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Maine In Print - April - June 2007

  1. Armstrong, Jennifer. The poet’s basket. Belfast, ME: Wren Song Press, 2006. (9780976982708) $10.00 pbk. A young girl asks her Maine grandmother about the tools for becoming a poet. The author is also a musician and lives in Belfast. Picture book. (Ages 6 up)
  2. Beaupre, Norman R .Before all dignity is lost: the living and dying of an AIDS victim. Coral Springs, FL: Lumina Press, 2006.(978159526600) $9.95 pbk. Story of a young AIDS victim told through letters to the author over a decade. Beaupre is Professor Emeritus at the University of New England in Biddeford.
  3. Blaney, Daniel E. Old Orchard Beach.  Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. (9780738549606) $19.99 pbk. Postcard history of Old Orchard Beach. Blaney is a native of OOB and still lives in the house where he was born.
  4. Blais, Joline. At the edge of art. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. (9780500238226) $50.00. Survey of digital and internet art of the last decade with numerous color illustrations. Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito are Assistant Professors of New Media at UMaine.
  5. Boyd, Heidi. Simply beautiful beaded jewelry: 50 quick and easy projects. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 2006. (9781581807745) $19.99 pbk. Step by step instructions for creating necklace, bracelets, earnings, and accessories. Boyd has authored other titles in the series including Simply beautiful weddings. She lives in Maine.
  6. Brandt, Claire Tetreau. Ten going on twelve. Lincoln: NE: iUniverse, 2006. (9780595409587) $13.95 pbk. The author recalls her childhood with eleven siblings and a widowed mother in Sanford, Maine.
  7. Breazeale, Ron. Reaching home: a novel about conquering fear. Wilmington, MA: New Words Press, 2007. (9781931642064) $16.95 pbk. Implicated in what is mistakenly believed to be a terrorist plot, a man struggles to find his way home to Maine. Author lives in Southern Maine.
  8. Brown, Margaret Wise. Nibble Nibble. New York: Harper Collins, 2007. (9780060592080) $16.99. Originally published in 1959, these five poems about rabbits are illustrated by the paintings of Wendell Minor. Picture book (PreS-Gr l)
  9. Buckmaster, Linda. Heart songs & other legacies:  poems. Belfast, ME: Illuminated Sea Press, 2006. (9780976131175) $11.00 pbk. Poems of childhood in Florida, life in Maine, and others. The author lives in Belfast.
  10. Cannell, Dorothy. Withering heights. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007. (9780312343378) $22.95. Amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell cannot resist when a cousin begs her to come to the Yorkshire Moors and investigate strange events at Cragstone House. Cannell lives in Belfast.
  11. Chaconas, Dori. Virginnie’s hat. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2007. (9780763623975) $16.99. A little girl tries to retrieve her hat from a sycamore tree. Watercolor and collage illustrations were created by Sedgewick, ME artist Holly Meade. Picture book  (K-2)
  12. Chapman, Janet. The stranger in her bed. New York: Pocket Star Books, 2007. (9781416505280) $6.99 pbk. Second romance in the Logger Series involving the Knight family of fictitious Dark Grove, ME. The author is a Maine native and lives in Glenburn.
  13. Chute, Robert M. Essays in all directions. [Westbrook, ME]: Moon Pie Press, 2007. (0978586069) $8.00 pbk. Recent poems by Chute, a Maine native and Professor Emeritus at Bates College.
  14. Clark, Katie. Seagull Sam. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2007. (978082727155) $15.95. Sam is too young to fly kites, but with the help of a big white shirt, seagulls, and blustery winds he finds his own adventure. Katie Clark lives in Brunswick. Picture book (Ages 4-8)
  15. Conover, Garrett. Kristin’s Wilderness: a braided trail. Ely, MN: Raven Productions, Inc, 2006. (9780976626459) $17.95. Coming of age story set in the woods of Minnesota. Winner of the Lupine Award. Conover is a registered Maine Guide and lives in Willimantic, Maine. (YA)
  16. Conover, Garret. Snow Walker’s companion: winter camping skills for the North. Wrenshall, MN: Stone Ridge Press, 2006. (9780976031338) $24.95 pbk. Detailed techniques and skills appropriate for the snowshoe and toboggan trail. The Conovers are writers, educators, and Maine guides who live in Willimantic.
  17. Cottle, Samuel S. In danger at sea. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2007. (9780892727537) $22.95. Born into a family of seafarers, Capt. Sam Cottle recounts his work as a commercial fisherman off the Rhode Island coast. He now lives in Albion, ME.
  18. Coursen, H.R. Brute neighbors. Topsham, ME: Just Write Books, 2006. (9780976653394) $17.95 pbk. Professor Sam Lanston loses his teaching position and then finds himself accused of murdering his successor. Coursen lives and teaches in Maine.
  19. Davis, Jay C. The hard way: poems.  [Westbrook, ME]: Moon Pie Press, 2006. (0978586026) $8.00 pbk. Collection of twenty-four poems. This is the poet’s second chapbook with Moon Pie Press. He lives in Portland.
  20. Davis, Susan Page. Frasier Island. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2007. (9780736920667) $13.99 pbk. Navy Ensign Rachel Whitney is posted on a remote Pacific island with a difficult commanding officer. The author lives in Maine.
  21. Davison, Jean. The ostrich wakes: struggles of change in Highland Kenya. Austin, TX: Kinnyaga Pub., 2006. (9780978515003) $14.95 pbk. Davison returns to a farming community in Kenya and records changes of the past twenty-five years. Dr. Davison summers in Maine.
  22. DeRaps, Ernest G. Lighthouse keeping: a journal depicting our family’s life on three Penobscot Bay Lighthouses and my life at an isolated, three-man lighthouse South of Vinalhaven, Maine. Wells, ME: Fog Horn Pub., 2006. (9780977829316) $19.95 pbk. This two for one book provides a look at the ocean bound life of the DeRaps family. Read his point of view Lighthouse keeping, turn the book over and read hers – Light Housekeeping.
  23. Dinsmore, Elsie O’Dell. Jerusha’s tree.  Eastport, ME: Belleisle Books, 2006. (9780977287123) $15.95 pbk. A mystery linking English orphans bound for Massachusetts in the 17th century to a Maine woman in the 20th century. Dinsmore lives in Eastport.
  24. Dorrity, Bill. Scratch at the helm. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006. (9780595412334) $12.95 pbk. Account of a fifty-seven day sail from Florida to Maine told by a tabby cat. The author lives in Surry, Maine.
  25. Dutton, Sandra. Dear Miss Perfect: a beast’s guide to proper behavior. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. (9780618677177) $16.00. Miss Perfect writes an etiquette column for young animals. Ms. Dutton lives in Boothbay Harbor. (K-3)
  26. Eaton, Jil. Top dog knots: 12 quick knit fashions for your best friend. Elmhurst, IL: Breckling Press, 2007. (9781933308166) $14.95. Fashionable jackets, sweaters, and a leash for mid-size and large breeds. Easton lives, writes, and knits in Portland.
  27. English, Nancy. Chow Maine: the best restaurants, cafes, lobster shacks & meat markets on the coast. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2007. (9780881507744) $16.95 pbk. Thoroughly revised edition of the guide to the best restaurants, bakeries, candy stores, and farmers’ markets. The author lives in Portland Maine.
  28. Emerson, Kathy Lynn. No mortal reason. Corona del Mar, CA: Pemberley Press, 2007. (9780977191345) $17.95 pbk. Diana Spaulding “girl-reporter” travels to rural New York in 1888 and finds long-lost relatives and a skeleton. Emerson lives in Maine.
  29. Eskesen, Elaine. Silk knits: 20 designs in fabulous fibers. Woodlinville, WA: Martingale + Co, 2007. (9781564776907) $27.95 pbk. Patterns for shawls, shells, sweaters in silk. Author lives in Damariscotta, ME.
  30. Gershator, Phillis. Sky sweeper.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. (978037437007-7) $16.00. This tale of Takeboki, a Flower Keeper, honors those who take joy in their work. Holly Meade of Sedgewick, Maine created the collage illustrations. Picture book (Ages 5 up)
  31. Gibbons, Gail. Galaxies, galaxies.  New York: Holiday House, 2007. (9780823420025) $16.95. Telescopes, quasars, and galaxies for the youngest astronomers. (K-3)
  32. Gibbons, Gail. The vegetables we eat. New York: Holiday House, 2007. (9780823420018) $16.95. A picturebook look at eight groups of vegetables from planting time to dinner time. Gibbons has a farmhouse on Matinicus Island. (K-2)
  33. Goodyear, Sarah. View from a burning bridge. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2006. (9781597090780) $17.95 pbk. Reporter Frances Treadwell moves into her ancestral farmhouse in Maine. After a meteorite crashes in the woods nearby local people suspect Frances might be trouble.
  34. Groh, Brian. Summer people. New York: Ecco, 2007. (9780061210013) $24.95. A college dropout becomes the summer caretaker for an eccentric matriarch in Brightonfield Cove, Maine.
  35. Hadley, Grace Asburn. Eternal vigilance. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2007. (9780595414772) $13.95 pbk. In this novel of the future a young government officer takes a stand against an elite ruling class in order to protect a woman and her child. The author lives on Deer Isle.
  36. Hahn, Mary Downing. Deep and dark and dangerous: a ghost story. New York: Clarion Books, 2007. (9780618665457) $16.00. Thirteen-year-old Ali encounters old secrets during her summer trip to her family’s Maine cottage. (Gr. 5 & up)
  37. Hall, Meredith. Without a map: a memoir. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. (9780807072738) $24.95. Meredith Hall considers her life. Pregnant at 16, she was abandoned by family, school, and community. At 44 she graduated from Bowdoin College. She lives in Maine.
  38. Hand, Elizabeth. Generation loss. Northhampton, MA: Small Bear Press, 2007. (9781931520218) $24.00. A down and out photographer visits a Maine island to interview a famously reclusive photographer. She must also confront a decades-old mystery and the disappearance of a local teenager. The author lives in Maine.
  39. Harris, Philip F. A Maine Christmas Carol. Cambridge, MD: Write Words, 2007, 2006. (9781594314445) pbk. $14.95. A contemporary version of the classic tale by Dickens, replacing Scrooge with 16 year old TJ and Bob Marley with TJ’s father who was lost in Iraq. The setting is Hallowell. The author writes in Somerville.
  40. Hartgen, Frances Caroline. A Maine Passage: two memoirs…Twin Falls, Idaho: Wildflower Lane, 2006. (9780977823208) $13.99 pbk. Hartgen remembers her childhood in Pennsylvania and her decades in Orono. She was the first director of Special Collections at Fogler Library and was married to artist Vincent Hartgen.
  41. Hughes, Libby. American genius: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006. (9780595418800) $15.95 pbk. The life story of Longfellow, includes a timeline and discussion questions. (Young Adult)
  42. Irmscher, Christopher. Longfellow redux. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. (9780252030635) $40.00. Irmscher’s biography examines the man who was America’s most popular poet. The volume includes numerous illustrations and many unpublished sketches by Longfellow.
  43. Jahn-Clough, Lisa. Me, Penelope. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. (9780618773664) $16.00 Sixteen-year-old Lopi tries to sort through her feelings about love and sex, the accidental death of her brother, and her tenuous relationship with her mother. The author lives in Portland.
  44. Killinger, Margaret O. The good life of Helen K. Nearing. Burlington VT: University of Vermont Press, 2007. (9781584656289) $28.00. First comprehensive biography of author and homesteader Nearing. Killinger teaches at the Honors College, University of Maine, Orono.
  45. Kirkpatrick, Katherine. The snow baby: the Arctic childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary’s daring daughter. New York: Holiday House, 2007. (9780823419739) $16.95. Many historic photographs accompany this story of Marie Peary’s childhood. The daughter of Admiral Peary was born north of the Arctic Circle and named “Snow Baby” by the Inuit. (Ages 4-8)
  46. Lawson, Dorie McCullough. Along comes a stranger. New York: Harper Collins, 2007. (9780060884758) $24.95. New Englander Kate Colter lives a relatively happy life in Wyoming until her mother-in-law becomes involved with a stranger from “back east”. This is the author’s first novel. She lives in Rockport.
  47. Lethem, Jonathan. You don’t love me yet. New York: Doubleday, 2007. (9780385512183) $24.95. Linda Hoekke spends her days answering the complaint line. After becoming fascinated by a particular “complainer” she ignores company policy and arranges to meet him. The author lives in Brooklyn and Maine.
  48. Levine, Ellen. Rachel Carson: a twentieth-century life. New York: Viking, 2007. (9780670062201) $15.99. An introductory biography of the writer/ biologist. (Ages 11 up)
  49. Lewis, Jeffrey. Theme song of an old show. New York: Others Press, 2007. (9781590512333) $22.95. A television producer considers the fate of his once popular police show Northie and his relationship with his father. Third novel in the “Meritocracy Quartet.” Lewis lives in Castine.
  50. Love, Pamela. A Moose’s Morning. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2007. (9780892727339) $15.95. One morning in the life of a very young moose calf. The illustrator, Lesia Sochor, lives in Brooks, Maine. (Ages 4-7)
  51. Lubner, Susan. Ruthie Bon Bair, do not go to bed with wringing we hair. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006. (9780810954700) $15.95. Rhyming story of a little girl who refuses to dry her hair before bedtime. Susan Lubner grew up in Bangor. Picture book (PreS-3).
  52. Lytle, Mark Hamilton. The gentle subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the rise of the environmental movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (9780195172461) $20.00. Compact biography of Carson that explores her writing and her effort to expose the danger of human assault on nature.
  53. Malitz, Jerome. Acadia National Park dayhiker’s guide: Maine’s coastal gem.  Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2007. (9781555663377) $17.00 pbk. Color photographs appear throughout this guide to 14 hikes in Acadia.
  54. Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Chicken joy on Redbean Road: a bayou country romp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. (9780618507597) $17.00. A little brown hen gathers musicians to play for the quiet rooster. Unless he sings he will become stew. Martin grew up in Maine and illustrator Sweet lives in Rockport. Picture book (PrS-2).
  55. Mead, Alice. Dawn and dusk. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2007. (9780374317089) $16.00. A young Kurdish boy fears his town will be the target of a chemical attack by Iraq. Mead lives in Portland. (YA)
  56. Metalious, Grace. Return to Peyton Place. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2007. (9781555536695) $14.95. First published in 1959, the sequel to Peyton Place has a new introduction by Ardis Cameron, a professor at the University of Southern Maine.
  57. McClymer, Kelly. Competition’s a witch.  New York: Sim Pulse, 2007. (9781416916451) $8.99 pbk. Prudence Steward cheers like a witch but she has fallen for the mortal boy next door. McClymer lives in Orono. (YA)
  58. Melvin, George. Trackside Grand Trunk New England Lines. Scotch Plains, NJ: Moving Sun Books, 2007. (158248138) $59.95. Brief history and many color photographs of the Grand Trunk route, Melvin lives in Readfield.
  59. Merrill, Brian R. On this date: a day-by-day look at historical events. [S.I.] Lulu Publishing, 2006. (9781430305019) $14.95 pbk. Birthdays and events for each day of the year. Merrill is a middle school teacher and lives in Belfast.
  60. Meyer, L.A. In the belly of the bloodhound: being an account of a particularly peculiar adventure in the life of Jacky Faber. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006. (9780152055578) $17.00 Pirate Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls are forced upon a ship bound for slave markets. The author lives in Corea, Maine.
  61. Milliken, William F. Equations of motion: adventure, risk, and innovation: the engineering autobiography of William F. Milliken.  Cambridge, MA: Bentley Publishers, 2006. (9780837613482) $59.95. From his beginnings in Old Town through his career as an aeronautical engineer and automotive enthusiast Milliken recounts eight decades of     “working at what one loves.”
  62. Monkman, Jerry. Wild Acadia: a photographic journey to New England’s oldest national park.  Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. (9781584655244) $26.00. Photographs and text offer a tribute to Acadia’s wild places.
  63. Molyneaux, Paul. Swimming in circles: aquaculture and the end of wild oceans.  New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007. (9781560257561) $15.95 pbk. Molyneaux provides a history of aquaculture and considers the high cost of ocean exploitation. Fisherman/journalist Molyneaux lives in Whiting, Maine.
  64. Moody, Jo-Ann. I will walk again. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006. (9780595370610) $16.95 pbk. Jo-Ann Moody lived with multiple sclerosis over twenty years. Stan Moody edited her story, a “gift to those struggling with degenerative disease.” He lives in Manchester, Maine.
  65. Morse, Eleanor Lincoln. An unexpected forest. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2007. (9780892727445) $22.95. After the U.S. Forest Service mistakenly delivers 1,000 spruce seedlings to his home, attorney Horace Woodruff heads for northern Maine to find homes for all of these tiny trees. The author lives on Peaks Island.
  66. Oliver, Teagan. Obsidian. Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2007. (9781594145513) $26.95. A boat explosion leads to an investigation, a romance, and more mystery off the Maine coast. Author lives in Maine.
  67. Owens, Mary Beth. Panda Whispers. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2007. (9780525471714) $16.99. Animal parents wish their babies good dreams at bedtime. The author/illustrator lives in Walpole, Maine.
  68. Parker, Neal. The lobsterman and the U.F.O. Rockland, ME: Annabel Books, 2006. (9781424309696) $14.95 pbk. Lobsterman Ralf Winslow is at sea in the Betsy Ann Jolene when a steaming saucer the size of a merry-go-round “lands” nearby….Captain Neal Parker sails and lives in Maine.
  69. Provencher-Faucher, Doris. Imperial conflict. Biddeford, ME: Artenay Press, 2006. (9780967911205) $19.95 pbk. Third in the Quebecois series of historical novels relating the story of French pioneer settlers in North America. The author lives in Biddeford.
  70. Richards, Geoffrey. Message in a bottle: observations from a Maine bottle hound. Bolivar, MO: Quiet Waters Publications, 2006. (9781931475310) $16.00 pbk. Richards describes his adventures in search of 18th and 19th century bottles. He lives and “digs” in Maine.
  71. Risk, Shannon M. Pirate Shirt Dot Com. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2007. (9781424153992) $16.95 pbk. Three women in Bangor operate a “romantic adventure company” and discover their own passionate relationships. The author is a student at the University of Maine.
  72. Rivard, Paul E. Made in Maine: from home and workshop, to mill and factory. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2007. (9781596292185) $21.99 pbk. From home to factory Rivard traces the industrial age in Maine. This book grew out of research for an exhibit of the same name at the Maine State Museum where Rivard was the director for fourteen years.
  73. Robbins, Travis Neil. Creations, Volume one. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006. (9780595384464) $10.95. A collection of short stories of horror, followed by Creations Volume Two. The author lives in Wilton.
  74. Rowell, Victoria. The women who raised me: a memoir. New York: William Morrow, 2007. (9780061246593) $25.95. A remembrance of foster parents, teachers, and loving women in her life by the actress who is a national advocate for foster children. Rowell was born and spent her early childhood in Maine.
  75. Scott, Aurelia. C. Otherwise normal people: inside the thorny world of competitive rose gardening. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. (9781565124646) $22.95. Aurelia Scott provides a look at rose competition and those individuals who participate. The book features Portland gardener Clarence Rhodes and the author lives in Portland.
  76. Shapiro, Dani. Black & white.  New York: Alfred A. Knof, 2007. (9780375415487) $24.00. Clara Brodeur travels to NYC from Maine to visit her dying mother, a renowned photographer. The Clara series, nude portraits, brought fame to Ruth Dunne but destroyed her relationship with her daughter.
  77. Sheehan, Jacqueline. Lost & Found.  New York: Avon Books, 2007. (9780061128646) $13.95 pbk. After losing her husband a psychologist gives up her career to become an animal warden on Peak’s Island. Among her discoveries is a friendship with a wounded black lab.
  78. Stelmok, Jerry. Not your average bear & other Maine stories. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House Publishers, 2007. (9780884482901) $15.00 pbk. Six tales of the magical and the extraordinary. The author is a master builder of the wood and canvas canoe and lives in Atkinson.
  79. Thomas, Robert B. Full moon on white. Topsham, ME: Just Write Books, 2006. (9780977761487) $17.95 pbk. David Steel of Harpswell, ME awakens in a care facility in 2058. He has been “preserved” for decades. Thomas teaches high school math and science in Maine.
  80. Thorndike, Virginia L. LNG: a level-headed look at the liquefied natural gas controversy.  Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2007. (9780892727018) $15.95 pbk. Straightforward explanation of LNG and its place in the energy market. Author lives in Morrill, ME.
  81. Tufts, Betty Kennedy. Tales of North Berwick, or, you can’t get there from here. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2007. (9781425936860) $14.95 pbk. Humorous stories of small town life in the 1920s and 30s, as well as a few recipes. The author grew up in North Berwick and now lives in Wells.
  82. Van Doren, Harold S. Lines on the water: a collection of Isle au Haut Stories. Waldoboro, ME: Goose River Press, 2006. (9781597130318) $18.95 pbk. Stories of the author’s experience with the people of Isle au Haut and many anecdotes that are part of the island’s storytelling tradition. The author lives on Isle au Haut and Hawaii.
  83. Viles, Brad Wayne. Dreaming the Appalachian Trail: a backpacking novel. [S.I.]: Xlibris Corp., 2006. (9781425723958) $10.00 pbk. Fictional journal of one person’s hike from Georgia to Maine. Each “chapter” is named for a state. Viles lives in Maine.
  84. Winslow, Homer: poet of the sea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. (9780932171504) $45.00 pbk. Essays devoted to the artist’s fascination with the sea. Published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name.
  85. Wolff, Meg. Becoming whole: the story of my complete recovery from breast cancer. Cape Elizabeth, ME: Flow Books, 2006. (9781430309611) $21.00 pbk. Wolff’s book describes her recovery from cancer and provides a practical guide to macrobiotic nutrition. The author lives in Cape Elizabeth.
  86. Woodard, Colin. The republic of pirates.  Orlando: Harcourt, 2007. (9780151013029) $27.00. The history of the Pirate Republic, an 18th century society established in the Bahamas by a group of pirate captains. Woodard lives in Portland.
  87. Woods, Stuart. Fresh disasters.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007. (9780399154102) $25.95. PI Stone Barrington takes a case that leads him to the heart of the New York mafia underworld. The author lives on Mt. Desert.
  88. Woofenden, Todd A. Hunters of the Steel Sharks: the submarine chasers of WWI. Bowdoinham, ME: Signal Light Books, 2006. (9780978919207) $19.95 pbk. History of submarine chasers of the Great War with period photographs. The  author lives in Bowdoinham.