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Great Lakes Essential Resources: Great Lakes Books

Last Updated: Jul 11, 2025 4:46 PM

Non-fiction

Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes book cover

Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes by Susan M. Kooiman (2021)

Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene by Nancy Langston (2021) book cover

Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene by Nancy Langston (2021)

Sustaining Lake Superior book cover

Sustaining Lake Superior: An extraordinary Lake in a Changing World by NANCY LANGSTON (2019)

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The Great Lakes Water Wars by Peter Annin (2018)

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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (2018)

The Naval War Of 1812 book cover

The Naval War Of 1812 by Theodore Roosevelt (2017)

The New Midwest by Mark Athitakis book cover

The New Midwest by Mark Athitakis (2017)

Saving Arcadia book cover

Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes by Heather Shumaker (2017)

A Beginner's Guide to Ship Watching on the Great Lakes book cover

A Beginner's Guide to Ship Watching on the Great Lakes by Brett Ortler (2015)

Ship Captain's Daughter book cover

Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes by Ann M Lewis (2015)

Edmund Fitzgerald book cover

Edmund Fitzgerald: The legendary Great lakes shipwreck by Elle Andra-Warner (2014)

Sky pilot of the Great Lakes book cover

Sky pilot of the Great Lakes: a biography of the Reverend William H. Law by John Kotzian (2014)

The Once and Future Great Lakes Country book cover

The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History by John L Riley (2014)

Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes book cover

Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes by Dwight Boyer (2014)

The Windward Shore book cover

The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis (2012)

Pandora's Locks book cover

Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway by Jeff Alexander (2011)

Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes book cover

Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts (2011)

The Great Lake book cover

The Great Lakes: the natural history of a changing region by Wayne Grady; Bruce M Litteljohn; Emily S Damstra; David Suzuki Foundation. (2011)

A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach book cover

A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman's Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan by Loreen Niewenhuis (2011)

The Third Coast book cover

The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes by Edward McClelland (2008)

Lake Effect book cover

Lake Effect: A Deckhand's Journey on the Great Lakes Freighters by Richard N Hill (2008)

Steel on the Bottom book cover

Steel on the Bottom: Great Lakes Shipwrecks by Frederick Stonehouse (2006)

Fresh Water book cover

Fresh Water by Alison Swan (2006)

photo of lake and sky

The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis (2004)

Great Lakes Crime book cover

Great Lakes Crime: Murder, Mayhem, Booze & Broads by Frederick Stonehouse (2004)

Indian Women and French Men book cover

Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes by Susan Sleeper-Smith (2001)

Women's Great Lakes book cover

Women's Great Lakes Reader by Victoria Brehm (2001)

Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales book cover

Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales by Frederick Stonehouse (1998)

Tales of the Great Lakes book cover

Tales of the Great Lakes: Stories from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin by Secaucus, N.J. (1986)

The Late, Great Lakes book cover

The Late, Great Lakes by William Ashworth (1987)

Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals book cover

Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals by William Ratigan (1910)

Great Lakes Ghost Stories book cover

Great Lakes Ghost Stories: Haunted Tales Past & Present by Wes Oleszewski (2004)

Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures book cover

Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures - Great Lakes by Michael J. Varhola, Paul G. Hoffman (Illustrations), Frederick Stonehouse (Foreword) (2007)

Deckhand book cover

Deckhand: Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes by Nelson Haydamacker; Alan Millar (2009)

Lighthouse Adventures book cover

Lighthouse Adventures by Wes Oleszewski (1999)

Thrilling and often incredible stories of life on the Great Lakes.

The Upper Country book cover

The Upper Country: French enterprise in the colonial Great Lakes by Claiborne A Skinner (2008)

Lake Invaders book cover

Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes (Great Lakes Books Series) by William Rapai (2016)

Mysteries and Histories book cover

Mysteries and Histories: shipwrecks of the great lakes by Wes Oleszewski (1997)

The Great Lakes Book Project book cover

The Great Lakes Book Project by Walter Blake Knoblock (2013)

Modern Water Law book cover

Modern Water Law: Private Property, Public Rights, and Environmental Protections by Robert W Adler; Robin Kundis Craig; Noah D Hall (2018)

Water Law book cover

Water Law by Robin Kundis Craig; Robert W Adler; Noah D Hall (2017)

Environmental Law and Policy book cover

Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society by Zygmunt J B Plater; Robert H Abrams; Robert L Graham, (Lawyer); Lisa Heinzerling; Noah D Hall; David A Wirth; (2016)

Fur Fortune and Empire book cover

Fur Fortune and Empire: the epic history of the fur trade in America by Eric Jay Dolin (2010)

photo of lake and sky

Great Lakes Rocks by Stephen E Kesler (2019)

book cover showing lighthouse and sky

Western Great Lakes Lighthouses by Bruce Roberts; Ray Jones (2001)

book cover showing lighthouse and sky

Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses by Bruce Roberts (Photographer); Ray Jones (2001)

book cover for Third Coast Atlas showing aerial image of great lakes

Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan by Daniel Ibañez, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, Mason White (2017)

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Great Lakes Shipping, Trade, and Aquatic Invasive Species by National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on the St. Lawrence Seaway (2008)

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Ancient Life of the Great Lakes Basin: Precambrian to Pleistocene by J Alan Holman (1995)

book cover with illustration of water

Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 by Margaret Beattie Bogue (2014)

book cover showing colorful illustration of ship and lake michigan outline

Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils by Charles Ferguson Barker (2005)

Permeable Border Book Cover

Permeable Border: the Great Lakes Basin as transnational region, 1650-1990 by John J. Bukowczyk; David R. Smith; Nora Faires; Randy William Widdis (2005)

Where two worlds meet: the Great Lakes fur trade Book Cover

Where two worlds meet: the Great Lakes fur trade by Carolyn Gilman (1988)

book cover art showing red background and lighthouse

Mastering the Inland Seas: How Lighthouses, Navigational aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America by Theodore J. Karamanski (2020)

book cover art showing water and dark lighthouse

Bright Lights, Dark Nights: Great Lakes Lighthouses by Larry Wright; Patricia Wright (1999)

The Canadian Theater Book Cover

The Canadian Theater 1813 (2013)

book cover showing cliff and lighthouse along water

Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia by Larry Wright; Patricia Wright (2006)

book cover art photograph of lake water and lighthouse

Bonfires and Beacons by Larry Wright; Patricia Wright (1996)

cover illustration of indigenous man and colonists drawing large map beneath their feet

Lines Drawn Upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands by Karl S. Hele (Editor) (2008)

book cover illustration of individuals on boats in water

Rites of Conquest by Charles E. Cleland (1992)

The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism Book Cover

The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism by Neal Ferris (2011)

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Contested Territories by Charles Beatty-Medina (Editor); Melissa Rinehart (Editor) (2012)

cover showing illustration of people on rowboats in water

Peoples of the Inland Sea by David Andrew Nichols (2018)

cover illustration of one man in traditional indigenous dress

The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature by Karl S. Hele (Editor) (2013)

illustrated book cover of landscape and people

Indigenous Life Around the Great Lakes: War, Climate and Culture by Richard W. Edwards IV (2020)

book cover showing indigenous people and settlement

Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations by Edward S Rogers and Donald B Smith (2008)

Stories from the wreckage Book Cover

Stories from the wreckage: a Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks by John Odin Jensen (2019)

Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario Book Cover

Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario: a Journey of Discovery by Jim Kennard (2019)

Coffins of the Brave Book Cover

Coffins of the Brave: lake shipwrecks of the War of 1812 by author (2014)

Floating palaces of the Great Lakes Book Cover

Floating palaces of the Great Lakes: a history of passenger steamships on the inland seas by Joel Stone (2015)

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald book cover

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald : the loss of the largest ship on the Great Lakes by Charles River Editors (2014)

Fiction

Starlight Symphonies of Oak and Glass book cover

Starlight Symphonies of Oak and Glass by Alexandria Nolan (2014)

The Great Lakes Lighthouse Brides Collection book cover

The Great Lakes Lighthouse Brides Collection by Lena Nelson Dooley; Rebecca Jepson; Carrie Fancett Pagels; Candice Sue Patterson; Kathleen Rouser; Pegg Thomas; Marilyn Turk (2018)

Across the Great Lake book cover

Across the Great Lake by Lee Zacharias (2018)

Great Lakes by Andrea Boeshaar book cover

Great Lakes by Andrea Boeshaar; Susannah Hayden (1998)

The Old Mermaid's Tale book cover

The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Romance of the Great Lakes by Kathleen Valentine (2007)

Children

Danger on the Great Lakes book cover

Danger on the Great Lakes by Carolyn Keene (2003)

Michigan Chillers #11 Great Lakes Ghost Ship book cover

Michigan Chillers #11 Great Lakes Ghost Ship by Johnathan Rand (2005)

Tallulah book cover

Tallulah by Denise Brennan-Nelson; Susan Kathleen Hartung (2015)

Sport by Pamela Cameron; Renee Graef (2019) book cover

Sport by Pamela Cameron; Renee Graef (2019)

The Great Lakes by Kathy Henderson book cover

The Great Lakes by Kathy Henderson (1989)

Paddle-to-the-Sea book cover

Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling (1999)

Great Lakes and Great Ships book cover

Great Lakes and Great Ships by John Mitchell (1991)

Last voyage of the Griffon book cover

Last voyage of the Griffon By Wendy Caszatt-Allen (2007)

Fort Brokenheart book cover

Fort Brokenheart By Wendy Caszatt-Allen (2007)