|
|
|
|
| Home | |
| Store Information | |
| Ordering & Shipping | |
We are open May through October. On Mackinac Island: Island Bookstore In Mackinaw City:
Island
Bookstore &
|
| Welcome! | |||||
|
|||||
DVD made by island filmmaker and composer Mark Rensel and co-producer/narrator Jenifer Silvernale. Premier edition of a new film, a journey to Mackinac Island's other side...Experience the breathtaking transformation that happens across the ice bridge. Distilled from over five years of extraordinary footage.
|
Review
|
||||
DVD |
Hardcover |
||||
Mackinac Living 2009
|
 Mackinac Island Lilac Festival 2009 Poster
Order the new Lilac Festival poster of Diane Neyer's "Mackinac, A Breath of Spring"
|
||||
Price $6.95 |
Price: $9.50 |
||||
by Mary Lou Peters Artist Mary Lou Peters' book is illustrated with her beautiful watercolor images of Mackinac Island and sprinkled with special meditations linked to the images.
|
Enjoy fascinating Mackinac photographs from the Benjamin collection taken from the late 1800s until the present.
|
||||
Price: $14.95 |
Price: $19.95 |
||||
Mackinac Bridge: A 50 Year Chronicle, 1959-2007 by Mike Fornes Take a trip through the first 50 years of the bridge's history and you'll experience unusual crossings, triumph and tragedy. Here are the stories, the photos and the people who mave made this engineering wonder a symbol of the state of Michigan. |
 Picturesque Mackinac: The Photographs of William H. Gardiner 1896-1915 by Stephen Brisson Steven Brisson, chief curator for Mackinac State Historic Parks, has hand selected over 250 of Gardiner's images for this book. Brisson has created an elegant, visually striking compilation of turn of the century images of Mackinac. |
||||
Price: $29.95 |
Price $26.95 |
||||
Seasons of Mackinac 2010 |
This guide to the history of Mackinac Island will increase any visitor's enjoyment of this beautiful and historic island. This chronological account of the significant events in the island's history is illustrated by fascinating photos both current and historical. |
||||
Price: $10.00 |
Price $6.98 |
||||
 Mackinac Bridge: The Five Mile Poem by Gloria Whelan Set in the late 1950s, this is the moving story of a young boy whose father operates a ferryboat between Michigans Upper and Lower peninsulas. As young Mark witnesses the building of the new Mackinac Bridge, he is torn between family loyalty and eager anticipation. |
|
||||
Price $17.95 |
Price: $14.95 |
||||
Building the Mighty Mac Multi-pack DVD Building the Mighty Mac is an award-winning documentary about the Mackinac Bridge. The program was produced in Hollywood by Mark Howell and includes extremely rare 16 mm color footage showing all stages of the bridge’s construction. Includes additional documentaries (Before the Bridge, Miracle Bridge Over Mackinac, The Story of the Mackinac Straits Ferries) |
 Four Seasons of Mackinac Island by Daniel Tomaszewski This award winning videographer spent a year capturing the attaction and awesome beauty of Mackinac Island. A narrative provides the history of the island as well as a description of what visitors enjoy today. |
||||
Price $19.95 |
Price $19.95 |
||||
Read Candice Dunnigan's articles from the Town Crier about horse "characters" on Mackinac Island and the horse culture in general. (Click on the Mackinac Gifts link
for more.)
|
Postcards and commentary about Mackinaw City.
|
||||
Price: $12.95 |
Softcover |
||||
 USCGC Mackinawby Mike Fornes History of the Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw, decommissioned in 2006.
|
The Mackinac Straits region with its scenic attractions natural wonders has beckoned visitors and tourists for over 150 years. Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region is a pictorial history of this northern Michigan vacation hub. The book uses “vintage views” to portray Mackinaw City, St. Ignace, Mackinac Island, the car ferries, and the famous Mackinac Bridge. |
||||
Softcover |
Price: $20.00 |
||||
 Mackinaw Loves Its Bridge
by Mary Lou Peters Memories of the construction of the Mackinac Bridge |
 Historic Cottages of Mackinac Island by Susan Stites and Lea Ann Sterling A pictorial guidebook to seventy-three cottages built on Mackinac Island, Michigan between 1870 and 1910. Historic photos from private collections and the Mackinac State Historic Parks's archives are interspersed with contemporary color photos of each cottage. Biographies of early cottage occupants, details of the cottage architecture, and interesting anecdotes from a hundred years past, the Gilded Age. |
||||
Price $7.00 |
Price $40.00 |
||||
This cookbook (compiled by
The Mackinac Island Medical Center) is filled with favorite island
recipes. |
 Mighty Mac
by Lawrence A. Rubin Published by the St. Ignace Kiwanis Club Includes photos of the Mackinac Bridge and Mackinac area. Also includes a timeline for the region from pre-1600s to present.
|
||||
Price $18.00
|
Price $24.95 |
||||
 Mackinac: An Island Famous in These Regions by Phil Porter A history of Mackinac Island published by the Mackinac State Historic Parks. |
 Fudge: Mackinac's Sweet Souvenir by Phil Porter Mackinac Island and fudge. Both symbolize indulgence, fantasy and escape. But there's more to fudge than sugar, butter, chocolate and cream. In this book, historian Phil Porter stirs up the past to find the hard work and sometimes bitter controversy behind this sweet souvenir. In his hunger for truth and historical accuracy, Porter dug deep into the kitchens and cupboards of the fudge culture. No appetite for history, no taste for sweet truth will be satisfied without reading Fudge: Mackinac's Sweet Souvenir. |
||||
|
Price $9.95 |
||||
 Seasons of Mackinacphotography by Terry W. Phipps Beautiful images of Mackinac Island
|
 Home to Mackinacby Kim Delmar Cory Intriguing novel for children and adults alike!
|
||||
Hardcover |
Softcover |
||||
Wish You Were Here: An Album of Vintage Mackinac Postcards Drawing from the burgeoning Mackinac State Historic Parks collections, the book provides over 200 full-color examples of postcards, from their late 19th century roots through the middle of the 20th century. Mackinac lovers will be fascinated by the way their favorite spots have changed or remained the same over the last 100 years. |
Beautifully illustrated story incorporating Indian legends of Mackinac Island. Retells the story of the great turtle Makinauk that enlists the aid of other animals to help create the special place known as Mackinac Island. |
||||
|
Price: $17.95 |
||||
 Explore Michigan--Mackinac (Insider's Guide to Michigan) by George Cantor
|
An illustrated history of the Island in black and white photographs and illustrations. One of our bestsellers. |
||||
Price: $10.95 |
Price $18.00 |
||||
 View from the Veranda by Phil Porter In View From the Veranda, Phil Porter invites us along for an inside look at the grand cottages of this uniquely Victorian island where cars are not allowed. |
Mystery of the Copper Turtle Jared, Sadie and their new Mackinac Island friends Eric and Becky find themselves turning into detectives as strange events occur all over the island. New! Great mystery for young readers!
|
||||
Price $24.95 |
Price: $6.99 |
||||
 Let's Go to Mackinac Island
by Karen Dean. |
Mac's friends are Nay-Sayers but |
||||
Price $19.95 |
Price $9.95 |
||||
 Step Up
by Cathe Hahn This new children's book takes a family on a sight-seeing trip with the three horse hitch on Mackinac Island. Find out what happens one day when the Carriage Tour driver says, "John, Wayne, Duke, step up!"
|
 The Edmund Fitzgerald: The Song of the Bell by Kathy-jo Warginn. Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. |
||||
Price $15.95 |
Price $17.95 |
||||
John Barry's magnificent film score conducted by John Debney; performed by The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. |
 Shipwrecks of the Straits of Mackinac Dr. Charles E. Feltner and Jeri Baron Feltner Historic Mackinac and her shipwrecks presented in an interesting, informative and entertaining fashion - includes stories of 41 discovered shipwrecks and 43 undiscovered shipwrecks with detailed facts and maps - and sketches of the history of the Straits, Islands, Lighthouses, Shipwreck Statistics, Bottomland Preserve - also provides Sources, Bibliography, Glossary of Nautical Terms and an Index. Scuba divers, historians and anyone interested in Great Lakes maritime history will enjoy this book. |
||||
Price $19.95 |
Price $19.95 |
||||
Classic romantic movie filmed on Mackinac Island and starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. This 20th anniversary DVD includes extended interviews with cast and makers of the film. |
|
||||
Price $24.95 |
|||||
Ice Bridge: Mackinac Island's Hidden Season 
A Picturesque Situation: Mackinac Before Photography, 1615-1860
Mackinac Album 
Haunts of Mackinac: Ghost Stories, Legends and Tragic Tales of Mackinac Island 
Horse Tales from Mackinac
Mackinaw City -Postcard Series 
The
Flavors of Mackinac 
Mackinac Island: Its History in Pictures 
Mac's Mackinac Island Adventure
Somewhere in Time: Filmscore
Somewhere in Time DVD| ©Island Bookstore Website Maintained by Mintaka Design. |