Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended."--from publisher's description.

Park ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royal National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan. She finds herself in the lake searching for a connection between a drowned man and a sunken cargo ship.

A toy Indian in a toy canoe takes a journey of several hundred miles through the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, and Niagara Falls before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.

Returning to where he spent his childhood vacations, Martin Reed falls in love with a woman who shares his dream of restoring an old house, but her ex-boyfriend will do anything to destroy their happiness.

"In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before...