Polar Bear & Company

John Willey shares insights into life in a Maine boatyard, where he worked and kept a journal from 1978 to '79. As the historian John Gardner confirms, until relatively recently boatbuilding was not...

A collection of quotes by writers on the process of writing, on journalism, on censorship, poetry, writer's block, and on other writers and critics.Author: Peter Bollen, Ramona Du HouxPublisher:...

A wonderful book about the myths and theories, some plausible and some preposterous, that have accumulated over the ages about the origins of the peoples of ancient America. Esther Pasztory treats...

Stories and histories of individuals, families, and groups in a specific region of early contact provide that deep sense of place for a truly American future.Author: William A HavilandPublisher:...

When the United States was still neutral before WWII, a house of suspected Nazi spies was blown up in a small town in Maine. One of the young men who committed the crime ran to an island off the...

Students of mid-twentieth-century American political and diplomatic history remember Breckinridge Long as a well-connected and influential force, particularly during the Roosevelt years. Those with a...

This novel is based on the massacre by the SS of a small town in France during World War II, called Oradour-sur-Glane. Some of the perpetrators were French citizens - Alsatians drafted into the SS...

The son of the novelist Henry Roth provides insights into the lean years when the family worked their waterfowl farm in Maine, before his father's masterpiece, "Call It Sleep," was rediscovered...

(Includes 48 illustrations.) "Of the many books that have been written about the people who live on islands off the Maine coast, few are by individuals who were born and raised on an island. This...

"This wonderful book that you are about to start reading will tell you the story of a brave monarch butterfly named Madalynn and her quest through North America to the pristine mountains of Michoacan...

The first of two books of the intertwined stories of heroism, perseverance and escape across changing borders and personal relationships, from the worst to the best, from Europe to North Africa, the...

The second volume of Rolde's two books on the intertwined stories of heroism, perseverance and escape across changing borders and personal relationships, from the worst to the best, from Europe to...

Planning of the Fourth of July takes a turn, when new ideas are introduced . . . Those new suggestions kerfuffle Town Council members so much that they take home the wrong tails - and start acting...

Professor Kueter has found a way to provide an understanding of the incomprehensible and open up conversation through empathy and humor. The background to the story is not something anyone who has...

About a cat - in the city. "Boo" Van Den Pelt might figure that he has it made. That is, if he ever bothered to reflect on his life of luxury as the pampered pet of a wealthy Park Avenue dowager...

When the local paper mill in central Maine is closed, and the man behind the deal slams Mac's bush plane into a deadly spin with his jet, Mac and local cohorts plot a crime to get even and fund a...

The author is a direct descendent of the adventurous Baron Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin (immortalized by Longfellow) and Pidianiske, daughter of Penobscot Chief Madockawando. Feted as a...

Travel with Soto on his mystical journey, where he gains perspective and listens to the wisdom in the air, water, fire, and earth. Embraced by nature, he is able to find truth within himself in his...

For all cat lovers. Goblin is not an ordinary cat. He appears to be like most cats; he can't talk human-speak, he doesn't wear boots or carry a sword or walk on his hind legs, and he would rather...

The work of a spirit unafraid of powerful and enduring literary fashions and taboos, these poems exhibit a refreshing sensitivity to the superficial as well as the profound trends in the history of...

For close to 100 years, from the 1840s until 1942, Deer Isle, an island off the coast of Maine, relied on steamboats for access to other parts of the state. During this era, the island was a place of...

A medieval crime ring aims to get rich subverting Kind Edward III's attempt to use the launch of his own currency, gold double leopards, even as he ignites the Hundred Years War. Will Thomas get...

Over nearly six decades, Nicholas Smith has amassed an astounding compendium of historical and ethnographical information about the Algonquian-speaking peoples of northeastern North America. His...

What would you do with a dead badger on your doorstep? If you're Judy Falck-Madsen, consternation gives way to laughter, and recollection produces one of many wonderfully humorous anecdotes about...

Reborn Christs, Shakespearean fairies, crop circles, Sir Lancelot, and the history of religious sacrifice - this book certainly brings fresh and unique material to the table ... daring ideas and...

Two ducks find their way to a new home. As Winnie and Tate's world expands in the backyard woodland pond, so does their circle of friends. They meet a variety of animals and discover that dangers can...