Empire Mine Cascade Range: Michigan’s Largest Iron Mine By Allan Koski
Review by Victor R. Volkman Allan Koski is that rare combination of an eloquent historian, talented engineer, and a storyteller with a penchant for seeing the big picture. Because I thoroughly enjoyed Koski’s Another Time, Another Place: World War II in the Pacific 1941-1944, which details the exploits of his…
Life Beyond Shadows by t. kilgore splake
Know Your Ships 2022 by Roger LeLievre
To Build a Tunnel by Deborah K Frontiera (
To Build a Tunnel by Deborah K Frontiera (originally published 2004) as volume one of The Chronicles of Henry Roach-Dairier From Fandom to Full Cultural Foundation Review by Mack Hassler In modern times, we often label this sort of enthusiastic imitation of types “fandom” as in science fiction fandom or…
Roads Not Traveled: Collection of Poems by t. kilgore splake
The Road to Splake by Robert M. Zoschke
Dance Your Dance, Sing Your Song, a True Story By Dorothy Paad
Michigan Tech Hockey: 100 Years of Memories” by William Sproule
“Michigan Tech Hockey: 100 Years of Memories” just released by Bill Sproule with the help of Calvin Larson, Michigan Tech’s Assistant Athletic Director, is the definitive encyclopedia of Huskies Hockey history. The book is chock full of in-depth information on every season from 1920 to 2021 and was commissioned for…
North Dixie Highway by Joseph D. Haske
Review by Victor R. Volkman At first glance, Joseph D. Haske’s North Dixie Highway is a rage-fueled trip through three generations of an Eastern U.P. family locked in a cycle of grinding poverty, trauma, and alcoholism. But beneath the surface there’s much more lurking as we follow this broken family…
A Halloween Scare in Michigan By Eric James, illustrated by Marina Le Ray
All Aboard! Great Lakes By Keven and Haily Myers
Growing Up in Sparta And Other Adventures by Larry Buege
Woodburnings: Highlights from the First Five Years
Great Lakes Monsters and Mysteries by Tim Ellis and Brad Blair
Touching the Wild U.P. by John Highlen
Brave —Nisayenh Ma’iingan (My older brother, the wolf)
Review by Donna Winters Detail. This is the overriding characteristic of Brave —Nisayenh Ma’iingan, Barry J. Dalberto’s historical novel about Lake Superior and fur trading in the early nineteenth century. He’s great about detailing settings, and sometimes his detail is in the form of a list. Other times, it comes…
3rd Annual U.P. Notable Books List
MARQUETTE, MI (January 4th, 2022)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 3rd Annual U.P. Notable Books List this week. UPPAA board member Mikel Classen (Sault Ste. Marie) initiated the effort as a response to the lack of representation of U.P. writers in other Michigan state literary…