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  • We hope for better things
    Author:
    Bartels, Erin
    Summary:

    "We Hope for Better Things has it all: fabulous storytelling, an emotional impact that lingers long after you turn the last page, and a setting that immerses you. I haven't read such a powerful, moving story since I read To...
  • The sandbar
    Author:
    Daoust, Jean-Paul
    Summary:

    The Sandbar is a collection of vignettes from the Sandbar, a small-town watering hole in Northern Michigan owned by an eccentric couple with a penchant for stiff drinks. At an early age, their nephew gains an appreciation for exotic...
  • The rumrunners : a prohibition scrapbook
    Author:
    Gervais, Marty
    Summary:

    An illustrated history of bootlegging along the Great Lakes, Rumrunners gives us a sense of Prohibition and the larger-than-life rumrunners and bootleggers who thrived during it in a way that no document before or after has managed....
  • Mind over murder : the Father Koesler mysteries, book three / volume 3
    Author:
    Kienzle, William X.
    Summary:

    "Bill Kienzle's best yet." —Detroit Free Press

    "It is miraculous, but the third Father Koesler is even better than the first two. It is without reservation the best series ever about a priest detective." —Otto Penzler, owner,...

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  • Middlesex : a novel
    Author:
    Eugenides, Jeffrey
    Summary:

    In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between...
  • From the dead
    Author:
    McClintock, Norah
    Summary:

    Rennie is in Uruguay when his cousins discover a secret cache at their dead grandfather's cottage. Thousands of dollars in foreign currencies. A mystifying notebook. Multiple passports, some obviously fake. A gun. A disguise. And a...
  • Feu d'ange
    Author:
    Allison Moulton, Courtney
    Summary:

    J’avançai, regardant la créature se remettre debout tout en lâchant un grognement sourd et menaçant. J’allongeai mes deux bras et, par ma volonté, forçai l’apparition de mes armes dans mes paumes ouvertes. Les khépesh jumeaux apparurent...
  • Dawn of Detroit : a chronicle of bondage and freedom in the city of the straits
    Author:
    Miles, Tiya
    Summary:

    Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated...
  • American Street
    Author:
    Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
    Summary:

    On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie -- a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving...
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