Ice Bridge: Mackinac Island's Hidden Season

DVD made by island filmmaker and composer Mark Rensel and co-producer/narrator Jenifer Silvernale.

Just released!

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.

We have an new treat in store for you!  This May we were wowed when we watched the new DVD, Ice Bridge - Mackinac Island’s Hidden Season, produced by Island couple, Jenny Silvernale and Mark Rensel.  The videography, music and narration on this DVDare the best we’ve seen on an Island documentary thus far.  This is our pick for the best non-book souvenir of the year, and possibly the decade.

Discover what it is like to cross over to Mackinac’s other side, across the ice bridge.  This new film follows life on Mackinac Island throughout an entire year. The film highlights the island's wild, mysterious and beautiful winters, and traces the formation of the spectacular phenomenon known as the "Ice Bridge." Distilled from 5 years of extraordinary footage.  If you’d like a preview, visit www.icebridgemovie.com.  Congratulation Mark and Jenny for a job well done.

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Mackinac Living 2008
Mackinac's own magazine, featuring Mackinac Island's people & places.

Mackinac Album

by Robert E. Benjamin

Enjoy fascinating Mackinac photographs from the Benjamin collection taken from the late 1800s until the present.

Mackinac Bridge
by Mike Fornes

Read all about the events leading up to and the actual construction of the engineering marvel, the Mackinac Bridge.

Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region
by M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson

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.

Order the new Lilac Festival poster of Betty Bea Washburn's beautiful island watercolor, "Father and the Children."

Mackinac Adventures and Island Memories: Growing Up on Mackinac

Enjoy Tom Pfeiffelmann's entertaining stories of growing up on Mackinac. This book gives you a unique perspective on a Mackinac childhood full of adventures and misadventures!

Mackinac Bridge: A 50 Year Chronicle, 1959-2007

by Mike Fornes

Learn more about the history of the bridge on its 50th anniversary!

Click on the Mackinac Bridge link for more.

The Official Picture History of The Mackinac Bridge.

Mackinac Island : Four Generations of Romance Enrich a Unique Community
Gail Gaymer Martin, Book Signing

Willaim G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Moderate
by Dave Dempsey

Click on Area History for more.

Historic Mackinac and her shipwrecks presented in an interesting, informative and entertaining fashion.

Mac's Mackinac Island Adventure

Mac's friends are Nay-Sayers but
Mac finds courage to do new things that he's never done before.

Click on Area History for more.

Mackinac Bridge and Island

Beautiful screensaver that continuously cycles through 50 images of the Straits area with realistic nature sounds.

Click on the Mackinac Bridge link for more.

Beautiful images of Mackinac Island

Hardcover
$35.00

Comprised mostly of poems that originally were written for children's sermons, this new book written by the pastor of the Little Stone Church on Mackinac Island, presents "both old and new testaments in a rhythmic setting reforming Biblical figures into urban heroes."

What would happen if the Great Lakes drained away? This unique children's book shows the bizarre landscape that would be revealed if all the water of the Great Lakes were to suddenly disappear. This book serves to entertain, but also to educate-children and adults will learn about the amazing newly discovered geologic features under the Great Lakes. But perhaps most importantly, the book will remind us to never take the Great Lakes for granted.

Legends of Light - A Michigan Lighthouse Portfolio

A gorgeous new coffee table book.
Price: $39.95
Hardcover

Ann Arbor Media Group

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.

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!"

An illustrated history of the Island in black and white photographs and illustrations. One of our bestsellers.
(Click on the Mackinac State Historic Parks link for more.)

75 Color pictures covering Michigan's most scenic lighthouses.

The Legend of Mackinac Island
by Kathy-jo Warginn

Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.
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.

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.

Loon Feather is the story of an Indian girl, Oneta, destined to grow up with the incompatible traditions of her own people and of the white traders on Mackinac Island - one of the most popular books ever written about the conflict of alien peoples.

Suspenseful retelling of the last hours of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Atmospheric paintings from award winning artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling

Shipping

From November through April orders ship weekly. During our Summer Season (May through October) orders normally ship within 24 hours. All orders are shipped by regular mail. Shipping costs in the United States are $6.50 for the first item, $0.75 for each additional item. (FREE SHIPPING ON DOMESTIC ORDERS OVER $75.00) Orders to Canada are $8.75 for the first item, $0.75 for each additional item. All other international orders are $15.00 for the first item, $1.50 for each additional item. To check the status of your order, email us at: info@islandbookstore.com. Please include your name and order number in your email.