Modern History Press
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Amasa Speaker Factory: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartAmasa Speaker Factory wanders Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with a mining helmet, a pickaxe, and a dizzying soundtrack.
Chad Faries sifts through abandoned mines, family history, and the quiet damage of l
- Author: Faries, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: February 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896560845
- Language: English
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A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island – The Coloring Book: Coloring, Mazes, Word Search, Jokes, and Classic Activities for Kids
$15.95 Add to cartA Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island – The Coloring Book!
Enjoy Mackinac Island, Michigan in a whole new way! Inspired by the charming book series A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island, this coloring book is pac
- Author: Porter, Summer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: April 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560418
- Language: English
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Mackinac Island: Holidays, Tourists, and Trivia
$21.95 Add to cartIn Mackinac Island: Holidays, Tourists, and Trivia, lifelong island resident Tom Chambers shares heartfelt memories and quirky insights from over 70 summers and 50 winters on Michigan’s most iconic is
- Author: Chambers, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560579
- Language: English
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Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater Pirates
$15.95 Add to cartWaiting in the night, hidden behind a remote island, no lights showing, pirates would lure unsuspecting ships into unknown waters. Then they would silently slide up to them and board the ship. The cre
- Author: Classen, Mikel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798896560036
- Language: English
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Enduring Legacies: People of the 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartOn November 3, 1926, catastrophe struck the Barnes-Hecker mine near the small town of Ishpeming in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In less than fifteen minutes, the mine caved in when a torrent of mud, wa
- Author: Tippett, Mary V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560302
- Language: English
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The Last Huck
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the U.P. Notable Books Award (2024)
“The Last Huck stands out as one of the most impressive debut novels of this decade.” –Joseph D. Haske, author of North Dixie Highway
Jakob, Niklas and Pet
- Author: Austin, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998055
- Language: English
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Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – 70th Anniversary Edition
$21.95 Add to cartWinner–Best Biography/Memoir of 2002, Midwest Book Awards (St. Paul, MN)
A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s – early 1900s in the northern U.S.
- Author: Crowe, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0965057739
- Language: English
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Rescuing Crash, the Good Dog
$18.95 Add to cartBritta, an eleven-year-old girl has lived in soul-deep sorrow since her mother left their family. When Britta’s father forgets her birthday, he decides to give her a dog (although Britta asked for a c
- Author: Harrison, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560159
- Language: English
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The Caving Grounds: Poems
$34.95 Add to cartKathleen M. Heideman’s The Caving Grounds excavates the rubble of Negaunee, a small town in Upper Michigan hollowed by a century of mining. The extraction of hematite caused underground collapses and
- Author: Heideman, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1615998462
- Language: English
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The Caving Grounds: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartKathleen M. Heideman’s The Caving Grounds excavates the rubble of Negaunee, a small town in Upper Michigan hollowed by a century of mining. The extraction of hematite caused underground collapses and
- Author: Heideman, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1615998454
- Language: English
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Geometric Patterns, Angles and the Guitar: A ‘Chordological’ Shifting Perspective
$15.95 Add to cartA Novel Approach to Learning Guitar Chord Progressions
This treatise seeks to encourage guitarists of all levels to find their voice by experimenting and creating chordal ideas by playing notes on any
- Author: Persaud, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 26
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997512
- Language: English
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Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors
$21.95 Add to cartExplore the depths of love and loss across three generations of women
Hummingbird is a spiritual memoir about the connection between three generations of women–the author, her mother and her beloved m
- Author: Raab, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1615997644
- Language: English
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Off the Hook: Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.)
$21.95 Add to cartBack in 1981, publisher Ed Danner took a chance, hiring Nancy Besonen, a rookie reporter from Chicago’s South Side, for his weekly newspaper, the L’Anse Sentinel. Her humor column, “Off the Hook,” was
- Author: Besonen, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997482
- Language: English
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Make It Go in the Snow: People and Ideas in the History of Snowmobiles
$21.95 Add to cartThrough the years, the challenge of powered transportation in the snow has been met with ideas from explorers, creative inventors and small companies, all with new ideas – often unique and sometimes s
- Author: Jorgensen, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998144
- Language: English
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Memories of a Mackinac Island Native: Life on the Island from 1940s to 2020s
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Chambers, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998314
- Language: English
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Sparks of the Revolution: James Otis and the Birth of American Democracy — A Novel
$21.95 Add to cartAt a time when Democracy is under attack, the riveting new novel, Sparks of the Revolution, is a vibrant reminder of where our Democracy was born and the people and principles that brought it to life.
- Author: Otis, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1615997873
- Language: English
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Memories of a Mackinac Island Native: Life on the Island from 1940s to 2020s
$33.95 Add to cart- Author: Chambers, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998322
- Language: English
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A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island: A Mouse Family’s Island Adventure In Northern Michigan
$18.95 Add to cartOn a warm summer day in northern Michigan, a family of mice finds their way to Mackinac Island, the “jewel of the Great Lakes,” to start a new life. Tag along and enter a world of whimsy in A Mouse Ta
- Author: Porter, Summer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996540
- Language: English
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A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island: A Mouse Family’s Island Adventure In Northern Michigan
$29.95 Add to cartOn a warm summer day in northern Michigan, a family of mice find their way to Mackinac Island, the “jewel of the Great Lakes,” to start a new life. Tag along and enter a world of whimsy in A Mouse Tai
- Author: Porter, Summer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996559
- Language: English
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The Frugal Book Promoter – 3rd Edition: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or by partnering with your publisher
$24.95 Add to cartThe Frugal Book Promoter assures your book gets the best possible start in life, whether your publisher assigns zero dollars or thousands to your book’s marketing campaign. A former publicist, the aut
- Author: Howard-Johnson, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1615994688
- Language: English
