Great Lakes


The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Station Eleven
Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
Safe from the Sea
Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
A Death in Door County (Monster Hunter, #1)
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)
The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure
I Cheerfully Refuse
Beach Read
The Women of the Copper Country
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 Wide Game by Michael  WestCinema of Shadows by Michael  WestSpook House by Michael  WestSpellbent by Lucy A. SnyderSwitchblade Goddess by Lucy A. Snyder
Books about the Upper Midwest
29 books — 21 voters

Detroit by Charlie LeDuffMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesDetroit, I Do Mind Dying by Dan GeorgakasDetroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark BinelliThe Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
Detroit (fiction and nonfiction)
166 books — 73 voters
Jamestown by Joyce CrawfordThe Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan EganLadies of the Lights by Patricia MajherDetroit by Jon MilanRight in Michigan's Grassroots by JoEllen Vinyard
Michigan History (nonfiction)
17 books — 7 voters

Fishing the Great Lakes by Margaret Beattie BogueAt the Crossroads by David A. ArmourArc of Justice by Kevin G. BoyleThe Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan EganOur People, Our Journey by James M. McClurken
50 Essential Michigan History Books
57 books — 3 voters
South of Superior by Ellen AirgoodThe Luminous Life of Lucy Landry by Anna Rose  JohnsonRocky's Lighthouse Adventure by Deborah WinchellThe Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. PendziwolPaddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling
Lake Superior - fiction
22 books — 1 voter

Dan Egan
A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.
Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Dan Egan
A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too late, can be teeming with millions, if not billions, of living organisms.
Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

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