Glave, James.
Summary: A quirky, poignant, and hilarious nonfiction account of one man's fumbling quest to reinvent suburbia, starting with his own front yard. The author couldn't afford to build a green house, so instead he built an "eco-shed," a 280-square foot sustainably designed writing studio and in-law suite-- but his in-laws are unlikely to ever stay there because they aren't talking to him much anymore....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.8047 GLACenturyLink
Summary: Includes -- Bear Lake -- Benzonia -- Beulah -- Burdickville -- Cedar -- Elk Rapids -- Empire -- Fife Lake -- Glen Arbor -- Glen Lake -- Hannah -- Honor -- Interlochen -- Karlin -- Kingsley -- Lake Ann -- Lake Leelanau -- Lime Lake -- Little Traverse Lake -- Maple City -- Mayfield -- Northport -- Summit City -- Suttons Bay -- Traverse City -- Williamsburg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CenturyLink 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R PHONE 2017 CenturyLinkSummary: Follow a 10-year-old urban revolutionary, Huey, and his hip-hop obsessed little brother, Riley, as they move to the suburbs with their unwise old granddad, Robert Freeman. In this quiet neighborhood, the laughs, pop culture and pretensions, from Martin Luther King to Chicken flu, from Santa Claus to bullying, no taboo is left untouched. Includes a compilation CD "The Boondocks: Music from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOOSummary: Vince Rizzo is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Vince would rather let his wife believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an affair than admit he is secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIT RATED PG13Tinsley, Cheryl Steele
Summary: "Is there a purpose to tragedy and profound loss? Does God even care what happens to us? On July 3, 1980, Cheryl Steele Tinsley and three of her friends were caught in a deadly “freak storm” on Lake Huron that meteorologists say only appear once every ten to twelve years. Only when the conditions are just right. This story is filled with gripping details about how our lives are changed when we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Credo House Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Kenyon, 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 KENKantar, Andrew.
Contents: The great November terror -- The sweetwater sea -- Death on Huron -- The Morrell's world -- Outward bound -- The witch of November -- Madness at sea -- Chaos! -- A nightmare without end -- Where is the Morrell? -- "Waiting to die" -- And the bodies keep coming -- Human wreckage -- Seeking answers -- Epilogue -- Morrell crew list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 KANProse, Francine
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROBabylon Bee, LLC
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek guide to the left's intersectional insanity, the writers of the satirical social media site The Babylon Bee teach examine: how to choose pronouns; how to blame everyone else for your problems; how to show the world how wonderful you are; the art of virtue-signaling; the basics of race, gender, and intersectionality; the truth about American history; problematic books and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 BABGallagher, Leigh
Summary: "For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated communities in the suburbs, a place where open air and solitude offered a retreat from our dense, polluted cities. Before long, success became synonymous with a private home in a bedroom community complete with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.74 GALMcDonnell, Michael A.
Summary: "A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view, centered on the Odawa tribe of Northern Michigan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 MCDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native McDonnellMullen, Jim (Jim R.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 OHMFranken, Al.
Summary: Satirist Al Franken examines the political right, and uses their own words against them, taking on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 324 FRAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: De’Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia—a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De’Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law’s Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLACoben, Harlan
Summary: Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY COBShortall, Eithne
Summary: "The Husband's Secret meets Big Little Lies in this story of three women looking for a fresh start, and the love affairs, rivalries, and scandals found on the other side of the white picket fence."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHODuffy, Erin
Summary: Claire thought she had everything a woman was supposed to want: a loving husband, a newborn son, a beautiful home in the suburbs. Then she walked in on her husband canoodling with their Realtor in their newly renovated kitchen, and in an instant, her perfect life came crashing down. With her marriage headed for divorce, Claire knows it's time to stop feeling sorry for herself. But how can she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUFGraves, Tracey Garvis.
Summary: With her marriage troubled after her husband loses his job, Claire's friendship with a local police officer starts turning heads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAChochois, Héloïse
Summary: "A graphic novel exploring amputation, revealing details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.5 CHOFranzen, Jonathan.
Summary: Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul--the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avent-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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Summary: No one can feel the pulse of the world like Garry Trudeau, whose satirical look at the 1960's and early 1970's is a real delight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRUSummary: Just how different can neighbors be and still be neighborly? While the Goods struggle to live off their suburban London plot, the Leadbetters struggle with living next door to the Goods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOOSummary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013