Kim

On weekends, you may be lucky enough to find Kim Mann who loves recommending books and introducing visitors to Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore where she works full time as an architect. She manages our online old book sales through ABE Books. She also volunteers with the Maritime Heritage Alliance, sailing on its tall ship "Madeline".

$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781933272306
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Thunder Bay Press, 3/2012
Arrived on this Ship is a comprehensive and fascinating look at the specifics of traveling by ship around the Great Lakes 100 years ago. The book is divided into sections devoted to each Great Lake and the ships that transported both cargo and passengers. Each ship is followed through time with historic post cards, from Canada and the United States, illustrating the ships. A description of the vessel, the types of travel accommodations, special events that occurred with the ship, as well as what eventually became of the ship, is included in each chapter. Maps of the Great Lakes allow the reader to locate the general vicinity of each view. The author, Hudson Keenan, is a graduate of Central Michigan University and Michigan State University.  ~Kim Mann is a local history lover.

$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129993
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 4/2012
Enslaved by Ducks author Bob Tarte continues to write of his and wife Linda's life with all adopted animals great and small. In Kitty Cornered the book revolves around the changes to daily life as each of their five cats are adopted and move into the house, changing the entire dynamics and domestic hierarchy of the cat kingdom established by each of the cats when displaced by the new. The author shares the dilemmas of catering to five different cat personalities through humorous stories of litter box mishaps, sleep deprivation, finicky eating, cat carrier challenges, damaged property, and tattered psyches -- mostly on the part of the author. Each cat teaches Tarte lessons about trust, patience, socialization, and contentment but first he must overcome his self-proclaimed anxious persona to just observe the cats he has brought into his house to understand some true lessons in life. ~Kim Mann