Reardon, Lisa.
Summary: As Ray Johnson searches for the killer of his brother, a man whom the whole town wanted dead, he tries to explain what caused the brother to be a bad man. A tale of child abuse and incest in rural Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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Summary: A groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who goes undercover to root out the crime and corruption threatening her community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOUBoulley, Angeline
Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC BOUMcFarland, Jeni
Summary: "River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving, but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return--Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend's only black daughters, now a mother of two who'd planned to raise her own children anywhere else--their paths collide under Beth's father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFCampbell, Bonnie Jo
Summary: An anthology of stories on human relationships. The story, Eating Aunt Victoria, traces the relationship of teenagers and their mother's lesbian lover, while in Bringing Home the Bones an accident in which a woman loses a leg improves her relations with her children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMMorrison, Toni.
Summary: Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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Summary: Escaping the city, and her coed-chasing ex-husband, part-time journalist and full-time failed mystery writer Emily Kincaid has moved into a cozy cabin nestled in the woods of northern Michigan. Emily spends her days writing for the local newspaper and crafting her latest forgettable novel. Then one morning her quiet life turns grisly when a severed head tumbles out of her garbage can.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2007
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Summary: Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADHarper, Evelyn Allen.
Summary: The restless leg syndrome that kept Michigan real estate agent Molly Allen awake much of the night sent her on nightime walks through her neighborhood, making her a possible witness to the two vicious murders in McGuire's Alley. The police want to know what she heard. The murderer wants her dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CRQ Press 2010
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Summary: A young boy rescued from a burning building leads a young fireman into a world of political intrigue, aided by the staff of Allen Real Estate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Booklocker, Inc.] 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARDeCamp, Alison.
Summary: In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DECBoulley, Angeline
Summary: Una premiada y aclamada novela sobre el racismo que pronto llegará a Netflix.Uno de los mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos según el New York Times. Como miembro extraoficial de su tribu nativa americana, chica birracial y producto de un escándalo, Daunis Fontaine nunca encajó del todo. Sueña con dejar su pasado atrás, empezar de cero y estudiar medicina, pero una tragedia la fuerza a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BOUBoulley, Angeline
Summary: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Summary: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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Summary: With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOUWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: When she sneaks away to visit her friend, a young girl living on the Michigan frontier is caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands in the 1840s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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Summary: Now married to detective Mitch Hatch, real estate agent Molly Allen is pregnant with twins. Then ex-convict Sammy the Grunt returns to the little northern Michigan town with revenge in his heart and mayhem, murder, and the strong scent of cologne in his wake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BookLocker.com, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: From Publisher's Website: The second Lou Searing and Maggie McMillan mystery opens with the Principal of Shoreline High School in Shoreline, Michigan submerged facedown in the high school swimming pool at 11:37 p.m. The death was witnessed by a student, Devon Rockingham, who is quite certain the murderer is his special education teacher, Heidi Simpson. Lou and Maggie get involved and work to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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Summary: Even with retirement in view, Detective Sunderson decides to investigate a cult that has settled near his home nonetheless. Although their so-called 'Great Leader' initially appears to be harmless, Sunderson and his teenage sidekick unearth some startling information. As he digs deeper, Sunderson's search for the Great Leader's true intentions takes him from Michigan to Arizona to Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane.
Summary: Even the beauty of Northern Michigan can’t put a smile on the face of Emily Kincaid’s perpetually cranky friend Deputy Dolly Wakowski, and when someone tries to destroy the only family Dolly has ever had, her crankiness turns lethal, even as the crime threatens to overwhelm her. Still struggling in her career as a mystery writer, Emily takes a deep breath before stepping in to help. As they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond the Page Publishing 2013
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Summary: The search for a four-leaf clover turns deadly, leading the staff of Allen Real Estate into the mystery of two bodies in a ditch along a logging road.
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Summary: Life in the northwest wilderness of Michigan during the lumberjack era makes an exciting and engaging story and who better to tell it than someone who actually lived there during this time. Mason Ray was a citizen in Leelanau County, Michigan from 1880 until 1922. She knew stalwart lumberjacks, the people that owned and ran the lumber mills, their neighbors, and the other strong-hearted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Ray 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAYJohnson, Anna Rose
Summary: When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022