Thanks for visiting our internet store! We may be a summertime stop for many of you, but now you can visit us online all year long. We'll keep you in touch with new Mackinac and Michigan releases that your local shop might not get as excited about as we do. And though we specialize in Mackinac Island and Northern Michigan items, we are a full service book store. If you don't see it on this site, just email us, and we probably have it, or can get it for you. And when spring comes, please visit us on Mackinac Island, or stop by our Mackinaw City store for a cup of the best coffee around. (FREE SHIPPING ON DOMESTIC ORDERS OVER $75.00)

We are featuring our most popular books on our website during the off-season. During the summer months our website will include our larger selection of books.

Mackinac Bridge: A 50 Year Chronicle, 1959-2007

by Mike Fornes

Take a trip through the first 50 years of the bridge's history and you'll experience unusual crossings, triumph and tragedy. Here are the stories, the photos and the people who mave made this engineering wonder a symbol of the state of Michigan.

Picturesque Mackinac: The Photographs of William H. Gardiner 1896-1915

Steven Brisson, chief curator for Mackinac State Historic Parks, has hand selected over 250 of Gardiner's images for this book. Brisson has created an elegant, visually striking compilation of turn of the century images of Mackinac.

Price: $29.95
Paperback

Price $26.95
Hardcover

Seasons of Mackinac 2008
The Mackinac Island Recreational Development (MIRD) 2008 Mackinac Island Calendar.

Mackinac Living 2007
Mackinac's own magazine, featuring Mackinac Island's people & places.

Price: $10.00
Paperback

Price $6.95
Paperback

Mackinac Bridge: The Five Mile Poem

Set in the late 1950s, this is the moving story of a young boy whose father operates a ferryboat between Michigans Upper and Lower peninsulas. As young Mark witnesses the building of the new Mackinac Bridge, he is torn between family loyalty and eager anticipation.

Haunts of Mackinac: Ghost Stories, Legends and Tragic Tales of Mackinac Island
by Todd Clemens

Price $17.95
Hardcover

Price: $14.95
Paperback

Building the Mighty Mac

Building the Mighty Mac is an award-winning documentary about the Mackinac Bridge. The program was produced in Hollywood by Mark Howell and includes extremely rare 16 mm color footage showing all stages of the bridge’s construction.

Four Seasons of Mackinac Island

This award winning videographer spent a year capturing the attaction and awesome beauty of Mackinac Island. A narrative provides the history of the island as well as a description of what visitors enjoy today.

Price $24.00
DVD

Price $19.95
DVD

Michigan State Ferries
by Les Bagley

Fascinating history of the construction and use of state-owned Michigan ferries.

Mackinaw City -Postcard Series
by Madeline Okerman Adie

Postcards and commentary about Mackinaw City.

Softcover
Price: $19.99

Softcover
Price: $19.99

History of the Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw, decommissioned in 2006.

Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region
by M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson

The Mackinac Straits region with its scenic attractions natural wonders has beckoned visitors and tourists for over 150 years. Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region is a pictorial history of this northern Michigan vacation hub. The book uses “vintage views” to portray Mackinaw City, St. Ignace, Mackinac Island, the car ferries, and the famous Mackinac Bridge.

Softcover
Price: $29.95

Price: $40.00
Hardcover

Mackinaw Loves Its Bridge

by Mary Lou Peters

Memories of the construction of the Mackinac Bridge

A pictorial guidebook to seventy-three cottages built on Mackinac Island, Michigan between 1870 and 1910. Historic photos from private collections and the Mackinac State Historic Parks's archives are interspersed with contemporary color photos of each cottage. Biographies of early cottage occupants, details of the cottage architecture, and interesting anecdotes from a hundred years past, the Gilded Age.

Price $7.00
Paperback

Price $40.00
Hardcover

M

A history of Mackinac Island published by the Mackinac State Historic Parks.

Mackinac Island and fudge. Both symbolize indulgence, fantasy and escape. But there's more to fudge than sugar, butter, chocolate and cream. In this book, historian Phil Porter stirs up the past to find the hard work and sometimes bitter controversy behind this sweet souvenir. In his hunger for truth and historical accuracy, Porter dug deep into the kitchens and cupboards of the fudge culture. No appetite for history, no taste for sweet truth will be satisfied without reading Fudge: Mackinac's Sweet Souvenir.

Price $12.95
Hardcover

Intriguing novel for children and adults alike!

Softcover
Price: $10.95

Softcover
Price: $9.95

Order the new Lilac Festival poster of Richard Wolfgang's beautiful island watercolor.

Comprised mostly of poems that originally were written for children's sermons, this new book written by the pastor of the Little Stone Church on Mackinac Island, presents "both old and new testaments in a rhythmic setting reforming Biblical figures into urban heroes."

Price: $9.50

Price: $10.00
Paperback

Wish You Were Here: An Album of Vintage Mackinac Postcards
by Steven C. Brisson

Drawing from the burgeoning Mackinac State Historic Parks collections, the book provides over 200 full-color examples of postcards, from their late 19th century roots through the middle of the 20th century. Mackinac lovers will be fascinated by the way their favorite spots have changed or remained the same over the last 100 years.

The Legend of Mackinac Island
by Kathy-jo Warginn
Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen

Beautifully illustrated story incorporating Indian legends of Mackinac Island. Retells the story of the great turtle Makinauk that enlists the aid of other animals to help create the special place known as Mackinac Island.

Price: $17.95
Hardcover

Mackinac Island: Its History in Pictures
by Eugene T. Petersen

An illustrated history of the Island in black and white photographs and illustrations. One of our bestsellers.

Price: $10.95
Paperback

Price $18.00
Hardcover

View from the Veranda

In View From the Veranda, Phil Porter invites us along for an inside look at the grand cottages of this uniquely Victorian island where cars are not allowed.

The Forbidden Gold of Mackinac
Martha Robach

Price $24.95
Hardcover

Softcover
Price: $14.95

by Karen Dean.

Come along with the Anderson family as they visit a one-of-a-kind island in Lake Huron, located between Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

Mac's Mackinac Island Adventure
Author Mary Beth Vachon
Illustrated by Ann G. Rusky

Mac's friends are Nay-Sayers but
Mac finds courage to do new things that he's never done before.

Price $19.95
Hardcover

Price $17.95
Hardcover

Step Up

by Cathe Hahn

This new children's book takes a family on a sight-seeing trip with the three horse hitch on Mackinac Island. Find out what happens one day when the Carriage Tour driver says, "John, Wayne, Duke, step up!"

Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.
Suspenseful retelling of the last hours of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Atmospheric paintings from award winning artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.

Price $15.95
Hardcover

Price $17.95
Hardcover

Before the Bridge

Award-winning documentary about the story of the Mackinac Straits ferries used to carry all traffic before the opening of the Mackinac Bridge in 1957.

As seen on PBS...

Price $19.95
DVD

Hardcover
Price: $17.95

Somewhere in Time: Filmscore

(Will be available in May 2007)

John Barry's magnificent film score conducted by John Debney; performed by The Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Shipwrecks of the Straits of Mackinac

Historic Mackinac and her shipwrecks presented in an interesting, informative and entertaining fashion - includes stories of 41 discovered shipwrecks and 43 undiscovered shipwrecks with detailed facts and maps - and sketches of the history of the Straits, Islands, Lighthouses, Shipwreck Statistics, Bottomland Preserve - also provides Sources, Bibliography, Glossary of Nautical Terms and an Index. Scuba divers, historians and anyone interested in Great Lakes maritime history will enjoy this book.

Price $19.95
CD

Price $19.95
Paperback

Somewhere in Time DVD

(Will be available in May 2007)

Classic romantic movie filmed on Mackinac Island and starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. This 20th anniversary DVD includes extended interviews with cast and makers of the film.

Price $33.95
DVD