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Publisher / Publication Date: H.R. Page & Co. 1978
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Ref 977.464 TraverseCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.377464 TRACopies Available at Kingsley
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White, Ralph
Summary: The true story of how one Chase Manhattan banker fought to the save the staff of its Saigon branch before the city fell to the North Vietnamese army in the waning days of the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, RALPH WHIWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSMochizuki, Ken
Summary: "A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WEGGibbing, Naomi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Utica Heritage Association Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.439 GIBLongtine, Sonny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunnyside Publications 2002
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. LongtineBoyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOYSchulman, Daniel.
Summary: "Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. 'You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money,' Fred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KOCH BROTHERS SCHVan Zoeren, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Van Zoeren 2010
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.4635 VANLong, Michael G.
Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSMecosta Area History Book Committee
Summary: Presents a look at the centennial celebration of the Mecosta area.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morton Township Library 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: 929.377452 MECBufka, Norbert
Summary: Good Harbor Michigan is about a thriving community in central Leelanau County. A lumbering town sprang up in the mid 1880’s only to die as the result of a fire. The community continued and this is their story, based on primary source material, especially the Leelanau Enterprise which began publishing its weekly paper in 1880. citations are included for the serious historian and the people data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4635 BUF1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 BUF
Cockrell, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office, Office of Planning and Resource Preservation, Division of Cultural Resources Management 1984
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 SLENguyen, 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 NGUGardiner, William H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac State Historic Parks 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 GARHumphreys, Jessica Dee
Summary: Recounts the experiences of Michel Chikwanine, who at age five was abducted during a schoolyard soccer game and forced to become a child soldier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 HUMFranz, Dale Clarke
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pigeon River Country Association 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 FRAYang, Kao Kalia
Summary: "In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YANG, CHUE YANFreye, Bertha M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Muskegon County Historical Society 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 FreyeNelson, Ramon
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Jennings Press 1990
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.9 NELSprague, Elvin L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B.F. Bowen 1903
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.46 SPR1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 977.463 SPR
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 SPR
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 977.463 SprCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: MI 977.4 SPRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Reference, Call number: MI 977.46 SPRWakefield, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elmwood Township Board of Commissioners 1987
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: 977.4635 WAK1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 WAK
Nicholas, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island State Park Commission 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 920 NICTaylor, Charles Sprague.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008