the perfect trip. Sized to fit in a pocket, the book's detailed trail descriptions will help readers find their way on and off the trail. Driving directions and GPS trailhead coordinates will help with navigating the myriad of unnamed roads. The trails covered range from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menasha Ridge Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.743 TASBrown, Grant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.6097 BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Maritime BrownPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll, she was there. Through the fierce Michigan thunderstorms and the snowy blizzards. Through parties, weddings, and the deaths of old friends. Now, when Mary Ellen's daughter Trisha needs Betty Doll most, she opens a package and rediscovers the sweet old doll, along with a letter written by her mother right before she died. In it, her mother tells the story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARNoonan Gores, Kelly
Summary: "When we receive diagnoses from medical professionals, we are often so overwhelmed that we give up authority over our own health and well-being. But the truth is, we have more control over our health and life that we have been led to believe, and that belief is at the core of our body's capacity to heal itself. Based on the groundbreaking documentary of the same name, Heal follows two people on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 NOOSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008