Book Catalog

What happens when you combine a love of Wizard of Oz, Nora Ephron, James Bond movies, and the desire for true faith? You embark on an unforgettable 1980 journey to magical, Mackinac Island filled with mystery, mayhem, and miracles.

What happens when you combine a love of Lucy, Nora Ephron, Old Hollywood, and the desire for true faith? You embark on an unforgettable 1979 journey to magical, Mackinac Island with Piper Penn filled with mystery, mayhem, and miracles.

Tracing the history of Guts Frisbee, the book also reflects the times: from a family beach game to an intense sport played for large prize monies, and a near death and rebirth. Guts Frisbee is back, better than ever, and this explains how we got here.

Farmed Out in Ontonagon County chronicles one man’s lifelong journey of hard knocks, hard work, persistence, forgiveness, and a strong belief in the Almighty.

The book is for the young and for the young at heart and rhymes from start to finish. Natural beauty is everywhere in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and summer fun seems to never end!

A first-class read about international and Michigan aviation history and the human elements of love, loss, and grief.

Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

This novel is an urban fantasy set in the town of Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and beyond. Follow the story of 17-year-old Robert Donoghue as he discovers his powers and fights for his city and the world.

Conlan’s poignant memoir, with reflections upon the vital role nature plays in all our lives, will resonate with readers of all ages.

Journey with Samuel and Angelique and experience the grace of dolphins and wild horses on Cumberland Island; birds, dogs, butterflies, brook trout, and grapevines in Northern Michigan; trout-fishing in Spearfish Canyon; dogs and sheep on a Montana ranch; breathtaking duck migrations in the Canadian Provinces - and majestic hawks and a mountain bluebird on Bear Butte.

Forty essays with a U.P. theme, most in celebration of our fair peninsula and our adventures in enjoying it through all four seasons. And other subjects.

Discover for yourself what happened back in 1524-five hundred years ago, with explorer Verrazzano along North America's eastern coast.

21 Leadership Lessons from the classroom, locker room, and battlefield that can be put into practice in your everyday life.

A searing tale of crime and corruption in the tight-knit world of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Author Frances D. Maki and illustrator Sarah L. Smith are Anishinaabe and Lakota sisters from L’Anse. "A Garden Party" is in Anishinaabemowin and English and tells the whimsical story of an enchanted party with rhyming, nature, and colorful pictures.

Travel back to Marquette's past and into its future in Tyler R. Tichelaar's new novel Odin's Eye: A Marquette Time Travel Novel. Meet historical people like Peter White and the Longyear family and discover how Marquette might have been different if certain events had gone differently.

The fire began with a lightning strike that started a unique set of events in motion, resulting in the most destructive and costly fire in Michigan since 1908. You will read about the sheer magnitude of the "Great Seney Fire" and how it stands out as an example of cooperation and a remarkable team effort of federal and state agencies.

Birthday parties are supposed to be fun, but for kids like Oscar, they can be pretty overwhelming. Swim along with Oscar as he navigates his first-ever birthday bash with a sensory overload.

The Unsolved Mysteries of Father Marquette's Many Graves discusses Marquette's life in the Great Lakes area, his death, and the multiple times his body has thought to have been discovered, dug up, and reburied.

A tenacious private eye provokes the wrath of supernatural forces. Can he neutralize the threat before lives are lost?

An elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan's north country. "This lovely collection is a kind of travel narrative by a writer who 'can never get enough sky.' In poem after poem, she travels the lands of heartache and joy with grace, clarity and wisdom." -- Jerry

Robert Hugh Williams, a Second Ranger Battalion veteran and avid outdoorsman, has completed his new book “A Yooper's Tale: Death by Wendigo”: a captivating story of a band of friends that have their lives changed forever by a frightening creature of Native American lore, the Wendigo.

Vampire Grooms and Spectre Brides explores how French and British Gothic authors continually influenced each other throughout the nineteenth-century in writing classics like A Tale of Two Cities, Rookwood, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Dracula.

Six gripping short stories set in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan will hold the reader spellbound as the various protagonists live, and sometimes perish, in this often harsh and rugged land. The mythical village of Nelson frames the life and plights of the various actors as they plunge headlong physically, psychologically, and metaphorically, into the treacherous waters