WINDIGO MOON from Robert Downes

You know Robert Downes as one of the original co-creators of Traverse City’s Northern Express and, since then, as a traveler, blogger, and writer of travel books. Downes has now published his first novel, set in the Upper Great Lakes and spanning 31 years, from 1588  into the onset of the Little Ice Age. Native American culture is blended with love story and the real dangers brought by explorers from Europe.

Windigo Moon: A Novel of Native America

by Robert Downes

Blank Slate Press, paper, 304pp

$17.95

AND HERE is Here!

A new collection of writing from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, edited by Ron Riekki, with foreword by Thomas Lynch, has been published by Michigan State University Press. Writings collected go back as far as 1918 and include a wide diversity of works. You’ll find Ernest Hemingway and Jim Harrison here, and you’ll also find Janet Lewis, Iola Fuller, Steve Hamilton, Michael Delp, and many more. This is a book for everyone’s Michigan collection, one you will be re-reading for years to come.

And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017, ed. Ronald Riekki

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press

Paper, 347pp, $29.95

Author to Speak on Fascinating New View of Audubon

AUTHOR PRESENTATION

DOG EARS BOOKS

Gregory Nobles on John James Audubon

Thursday, Aug. 3

7 p.m.

Free, fun, informative!

Please join us!

(You may learn a few new things

about our America's foremost bird artist.)

Take Home the Beauty of Leelanau County--or Send It to a Friend

coloring book

Artist Kristin Hurlin of Glen Arbor is my bookstore feature today. Whether you like to spend your nonreading vacation hours doing puzzles, relaxing with a beautiful adult coloring book, or writing notes to friends, Kristin Hurlin has you covered. Her card assortments come in packs of 8 cards for $20. The coloring book, “A Beautiful Place,” retails for $18. And the two 500-piece puzzles, one of North Bar Lake, the other showing species diversity, measure 16” x 20” when completed and are priced at $15. I’m delighted to be able to offer Kristin’s work at Dog Ears Books.

notecards

jigsaw puzzle

jigsaw puzzle

Two Famous American Naturalists

Henry David Thoreau lived from 1817 to 1862. The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years covers the period of his life following the publication of Walden, when Thoreau found himself more and more drawn to Concord’s three rivers (Sudbury, Assabet, & Concord), “the only wild and unfenced part of the world hereabouts,” as he wrote, explaining his preference for river scenery.

John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman follows Audubon (1785 -1851) throughout his life--down rivers American rivers, into the woods, and to cities in the United States and Europe—as he pursued his art and science along with woodsman survival skills. Note: The author of this book, Gregory Nobles, will make a presentation at Dog Ears Books on Thursday, August 3, at 7 p.m.

The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years

by Robert M. Thorson

Hardcover, 315pp w/ notes, references, index

Illustrated

$29.95

John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman

by Gregory Nobles

Hardcover, 330pp w/ notes & index

Illustrated

$34.95

It’s Worth Saying, So Say It Twice

Today’s good news: more notecards from Minnie Wabanimkee! The new cards say Thank You; Happy Birthday; and You Are In My Thoughts – in both English and Anishnaabemowin.

Cards are available as singles ($4 each) or as assortments, 2 each of the 3 different designs ($18).

Also still available at the same prices are Minnie’s traditional photo cards.

Humans and Trees

How closely are we related? A new collection of original nonfiction edited by Josh MacIvor-Andersen of Marquette, Michigan, presents a variety of perspectives answering the question, but the answers are only the beginning. As the editor writes in his foreword,

Although trees show up in each essay, they are often merely the portals for deeper human dramas, the shadowy branches framing tales of love and life, death and discovery, longing, and learning.

Now, in Michigan summer, our trees are green with leaves, their shade welcome on sunny days. Now is the time to take half an hour in a hammock or chaise longue to lose yourself in beautiful writing from our beautiful sister peninsula to the north.

Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction

Introduction by Bill McKibben

Edited by Josh MacIvor-Andersen

San Francisco: Outpost19, paper, 290pp

$16