Modesitt, L. E.
Summary: A collection of short stories set in the world of the Recluce saga features seventeen new tales and four popular reprints spanning the thousand-year history of Recluse, in an anthology complemented by a background essay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODBoniface (Musical group)
Contents: Waking up in suburbia -- I will not return as a tourist -- Keeping up -- Dear Megan -- Oh my God -- Fumbling -- Your list -- Ghosts -- Wake me back up -- It's a joke -- Stay home -- Making peace with suburbia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BONLane, Nick.
Summary: "Today, mitochondria are central to research into human prehistory, genetic diseases, cell suicide, fertility, ageing, bioenergetics, sex, and the eukaryotic cell. Piecing together puzzles from the forefront of research, this book paints a sweeping canvas that will thrill all who are interested in biology, while also contributing to evolutionary thinking and debate. This is a book full of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.657 LANLane, Kit
Summary: There were more than 20,000 people living in Detroit, and Michigan had already been a state for ten years when the first permanent white settlers arrived in 1847 at the head of Grand Traverse Bay, the future site of Traverse City. The draw was the magnificent stands of white pine lining the banks of a river which would later be called the Boardman. By the 1890s all of the easy pine had been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Press 2014
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.46 LANDoctorow, E. L.
Summary: An assortment of short fiction ranges across America, from Alaska to the District of Columbia, as it explores the complexities of modern life in such stories as "Jolene: a Life," "A House on the Plains," "Baby Wilson," and "Walter John Harmon."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCModesitt, L. E.
Summary: "Beltur, an Order mage, discovers he possesses frightening powers not seen for hundreds of years. With his new abilities, he survives the war in Elparta and saves the lives of all. However, victory comes with a price. His fellow mages now see him as a threat to be destroyed, and the local merchants want to exploit his power. There's only one way he can remain free and survive--he's going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODModesitt, L. E.
Summary: "L. E. Modesitt, Jr., continues his bestselling Saga of Recluce with The Mage-Fire War, the third book in a story arc which began with The Mongrel Mage and Outcasts of Order. Once again, prejudices against the use of chaos magic force Beltur and his companions to flee their refuge in Axalt. The rulers of nearby Montgren have offered them sanctuary and the opportunity to become the Councilors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODModesitt, L. E.
Summary: The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world with world-building detail and an ingenious and disciplined magic system. L.E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to his longest and bestselling fantasy series with volume nineteen, The Mongrel Mage, which marks the beginning of a new story arc. In the world of Recluce, powerful mages can wield two kinds of magic--the white of Chaos or the black of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 LEALeach, M. L 1821-
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Pioneer & Historical Society of Traverse City 1988
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local LeachBunge, Nancy L.
Contents: Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BUNSummary: As biologist E. O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. One of the world's most distinguished scientists, E.O. Wilson is a professor and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard. His books include Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Lane, Nick.
Summary: A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result of a single event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 LANHenry, O.
Summary: A collection of Western American short stories by O. Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENLane, Nikki.
Contents: Right time (3:22) -- Good man (3:45) -- I don't care (2:58) -- You can't talk to me like that (3:43) -- Seein' double (3:14) -- Love's on fire (3:30) -- All or nothin' (3:56) -- Sleep with a stranger (3:35) -- Man up (4:08) -- Out of my mind (3:59) -- Wild one (3:30) -- Want my heart back (2:59).
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Publisher / Publication Date: New West Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LANLivsey, Karen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 LivseKonigsburg, E. L.
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KONDoctorow, E. L.
Contents: Genesis -- E.A. Poe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom -- Composing Moby-Dick: what might have happened -- Sam Clemens's two boys -- Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith -- Fitzgerald's Crack-Up -- Malraux, Hemingway, and the Spanish Civil War -- Dos Passos: U.S.A -- Harpo -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Arthur Miller -- Franz Kafka's Amerika -- W.G. Sebald -- Einstein: seeing the unseen -- ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.4 DOCTettensor, E. L.
Summary: Having barely escaped the clutches of the Darkwalker, Inspector Nicolas Lenoir throws himself into his work with a determination he hasn't known in years. But his legendary skills are about to be put to the test. A horrific disease is ravaging the city--and all signs point to it having been deliberately unleashed. With a mass murderer on the loose, a rising body count, and every hound in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TETAyers, Edward L.
Summary: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies is a landmark work of stirring historical narrative and deep scholarship. It gives us the Civil War on an intimate scale, as a story of individuals and families, civilians and soldiers, slaves, free blacks and whites, women and men. It upends what has become the standard view of the Civil War. By taking a ground-level view of the war, Edward L. Ayers shows that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AYEDaniels, Stacy L.
Summary: The "tragedy/comedy" is a well-known story of the lowering of Crystal Lake, in Benzie Co., MI.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flushed with Pride Press 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4632 DAN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4632 Daniels
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: M.Witmark and Sons 1917
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: In 1851, word spread of California’s beautiful Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wished to exploit the land for commercial gain as well as those who wished to keep it pristine. This episode relates how a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir made protecting this land a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passed an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development—the first time in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Rymsza, Guy A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dome Shadow Press 2004