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Author
Series
Publisher
FalconGuides
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lace up your boots and sample the finest trails of Michigan's Upper Peninsula! Hansen features sixty of the best hikes, providing detailed maps and trail descriptions, so you can create a customized trip. He includes information on wildlife viewing, waterfalls, scenic vistas, and much more! -- adapted from back cover
Author
Language
English
Description
"The law is about justice--not grace. But perhaps ranger Annie Pederson can find a way to have both. As if the last few months haven't been hard enough--complete with threats on her life and the return of her first love, Jon--Annie has to figure out whether or not to believe a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. Annie's eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, has plenty of questions about what's going...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"From the founders of the popular food website Heavy Table comes Lake Superior Flavors, a celebration of food culture around the shores of the greatest of the Great Lakes. Author James Norton and photographer Becca Dilley take readers on a culinary tour around Lake Superior, hitting high-traffic tourist spots and cultural institutions as well as off-the-beaten-path discoveries. Norton and Dilley also meet food producers and artisans--fishermen, cheesemakers,...
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
PI Alex McKnight of Detroit, a former policeman with a bullet lodged near his heart, braces himself for trouble when the killer who placed it there calls, promising to finish the job. The killer is serving a life sentence in jail, but as McKnight knows one can kill by proxy. A debut in fiction.
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
His work follows depressed private detective Alex McKnight into his personal life when the poker game he joins is robbed at gunpoint and he finds himself compelled to catch the thief.
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Alex McKnight, a burned-out former cop, is asked to help his old teammate, Randy Wilkins, track down a beautiful woman he has not seen in twenty years.
8) Misery bay
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two months after an apparent suicide in a place known as Misery Bay, PI Alex McKnight is asked for help from his professional nemesis Sault Ste. Marie police chief Roy Maven. What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless and methodical killer.
9) Ice run
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A man and a woman - both police officers find each other and share the burden of losing their partners.
10) Let it burn
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly returning to Detroit to reconnect with a woman and confront the trauma of a shooting that left his partner dead, Alex McKnight investigates an untapped clue and discovers that the man sentenced for the crime may not have been the killer.
Author
Series
Boxcar children specials volume 9
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While visiting Michigan's Upper Peninsula to prepare their Great-aunt Sophie's big old house for sale, the Boxcar Children encounter a mystery involving a valuable ring supposedly hidden somewhere in the house. Includes puzzles and activities.
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
While enjoying fireworks on the edge of Lake Superior, Alex McKnight and his former partner come to the aid of three men in the wreck of an antique wooden boat, a rescue that draws Alex into a deadly confrontation with gun smugglers and drug dealers.
13) Blood is the sky
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the disappearance of a hunting group in the woods of northern Ontario, Alex McKnight finds himself deep in the wilderness, lacking food and weapons and at the mercy of a killer who would prevent everyone's return.
14) Break of day
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Law enforcement officer Annie Pederson's life has been rocked by tragedy, but things finally seem to be heading in the right direction. Her relationship with the love of her life--who's also the biological father of her precious daughter--has never been better, and it looks like an engagement ring is in Annie's future. She's also slowly building back trust with her sister, Sarah, after a separation that lasted for decades. When a man escapes law...
15) Dead man running
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered. On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs onto the security camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewinding through...
16) Tin Camp Road
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The author of South of Superior returns to that same territory and landscape with this story of a woman who, on the verge of losing the land and home that defines her, finds her way to a brighter future when she learns the power of giving to and accepting help from the community around her"--
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Just a few days after she gives birth alone in the Northwoods, a recently widowed young Chippewa woman stumbles into a nearby lumber camp in search of refuge and sustenance. Come summer, the camp owner sends Skypilot, his most trusted friend, to accompany Moon Song and her baby on the long and treacherous journey back to her people. But when tragedy strikes off the shore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula wilderness, Moon Song and Skypilot must depend...
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The newest novel in by two-time Edgar award-winner and New York Times bestselling author Steve Hamilton A plane lands in a deserted Upper Peninsula airstrip one night, and five dead bodies are found the next morning. The evidence suggests that not only are these murders the beginning of something bigger, but that Alex McKnight's friend Vinnie may be part of it. Alex knows he needs to find him before it's too late. Vinnie LeBlanc is an Ojibwa tribal...
19) Sucker punch
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned, but what if the wrong person is about to be executed? When a fellow U.S. Marshal asks Anita Blake to fly to a tiny community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult, she knows time is running short. When she gets there, there is plenty of proof that a young wereleopard killed his uncle in the most gruesome and bloodiest way possible. As the mounting evidence points to him,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No...
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