Moving from Texas to an island on the Great Lakes in the middle of winter takes getting used to. But with someone to keep her warm, Ashleigh might not mind getting snowed in.

The author explores the inner workings of Ten Mile Lake in Cass County, Minnesota. From this intimate study, we learn how the physical characteristics of a lake affect the plants and animals within it and how the various forms of life inhabiting a lake interact. Through special chapters that reveal the rhythms and constraints of various species of fish, anglers may learn to hone techniques to heighten fishing success.

"Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, passenger vessels, whalebacks, and bulk carriers-some well known, some unknown or forgotten-all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior"--

She's made big promises. It'll take everything she's got to keep them. Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father's freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a "respectable life" with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she's bound to the ship and...