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American wit and humor, Pictorial Meurtre Enquêtes Romans, nouvelles, etc Motion picture music Excerpts Vocal scores with piano Murder Investigation Fiction Slaves United States Virginia Fiction Virginie Romans, nouvelles, etc Washington, George 1732-1799 Washington, George 1732-1799 Relations with slaves Juvenile literatureFoley, Louise Pledge Heath.
Summary: Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Foley 1974
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 Foley VOL. 1McClafferty, Carla Killough
Summary: Draws on primary source documents and photographs of historical artifacts to examine the lives of men and women enslaved by the Washington family, and includes information on the present-day archeological survey of Mount Vernon's Slave Cemetery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 MCCJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2021CenturyLink
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CenturyLink 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R PHONE 2017 CenturyLinkMicklos, John
Summary: "The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tree there become a symbol of the conflict? What can its story tell us about that day's battle and the broader history of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MICGriswold, Mac K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.41 GRIMcCorkindale, Susan.
Summary: A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don't mix.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCORKINDALE MCCWiencek, Henry.
Summary: A reassessment of the third president draws on new archaeological studies and previously disregarded personal records to explore his contradictory views on slavery while examining what is revealed by his monetary records.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS WIENorris, J. E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia Book Co. 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 NORSummary: A shocking and outlandish year-in-the-life documentary about the White Family of Boone County, West Virginia's most notorious extended family, with shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug dealing and using, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing. Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the White family glorifies their criminal behavior and lives an existence more like something from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2010
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILTraverse City (Mich.)
Summary: The charter is an act to incorporate the city of Traverse City, in the county of Grand Traverse, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [The City] 1913
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6 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 352 Charter 1900Call number: R NEL 352 Charter 1913
Call number: R NEL 352 Charter 1940
Call number: R NEL 352 Charter 1955
Contents: Plat book of Ottawa County, [193-?] -- Farm plat book, [1955] -- Official farm plat book and directory, [1960] -- Plat book, 1965 -- Triennial atlas & plat book, [1970] -- Atlas & plat book, 1973 -- Ottawa County plat book, 1976, 1979 -- Land atlas and plat book, 1982, 1984-1986, 1987-1989 -- Land atlas & plat book, 1990, 1993, 1995, [1999], 2002, 2011.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rockford Map Publishers 1930
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912 PLAT Ottawa 2011Saunders, Caroline Kirkland Ruffin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Printed by W. M. Brown 1937
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 283.7554 SaundLevy, Janey
Summary: Mount Vernon, George Washingtons residence, holds a special place in US history and in the hearts of many Americans. But its history of slavery has remained largely hidden until recently. Thats because its difficult to accept the contradiction of a Founding Father who fought for liberty, but engaged in the practice of slavery. This thought-provoking volume uses the discoveries of archaeologists...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TCMSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: In the Complete Peanuts: 1979-1980 Snoopy launches his beagle scout treks. Valentine's day sparks an unlikely romance, and Lucy promises she will finally let Charlie Brown kick the football!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagrphics Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SCHBrown, Rita Mae
Summary: Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Shuck, Larry G. (Larry Gorden)
Contents: v. 1. Greenbrier Co. (West) Virginia early survey records, 1780-1799, Greenbrier Co. (West) Virginia early court minutes, 1780-1801, 1811, 1817-1819, Greenbrier Co. (West) Virginia court record books, 1828-1835, district court records, Batetourt, Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Montgomery counties, 1792-1797, district court deeds, Sweet Springs Virginia court house, 1789-1808 -- v. 2. Greenbrier...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Iberian Pub. Co. 1988
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 ShuckGreen, Kristen.
Summary: Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 GREMapping Unlimited
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mapping Unlimited 1973
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: MIR 623.892 NAV2 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: NELO 623.892 NAV
Revel, Harry
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Miller Music, Inc. 1937
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMRagsdale, Bruce A.
Summary: "George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation's prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor's inefficiency as much as itsinhumanity that finally convinced Washington to emancipate the men and women bonded to him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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Summary: "Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She's already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town's festivities. With her frosty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GILNeshama, Rivvy
Summary: "Examines the life of enslaved African-American Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021