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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
Author
Language
English
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the "The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle," a Hollywood producer decides to make a movie based on Lee McKinney's romance novel, and the small-town author finds herself entangled in a web of sweet talk and intrigue, complete with corpse, and in "The Chocolate Mouse Trap," Lee McKinney sets a trap to find a killer after party planner Julie Singletree is murdered.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
"Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the...
7) Mr. Perfect
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When four female colleagues at a Michigan corporation compile a list of qualities that would make up the perfect man, they unwittingly unleash a murderer who targets them for the perfect murder -- one at a time.
Author
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Aunt Nettie becomes the unlikely suspect in the death of a private detective, and it's up to Nettie's associate Lee to find the real killer--whose bitter heart is definitely not made of chocolate. The ninth installment in the scrumptious--and national bestselling--Chocoholic Mystery series.
12) Farmer
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged man who has taught for twenty-three years, more from habit than total commitment to his profession, is forced to come to terms with his identity, farm life, thirty-year marriage, and affair with an eighteen-year-old student in a Michigan community of the 1950's.
16) Mrs. Mack
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
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