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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 October 24, 2025
Upper Peninsula Region of Library Cooperation
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The trouble up north
Mulhauser, Travis
Paper Book
An atmospheric, haunting novel about the Sawbrooks, a family of bootleggers with a troubled history and a deep connection to the Michigan land that binds them. The Sawbrooks have spent decades crisscrossing the waterways and vast forests between Northern Michigan...
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Stonehouse, Frederick.
Paper Book
100 Things to Do on Mackinac Island Before You Die, Second Edition
Usitalo, Kath
Paper Book
Yooper talk : dialect as identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Remlinger, Kathryn A.
Paper Book
Yooper Talk is a fresh and significant contribution to understanding regional language and culture in North America. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan--known as "the UP"--is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150...
Sugar Island sampler : a slice of Upper Peninsula heritage
Arbic, Bernard.
Paper Book

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