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Wasek, 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 WAS

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 GRI

Grimes, Kenn

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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Grimes, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Grimes, Kenn

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 GRI

Hamilton, Steve

5 holds on 1 copy

Summary: After Alex McKnight saves a boat of people who crashed in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, he never expects to see them again. But the men he saved are deadly smugglers, and now Alex must do damage control.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Brogan, Earl

Summary: "Roy Shea has never been one to make waves. But he's noticed some changes in his beloved Upper Peninsula, changes he's not entirely comfortable with. When two strangers come to town, Roy finds himself in more trouble than he ever bargained for-as do the strangers, as the ghosts of the Peninsula take a sudden interest in human affairs. Before long, the supernatural and natural, the past and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Thomas, Newton G. (Newton George)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Thomas

Monson, Ander

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Monson

Harrison, Jim

Summary: In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Kennedy, Sharon M.

Summary: "A compilation of short stories depicting the struggles and lives of contemporary adults in the unforgiving rural environment of Michigan's Upper Peninsula"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern History Press 2022

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Dionne, Karen

Summary: Although happily married now, Helena Pelletier was raised in Michigan's isolated marshlands by an abusive father. When he escapes from prison, only Helena will know just how to find him.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, [2017] 2017

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Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION Alc

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

Walker, Mildred

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

Panagopoulos, Janie Lynn.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI Panagopoulos

Chung, Eve J.

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: As a thank-you from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans, instead.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 53

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Magic Osborne

Khan, M. T. (Maeeda Tariq)

Summary: Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022

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Hamilton, Steve

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Summary: "When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings on a host of suspects, bruising encounters, and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Panagopoulos, Janie Lynn.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAN

Gage, Cully.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 GAG

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

Gage, Cully.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gage

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