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Stories and history from the wild and wonderful Upper Peninsula of Michigan, surrounded by three of the five Great Lakes.

Updated August 19, 2024
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The Nick Adams stories
Hemingway, Ernest
Paper Book
The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
Anatomy of a murder
Traver, Robert
Ebook
First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the now classic Otto Preminger film of the same name, starring Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington. It's...
Beware the woman : a novel
Abbott, Megan
Paper Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year By the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. Honey, I just want you to have...
Dark of night : an Annie Pederson novel
Coble, Colleen
Paper Book
The law is about justice--not grace. But perhaps ranger Annie Pederson can find a way to have both. As if the last few months haven't been hard enough--complete with threats on her life and the return of her first love, Jon--Annie has to figure out whether or not to believe a...
The wicked sister
Dionne, Karen
Paper Book
She thought she'd buried her past. But what if it's been hunting her this whole time? From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Marsh King's Daughter comes a startling novel of psychological suspense as two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled...
The weaver's revenge : a Chloe Ellefson mystery
Ernst, Kathleen
Paper Book
A Killer Weaves a Deadly Blend of Betrayal and Revenge that Threatens Chloe's Work ... and Her Life When offered a rare opportunity to help develop a fledgling historic site dedicated to Finnish American history and heritage, curator Chloe Ellefson journeys to the remote...
Hunter's moon : a novel in stories
Caputo, Philip
Paper Book
"Powerful....Caputo's wisdom runs deep. Few writers have better captured the emotional lives of men." --The New York Times Book Review From Philip Caputo--the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin<...
And then they were doomed
Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Paper Book
Zoe Zola is one of ten invitees to an Agatha Christie symposium. Tempers flare...and then there are nine. Can Jenny Weston save Zoe from murder on the Upper Peninsula? Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in...
Winter study : a novel
Barr, Nevada.
Paper Book
Anna Pigeon returns—in the remarkable new novel from the New York Times–bestselling writer. It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have their own...
Cold
Smolens, John.
Paper Book
Lighthouse tales
Stonehouse, Frederick.
Paper Book
Stories of wrecks and rescues, death and sacrifice, and the human spirit abound in this remarkable tribute to the wickies of a bygone era.
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Stonehouse, Frederick.
Paper Book
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Stonehouse, Frederick.
Paper Book
The great leader : a faux mystery
Harrison, Jim
Paper Book
Literary legend Jim Harrison gives us a brilliant new work that finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions. The Great Leader is the story of Detective Sunderson, a northern Michigan police detective who has recently retired and has one case he can't...

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