MAINE AUTHOR.

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of House and the editor of Atlantic Monthly share stories from their literary friendship and respective careers, offering insight into writing principles and mechanics that they have identified as elementary to quality prose.

MAINE SUBJECT.

The Art of Francis Hamabe offers a selection of the work of this beloved Maine artist, from dynamic modernist oil paintings and lively Sumi ink abstractions to his well-known screenprint posters.  Writer Carl Little weaves an engaging narrative of the artist's life and art illustrated with vintage photographs and examples of Hamabe's witty and stylish graphic work.  Paintings from the Colby and Bates College museums and the University of Maine Museum of Art are featured, along with numerous works from private collections, many of them reproduced for the first time.

MAINE SUBJECT.

Joel Babb is an artist who lives part time in Sumner Maine.  This book of full-color images of his paintings -- cityscapes of Boston and Portland, ME and landscapes of New England -- are finely detailed and gorgeous. 

MAINE AUTHOR/SUBJECT.

Published to coincide with the first major exhibition of the works of Portland-born Mildred Burrage (1890-1983), the book includes essays about Burrage and images of the artist's works.

MAINE SUBJECT.

Published to accompany an exhibit at the Saco Museum, this book showcases needlework done by young women during the early nineteenth century.  In includes fascinating details about the needlework and the lives of the creators, whenever possible.  Replete with color photographs, anyone who admires samplers or fine stitchery will appreciate this publication.

MAINE SUBJECT.

The Reverend Jacob Bailey was a missionary preacher in Pownalborough (now Dresden) Maine, who refused to renounce allegiance to King George III during the American War of Independence.  Relying largely on Bailey's unpublished journals and voluminous correspondence, James S. Leamon shows how Bailey absorbed many of the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment but also the more traditional conviction that family, society, religion, and politics, like creation itself, should be orderly and hierarchical.  His beliefs led to hostility and to exile to Nova Scotia.  A engaging story of a courageous man.

MAINE AUTHOR.

The female swordfish captain featured in The Perfect Storm traces her unplanned adoption of an abused 15-year-old girl who was placed in her care after a community rescue, documenting their steps toward forging a family life that neither knew they needed. By the author of the best-selling The Lobster Chronicles.

MAINE POET.

Annie Finch is the director of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.  This is a volume of her poetry, written over 40 years.

 

MAINE AUTHOR.

An intimate portrait of 1970s Botswana is told through the intertwined stories of three people including a medical student who is forced to flee apartheid South Africa after witnessing a murder and an American Ph.D. student who abandons her studies to follow her husband to Africa. By the award-winning author of An Unexpected Forest.

MAINE AUTHOR.

Returning to New York where he is approached by CIA assistant director and sometime lover Holly Barker, Stone Barrington is drawn into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance against an enemy who is engaged in a nefarious plot beyond Stone's imagining.

DVD.

MAINE SUBJECT.

Betting the Farm is the story of a group of Maine dairy farmers who -- dropped by their national milk company -- are suddenly confronted with the real possibility of losing their farms.  Banding together, the farmers launch their own mile company, Maine's Own Organic Milk.  The film follow the farmers over the tumultuous first two years of the company in intimate verite style, providing a moving portrait of American farm families -- faced with financial disaster -- coming together to build something new.

 

MAINE AUTHOR.

A photograph album, in black and white and in color, of the Bangor and Aroostook train stations of Maine.

 

 

MAINE SUBJECT.

Nothing is more iconic of Maine than the image of a majestic vessell -- masts raised -- gliding through the fog on the dark North Atlantic.  From the early days of the search for a Northwest passage to the quest for the mysterious and illusive Norumbega, the history of Mount Desert Island, Hancock, Bar Harbor and the rest of the Down East area has always traveled on schooners.  Now, in the twenty-first century, these ships and their heritage are being preserved, and Mainers are sailing aboard them once again.  .  In this collection, author Ingrid Grenon presents the most important and incredible stories from the decks of Down East's schooners, revealing how these remarkable vessels and Down East Maine are tied together.

MAINE AUTHOR/SUBJECT.

Not just a book of recipes (they don't show up until page 258!), this is a book about gardening, what to plant, how to plant, crop rotation to manage the soil -- everything a gardener needs to grow gorgeous vegetables, plus wonderful recipes for cooking them!

MAINE AUTHOR/SUBJECT.

The title pretty much says it all.  This book is divided month by month, explaining our hardiness zone, how to plan your garden, the garden planning process, and what you should be doing each month in your garden.  Beautifully illustrated, a great book for the New England gardener.

 

GRAPHIC NOVEL.

MAINE AUTHOR.

In a saloon in the town of Tull, the last gunslinger is approached by a bizarre figure that has a terrifying message for him--a message delivered by a dead man named Nort whose corpse was animated to serve this very purpose.

GRAPHIC NOVEL.

MAINE AUTHOR.

In order to rewrite the wrongs of his world, Roland must save the Dark Tower, threatened by the mysterious sorcerer known as the Man in Black, and decide the fate of an otherworldly boy, Jake Chambers.

GRAPHIC NOVEL.

MAINE AUTHOR.

Roland pursues the Man in Black to the Way Station, where he meets Jake, a strange boy who claims to come from a foreign land called "New York City," and also claims that the Man in Black had killed him there.

MAINE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR.

The author, an avid hot rodder himself, explains in words and in watercolor illustrations, just what a hot rod is.  Fascinating.