Comstock, 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, Call number: B CLEMENC COMStanley, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: North Country Pub. 2003
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 917.74 Emerick 2003Emerick, Lon L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Country Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 EMECotter, Tom
Summary: "Tom Cotter undertakes his most epic adventure in America's Greatest Road Trip. Launching from Key West, Florida, Cotter and photographer Michael Alan Ross pilot their Ford Bronco/Airstream camper combination nearly 9,000 miles to America's literal end of the road in Deadhorse, Alaska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.0009 WEIFellows, Deborah Wyatt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.74 FELBurns, Virginia.
Summary: The fictionalized biography of Ana Klobuchar Clemenc (1888-1956), daughter of Slovenian immigrants, who worked for Socialist causes and was an important figure in the 1913 Camulet copper miners' strike in the Upper Peninsula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enterprise Press 1987
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 921 Burns 1987Bidlack, 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. BIDFranz, Dale Clarke
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pigeon River Country Association 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.459 MERMack, Doug
Summary: Traces the author's explorations of U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to juxtapose their blends of culture against the expansionist views of the Founding Fathers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: At a time when her life seemed to be crumbling, Rich took on a writing assignment in India, where she was seduced by the idea of trying to speak Hindi, the language she heard swirling all around her. In a rash moment, she determined she would go live and study in the ancient city of Udaipur. That decision led to unexpected reclamation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Summary: "Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Vienna, Salzburg and Tirol Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from Mozart's house...to the eerie Bone Chapel and the oldest salt mine in the world...Useful resources including a packing list, a German phrase book, a historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2023
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Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEASummary: 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 MEDMarcus, Clare Cooper.
Summary: A journey of healing takes Clare Cooper Marcus on a 6-month long solitary retreat to the remote Scottish Island of Iona. Here she experiences a mirroring of her soul and reflects and reviews the life that brought her here to this magical place. Her compelling memoir "Iona Dreaming" is an inspirational account of personal survival and hope in which Clare shares her recovery from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nicolas-Hays 2010
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Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BRODemi.
Summary: Describes the life and journeys of the Italian trader who became famous for his travels in Asia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2008
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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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Summary: An unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world. Traveling alone, Erika Fatland...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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Summary: A follow-up to the award-winning Blankets depicts in strikingly detailed black-and-white graphic artwork and first-person reflections the acclaimed cartoonist's travels through Europe and Morocco, where he had remarkable cultural, intellectual and spiritual encounters while making new friends and researching his next novel, Habibi. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018