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All Things Maine July 2018
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Paintings of Portland
by Carl Little and David Little
The city of Portland and its surroundings, including the islands of Casco Bay, have inspired a wide range of art over the past 200 years. The “city by the sea,” as Longfellow famously called it, has been a visual talisman for a host of artists, from early masters like Harrison Bird Brown and John Bradley Hudson to a remarkable roster of contemporary painters. Subjects include many of the city’s signature buildings, including the Custom House and Portland Head Light, as well as street scenes, the waterfront, harbor, back bay, and surrounding landscapes—even the Million Dollar Bridge. Paintings of Portland will feature a wide range of motifs, in all seasons and represented by an array of styles. About a quarter of the book will be devoted to historical pieces, the rest to paintings by contemporary artists.
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Craig & Fred: A Marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other.
by Craig Grossi
A Marine Corps veteran and Purple Heart recipient shares the inspirational story of his friendship with a stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield and how, against military regulations, he worked to bring the dog home, where the pair battled PTSD and began touring America to work with veteran programs.
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Call Me American: A Memoir
by Abdi Nor Iftin
In an amazing stroke of luck, Abdi won entrance to the U.S. in the annual visa lottery, though his route to America--filled with twists and turns and a harrowing sequence of events that nearly stranded him in Nairobi--did not come easily. Parts of his story were first heard on the BBC World Service and This American Life. Now a proud resident of Maine, on the path to citizenship, Abdi Nor Iftin's dramatic, deeply stirring memoir is truly a story for our time: a vivid reminder of why western democracies still beckon to those looking to make a better life.
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History and Current Events
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Within Katahdin's Realm: Log Drives and Sporting Camps
by Bill Geller
In 2010, Geller began trying to locate information about the logging and sporting cam artifacts he had mad note of during his years of Maine wanderings. What he found did not satisfy his curiosity and prompted him to launch [t]his Maine logging and sporting camp research and writing endeavor.
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The Woman in the Woods
by John Connolly
When the body of a woman who apparently died in childbirth is discovered in the Maine woods, private investigator Charlie Parker shadows the police investigation in order to discover the woman's identity and the fate of her baby.
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Stay Hidden: A Novel
by Paul Doiron
When a woman is killed in an apparent hunting accident on an island off the coast of Maine, newly promoted Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch discovers that the victim, a controversial author writing about a local recluse, died of other causes.
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Crime & Punctuation: A deadly edits mystery.
by Kaitlyn Dunnett
After splurging to buy her childhood home in the Catskills, recently widowed Mikki Lincoln emerges from retirement as a freelance editor. With her ability to spot details that others fail to see, it’s not long before Mikki earns clients—and realizes that the village of Lenape Hollow isn’t the thriving tourist destination it was decades ago. Not with a murderer on the loose . . .
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Bimini Twist: A Jane Bunker Mystery
by Linda Greenlaw
Deputy sheriff Jane Bunker races against time to save the life of a foreign exchange student who has gone missing from her summer job during Green Haven's busy tourist season. By the best-selling author of The Hungry Ocean.
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Death and a Pot of Chowder
by Cornelia Kidd (AKA Lea Wait)
When her lobsterman brother-in-law is found murdered, Anna Winslow teams up with her younger sister, Izzie, to find the killer, uncovering dark secrets on their quaint home on Quarry Island.
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Rescued: An Andy Carpenter Mystery
by David Rosenfelt
When a transport carrying dozens of dogs to the northeast turns up with a murdered driver, defense lawyer and dog rescuer Andy Carpenter navigates a tricky moral line to represent the chief suspect, his wife's Marine ex.
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Termination of Benefits
by Jane Sloven
Therapist Sarah Green is skilled at helping her counseling clients untangle their emotional dilemmas but doesn't do so well with her own problems, and she's got big ones-ghostly visits from a murdered friend and frightening flashbacks. Then a psychopath starts stalking Maine's counseling community, and Sarah struggles to separate past trauma from present danger.
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Turbulence: A Stone Barrington Novel
by Stuart Woods
When Stone Barrington encounters a noxious politician while on vacation in Florida, he is unwittingly embroiled in the scheme of some shady associates who seek to cause upheaval in the United States.
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Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment
by Rachel Carson
The book that sparked the modern environmental movement, with an unprecedented collection of letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the extraordinary courage and vision of its author
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A Naturalist at Large: The best essays of Bernd Heinrich
by Bernd Heinrich
A critically acclaimed scientist and best-selling author presents a collection of essays, spanning 30 years, that serve as an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded to extraordinary insight and discoveries.
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How to Die Down East: 50 ways (from silly to serious) to kick the bucket in Maine
by Buck Tilton
Maine is certainly an exciting place, with a plethora of outdoor activities to pursue. It’s also generally a safe place and most of those activities can be done by those with little to no experience. Don’t let that lull you into a false sense of security however, there are numerous ways to perish in Maine’s outdoors. Now, renowned wilderness medicine expert and storyteller Buck Tilton casts his glance on these dangers. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, Tilton takes a humorous look at just how you might die in Maine, and what he finds runs the gamut from downright deadly to uncomfortable, but unlikely to kill, to just plain silly. Some of nature’s methods are distinctly possible without proper precautions, from rogue waves to rip currents to great white sharks. Others amount to simply wishing you were dead, like stepping on a sea urchin. And others cross the boundary into the nonsensical, such as being singled out by Sasquatch.
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The Last Lobster: Boom or bust for Maine's greatest fishery?
by Christopher White
Follows the real-life dramatic adventure of three lobster captains navigating the waters of the Gulf of Maine as they fight to sustain the incredible boom in catches in the face of warming waters, volatile prices and the effects of overharvesting.
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Space Opera: In space, everyone can hear you sing
by Catherynne M. Valente
The fate of humankind and the Earth hang in the balance as galaxies compete for glory in a universe-wide musical contest—rife with glitter, lipstick and electric guitars—where you must sing to survive.
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