EDWARD BEEBES’ HISTORIC LEELANAU PHOTOGRAPHS, by Jack Hobey  showcases black-and-white crisp photographs that were taken over a century ago, from 1909 to 1915.  Many images appeared as Beebes’ photo postcards, issued in relatively small quantities. The 154-page-book offers highly detailed photographs from Leland, Suttons Bay and North Manitou Island – including loggers, sawmills, businesses, schools, assorted buildings, groups, boats and the shoreline.  Hobey accompanies the graphics with a biographical and contextual account of the time Beebe spent in the area, putting the photos in a chronological and geographical order. This is a carefully-crafted volume that wonderfully captures the flavor of a bygone era in our state’s past. It’s a great book for Michigan historians or connoisseurs of exceptional photography.

Herschel is a Red-Tailed Hawk growing up in Northern Michigan.  Enjoy this beautifully illustrated tale of taking flight in one of America's prettiest settings.

Will Castor serves in Battery D, 1st Regiment, Michigan Light Artillery, sending shells into the ranks of Confederate infantry whenever he's ordered to do so. When his unit's position is overrun at the Battle of Chickamauga, Will witnesses and commits ghastly horrors to survive the day. Separated from his army and incapacitated with a broken leg, he hooks up with a Confederate deserter who takes him home to Tennessee and shelters him.... Haunted by the traumas of the war, the wilds present Will with an unexpected opportunity for redemption--though it may prove to be an even greater battle than the one at Chickamauga. Two generations removed from Will Castor, the haunted veteran of the Civil War’s Battle of Chickamauga, the Castors have become a prominent family in the mining town of Ishpeming, Michigan. When a conflict even greater than the War Between the States breaks out in Europe, two of the Castor boys answer the call: John, a shy, studious young man whom the other Marines call “Teach,” and Matt, a charming rake who’s popular with his fellow soldiers as well as with the farm girls of France....