BOOKS FROM MISSION POINT PRESS
discover your upnorth
Thinking of moving here? Coming for the summer? Working remotely? Find trails, beaches, wineries, fishing, kid stuff, dog parks and lots of Insider info.
the best trails
Here’s your passport to 70+ of the best hiking, biking and paddling trails in the region, as reported by Mike Terrell
in the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
ON THE TRAILS covers a smorgasbord of destinations, from state parks and and national forests, along Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, and throughout Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, Leelanau Conservancy and Little Traverse Conservancy holdings.
Michigan crime
Story telling at its fully imagined best.— Ben Hamper, author, “Rivethead”
michigan crime
Author Tom Carr continues the Michigan crime streak with train robberies, stage-coach holdups, posses, breakouts and shoot-em-ups.
“Mild-mannered Midwestern Michigan is the land of lakeside cottages, auto industries, pasties—and murder? ... At times morbid and surprisingly colloquial, this collection serves to enlighten Michigan’s present with the truth of its past and sheds a respectful light on the memory of its victims.”
— Great Lakes, Great Reads, Historical Society of Michigan
once upon a time in michigan
Introducing … classic fables and fairytales with a Michigan twist!
natural michigan
I seriously love this book. And what better time in human history to celebrate the small, ignored creatures, the ones considered alien?
— Fleda Brown, poet and essayist
michigan’s past
As we hurtle forward to a future we do not understand, it bids us to remember who we were and who, in our heart of hearts, we really are.
michigan history
michigan history
A 45-day account of reporter Jack Kerkhoff ’s treatment, his conversations with the nurses and doctors (some of them with their real names), his interactions with the inmates, and his trips to downtown Traverse City watering holes.
michigan history
What Detroit has Gained, and Lost, 50 Years After the Uprisings of 1967
michigan history
How Government Failed Flint and the Heroes Who Fought Back
Natural Michigan
When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest Michigan