Great Lakes


The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
Station Eleven
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
Safe from the Sea
The Women of the Copper Country
A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)
Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure
I Cheerfully Refuse
A Death in Door County (Monster Hunter, #1)
Beach Read
A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman's Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan (A 1,000 MILE ADVENTURE #1)
The Key to Surviving Summer by Sandi VanLibby's Lighthouse by Susan G. MathisThe Rough-Face Girl by Rafe MartinJuly Underwater by Zoe MaeveWhite Heart by Julie B. Caton
Lake Ontario - fiction
18 books — 1 voter

Trouble Island by Sharon ShortThe Rainy Day House by Linda LegezaA Tale of Two Biddies by Kylie LoganThe Suite Spot by Trish DollerWreck at Ada's Reef by Michael D. Beil
Lake Erie - fiction
56 books — 1 voter
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonBecoming by Michelle ObamaAn American Summer by Alex KotlowitzUgly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD
Chicago History (nonfiction)
213 books — 14 voters

Susan Magsamen
They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at time have supplied water to one-third of Canadians and one-seventh of Americans. They're vaster than the entire New England region and define beachfront to many people who have never seen an ocean. ...more
Susan Magsamen, The 10 Best of Everything Families: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers

Herman Melville
They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; the furnish long maritime approaches to out numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, ...more
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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