Portage River Press

Books made at a lighthouse on Lake Superior.

Portage River Press publishes bold and easy coloring books for adults, kids travel activity books, and witchy fiction set on this shoreline.

The Portage River light station in summer, white tower and red brick keeper's house on a mown green point above Lake Superior, flag flying beside a shingled outbuilding

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What the Lake Gives Back

What the Lake Gives Back

The Greenstone Light, Book Two

The lake always collects. This time, it’s coming for him. Copper country, Finnish-American tradition, cold water and long gold light. Book two of The Greenstone Light.

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  • I want to color, and I am not a child. Bold lines, single-sided pages, nothing fiddly.
    Coloring for grown-ups
  • I am buying for a child. Travel activity books that follow a cat around a country.
    Bella's Big Adventures
  • I want a novel with something not quite right in it. Lake Superior, stones that remember, and a bargain nobody should have made.
    The Greenstone Light
  • I just want to see whether I like the artwork. Free pages from any coloring book, yours to print.
    Free coloring pages

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Lake Superior shoreline, wading in the shallows on a clear day

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Susan Harbourt

Coloring and activity books, for grown-ups and for children

Susan Harbourt writes for young readers from a historic 1869 lighthouse on Lake Superior, which she and her husband bought on impulse and are restoring while raising their family on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.

Susan K. Harbourt

Novels for adults

Susan K. Harbourt writes for grown-ups, mostly about small northern places where something is not quite right.

SH Kelly

Reimagined classics, told from the other side

SH Kelly takes stories that have been told the same way for a hundred years and tells them from the other side.