Two Journeys
Pictured Life: And True Stories from Northern and Upper Michigan
A young immigrant girl approaches a school door, reaches for a large brass handle, and opens it. That single moment unlocks a sweeping narrative of hope, struggle, and endurance. Pictured Life follows Anneke Letitia’s journey from the canals of Friesland to the forests and farms of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, while honoring the families who arrived before her, the Finns and Norwegians, the Welsh and Germans, the Italians and Poles who built barns with their hands and raised children on promise alone.
Her camera captures the weathered schools where teachers once lived upstairs, the churches where congregations sang, and the landscapes that witnessed it all. This book reaches readers who cherish history, who feel drawn to forgotten places, who sense the past holds wisdom we still need. Anneke Letitia writes with the warmth of someone sharing stories by a fire, carrying memory forward, and inviting us to imagine the lives once lived within these walls.
$19.99
$19.99
Birds Bugs Butterflies
We are witnessing the quiet disappearance of our smallest wonders, and Anneke Letitia has spent eight years documenting the evidence. Birds Bugs Butterflies presents over two hundred photographs of the creatures that sustain our ecosystems, the bumblebees buried in pollen, the monarchs resting on milkweed, the dragonflies poised in perfect stillness. Each image reveals intricate relationships most eyes never see.
But this book does more than celebrate beauty. It serves as an urgent record of decline, a visual testimony to the insects and birds vanishing from our backyards. Children will find delight in its vibrant pages, discovering a world worth protecting. Adults will encounter a sobering message about the legacy we leave behind. Anneke Letitia pairs precise observation with words that read like quiet poetry, inviting us not just to look, but to witness how this fragile life connects to our own.
$9.99
$19.99
