regional Books
LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Cookbook
Author Mary Dougherty - In 2007, Mary and her family moved from St. Paul to the tiny Bayfield Peninsula, surrounded by the waters of Lake Superior and Chequamegon Bay in far northwestern Wisconsin. Through recipes, stories, and photos, this book explores what it means to nourish a family and a community. As Dougherty incorporates what is grown and raised in northern Wisconsin into her family’s favorite dishes, she continues a cultural tradition begun by immigrants hundreds of years ago. This is is a one-of-a-kind collection of globally and regionally inspired recipes featuring local cheeses, meats, and produce from the farmers in and around Bayfield. Hardcover, full color, 194 pages $29.95
THIS SUPERIOR PLACE Stories of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands
Author Dennis McCann - Picturesque little Bayfield on Lake Superior is Wisconsin's smallest city by population but one of its most popular visitor destinations. This book captures those unique qualities that keep tourists coming back year after year and offers a historically reliable look at the community as it is today and how it came to be. It's abundantly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images and it includes significant eras in the city's history: lumbering, quarrying, commercial fishing, and the advent of the orchards visitors see today. 150 pages $19.95
APOSTLE ISLANDS WATER TRIPS
Author John Frank - An excellent guidebook with paddling, boating and camping information for the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Includes each island's location, geography, history, shoreline and small watercraft landing sites; its camping and hiking facilities, and its possible integration into a multi-island boat trip. A map showing the shoreline features, landing sites, and other important information for kayakers and boaters is included and each chapter also features a vignette or essay based on the author's paddling and camping experiences on each island over a twenty-two year period. 183 paged, full color photos & maps. $20.00
​THE LIGHTHOUSE ON DEVILS ISLAND
Author Jim Merkel - (fiction) One miserable spring night, a tired, bitter, despairing old lighthouse keeper prepares to jump off the top of Lake Superior's Devils Island Lighthouse. It seems the end for Owen McClatchy, but it's the beginning, during a wondrous summer of 1928. New first assistant keeper Sam Brown, his wife and two kids arrive from St. Louis and by summer's end, the Browns help McClatchy realize he hasn't wasted his life on a lighthouse! Based on the real Devils Island Lighthouse in Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands, The Lighthouse on Devils Island is full of carefully-researched details about the drudgery, loneliness, beauty and heroism of a time and place when everything depended on keeping the light burning.  302 pages $15.95
APOSTLE ISLANDS: From Land and Sea (SOUVENIR EDITION)
Author / Photographer Craig Blacklock - Wisconsin's Apostle Islands are a haven for boaters and tourists and this photo book will appeal to them. Blacklock's ability as a photographer and kayaker sets this book far apart from any others. He has the skills to create images others would find impossible. Sea caves, lighthouses, scenic shoreline & so much more! hardcover, 48 pages of full color exceptional photography $8.95
DISCOVERING THE APOSTLE ISLANDS
Author Lawrence Newman - This book is a handy guide for visitors coming to this beautiful area of Wisconsin. It reveals recreational opportunities, history and facts about the islands, lighthouse information and photos, beach locations, how to get to the islands, and recommended places to visit in Bayfield and the surrounding communities. 143 pages, full color photography. $19.95
THE "UNHOLY" APOSTLES: Shipwreck Tales of the Apostle Islands
Author James Keller - The setting is the beautiful Apostle Islands & Chequamegon Bay area on the south shore of Lake Superior. The time frame runs roughly from 1870 to 1930. Within this sixty year period these waters witnessed many a troubled vessel and produced a plethora of interesting tales. This book reveals historical accounts and facts are presented as accurately as possible along with ample amounts of heroics, sacrifice, cowardice and courage. b/w historic photos, 158 pages  $11.95
GREAT LAKES LIGHTHOUSES: American And Canadian
Author Wes Oleszewski - The only all Great Lakes lighthouse guide! It features over 300 lighthouses on both the American and Canadian side of the lakes. The lighthouses are indexed by lake, making a trip to an area easy to plan and execute. Each lighthouse has a photo (if available), brief description, access availability and directions. Planning your lighthouse trip will be a breeze! Every listing includes a checkoff box to mark off each lighthouse you have visited. 217 pages, black & white photos & maps $17.95
HAUNTED LAKES
Author Frederick Stonehouse - This BEST SELLER has delighted and sent chills up the spines of thousands of readers! Haunted Lakes tells of possessed lighthouses and tragedies that have kept troubled souls walking the corridors and beaches, ghostly captains signaling their home port from vessels long gone and Sea Monsters that appear before the most trusted sailors of the Great Lakes. 204 pages, historic photos. $14.95
HAUNTED LAKES II
Author Frederick Stonehouse - Spirits, sea serpents and superstitions! One book simply couldn’t carry all of the hauntings of the Great Lakes - so now comes Haunted Lakes II, sequel to the popular Haunted Lakes. Enjoy mystifying tales of ghosts on boats, under water and in lighthouses, of underwater creatures and shipboard superstitions in an entertaining collection gathered from true believers. 200 pages, historic photos. $14.95