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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARAGA, FREDERIC BARCassuto, David N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.458 CASArnold, Jennie Auburnia Waterman
Summary: Jennie Arnold was a historian of Traverse City, Michigan. Born in 1893 at East Jordan, Michigan, she is best remembered for having campaigned to save the historic Grand Traverse County Courthouse from demolition in the mid-1970s. She also owned and operated a bookstore. Volume includes her reminiscenses, titled "Writings," as well as newspaper clippings, images, and letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 921 ARNFormat: text
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
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF 977.464 TRA1 available in Reference Office, Call number: REF 977.464 TRA
Rydholm, C. Fred.
Contents: v.1,bk.1. The north end of the Bentley Trail. -- v.1,bk.2. White Deer Lake country: the south end of the Bentley Trail. -- v.2,bk.3. The Andersens and the Yellowdog Plains. -- v.2,bk.4. My friends, family, and life in these north woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.F. Rydholm 1989
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 Ryd v.2Call number: MIO 977.49 RYD v.1
2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.49 RYD V1
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Wilson, Robert E
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Pioneer and Historical Society 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 WIL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 WIL
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: MI 977.464 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local WilsonSummary: 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 WOMNguyen, 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, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUAnderson, W. S., (William Stacy)
Summary: A compilation of persons known to the Traverse City and Grand Traverse region containing photos and short essays including association with persons and their occupations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: unknown 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 AndersonNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: A memoir of Bich Nguyen and her journey to become a "real" American.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: Hedrick writes of his youth during the beginning of homesteading the Little Traverse Bay wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1986
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History HedrickCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 917.74 HEDContents: Plat book of Sanilac County, [1940?] -- Farm plat book, [1959] -- Triennial atlas & plat book, [1969], [1972] -- Atlas & plat book, 1974, 1976 -- Land atlas & plat book, 1978, 1980 -- Land atlas and plat book, 1982, 1984 -- Land atlas, plat book and business directory, 1987 -- Land atlas & plat book, 1992, 1994, 1996 -- Plat & directory book, [2000] -- Land atlas & plat book (2002, 2004, 2007).
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rockford Map Publishers 1940
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912 PLAT Sanilac 2013Fellows, Deborah Wyatt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 FEL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 917.749 FEL
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.74 FELPorter, Billy
Summary: It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Actor and survivor Billy Porter shares his life story in his own words.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PORTER, BILLY PORNguyen, Bich Minh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnson, Dana Kenneth
Summary: This 93-page book explores the schools of Marquette County, Michigan, in full-color photos and detailed text, and provides a little background history to some of the locales in the county.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.496 JOHLiesch, Matthew.
Summary: Situated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place. During the 1880s, a mining boom lured settlers, investment, and controversy. Investors from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Cleveland hoped to become rich, but many were pulled into scams or poorly managed mines and ended up losing their money. After iron stocks crashed, mining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4983 LIEByron, M. Christine
Contents: The Mackinac Straits Region -- Mackinaw City -- Crossing the Straits -- St. Ignace -- Mackinac Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4923 BRY1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 977.4923 BYR
Arsenault, Kerri
Summary: "A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 ARSMcCormick, Mack
Summary: When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. McCormick searched to uncover Johnson's life story, from the late 1960s until his own death in 2015. Here McCormick's manuscript is published for the first time, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT MCCSarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 977.4 TRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: NEL 977.464 TRA2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.464 TRA