If you're looking for a good vacation book,
some good music to listen to, or a coffee-table book showing off the beauty
of Northern Michigan, check out the items below. All of these are in my collection
and I highly recommend them.
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Something very strange is going on in Crooked
Tree State Forest in the state of Michigan. Several people are savagely
attacked and killed by black bears. Has the ancient Ottawa legend of
Shawonabe come to pass, or is there a natural explanation? Sort of a
Northern Michigan version of Cujo.
Rated 5 stars by readers. |
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Every month TRAVERSE fills its pages with the best of the culture that embodies life "Up
North." Known
for award-winning photography, compelling editorials and intriguing special
features, TRAVERSE celebrates the quality of life lived Up North. |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Michigan's
State stone. Bruce Mueller owns the C & M Rock Shop in Beulah.
Finding, polishing, and the geological history of these beautiful stones
explained in detail. |
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A great coffee table book, combining the skills
of the husband (photographer) and wife (poetry). Great photography and
elegant writing.
Rated 5 stars by readers. |
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Written by the same author who wrote "The Complete
Guide to Petoskey Stones," The Lake Michigan
Rock Picker's Guide is
a rock hound's Bible, covering everything from common minerals to semi-precious
stones to gold-panning and the elusive diamonds that occasionally show
up in the lake. The book focuses on stones that people are likely
to find in the area, including Petoskey stones, corals, horn coral, chain
coral, basalts, quartz and granite. Gauthier said Lake Michigan has the
most variety of colors of stones in the world. |
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Luci Shaw is a deeply Christian poet, and her
poems are suffused with divine illumination in which God himself spotlights
things for the poet, who in turn points them out to us.
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Reflections of a Life Up North is a special collection
of some of the Traverse Magazine's most beautiful photographs and Deborah
Wyatt Fellow's columns, letters to her readers about the joys of all
the seasons and their weathers, of marriage and children, small towns
and good dogs, about the need to get outdoors - and of course, about
the remembrance of summers "Up
North",
at a cottage on the lake.
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A Traverse City native, Jerry is a great writer
who's love for the Great Lakes, and especially Lake Michigan, shines
so clearly through his writing that you're sure to garner a new appreciation
for the beauty of the Lakes. |
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Sufjan (pronounced "Soof yan") has delivered
a wonderfully lyrical CD about Michigan. Some song titles include:
Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)
For The Windows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
Say Yes! To M!ch!gan!
The Upper Peninsula
Tahquamenon Falls
Holland
Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head!
Romulus
Alanson, Crooked River
Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon)
Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
Vito's Ordination Song
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Beautiful coffee table book. The photos are gorgeous.
Rated 5 stars by readers. |
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First published in 1958, Robert
Traver's Anatomy
of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America,
and was subsequently made into the classic movie s
Robert Traver lived much of his life as an attorney in the UP, the setting
for this novel. Anatomy of a Murder, "a gripping tale
of deceit, murder, and a sensational trial, is unmatched in the authenticity
of its settings, events, and characters." |
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William Ratigan, a journalist whose father was a
steamboat engineer, has written a romantic, blood-curdling maritime history
of the Great Lakes, including the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The
accounts of the Lady Elgin and the Eastland (where over 830 drowned)
are particularly chilling. |
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