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Author
Publisher
CamCat Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister? When the frozen body of...
43) Unnatural causes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, Michigan. After years of moving, schooling, and training, she wants nothing more than to find a place she can call home, and a small town outside of Ann Arbor seems perfect. But that idyllic dream is immediately shattered when one of her patients is found dead.
Author
Series
Amish wonders volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For a disadvantaged young woman and a displaced young man, a lasting love is going to take more than chance--it's going to take a miracle. Muscle weakness has left Grace Wagler with a broken body--and her childhood best friend has left her with a broken heart. She can hold her own in the timber camp (and do everything else the other women in Badger Creek can do), but in an Amish district where women outnumber men three to one, marriage is an unlikely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a dusty old trophy awarded to her aunt's old high school singing group turns up and brings back memories of an old unsolved murder, chocolate shop manager Lee McKinney Woodyard realizes it is actually a clue to a present-day killing.
Author
Series
Nick Hoffman mysteries volume 6
Publisher
John Danial and Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
51) The coroner
Author
Series
Coroner's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Summoned from her promising surgical career to step in for her ailing father's medical examiner post, Emily Hartfod discovers home is the where the bodies are"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Lute Bapcat mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendation by Theodore Roosevelt, himself, becomes one of the Michigan's first civil service game wardens. His territory: The Keweenaw Peninsula, the state's industrial center.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Despite losing her parents in a tragic accident just before her fourteenth Christmas, Susan Norcross has had it better than most, with loving grandparents to raise her and a gang of quirky, devoted friends to support her. Now a successful bookstore owner in a tight-knit Michigan lakeside community, Susan is facing down forty--the same age as her mother when she died--and she can't help but see everything she hasn't achieved, including finding a love...
55) Hidden
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together...
Author
Series
Beacons of hope volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1865, Caroline has tended the Windmill Point Lighthouse in Michigan since her father's death, but her home and livelihood are threatened when a wounded Civil War veteran arrives to take her place"--
58) Purgatory Bay
Author
Series
Bleak Harbor novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Former reporter Michaela "Mikey" Deming and Bleak Harbor police chief Katya Malone track a woman bent on revenge for the murders of her family members 12 years prior.
59) Do no harm
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Small-town doctor Katie LeClair is drawn back into an old murder investigation, a mysterious disappearance, and a dark undercurrent of violence --
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
With the help of her rescue cat Eddie, librarian Minnie Hamilton is driving a bookmobile based in the resort town of Chilson, Michigan. But she'd better keep both hands on the wheel, because its going to be a bumpy ride.
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