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Woods Cop: Book 1
Ice Hunter: A Woods Cop Mystery (Woods Cop Mysteries)
by Joseph Heywood
Meet Grady Service: a former Marine, renowned tracker, Conservation Officer, and the last person any errant hunter wants to cross. In Ice Hunter , the first of a series of mysteries set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Service defends his turf with the tenacity of a bear and the wisdom of an ancient. He shuns all creature comforts and consumerism and is most at home stalking the Mosquito Tract, his self-designated... (more)
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The Raw and the Cooked
Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
by Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius -- one who devours life with intensity, living... (more)
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Just Before Dark
by Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison's essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions and concerns of a classic American writer: ice fishing and bar pool, nouvelle cuisine and night walks.
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Alex McKnight: Book 7
A Stolen Season
by Steve Hamilton
On a freezing night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat plows full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. With Alex McKnight on the rescue mission, the passengers are brought safely to shore. Alex figures the story’s over…but he’s dead wrong. The boat accident’s happy ending turns... (more)
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Marley & Me
Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.Marley quickly... (more)
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
In this debut of breathtaking scope, a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could -- to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula. When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all addressed ominously to "My dear and unfortunate successor..." she begins to... (more)
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The Woman Lit By Fireflies
by Jim Harrison
The author of Dalva and Legends of the Fall has created three stunning novellas that echo the best works of Raymond Carver and James Dickey. A superb collection that evokes life lived close to the land--and a brilliant portrayal of the complex relationships of the men and women there.
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The Secret-Keeper
by Chris Zimmerman
By the time he realized that his wife's killer was in his grasp, it was too late. By the time he ran for help, they chased him from Hemingway's Walloon Lake to the sultry sands of the Caribbean. Snubbed by the authorities, scorned by his patients, he turns to the woman of his future with ties to his past. They all had a secret to tell; they all had a secret to keep. Find out what it was. Chris Zimmerman at his... (more)
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Travel Tales...: An Old Retiree, His RV, His Dog, and His Woman (Not Necessarily in Order of Preference) Hit the Road
by Ken Halloran
Got the "blahs" - is it snowing - is it cold - are you stuck on the couch and bored to tears? Travel Tales ... An Old Retiree, His RV, His Dog, and His Woman (not necessarily in order of preference) Hit The Road by Ken Halloran could provide the antidote for these all-to-common ailments. It focuses, in a humorous way, on everyday events that happen to everyday people while touring and traveling in a... (more)
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The Covenant Field
by Chris Zimmerman
No one would have guessed that Her Honor had her fingers into so many horrible things - from the environmental nightmare that scarred the state forever, to the unsolved mystery from a generation ago... Nobody suspected that her life could be in danger until Her Honor was murdered on the steps of a southern Michigan Courthouse. It wasn't until the hard work of an innocent reporter unearther the guilty details of... (more)
Mystic Michigan Part TwoMark Jager
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Mystic Michigan Part Two
by Mark Jager
Bizarre phenomena throughout the state of Michigan!
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Mystic Michigan Part Five
by Mark Jager
An excellent guide for incredible journeys into the mystic worlds of Michigan. Have you heard of Michigan's Phantom Train? How about visiting a cemetery where objects seem to roll uphill. Learn of strange craters at the bottom of a Michigan lake. Discover mirage ships, an ancient 1,000 acre garden, the Bellevue ruins, the Norway forest light, a mystic stream or Michigan's mystery sphere. All these and more can... (more)
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Switched
by Diane Burton
Kidnapped by aliens...by mistake? Jessie Wyndom's life in Ann Arbor, Michigan is just fine. She has her repair business and the family farm. What more could a girl want? Except for the rebels threatening intergalactic peace, Captain Marcus Viator's life is routine and uneventful--just the way he likes it. Until the brash Terran woman is accidentally transported aboard his starship and turns his life upside... (more)
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A Ho Needs 2 Stay In A Ho's Place
by Tonja Ayers
Has a ho ever called your house playing on the phone? Or left her underwear, lip gloss or hair pin in your home to let you know that she had been there? Has a ho sent you a letter, text or an email? Has a ho ever keyed your car or slashed your tires? If so, this book is for HER! Help a ho out and send her a copy of this book! Now I know what you re thinking and you re probably saying Forget dat ho! but real... (more)
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South of Superior
by Ellen Airgood
A debut novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life. When Madeline Stone walks away from Chicago and moves five hundred miles north to the coast of Lake Superior, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, she isn't prepared for how much her life will change. Charged with caring for an aging family friend, Madeline finds herself in the middle of beautiful... (more)
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Switched
by Diane Burton
When wise-cracking Jessie Wyndom is beamed from her farmhouse in Ann Arbor, MI aboard an Alliance starship, she meets a regular Mr. Spock. Captain Marcus Viator's well-organized life is turned upside down by a free-spirited Terran. Fate brings them together. Treachery tears them apart. Revised version of book published in 2001.
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The Starling and Marquette Mysteries
The Man Who Did Too Much (A Starling and Marquette Mystery)
by Camille LaGuire
In a small Michigan beach town, an eccentric movie buff and a compulsive secret agent join forces to solve a case of kidnapping and murder. *** George Starling quit his job as a secret agent to take care of a traumatized woman he rescued. He has brought her home to her small Michigan town, where she can't seem to get better, and he can't seem to shake loose of his need to take care of her. When an old friend... (more)
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Running Northwest
by Michael James Melville
Set on the expansive Pacific Ocean amongst the rocky, foggy and forested northern coast of Oregon is a story about heartbreaking loss, rebuilding, love and the hands of fate. How a new road is wound through the life of a single father, Thomas James and his 8-year-old son, Daniel. In the middle of the country a women named Stephanie Davis, emerges from a rocky relationship and begins to think about a love from... (more)
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Switched, Too
by Diane Burton
Be careful what you wish for . . . you might get it. Down-sized astronaut candidate Scott Cherella leaps at the chance to go into space. He just has to pretend to be the captain of an Alliance of Planets starship. His lifelong dream quickly becomes a nightmare when sabotage erupts. To save the ship and crew he has to depend on an uptight, disapproving colleague. The only time Veronese Qilana broke the rules,... (more)