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From the flyleaf:  Our Kezar is a collaboration of three photographers, brought together by their love of Kezar Lake and the Lovell, Maine area.  Each brings their own view and perspective, but for all of them, Kezar is an integral part of life.  

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From the cover:  New England's leading lighthouse authority celebrates the human stories behind Maine's lighthouses with dramatic stories of storms and shipwrecks, heroic dogs and spooky ghost legends, along with moving and sometimes humorous accounts of everyday life.

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From the cover:  18 day hikes in the spectacular western mountains of Maine -- some of the finest hiking terrain in the Eastern US-- in three hiking regions:  Rangeley-Saddleback, Carrabassett Valley-Bigelow, and Weld-Tumbledown.  Doug Dunlap has been hiking the trails of Northern New England for over 40 years and has hiked every foot of each hike in the handbook.  He is a Registered Maine Guide and lives in Farmington, ME.

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From the cover:  Legendary Maine Guide Gil Gilpatrick offers you the benefit of his 65 years of wilderness wisdom in the comprehensive guide.  Freshly revised and expanded with new color photography, this handbook includes expertise from a seasoned team of professionals in year-round hiking, camping, canoeing, hunting, and fishing.

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Charles Norman Shay is a Penobscot elder who served as a medic in World War II at Omaha Beach, The Battle of the Bulge and other important battles.  This book recounts his trips back to Omaha Beach in 2007 and again in June of 2009 for the 65th anniversary of the Allied invasion where he was invited to sit behind the podium as President Obama, the president of France and other dignitaries paid tribute to the veterans of World War II.  The book also includes a short autobiography of Shay's life here in Maine and in Europe after the war.

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A young teenager, Richard, finds himself drawn into an adult world of lust, jealousy, betrayal and confusion while spending the summer with his extended family in a large summer house in 1928 coastal Maine.

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When two sisters are forced to make impossible decisions while living under the brutal Nazi occupation of Italy, their actions set off a chain of events that ultimately impact a murder investigation sixty years later.

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"[After four years in Iraq, Conrad Farrell returns to Katonah, New York], and he's beginning to learn that something has changed in his landscape. Something has gone wrong, though things should be fine: he hasn't been shot or wounded; he's never had psychological troubles. But as he attempts to reconnect with his family and his girlfriend and to find his footing in the civilian world, he learns how hard it is to return to the people and places he used to love"--Dust jacket flap.

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From the cover:  The romance of a bygone era infuses [this novel] when Maine Army Guardsman Bruce Gilpin, 35, returns to the rural farming community of Sovereign hoping to restart the town's old sweet corn canning factory.  He's encouraged in his dream by the passionate young organic foodie Amber Johnson, 21 , who reawakens his youthful heart.

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The waterways around the Sebago Lakes Region have always been important to the state of Maine either as major transportation routes or as supports for the areas commercial center by powering grist- and sawmills and tanneries.  Ned Allen explores this rich past and celebrates today's resurgence of the towns in the Sebago Lakes area.

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From the cover:  In 1895, emissaries from the New York Yacht Club traveled to Deer Isle, Maine, to recruit the nation's best sailors, an "All American" crew.  This remote island in Penobscot Bay sent nearly forty of its fishing ment to sail Defender, and under skipper Hank Haff, they beat their opponents in a difficult and controversial series.  To the delisht of the American public, the charismatic Sir Thomas Lipton sent a surprise challenge in 1899.  The New York Yacht Club kenw where to turn and again recruited Deer Isle's fisherman sailors.  Undefeated in two defense campaigns, they are still considered one of the best American sail-rading teams ever assembled.  Read their fascinating story and relive their adventure.

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From the cover:  Over 70,000 Mainers from every corner of the state and every walk of life fought in the Civil War.  Through quotes from their letters and diaries, voices of these soldiers and their families resonate throughout Maine Voices from the Civil War.  Presented here are images, words and belongings that reflect and illustrate the political climate of the day,  Mainers' experiences of the war itself, and how Maine people viewed the war in all its complexity, glory, and horror.

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From the cover:  When celebrity aviator Harry Atwood made the first aeroplane flight of Bangor in 1912, observers were astonished.  It was a sign that the city had recovered from the Great Fire of 1911 that had dwstroyed its downtown the year before.  While some events are well knpwn, many stories from turn-of-the-century Bangor have been lost to time.  In this collection, local author Wayne E. Reilly brings some of the most exciting and intriguing hidden Bangor tales to light -- from a gas explosion that left a thirty-foot crater in the middle of downtown to the escape of a mayor's pet pig.

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The thriller sequel to Lamanda's Edgar-nominated Sunset, this is the latest in his Ted Bekker series.  Bekker's old friend Carly Simms hires him to prove her innocence in a murder.  The victim was raised in an orphanage in Utah and  Bekker discovers that several other young men from the same orphanage have been murdered across the country.  He races to connect the dots and find who is responsible for the killings putting he and his family at risk in the process.

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During a busy holiday season on Cranberry Island, Natalie Barnes investigates the apparent suicide of Fernand, her niece's artistic mentor, and when she uncovers clues that point to murder, she becomes the killer's next target.

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Inspired by Andrew Wyeth's painting Soaring, this book is an exhibition and catalogue of paintings done by the Wyeth family put together by Joyce Hill Stoner, the principal conservator to the Wyeth family since 1997.  The overarching theme of the included works is vertigo -- all three generations of the family demonstrate a penchant for extreme perspective, a predilection for paintings that look down, up, in, and out of odd spaces.