The Legend of Sleeping Bear retells the Ojibwe legend of the Sleeping Bear Dune. The rich words written in verse by Kathy-jo Wargin are brillantly illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. The story unfolds of the fateful swim across Lake Michigan of the two cubs and mother bear to escape a forest fire in Wisconsin, of mother bear's long wait, to the rising up of the bear cub islands in Sleeping Bear Bay. It is this duo's first legend book and was named the offical Michigan's children story. (Sleeping Bear Press, 1996. hdc $17.95)
Signed first editions are also available at $35 along with signed framed prints of the cover image $75.

Historic Cottages of Glen Lake by Barbara Siepker and photographs by Dietrich Floeter.
Traverse City photographer Dietrich Floeter's duotone photographs capture the esssence of fifty cozy lake cottages. Paired with Barbara Siepker's captivating historical and personal narratives they illustrate the important role cottages played in northern Michigan in the first half of the twentieth century. It is a nostalgic story of bygone years when summer residents fled the cities to breathe clear air. The book won the Michigan Historical Society Award and a Michigan Notable Book in 2008 and Siepker received the 2004 Edmund Ball Fellowship from the Leelanau Historical Society to begin this documentation.(Leelanau Press, 2008. hdc $50 Signed copies) Photographs are available through Dietrich Floeter.