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Shipley, Robert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell Pub. 1992

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 386.224 SHI

Plowden, David.

Summary: Since the 1850s when coal-fired reciprocating steam engines were first heralded as a reliable means of powering ships, these majestic vessels have crisscrossed the Great Lakes transporting everything from coal and grain to iron ore and cement. The speed and efficiency of the lake freighters was unchallenged until the advent of the diesel locomotive engine. Today, however, the massive fleet has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1992

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 386.2243 PLO

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Stonehouse, Frederick.

Contents: War objectives : North and South -- Political environment -- Navigation -- An industrial war -- Confederate Canadian team and mission -- Plots and more plots -- End game -- Courtenay Torpedo -- The shadow war : Union and Confederate secret operators -- The Lady Elgin, a precursor of war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 STO

Campbell, Robert B.

Summary: Robert Campbell's Classic Ships of the Great Lakes presents a visually stunning array of historical and present-day inland shipping including passenger ships, whaleback, bulk carriers, self-unloaders, cement carriers, oil tankers, car ferries, super ships, and more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2015

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 386 CAM

Erdrich, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERD

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012

Grady, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 GRA

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature Grady

Mixter, Ric

Summary: "Messages in a bottle were a last ditch effort calling for rescue, or desperate goodbyes to loved ones. Penned by Christopher Columbus and passengers on Titanic, history has recorded thousands of bottles, but which ones are hoaxes? Historian Ric Mixter investigates and adds new information to famous and unknown messages on the ocean and Great Lakes." -- page 4 of cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Airworthy Productions 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9777 MIX

Oleszewski, Wes

Summary: "Those who had yet to be born when World War II raged cannot imagine the fear, anger, suffering and sacrifice experienced by those who witnessed and fought in that conflict. Not only was freedom threatened, but the very fabric of human civilization was in danger. In order to preserve their very existence, free people had to mobilize and fight the evil that threatened to envelope the world. When...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 OLE

Damm, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien & Whitaker 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAMM, PETER DAM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAMM DAM

Stone, Joel (Joel Lagrou)

Contents: Introduction: steam navigation on the Great Lakes -- Steam navigation from 1817 to 1860 -- Harnessing steam -- Early years on the lakes -- Opening the frontier -- Birth of an industry -- Regional development -- Maritime politics -- The palace steamer era -- Steam navigation from 1860 to 1900 -- The Civil War years -- New era, new business models -- Changing tastes and technologies -- Steam...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Maritime Stone

Waterman, Jonathan

Summary: "This breathtaking book highlights the most glorious wilderness areas and nature preserves in North America"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Institute of Science 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 UPP

Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Cleland, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CLE
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLE

Gough, Barry M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.034 GOU

Zoss, Neel R.

Summary: The history of the whalebacks, on the five Great Lakes and onthe seven seas, is long and colorful. Many thrilling adventures, many mishaps, several mysteries and numerous heroic rescues all played a part in the whaleback story. Several of the whalebacks sailed for close to three quarters of a century before being dismantled as scrap. Sadly, many other whalebacks sailed for far less time...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 ZOS

Shipley, Robert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell Pub. 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 386.224 SHI

Hartig, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.72 HAR

Boles, Frank

Summary: "The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.54 BOL

McClelland, Ted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 MCC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav USA McClelland

Wargin, Ed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2000

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 WAR
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977 WAR

Barker, Charles Ferguson.

Summary: "A fascinating, entertaining, and cautionary story about what the Great Lakes would look like without water"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2017

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Dutton, Fred W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DUT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUT

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