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PublishedTitleAuthor(s)
2025The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldJohn U. Bacon
2025A Perfect Omena Day - Selections from the Summer Diaries of Rebecca L. Richmond 1907-1920M. Christine Byron
2025The Vacation: A Teenage Migrant Farmworker's Experience Picking Cherries in MichiganRobert Carlos Fuentes
2025Slabtown - Traverse City's Premier NeighborhoodMarty Macleod
2025Stepping Off The Boat - Stories from North Manitou IslandSusan Hollister Wasserman
2023Suttons Bay, Peshawbestown, and Bingham Shores on Grand Traverse BayKathleen Firestone
2023SUNKEN - Shipwrecks of Lake MichiganKathy Groth
2023Perry Hannah & His Neighbors Marty Macleod
2021The Soul of Sleeping BearMark Lindsay
2021Up North in Michigan - A Portrait of Place in Four SeasonJerry Dennis
2021Picture Perfect Sleeping Bear - A History in Photos from National Lakeshore VisitorsDoug Baker
2021Awake at Sleeping BearRobert deJonge
2021Thompsonville in Time - A Northwest Michigan Story 1890-2021Charles T. Kraus
2021All About Olde Towne - Telling Tales of Traverse City's Old South SideMarty Macleod
2021Leelanau Underwater - Exploring Shipwrecks in Leelanau County and Manitou PassageChris Roxburgh
2021Beauty is Therapy - Memories of the Traverse City State HospitalKristen M. Hains & Earl E Steele
2020Words Like Thunder - New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers Lois Beardslee
2020Gangsters Up North - Mobsters, Mafia and Racketeers in Michigan's VacationlandsRobert Knapp
2020A Port Oneida Collection - oral history, photographs, and Maps from Sleeping Bear Region. Volume 1Tom Van Zoeren
2019The History of Education on the Old Mission PeninsulaKaren Rieser
2018How the Good Times Rolled Richard Fidler
2016The Best of Sleeping BearRobert deJonge
2016Edward Beebe's Historic Leelanau Photographs 1909-1915Jack Hobey
2016Leelanau Trek - One Shoreline, Two VisionsKen Scott & Kaye Krapohl
2014Little Traverse Bay - Past and PresentMichael R. Federspiel
2013Traverse City, Michigan a Historical Narrative, 1850-2013Richard Fidler
2013Straight As the Pine, Sturdy As the Oak; Skipper and Cora Beals and Major and Helen Huey in the Early Years of Camp Leelanau for BoysMichael Huey
2013Perry Hannah's Gifts - Then and NowPeg Jonkhoff & Fred Hoisington
2013Art of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, Jerry Dennis and Kathleen StockingLinda Young
2012Murder at the Cherry FestivalRichard L. Baldwin
2012Painting the Magic of Sleeping Bear CountryHank Freeley
2012The Eagle ReturnsMatthew L. M. Fletcher
2012Blackbird's Song - Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa PeopleTheodore I. Karamanski
2011Grand Traverse The Civil War EraJohn C. Mitchell
2011TC, I Love TheeHenry Morgenstein
2011Anishinaabe Syndicated - A View from the RezJim Northrup
2011Edgewood Resort - A Place ApartJulie Schopierary
2011Queen City, Barns, Carriage, Houses, and NeighborhoodsBob Wilhelm
2009Michigan's Upper Peninsula AlmanacRon Jolly & Karl Bohnak
2009Climb from the Cellar - A MemoirWayne Lobdell
2009Mapping the Grand Traverse Indian CountryHelen Hoenbeck Tanner
2008An Uncrowded PlaceBob Butz
2008A Century of Service - The People and Places on Old Mission PeninsulaMary Jo Lance
2008The Boy from Archie - Selected and Assorted MemoriesSenator George A. McManus, Jr.
2008Peninsula Telephone Company - Residential and Business Directory - Old Mission Exchange--
2007BARNS of Old Mission Peninsula and Their StoriesEvelyn Johnson
2006The Way It Was - Stories from the Grand Traverse RegionLarry Wakefield
2006Grand Traverse Legends Volume III - The Transition Years 1880-1900Robert E. Wilson
2005Traverse City State Hospital Chris Miller
2005Legends of Light - A Michigan Lighthouse PortfolioEd Wargin
2005Glen Arbor Township - A History to 1920Andrew White
2005Grand Traverse Legends Volume II - The Formative Years 1860-1880Robert E. Wilson
2004Reflections of a Life Up NorthDeborah Wyatt Fellows
2004Angels in the Architecture - A Photographic Elegy to an American AsylumHeidi Johnson
2004Grand Traverse Legends Volume I - The Early Years 1838-1860Robert E. Wilson
2003Glen Arbor Pioneers: John LaRue, John Dorsey, John Fisher James R. Tozer
2003Traverse City in Vintage PostcardsC.S. Wright
2002Big Trout Black GoldDawn Triplett
2001Grand Traverse - Reflections Along the BayRecord-Eagle
2001Port Oneida--
2000Off the PlanetJerry M. Linenger
2000What it was like…Helen Pratt
1997Grand Old Lady - The Story of the City Opera HouseLarry Wakefield
1996Historic Traverse City HousesLarry Wakefield
1995 On the Road to Michigan’s Past Larry B. Wakefield
1994Garfield Township - An Illustrated History. A narrative history of transportation in the Traverse City regionLawrence Wakefield
1993Birch Bark Bells - Women of the Michigan FrontierLarry B. Massie
1993Letters from the Leelanau - essays of people and place Kathleen Stockling
1991North Manitou Island - Between Sunrise and SunsetRita Hadra Rusco
1991Traverse City Postcard HistoryLawrence Wakefield
1984Vinegar Pie and Other Tales of the Grand Traverse RegionAl Barnes
1980Sail and Rail: A Narrative History of transportation in the Traverse City regionLawrence & Lucille Wakefield
1977All Our YesterdaysLarry Wakefield
1976Let's Fly Backward! Brainstorming the Grand Traverse Bay RegionAl Barnes
1976Michigan - A Bicentennial HistoryBruce Catton
1976Something From Nothing - an imprecise casual folk history of Antrim County's chain of lakesGlen Ruggles
1975Heritage of Grand Traverse Bay : The City and its PeopleDonna Bollinger
1974Some Other Day (Remembering Empire)--
1972Waiting for the Morning Train - An American BoyhoodBruce Catton
1939100 Years from the Old Mission 1839-1939Al Barnes
--Old Traverse CityJ. A. Moore
--Meet Me at the Dock - in Grelickville, Grand Traverse BayKathleen Firestone

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