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All Things Maine April 2023
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Fire and Ice : Henry and Lucy Knox and the Settling of Maine
by Gerard W. Gawalt
Fire and Ice is the story of Henry and Lucy Knox during the maelstrom of the American Revolution and the heady years of the post-war period. This book reveals the complexities of the lives of American Patriot and British loyalist families.
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They lynched Jim Cullen : New England's only lynching : facts, folklore, and-- what really happened
by Dena L. Winslow
On April 30, 1873, James Cullen was swung into eternity at the hands of a lynch mob in Mapleton, Maine - to become the only known lynching victim in New England. He was accused of robbing the local store of a small amount of merchandise, then murdering Deputy Sheriff Granville A. Hayden and William Thomas Hubbard and burning their bodies in a camp in the woods of Chapman, Maine. From that day to the present, locals have continued to tell the hair-raising tale to fascinated listeners.
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She Gets July : Mainely Romance by Susan Page DavisRebecca Harding can hardly wait to get away from her city nursing job in Portland, Maine, for a few restful days at her lakeside cottage. The only problem is, the cottage is half owned by her former fiancé, architect Rob Wallace, whom she hasn’t seen for three years. They alternate months for usage and payments. When Rebecca arrives in mid-May, the cottage is neat and tidy, but her feelings are anything but.
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Good dog, bad cop
by David Rosenfelt
Paterson Police Department's Corey Douglas and his K Team investigate a suspicious crime near the Long Island sound that resulted in two deaths and a cold case, in the fourth novel of the series following Citizen K-9.
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The curator : a novel
by Owen King
Searching for the truth behind the secret she's long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn't at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.
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Alex Katz : gathering
by Katherine Brinson
"Across nearly eight decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz has sought to capture a state of "absolute awareness" in paint. Whether evoking a glancing exchange between friends or a shaft of light filtered through trees, he has aimed to create a record of "quick things passing," compressing the flux of everyday life into a condensed burst of optical perception. Published on the occasion of the artist's first US career retrospective in more than 30 years, Alex Katz: Gathering offers a definitiveaccount of Katz's artistic project, demonstrating both its marked coherence and restless evolution. Generously illustrated, the book features the full breadth of the artist's work across mediums and formats, from intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway in the late 1940s to the rapturous, monumentally scaled landscapes that have dominated his recent production. Essays by artists, writers and art historians offer fresh, authoritative overviews of the artist's practice alongside more focusedconsiderations of specific facets of his art, including his flower paintings, collages, prints, freestanding "cutouts" and set design collaborations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. A sourcebook of historical reviews, essays and poems rounds out the volume, which offers an overdue reassessment of the artist's oeuvre"
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Chicken Poop for the Soil : Wit and Wisdom from the Humble Farmer
by Robert Karl Skoglund
Chicken Poop for the Soil is a collection of the writings of "The humble Farmer" Robert Skoglund. These writings include humble farmer newspaper pieces published in over fifty newspapers as well as commentary named "rants" that were interspersed with old fashioned music on his long running public radio show.
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Comfort Is an Old Barn : Stories from the Heart of Maine
by Amy Calder
Since 2009, Calder has written a weekly human interest column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears in both the Waterville Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal. Comfort is an Old Barn is a curated collection of those columns, which include sketches of the colorful characters, quirky animals she has encountered, and special moments, as well as personal stories that make living in Maine special.
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