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Moxie: Maine In A BottleAuthor: Jim BaumerPublisher: Down East BooksPublication Date: Mar 15, 2019Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 160893683XISBN-13: 9781608936830

The fourth installment of Van Reid's utterly charming Moosepath League series begins as Tobias Walton and his pal Sundry Moss become unexpected guests at the eccentric Fern Farm, where they become...

Take two energetic young professionals fresh from the New York advertising world, drop them into a small Maine town as the new owners of the village store/restaurant/dance hall/soda fountain/guest...

Twelve year old Alex does not like change, but finds himself pulled along by events he can't control. With the help of his sister and some new friends, he finds a strength he didn't know he had...

Ed Rice chronicles the tragically short life of Olympic and Boston Marathon runner Andrew Sockalexis--who died at the age of 27 from tuberculosis--focusing on his running and the races that earned...

Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing...

On February 24, 1838, Maine Congressman Jonathan Cilley was killed in Maryland by another Congressman from Kentucky in one of the last duels to take place in the United States. At the time, dueling...

This is a book of pure inspiration. Many of the sporting world's most profound achievements and displays of humanity are never recorded. They happen on sandlots, asphalt, and backyards. Stories of...

In print for fifty-five years, One Man's Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. White's witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.Author: E. B. WhitePublisher: Down...

12 Wardens, 20 Stories, 300 Years of North Woods Law Enforcement Being a game warden in Maine (which has the oldest game warden service in the U.S.) is not a job, it's a way of life. Wardens go...

Deep in the woods of Maine, the Revolutionary War is still fresh in settlers' minds as a young man named Peter Loon sets off to find a mysterious person. Peter quickly falls into a series of...

The story of Madeleine and Colonel John Jacob Astor is very much part of the story of Bar Harbor, Maine. The relatively poor Madeleine Force met Colonel Astor, the third richest man in the United...

The first novel in veteran crime writer Gerry Boyle's series about young Brandon Blake, a loner who lives on an old cabin cruiser in Portland Harbor. Blake learned early to depend on no one, but in...

Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. On October 12, 1937, Brady and an accomplice were killed in a hail of bullets in broad daylight in...

Often considered her best work, and one of the best-known American poems, the long poem "Renascence" is credited with introducing Edna St. Vincent Millay to a the broader world. Celebrated for their...

Someone once asked me how much I charge to guide people into the woods. "That's free," I explained. "Anyone can get themselves into the woods. You pay me to get you out." Can anyone really know the...

A number of nefarious characters have passed through Maine on their way to infamy, including the pirates Dixie Bull and Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) and gangster Al Brady. The scoundrels assembled...

Walter longs to be a sea dog. He comes from a long line of seafaring dogs, all of whom made their livelihoods from the sea, but, alas, Walter's talent seems to extend only to baking. He sells his...

Filled with boats (and sea dogs) from all over the world and told in whimsical rhyme, children will discover vessels from air boats to rafts and coracles to schooners.Author: Astrid...

Sea Glass Hunter'S HandbookAuthor: C. S. LambertPublisher: Down East BooksPublication Date: Nov 16, 2010Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0892729104ISBN-13:...

In 2019, Maine native and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir participated in the first all-female spacewalk, an historic honor she'd been preparing for since first grade, when she drew a picture of an...

Brothers William Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker were among the most prominent mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilders in Bath, Maine, itself one of the most prominent shipbuilding cities in the...

With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners. Scores of vessels and countless lives have been lost on its rocky shores. Taryn Plumb explores the tragic...

Siege at the State House tells the true story of a coup that was attempted between Maine's governor and the leaders of a new political party, almost plunging the United States into its second Civil...

Seals by nature are elusive and difficult to see in the wild; yet they are immensely popular, perhaps because they are so graceful and have some surprisingly human qualities, or perhaps it is because...

In this second book of the Tide Trilogy, our heroine Joanna Bennett returns to her beloved island home after several years of mainland exile, and works to rebuild and strengthen the island community...

Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie's Lover's Trilogy Strawberries in the Sea tells the story of Rosa Fleming who flees to Bennett's Island to escape her messy divorce. The island becomes much more than a...

As a Maine Guide for 20 years and a hunter and fisherman since childhood, Christian Potholm knows the woods and waters of Maine from the coast to the North Woods. He brings it all to life with these...

Populated by an oddball cast of characters, this book chronicles one man's determined effort--occasionally with hilarious results--to follow the stream that runs by his house to its elusive source...