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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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BlanchardBryan, 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 BRYBarker, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Woolson, 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 WOOOldenburg, 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 OLDBarker, Charles Ferguson.
Summary: Explore what would happen if all of the water drained from the Great Lakes and what their lake floors might look like under all that water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Barker 2005Perkins, Stan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadblade Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI FIC PERRobertson, Joanne
Summary: "A translation of The Water Walker into Anishinaabemowin. The book contains both Anishinaabemowin and English. The Water Walker is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 WOMSummary: "Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan describes the conditions for urbanization across the Great Lakes region. It assembles a multi-layered, empirical description of urbanization processes within the drainage basins of the five Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River. This thick description encompasses a range of representational forms including maps, plans, diagrams, timelines, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Actar 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912 THICleland, Charles E.
Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CLE1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLEGrady, Wayne.
Summary: "This book is an exploration of the biology and ecology of a vital, ever-changing terrain. Written by one of Canada's best-known science and nature writers, it is intended not only for those who live in the Great Lakes basin but for anyone captivated by the splendor of the natural world and sensitive to the challenges of its preservation."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature GradyHartig, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.72 HARSummary: Overview: Offering insight into the arts of Great Lakes Native nations, this collection of stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiographies, and fiction, spans the centuries from deep past to the present. Elders, war chiefs, religious leaders, and contemporary artists share stories of the creation, stars, animals, heroes, and monsters, along with narratives of hunting, fishing, food-gathering,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 BREStonehouse, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STO1 available in Local Author, Call number: 364 STO
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 364 STODamm, Peter L.
Summary: Stories of a young boy's journey to adulthood in small town rural Upper Midwest in the 1950s and 60s. A funny, poignant, moving and beautifully written memoir about the challenges, mischief, fears and lessons of growing up as the youngest of five brothers and one sister, Catholic education, the natural world, trying to understand religious and adult mysteries, honor, family, truth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien & Whitaker 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAMM, PETER DAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAMM DAMErdrich, Louise.
Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012Rosenstock, Barb
Summary: "A picture book about the five largest lakes in North America - how they formed, the importance of these waters, and how they've become a national treasure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977 ROSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 977 ROSMcClelland, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav USA McClellandBarnes, Burton Verne
Contents: Key 1 Plants with Needlelike, Scalelike, or Awl-Shaped Leaves -- Key 2 Broadleaf Evergreen Flowering Plants -- Key 3 Broadleaf Deciduous Plants with Opposite or Whorled Leaves -- Key 4 Broadleaf Deciduous Plants with Alternate, Compound Leaves -- Key 5 Broadleaf Deciduous Plants with Alternate, Simple Leaves -- Key 6 Plants with Stems-Twigs Armed: Thorns, Spines, Prickles -- Key 7 Woody Vines:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.17 BARDempsey, Dave
Summary: "The Great Lakes contain 20 percent of the world's surface fresh water -- and attract an even bigger share of the world's lust for water profit. As threats of water commercialization grow, those who love the Great Lakes must learn how we got here, and what we need to do." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 DEM1 available in Local Author, Call number: 333.91 DEM