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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 June 13, 2025
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Break of day
Coble, Colleen
Paper Book
The third book in USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble's Annie Pederson Series (following Dark of Night) returns to fan-favorite Rock Harbor as Annie's happily ever after is finally within sight . . . If she can stay alive long enough to grasp it. Perfect for fans of Terri...
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...
Edge of dusk
Coble, Colleen
Paper Book
"This fresh, addictive mystery delivers thrills, compassion, and hope." --Publishers Weekly The first book in USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble's Annie Pederson Series returns to fan-favorite Rock Harbor with new characters, complex new mysteries,...
Delta County
Hyde, J. L.
Paper Book
Delta County is a suspense thriller, set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Dead man running : an Alex McKnight mystery
Hamilton, Steve
Paper Book
Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered. On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed...
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...
Limpy's adult lexicon
Heywood, Joseph
Paper Book
From the author of the Woods Cop and Lute Bapcat mystery series comes a new book for the fans. When Heywood was writing his first Woods Cop novel, into his mind crawled a character called Limpy Allerdyce, who is a master poacher-predator-violator in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan--that is, the...
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Stonehouse, Frederick.
Paper Book
The Nick Adams stories
Hemingway, Ernest
Paper Book
From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete chronological anthology of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent--a sequence closely paralleling the events of...
Lumberjack : inside an era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Crowe, William S.
Paper Book
Winner--Best Biography/Memoir of 2002, Midwest Book Awards (St. Paul, MN) A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s - early 1900s in the northern U.S. Millions of board feet of logs were cut in deep woods camps, driven down...
Stuck in Manistique
Cuesta, Dennis
Paper Book
Near the midpoint of the Upper Peninsula, along a Lake Michigan bend of shore, is the town of Manistique, Michigan. Mark had never heard of Manistique before the death of his estranged aunt, but as sole beneficiary of Vivian's estate, he travels there to settle her affairs. As Mark tours his aunt...
Michigan rocks! : a guide to geologic sites in the Great Lakes State
Brandes, Paul
Paper Book
Michigan is the only state in the nation to border four of the five Great Lakes-giving it the nickname, the Great Lakes State. This abundance of shoreline translates to a multitude of rock exposed by waves and currents. Nearly the entire history of Earth is on display in Michigan, from 3.6-billion...
Dark of night : an Annie Pederson novel
Coble, Colleen
Paper Book
The second book in USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble's Annie Pederson Series (following Edge of Dusk) returns to fan-favorite Rock Harbor as ranger Annie Pederson tries to find a way to balance justice and grace. Perfect for fans of Terri Blackstock, Dani...
Tin camp road
Airgood, Ellen
Paper Book
Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye live on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children, and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favour of a more profitable summer rental, and,...
Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Longtine, Sonny.
Paper Book
This collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan's history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly. Residents of the idyllic villages scattered throughout the Upper Peninsula's richly forested paradise live in...
Yooper ale trails : craft breweries and brewpubs of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Stott, Jon C.
Paper Book
Follow Yooper Ale Trails to visit the 29 unique craft breweries and brewpubs of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Choose from among eight different Ale Trails for your personal journey. Explore the backstories of the breweries, brewers and owners, along with tasting notes on each brewery's...
Moose Willow mystery : a Yooper romance
Martin, Terri
Paper Book
A suspicious death in a game processing meat locker is just the beginning of bizarre events happening in the Upper Michigan village of Moose Willow. It all starts when a mysterious woman appears at the Methodist church during choir practice. Janese Trout and her best friend, State Trooper Bertie...
All that we carried
Bartels, Erin
Paper Book
"Bartels proves herself a master wordsmith and storyteller."--Library Journal, starred review "This subdued tale of learning to forgive is Bartels's best yet."--Publishers Weekly "A deeply personal, thoughtful exploration of dealing with...
The Mason house : a memoir
Bertineau, T. Marie
Paper Book
A 2021 Michigan Notable Book "Touching and authentic." --Faith Sullivan, author of Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse "A powerful celebration of the ties that bind us and of eccentric, laugh-out-loud moments of love, grace, and what it means to be kin."--Tiffany Midge...
You wouldn't like it here : a guide to the real Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Emerick, Lon L.
Paper Book
A high-spirited humorous look at a special land, and the challenges of living in a remote region with more trees than people, long winters and two-track roads. Visitors are warned about the climate, insects, wildlife, local resdients and other potential "dangers." In a more serious epilogue, the...
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<...
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...
Winter study
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...
Great Lakes crime : murder, mayhem, booze & broads
Stonehouse, Frederick.
Paper Book
Murder, piracy, ship burnings, rum runners and prostitutes. More excellent research and storytelling by renowned Great Lakes Historian Fred Stonehouse.
Superior tapestry : weaving the threads of Upper Michigan history
Frontiera, Deborah K.
Paper Book
Like any tapestry, the threads of history cross over and under each other in different points of view and places in time. Award-winning author Deborah K. Frontiera mixes natural science and geology into history where those aspects intersect with the lives of people or are the reason Michigan's...
The Great Leader : a faux mystery
Harrison, Jim
Digital file
We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Phyllis Michael Wong
Paper Book
WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY--Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in...
Going back to Central : on the road in search of the past in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Emerick, Lon L.
Paper Book
A former university professor, author and descendant of Cornish copper miners chronicles a journey of discovery across Michigan's Upper Peninsula to the ghost town of Central Mine. Along the way he savors the autumn splendors of a beautiful and rugged land, listens for the tales of its unique and...
Blood is the sky
Hamilton, Steve
Paper Book
"When a fire is done, what’s left is only half-destroyed. It is charred and brittle. It is obscene. There is nothing so ugly in all the world as what a fire leaves behind, covered in ashes and smoke and a smell you’ll think about every day for the rest of your life." ...

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