Gall, Chris
Summary: "DIVE! is a fascinating introduction to the comprehensive, world history of diving by award-winning artist Chris Gall. How do you breathe underwater? What tools can we use to go deeper and deeper into the oceans? And...what's down there? Two-thirds of our Earth is covered in ocean, yet only 5% of it has been explored. DIVE deep into our long history of sea exploration to learn why, how, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The courageous story of an African-American sailor who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer and a tragic shipboard accident, Carl's iron will is never broken. Against all odds, he pushes on to achieve the impossible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MENLance, Rachel
Summary: "This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LANBrashear, Carl M. (Carl Maxie)
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Publisher / Publication Date: U.S. Naval Institute 1998
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: GEN 359 BRAJacobovici, Simcha
Summary: "From the writers behind the acclaimed documentary series Enslaved (starring Samuel L. Jackson), comes a rich and timely narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for four-hundred years, during which twelve million people were trafficked, and almost two million died at sea. Throughout this journey we meet the remarkable group, Diving With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 JACKurson, Robert
Summary: "'Pirate Hunters' is a gripping account of two courageous divers' quest to uncover the shipwrecked vessel of Joseph Bannister, one of history's most infamous pirates"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld KursonBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: "Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.845 BRIFountain, Daniel.
Contents: Early gold and silver discoveries -- The 1860s silver lead rush -- The Ontonagon County silver rush -- The Ropes gold mine -- The Michigan gold mine -- Michigan Range prospects -- Ropes Range prospects -- The Dead River Gold Range -- Other Marquette County prospects -- Baraga, Iron and Dickinson County prospects -- Gogebic Range gold and silver mines -- Placer mining -- Fables and frauds --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.342 FOUKaunonen, Gary.
Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAUBachmann, Stefan
Summary: "A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world's most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.2 BACPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWStone, George W.
Contents: Greatness for eternity : a time of Gods and heroes -- The Celts : mystical conquerors of ancient Europe -- The Vikings : raiders and traders of the North Seas -- Clontarf : the great battle for Ireland's unity -- Immortality achieved : the legacy of the Celts and Vikings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2005
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Summary: "On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carlton 2014
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Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "An "all-you-can-eat" tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: State University of New York Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.54 ALDRitter, Rhoda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: printed by the Leelanau Enterprise 1996
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 917.74 RITBeck, Miya T.
Summary: Yuki Snow wishes she were anywhere but here. She hates Santa Dolores, where her mom and stepdad just moved the family. Her BFF back home, Julio, has already forgotten his promise to stay in touch, and worse, he like likes Yuki's mortal enemy. At her new school, the kids think she's either invisible or a know-it-all nerd. The only friend she's made so far is the shopkeeper at a Japanese antiques...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024