Grimes, Kenn
Summary: "In 1919, Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I, takes a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan. The discovery of a cache of letters received by a student who held the same position Myrtle now holds, Yvette Sinclair, shortly before she was found strangled to death in the same library some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGrimes, Kenn
Summary: Edwin Thatcher was stabbed to death. That much was obvious. The question, though, is not only who did it but what kind of weapon was used.Enter Myrtle Tully, head librarian at the local college library and amateur sleuth whose efforts over the past three years helped expose the perpetrators of five murders in the small town of Booker Falls, tucked away in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.Can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 0000
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Summary: "Three murders in four days! That's a lot of crime in the 1920s for Booker Falls, a small town tucked away in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, a part of the state's Upper Peninsula ... "--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 2017
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Summary: It’s New Year’s Day, 1921. The small town of Booker Falls, located in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, which less than four months earlier was rocked by a triple homicide, once again finds itself with a murder on its hands when the lifeless body of Frank Mitchell, amateur artist and head librarian at Adelaide College’s library, is discovered on the sawdust covered floor of his studio. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIMonson, Ander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MonsonWasek, A.A.
Summary: One of America's most famous - and most deadly - labor strikes occurred in The Copper Country of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1913, and its major events are described through the eyes of sixteen-year old Emilia Rytilahti. Emilia and her younger sister Heli are first-generation American born Finns, who see and personally experience the prejudice of the era against their family and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Wasek,] 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WASLankton, Larry D.
Summary: From the Dust Jacket: In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.499 Lankton 2010Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LANDrust-Bellous, Betty Marie
Summary: "While I was living in Mohawk, I became interested in the Cornish settlement in Central Mine and the mine disaster of 1872. I intended to write an article for a historical magazine. But once I got into researching the 13 miners of that disaster, I was hooked and wanted to know more about life in the Keweenaw. The book includes the genealogies of the miners in the 1872 accident as well as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37749 BellousCarney-Coston, Barbara
Summary: In 1886, 11-year-old Mihaela embarks on a journey from Croatia to the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. Mihaela's papa had made the trip two years beforehand in order to work the copper mines so that he could send money back home, but a painful eye disease has left him vulnerable in a new land and in need of the skills of his wife, an expert healer. And so Mihaela,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARHobart, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991
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Summary: More than 6,000 shipwrecks have been recorded on the Great Lakes, but only one offers a true-life adventure like the 1926 rescue of the City of Bangor off the Keweenaw Peninsula in upper Michigan. A fierce November storm tossed the ship with a crew of 23 and 240 new Chrysler automobiles onto a Lake Superior reef. For the first time, Shipwrecked and Rescued: Cars and Crew tells the near-tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.L. Management, LLC 2022