Bodyguard to the Packers takes you inside the world-famous football franchise to a time when Security Director Jerry Parins roamed hotel hallways and watched tavern backdoors to enforce curfews. Formerly a distinguished police officer, Jerry protected some of the greatest names in NFL history, and made Lambeau Field safe for generations of l more...
Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town conv more...
A farmer with an extraordinary gift for language and a writer with the field still fresh in his boots, Isherwood is irresistibly compelling. His writing is possessed by poetry. As he moves effortlessly from the profound to the practical, he turns over the ordinary experiences of farm life with the same steady, inexhaustible pace that he ploughs the more...
The story of the Dairy State's other major industry--beer! From the immigrants who started brewing here in territorial days to the modern industrial giants, this is the history, the folklore, the architecture, the advertizing, and the characters that made Wisconsin the nation's brewing leader. Updated with the latest trends on the Wisconsin brewing more...
On a warm summer afternoon in 1927 off South Haven, Michigan, an old barge began taking on water. Helpless to staunch the flow and realizing the vessel would sink, the crew escaped to the accompanying tug and watched as the ship slipped beneath the surface of Lake Michigan. Its loss unlamented, its career unheralded, it slumbered on the sandy botto more...
The Cana Island Lighthouse is one of the most picturesque of any lighthouses still operating on the Great Lakes today. The beautiful peninsula of Door County has a long and bountiful tradition of maritime history, including its many lighthouses. Cana Island has illuminated the coastline on the Lake Michigan side of Door County for over 100 years. C more...
They’re beautiful, graceful and endearing. They’re bluebirds! Stan Tekiela has done it again, creating a book that demonstrates why these curious backyard visitors are so lovable. Page upon page of unique photographs, coupled with fascinating information, make Captivating Bluebirds a must-have addition to any book collection. The headings and small more...
This out-of-print and difficult to find Door County fishing book is now available through The Peninsula Bookman. This book has become a sort of cult classic for a segment of the fly-fishing community. The copies offered here are in new condition. more...
The beauty of the wild places of Door County, Wisconsin, is expressed in innumerable ways - in light filtering through a stand of beech, cedar, and hemlock trees, in shimmering water at dawn, in the delicate grace of a single maidenhair fern. Here in ninety-four paintings by seventy artists, the glory of the peninsula's natural areas is expressed i more...
"Egg Harbor was founded by a beautiful patchwork of hardworking immigrants from diverse cultures whose life stories are shared within these pages. Their hardships and successes will inspire future generations" Christie Weber Past Board Member, Main Street Program (Surgeon Bay) Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation Past Mem more...