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Authors, American 20th century Biography De Smet (S.D.) Social life and customs Detroit (Mich.) Social life and customs Ghosts Haunted places Homes Large type books Parapsychology Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957 Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957 Homes and haunts South Dakota De SmetPhilp, Drew
Summary: "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILP, DREW PHIMoore, Anne Elizabeth
Summary: "Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetuallyon the brink of revitalization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOOHaimerl, Amy
Summary: "Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she and her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAIMERL, AMY HAIGulley, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GULLEY, PHILIP GULLoomis, Bill.
Summary: "A journalistic account of how Detroit's foodways are playing a key role in the city's revitalization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Rebanks, James
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REBKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENPhelps, Daphne.
Summary: A modest, independent Englishwoman shares her memories of her home in Sicily, Casa Cuseni, that was a get away for such visitors as Tennessee Williams, Bertrand Russell, and Henry Faulkner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 PHELPS, DAPHNE PHEHunt, Samantha
Summary: "A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 130 HUNFederspiel, Michael R.
Summary: "Up north" during Hemingway's time, 1899-1921 --The Hemingway family in Michigan --Ernest's Michigan: fact and fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 813.52 Federspiel 2010Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 813.53 FEDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 813.52 FED1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 813.52 FED
Bak, Richard
Contents: Eternal thanks -- Here and gone -- Boneyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.1 BAKLutes, Della T. (Della Thompson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.973 LUTConant, Jennet.
Summary: Conant delivers a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an Office of Special Services agent in the Far East. Who would ever suspect that Julia Child--TV's popular cooking show host and master of French cuisine--was once a covert British operative?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.54 CHILD, JULIA & PAUL ConZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews! A New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the Year American Street is an evocative and powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILGopnik, Adam.
Summary: Following Gopnik's Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city. Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here are the triumphs and travails of father, mother, son and daughter; and of the teachers, coaches, therapists, adversaries and friends who round out the extended urban family....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 GOPDoran, Phil
Summary: A television producer and writer recounts how he helped his wife restore a three-hundred-year-old Italian farmhouse and found unexpected renewal from the project, the region, and his eccentric new neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 DORPhelps, Daphne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graff 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.8 PHEFellows, 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 FELHines, Stephen W.
Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINSteig, William
Summary: A peak at the life of William Steig in 1916 when he was a young boy living in the Bronx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2003