Michigan's Upper Peninsula Almanac is a comprehensive guide for every resident, visitor, and student of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
  This definitive almanac covers every acre of the wild and beautiful U.P., including information on businesses, tourism, agriculture, sports, weather, casinos, and other topics that will keep you referring to the book time and again. Looking for record snowfalls and temperatures? Oldest business? Busiest tourist spots? Most interesting myths and legends? Michigan's Upper Peninsula Almanac has it all.
  Ron Jolly is a popular veteran radio broadcaster in northern Michigan who spent fifteen years in news and information programming. He has won awards for his news reporting on WCTM from UPI, Michigan News Network, and the National Commission on Working Women. He is the author of Northern Michigan Almanac (University of Michigan Press/Petoskey Publishing, 2005).
  Karl Bohnak is the author of the popular U.P. weather book So Cold a Sky. He is meteorologist at WLUC in the Upper Peninsula and holds the American Meteorological Society's broadcast seal of approval.

SO COLD A SKY
Upper Michigan Weather Stories
KARL BOHNAK
Read stories of the early pioneers and the obstacles they faced in settling the most northern part of Michigan under so cold a sky. Browse through personal tales of modern weather events from snowstorms ot heat waves. Written in concise narrative form, Upper Michigan Weather Stories can be opened and enjoyed at any point, making it a perfect trravel and gift book.

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  Twenty-five years after his role in the infamous "Days of Rage" riots in the Chicago loop, Jack Carmichael, a transient, drifter and former member of the Weather Underground launches a startling series of attacks against Michigan's political establishment in the name of society's downtrodden, physically challenged, and abused.
  When a powerful state senator disappears, his wife hires Robert Brooks as her personal representative in the frantic search for her missing husband. The investigation soon leads Brooks into an elaborate labyrinth of grave robbing, body dropping, the unveiling of a defense contractor's top secret helicopter prototype, and the governor's shocking pronouncement of his radical plan to divert Great Lakes water to the west, the first step in his single-minded quest for the office of President of the United States. 325 pages.
                                      M.J. Ellison

  The legendary Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era agency, hired the poorest of the poor - welfare boys with no jobs, no training or skills, no future, school dropouts, and charged them with saving themselves, their families, and our land, streams, and forests, all on wages of $1.00 a day. And they pulled it off! "Saving Our Sons" tells how it was done in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 200 pages.
                       Larry Chabot (The U.P. Goes to War)

  To twelve-year-old Emma, life may be hard, but it is basically good. She has finished sixth grade and is nearly a young lady. But, in the summer of 1913, her life, and the lives of everyone in the region, will be changed forever by a violent strike against the mining companies in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A friend whose father is not on strike will be forbidden to talk to her. Another will die in the terrible Italian Hall Tragedy on Christmas Eve. Only the trait the Finnish people call "sisu" will help her and others in the region live through it.
  This well-researched historical fiction takes place in Houghton County, Michigan, in the towns of Calumet, Houghton, Hancock, Laurium and the surrounding area. It is written from the point of view of a twelve-year-old girl whose father is on strike. The first-person narrative puts the reader on the scene. Historical photographs help the reader see the time and place.. 238 pages.
                                    Deborah K. Frontiera

  Take an active role in your grandchildren's lives. Show them the best of Michigan. Teach the valuable lessons you've learned throughout the years. Grandparents Michigan Style is filled with insights and advice to help you along the way!. 160 pages.
                               Mike Link, Kate Crowley

  A work of creative non-fiction based on the true story of the celebrated highwayman, Reimund Holzhey, a German immigrant and former resident of Fort Howard and Pulcifer, Wisconsin, who robbed a stagecoach on Stagecoach road between the south end of lake Gogebic and Gogebic Station, in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on 26 August 1889. This is said to have been the last stagecoach robbery east of the Mississippi river. The story is drawn from contemporary newspaper reports published in various parts of the Midwest, as well as other sources, and is as true to life as possible. Holzhey suffered from mental problems as a result of a skull fracture, and subjected himself to daring and foolhardy exploits as a form of release, until he was finally caught. His exploits were sensationalized and he was portrayed as a greedy and bloodthirsty desperado. The publicity surrounding his capture and trial would be considered highly questionable nowadays. There was doubt concerning who fired the shots that killed one of the men on the last stagecoach he attempted to rob. His treatment during the first few years of his imprisonment conjure up scenes from Papillon. By the time he was released from prison twenty-three years later, he was considered to be an erudite and well-read man and accomplished writer.
   Bruce K. Cox a graduate of Gogebic Community College and Northern Michigan University, is a local historian, with a particular interest in early history and mining on the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin. He writes and publishes books on Gogebic Range history in his shop, Agogeebic Press, at 408A Sunday Lake Street, in Wakefield, Michigan.. 108 pages.
                                             Bruce K. Cox

The Fish House Book
LIFE ON ICE IN THE NORTHLAND

If you're a fan of ice fishing and fish houses then The Fish House Book will entertain you. Kathryn Nordstrom has produced a comprehensive photographic record of an amazing variety of fish-houses, both interior and exterior views, these are coupled with fishing contests, fish-house parades, ice activities etc.
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Michigan Rail Disasters
1900 - 1940

This 146 page book tells the story of rail disasters throughout the state of Michigan during the first four decades of the 20th Century. Extensive and provides many photos. Max Worall & Benjamin L. Bernhart
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The All-American
Outhouse
Stories, Design & Construction

Anyone can build an outhouse, but not everyone can build a good outhouse.
Instructions for building the Economy One-Holer, Traditional Two-Holer and the Deluxe Sun Roof Three-Holer.
Blueprints, humorous anecdotes, historical progression from Washington's deluxe brick outhouse to the classic farm facility and todays practical outhouses.. Many Illustrations and photos. 71 pages
Bob Cary, A.S.O.A
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The Legend Of The Christmas Ship
Based on a True Story

A Novel by Carl Behrend
Venture back in time to 1911 Chicago, Illinois. Enjoy this family holiday tale crafted from the legends, lore andd true events surrounding the famous Christmas Tree Ship. Over 70 historic photographs. 361 pages
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The Lost Road Home

Milly Balzarini
In The Lost Road Home, Milly Balzarini shares the poignant, heart-wrenching stories of veterans from wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Korea and World War II suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. For these veterans, their world had changed. They had changed. Many felt lost and isolated because they returned to a world that refused to hear, or couldn’t understand, the trauma they had experienced in war. Because of these readjustment problems, an estimated 350,000 veterans from Vietnam alone committed suicide. Even today, 14,000 veterans die each year as the result of suicide and accidental deaths. If soldiers had been told what to expect on their way home in terms of readjusting and that help was available, many lives may have been saved.254 pages
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MICHIGAN COPPER
The Untold Story

By Fred Rydholm
Incredibly extensive and informative, covering the history of Copper in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Includes many historic photos and maps.
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SUPERIOR HEARTLAND A BACKWOODS HISTORY

Vol I & II
By Fred Rydholm
Incredibly extensive and informative, covering the history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Includes many historic photos and maps.
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Da Adventures 
of
EINO and TOIVO
By Bill Larson
Eino and Toivo live in da wild U.P. of Michigan. 
Da tings dat dey do are beyond yer beyondity!
Soon da term "Holy Wah" will be 
thunk by yous guys! -Bill Larson
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