Holiday Excitement

 If you stopped by, you had fun, too! We sold all the books from my first order, but I've restocked, and she signed all I have.

Island Getaway, Anyone?

Did you know there are around 35,000 islands in the Great Lakes? How many have you visited? Of the ones you haven’t explored, which would be your #1 pick – or don’t you know? This book may help you decide.

Complete with maps and color photographs and arranged geographically, Great Lakes Island Escapes tells you how to get to each island and how to get around on it once you’re there. What to see, where to stay, websites and addresses are also included, but I especially appreciate the “Parting Thoughts” for each island visit the author made.

I'd like to visit Beaver Island

and revisit Harsen's Island

It’s winter. It’s time to dream. Let your spirit fly away!

Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and

       Bridges to Adventure 

by Maureen Dunphy

Detroit: A Painted Turtle Book

Paper, 427pp w/ index & illus.

$29.99

Michigan ROCKS!

I’m thrilled to announce that I now have, back in stock and even autographed by one of the co-authors, the popular, much-desired, and for a time elusive Michigan Rock Picker’s Guide. Since Partners Book Distributing went out of business, the former publisher of this book dropped it, and the copyright went back to the authors, who have now had it reprinted in color better than the original.

Lake Michigan Rock Picker’s Guide

by Bruce Mueller & Kevin Gauthier

Paperback, 80pp, $15.95

And that’s not all. For intrepid adventurers whose Michigan experiences extend as far as the “Sunrise Side” and the Upper Peninsula, I also have a couple copies each of Lake Huron Rock Picker’s Guide and Lake Superior Rock Picker’s Guide – same amateur-friendly information, same beautiful color, and same great price. 

New From Avery Color Studios: BOATS!

Nothing goes with water like boats, and a state with shoreline on three of the five Great Lakes must be forgiven for being a trifle boat-obsessed. Forgiven? How about indulged?

Avery Color Studies up in Gwinn caters to lovers of Michigan history with a couple of new titles this year. Whalebacks: Wrecked, Scrapped, Lost & Forgotten, by Neel R. Zoss, tells the story of Great Lakes boats so “deeply laden with cargo, the boats reminded folks of the curved backs of whales pushing out of the water.” These freighters were designed and built by Alexander McDougall – but you can find out much, much more by reading the book.

Sailors and landlubbers who can’t get enough of shipwrecks will want the new book by Wes Oleszewski, Wooden Ships and Deadly Seas: True Shipwrecks and the Deadly Great Lakes, a book that promises no fiction and no concocted events. It’s all just good, clean disaster!

Whalebacks: Wrecked, Scrapped, Lost & Forgotten,

by Neel R. Zoss

Paper, 261 pp, $17.95

Wooden Ships and Deadly Seas: True Shipwrecks and the Deadly Great Lakes,

by Wes Oleszewski

Paper, 185pp, $16.95

And, as always, Avery Color Studios books are “Proudly Printed in Michigan, U.S.A.” We like that, don’t you?