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Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a new life begins to blossom.
82) Edge of survival
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Edge of collapse volume 6
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Three months after an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid, starvation and disease have killed millions. With the end of winter finally in sight, the town of Fall Creek, Michigan balances on the precipice of collapse. They have suffered and sacrificed. But to forge a future worth living, they will have to face the darkness within themselves. Each must decide--will they retain their humanity or choose survival at any cost.
84) True North
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The son of a wealthy family of timber barons struggles to reconcile himself with the damage his family has done to Michigan's Upper Peninsula--a scarring that cuts deeply into the fabric of his own family.
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2022.
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"The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a new memoir -- both hilarious and heartfelt -- chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC television show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars...
88) Michigan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports, art, and people of the state of Michigan.
89) Freaky Deaky
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Robin and Skip are lovers from the 60s who burned bras and draft cards, dropped acid, and finally dynamited a federal building. Reunited in Detroit after years in prison, they've decided to light the fuse of revolution with a wild bombing spree. But in an Elmore Leonard novel, bombs seldom go off as planned, and before long Robin and Skip have taken more than one explosively wrong turn--and more than one life.
90) Michigan
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Provides an overview of the state of Michigan, covering its history, geography, economy, people, and points of interest.
92) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
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2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
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"Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, as part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets,...
93) Edge of collapse
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In the middle of the coldest winter on record, an EMP destroys the nation's power grid. No electricity. No cars or phones. Worst of all: No heat. The country is plunged into instant chaos. But for twenty-six-year-old Riley Sheridan, it's the best day of her life. For the last four years, she's been the captive of a sadistic psychopath--until the EMP releases the lock of her prison. Battered but not broken, she emerges from her underground cell into...
95) The lock artist
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2010.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 18
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At the age of eight, Michael survives an act of violence so horrific that the local press dubs him "The Miracle Boy." An orphan now, and no longer able to speak, Michael soon discovers the one thing he can do better than anyone else. Whether it's a locked door with no key, a padlock with no combination, or even an 800-pound safe . . . Michael can open them all. It doesn't take long for him to become a hot commodity, and the best "boxman" in the business....
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2019
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Michigan, 1967. When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of paper with the address of Frank, their long-estranged father, just in case anything should happen to him in Vietnam. When their father returns to face tragedy at home, the family works toward healing and prays fervently for Mike's safety overseas. In finding ways to pull together as a family, the Jacobsons learn to turn to the One who...
98) Do no harm
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2018.
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The idyllic town of Baxter, Michigan, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. Katie LeClair to settle down after years toiling in medical school-until the murder of a patient shattered the peace she had found. Now on the mend and balancing the responsibilities of a new house and the joys of a new romance, Katie is finally ready to start enjoying life. But danger arrives just as the town is gearing up for its annual Halloween festival-and once again,...
99) Mr. Perfect
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[2000]
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Four professional women created a tongue-in-check checklist of requirements for Mr. Perfect. The next thing they know, the List, as it has come to be called spreads like wildfire. Overnight sensation, grabbing the interest of local newspapers and television and e-mail lines. Attention for something that began as a joke among friends. And the joke turns deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered...
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After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild-her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community...