Safe Harbor Books

Informative and visually compelling atlases explaining how to see and read the night sky at all latitudes.

Age Group: 10 - 19

15-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed.

Age Group: 11 - 15

Meet Enzo, the unforgettable canine narrator of this bittersweet and transformative story of family, love, loyality, and hope.

It starts with a letter, lost for half a century and unexpectedly delivered to Edie's mother one afternoon. The letter leads Edie to a castle where Blythe spinsters live and where, she discovers, her mother was billeted during WWII. Inside the castle, Edie searches for her mother's past but soon learns there are other secrets hidden in the walls.

In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

A powerful and heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past.

Provocative novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest--gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.

A novel about facing every last one of the things we fear the most, about finding ways to navigate a road we never intended to travel.

A true story of a dedicated Harvard physician and renowned infectious-disease specialist. He is dedicated to solving global health problems in Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Moscow. His supporters formed the U.N.'s World Health Organization. It is a stunning and entertaining story. The book is "provocative, brillant, funny, endlessly energetic, and inspiring!"

Part adventure story, part extreme sports, this is a riveting story about one journalist's quest to discover the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners, a reclusive tribe living deep in the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico.

A stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severly misguided family.

A true story of a modern-day slave and an international art dealer bound together by a dying woman's faith.

A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter has been abducted and murdered. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?"

A compilation of personal photographs, historical images, and written excerpts illuminating Ernest Hemingway's significant ties to northern Michigan.

The natural beauty of Michigan celebrated in photographs.




Below you will find a variety of Staff Picks ... Children's Books
		An engaging lyrical and delightfully illustrated story about the freighters that frequent the Great Lakes. Age Group: 4 - 8		Beautifully written story about a boy who injures his eye and must learn life's meaning through adversity. Through the discovery of nature, the boy overcomes suffering to live a happier, more fulfilled childhood. Age Group: 9 - 12
		A mother bear loses sight of her two cubs as they attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming across lake Michigan in this retelling Ojibwe Indian tale. Age Group: 6 - 9		Informative and visually compelling atlases explaining how to see and read the night sky at all latitudes. Age Group: 10 - 19
		Interactive book with pull tabs, pettable textures, and fold-outs demonstrating opposites, actions, and more! Age Group: 2 - 5		Soothing story about construction equipment that work with all their might during the day so that they can turn off their engines and rest their wheels when saying goodnight. Age Group: 4 - 8

Young Adult
	14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family except for his interest in archaeological excavation which he shares with his father. So when his dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind the disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. Age Group: 10 - 14			With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, a debut author creates a mesmerizing medieval world with death-defying adventure and heart-racing romance sure to captivate readers. Age Group: 13 - 17
	1st in the Percy Jackson & Olympians series. A novel that mixes classic Greek mythology with modern adventure. After learning he is a demigod, Percy Jackson is sent to a summer camp on Long Island, where he meets the father he never knew. Age Group: 10 - 13			Stunning novel set in the future with unsettling parallels to the present. "A violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense...I couldn't stop reading." -Stephen King Age Group: 12 - 17
	15-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Age Group: 11 - 15			While working summer jobs in San Francisco, twins Sophie and Josh suddenly find themseleves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists over the possesion of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. Age Group: 11 - 15

Adult Fiction
	Meet Enzo, the unforgettable canine narrator of this bittersweet and transformative story of family, love, loyality, and hope. *Highly recommended by one of our favorite customers!			It starts with a letter, lost for half a century and unexpectedly delivered to Edie's mother one afternoon. The letter leads Edie to a castle where Blythe spinsters live and where, she discovers, her mother was billeted during WWII. Inside the castle, Edie searches for her mother's past but soon learns there are other secrets hidden in the walls.
	In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.			A powerful and heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past.
	Provocative novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest--gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.			After divorcing and being robbed of his farm by a lat-blooming real-estate shark of an ex-wife, Harrison embarks on a road trip across America; on a journey into, and out of, himself.
	A novel about facing every last one of the things we fear the most, about finding ways to navigate a road we never intended to travel.			A straitlaced novice doctor gets initiated into the unorthodox world of a crafty rural sawbones.

Adult Non-Fiction
	A true story of a dedicated Harvard physician and renowned infectious-disease specialist. He is dedicated to solving global health problems in Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Moscow. His supporters formed the U.N.'s World Health Organization. It is a stunning and entertaining story. The book is "provocative, brillant, funny, endlessly energetic, and inspiring!"			Part adventure story, part extreme sports, this is a riveting story about one journalist's quest to discover the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners, a reclusive tribe living deep in the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico.
	A stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severly misguided family.			By containing up-to-date research and easily recognized dog-behaviors, dog owners begin to see their best friend's behavior in a different, and revealing light.
	A true story of a modern-day slave and an international art dealer bound together by a dying woman's faith. An inspirational story that encourages us all to be compassionate with everyone we come into contact with.			Jon Krakauer's account of his headline-making tragedy. Disaster struck during his ascent of Mt. Everest, killing eight climbers. Krakauer survived by luck, skill, and discipline.
	Gripping story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family, deported by cattle car in 1940 to the frozen wastes of the Russian arctic north.			One of the last untold stories of WWII, the extraordinary mission to rescue survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe members that aided those stranded on the ground in Shangri-La.

Christian Fiction
	A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter has been abducted and murdered. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?"			Jackson examines the many facets of forgiveness, grace, racial prejudice, and healing, in this enjoyable follow-up to "The Yada Yada Prayer Group." When a wildly diverse group of women gets together to pray, they have no idea how Gods going to rock their world.

Coffee Table Books
	A compilation of personal photographs, historical images, and written excerpts illuminating Ernest Hemingway's significant ties to northern Michigan. The natural beauty of Michigan celebrated in photographs.				For more than half a century, Chris-Craft reigned supreme in the world of motorboating. This market dominance was due in no small part to the design and construction techniques employed in the company's studios and on its factory floors. "Building Chris-Craft" examines the company's design and production heritage, looking at Chris-Craft's considerable accomplishments in the context of key competitors and industrial trends in general. Michigan past and present--from Native American settlements to trading outposts, farms to vacation resorts, Motown magic to automotive muscle--in photos, postcards, brochures, and ads.

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