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All Things Maine September 2011
Introduction
Here is the latest edition of the newsletter highlighting new Maine-related items added to the collection of the Maine State Library.
 
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Armchair Travel
The Lobstering Life - David Middleton and Brenda Berry
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/06/2011
Share The Lobstering Life ISBN-13: 9780881509397
ISBN-10: 0881509396
MAINE SUBJECT
A gorgeous, color photo essay on the working life of the Maine lobsterman.
Bound for Roque Island : Sailing Maine and the World - R. J. Rubadeau
Publisher: Itasca Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2010
Share Bound for Roque Island %3a  Sailing Maine and the World ISBN-13: 9781935098331
ISBN-10: 1935098330
MAINE AUTHOR.  MAINE LOCATION.
From the cover:  Sailor, cruiser, ocean racer, professional captain, Cape Horn veteran and award-winning writer, R. J. Rubadeau has been a fixture on the international yachting scene for four decades.  Bound for Roque Island:  Sailing Maine and the World is high adventure and practical advice served family-style.  Rubadeau is a summer resident of Mount Desert Island.
Art and Culture
Maine moderns : art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 - Libby Bischof and Susan Danly
Publisher: Yale University Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/04/2011
Share Maine moderns %3a  art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 ISBN-13: 9780300169485
ISBN-10: 0300169485
MAINE AUTHOR.  MAINE SUBJECT.
From the flyleaf:  Between 1900 and 1940, a group of modernist artists gathered regularly on the coast of Maine in a region then known as Sequinland.  For photographer Paul Strand, painter Marsden Hartley, sculptor Gaston Lachaise, and others, it was a way to excape market-driven, competitive, and divisive New York City and celebrate a new kind of American Modernism.  In this book, the authors explore how the friendships and relationships between these artists and the Maine environment influenced modern art.
Folk Art Murals of the Rufus Porter School : New England Landscapes: 1825- 1845 - Linda Carter Lefko and Jane E. Radcliffe
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/28/2011
Share Folk Art Murals of the Rufus Porter School %3a  New England Landscapes%3a 1825- 1845 ISBN-13: 9780764337253
ISBN-10: 0764337254
MAINE AUTHOR.  MAINE SUBJECT.
Rufus Porter was an itinerant artist who painted portraits and landscape murals throughout New England.  This book includes and analyzes over 400 color images of murals on the walls of New England houses, provides documentation never before seen in print, a preservation section for the care of such murals, and a section which explains Porter's mural instructions re-interpreted for modern materials and supplies.
Maine's Museums : Art, Oddities & Artifacts - Janet Mendelsohn
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/06/2011
Share Maine ISBN-13: 9780881509151
ISBN-10: 0881509159
 MAINE SUBJECT.
From the cover:  Maine's Museums:  Art, Oddities & Artifacts showcases the broad scope of art, history, maritime, children's, and unusual collections in the many museums of the Pine Tree State.
 
Biography and Memoir
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins : Black daughter of the Revolution - Lois Brown
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/12/2008
Share Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins %3a  Black daughter of the Revolution ISBN-13: 9780807831663
ISBN-10: 0807831662
From the flyleaf:  Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces:  A Romance of Negro Life North and South.  In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the Africal slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North.
Dogfish memory : sailing in search of old Maine - Joseph A. Dane
Publisher: Countryman Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/06/2011
Share Dogfish memory %3a  sailing in search of old Maine ISBN-13: 9780881509557
ISBN-10: 0881509558
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Memoir written by native-Mainer and accomplished professor of English (USC) Joseph Dane, described by author T. C. Boyle (When the Killing's Done and The Road to Wellville) as "An exquisite memoir about lost love and the sustaining grace of the sea."
Katahdin Comrades: the Journals of Lester F. Hall - edited by Charlotte Hall Kirkpatrick
Publisher: High Point Graphics
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
Share Katahdin Comrades%3a  the Journals of Lester F. Hall ISBN-13: 9781450716246
ISBN-10: 1450716245
Journals of 30 years of camping and tramping through the Katahdin region, before it became a state park and before it had hiking trails, by Lester Hall and his friend the painter Maurice "Jake" Day.
Mr. Speaker! : the life and times of Thomas B. Reed, the man who broke the filibuster - James Grant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/10/2011
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ISBN-10: 1416544933
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A fast-paced scholarly narrative on politics throughout the final decades of the 19th century focuses on the career of Speaker of the House Thomas Reed while offering insight into the influence of corruption, industrial growth and populist protests. By the author of John Adams: Party of One. 
Somalis in Maine : crossing cultural currents - Kimberly A. Huisman
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/07/2011
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ISBN-10: 1556439261
"Containing personal stories, ethnography, and reflective essays, Somalis in Maine explores the unique cross-cultural interactions and collaborations between Somali refugees and Americans in the town of Lewiston, Maine"--Provided by publisher.
The story of Charlotte's web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic - Michael Sims
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/07/2011
Share The story of Charlotte ISBN-13: 9780802777546
ISBN-10: 0802777546
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Traces the influences of E.B. White's early 20th-century childhood on a farm and his love for animals on his career, offering insight into the creation of Charlotte's Web as it evolved from an early draft and was shaped by his scientific research and friendship with legendary editor Ursula Nordstrom. By the author of Apollo's Fire.
L.L. Bean : the man and his company : the complete story - James L. Witherell
Publisher: Tilbury House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2011
Share L.L. Bean %3a  the man and his company %3a the complete story ISBN-13: 9780884483298
ISBN-10: 0884483290
The story of Leon Leonwood Bean and his forming of the company L. L. Bean and of Leon Gormwood, L.L.'s grandson, responsible for making that company and its brand the international success that it is today.
Fiction A to Z
Trespasser - Paul Doiron
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/21/2011
Share Trespasser ISBN-13: 9780312558475
ISBN-10: 0312558473
Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores ominous warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation into the truth. By the author of The Poacher's Son. 50,000 first printing.
The silent girl : a Rizzoli & Isles novel - Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/05/2011
Share The silent girl %3a  a Rizzoli & Isles novel ISBN-13: 9780345515506
ISBN-10: 0345515501
Discovering primate hair at the scene of a grisly murder in Chinatown, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles discover clues linked to the fable of the Monkey King. By the best-selling author of Ice Cold. 250,000 first printing.
History and Current Events
A Promise to All Generations: Stories & Essays About Social Security & Frances Perkins - edited by Christopher Breiseth and Kirstin Downey
Publisher: The Frances Perkins Center
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2011
Share A Promise to All Generations%3a  Stories & Essays About Social Security & Frances Perkins ISBN-13: 9780615417226
ISBN-10: 0615417221
A collection of essays about the origins of the Social Security and Frances Perkins, the Maine native who, as Secretary of Labor under FDR, made it happen.
Surviving the apocalypse in the suburbs : the thrivalist's guide to life without oil - Wendy Brown
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2011
Share Surviving the apocalypse in the suburbs %3a  the thrivalist ISBN-13: 9780865716810
ISBN-10: 0865716811
Provides information on ways to create a sustainable lifestyle in the suburbs, covering such topics as growing food, keeping livestock, electricity, waste disposal, health care, entertainment, education, and networking.
Mainers in the Civil War - Harry Gratwick
Publisher: History Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/29/2011
Share Mainers in the Civil War ISBN-13: 9781596299627
ISBN-10: 1596299622
You've probably heard of Mainer Dorothea Dix and her contributions to nursing, but have you heard of Amy Morris Bradley?  Author Harry Gratwick brings to light her story and that of many other Mainers whose stories are largely unknown today.
Surveyors of empire : Samuel Holland, J.W.F. Des Barres, and the making of the Atlantic Neptune - Stephen J. (Stephen John) Hornsby and Hope Stege
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/05/2011
Share Surveyors of empire %3a  Samuel Holland, J.W.F. Des Barres, and the making of the Atlantic Neptune ISBN-13: 9780773538153
ISBN-10: 0773538151
From the cover:  Colonial surveys were essential to the exercise of British Imperial power in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Surveyors of Empire is the first full account of how the British survey system was developed during mapping expeditions along the Atlantic coast of North America from 1764 to 1775.  Well before James Cook explored the pacific, British army engineers had set the standard for coastal surveying and topographic mapping.  Their exacting work culminated in The Atlantic Neptune, a four-volume hydrographic atlas that stands as a monument to European Enlightenment science.
Wanton West : madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier - Lael Morgan
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2011
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ISBN-10: 1569763380
From the flyleaf:  From the time of the gold rush to the election of the first woman to the U.S. Congress, Wanton West brings to life the women of the West's wildest region:  Montana, famous for its lawlessness, boomtowns, and America's largest and longest-enduring red-light districts.  The state was a beacon for independent women who refused to accept traditional roles, and prostitutes and entrepreneurs flocked there to gamble, drink, and raise hell just like the men.  Aughor Lael Morgan chronicles the highs and lows of these adventurous women....
The filter bubble : what the Internet is hiding from you - Eli Pariser
Publisher: Penguin Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/12/2011
Share The filter bubble %3a  what the Internet is hiding from you ISBN-13: 9781594203008
ISBN-10: 1594203008
MAINE AUTHOR.
A report on how internet personalization is controlling and limiting information to users reveals how sites like Google and Facebook only display search results that they believe people are most likely to select, raising a risk that users will become less informed, more biased and increasingly isolated.
Unfamiliar fishes - Sarah Vowell
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/22/2011
Share Unfamiliar fishes ISBN-13: 9781594487873
ISBN-10: 1594487871
An irreverent analysis of late-19th-century imperialism in the United States focuses on the annexation of Hawaii as a defining historical milestone, covering such contributing factors as the missionary overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and the activities of whaling fleets.
Home, Garden and DIY
Raw energy : 124 raw food recipes for energy bars, smoothies, and other snacks to supercharge your body - Stephanie L. Tourles
Publisher: Storey Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/23/2009
Share Raw energy %3a  124 raw food recipes for energy bars, smoothies, and other snacks to supercharge your body ISBN-13: 9781603424677
ISBN-10: 1603424679
A book with full-color photos and illustrations includes a host of raw-snack recipes for trail mixes, parfaits, energy bars, juice blends, smoothies, soups, veggie chips, tasty dips, candies and cookies, with each serving only containing 150 to 250 calories. 
Nature and Science
The fate of Greenland : lessons from abrupt climate change - Philip W. Conkling
Publisher: MIT Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/25/2011
Share The fate of Greenland %3a  lessons from abrupt climate change ISBN-13: 9780262015646
ISBN-10: 0262015641
An exploration of how the Earth's climate change has affected Greenland -- the warming has caused huge chunks of the glacier to break off into icebergs and created a new tourist attraction.  Replete with full color aerial photographs.
Dog days, raven nights - John M. Marzluff and Colleen Marzluff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/29/2011
Share Dog days, raven nights ISBN-13: 9780300167115
ISBN-10: 0300167113
Describes a 1988 three-year scientific project which studied the behavior of the common raven in western Maine, discussing the discoveries about ravens that resulted from the research as well as the personal experiences of the scientists involved.
Popular Culture
Golf Foreplay : Everything You Need to Know About the Game Before You Try to Hit the Sweet Spot - Ken Altshuler
Publisher: Sellers Pub Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/14/2011
Share Golf Foreplay %3a  Everything You Need to Know About the Game Before You Try to Hit the Sweet Spot ISBN-13: 9781416206293
ISBN-10: 1416206299
From the cover:  Written by avid golfer, lawyer and popular [Maine] radio show hose Ken Altshuler, Golf Foreplay is a fun, user-friendly guide to all the do's and don'ts you need to keep in mind on the links, and it contains an abundance of golf trivia as well as great jokes to tell on the course.
Shooting sporting clays - Mark Brannon, Tom Hanrahan and Matthew Brannon
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2011
Share Shooting sporting clays ISBN-13: 9780811706186
ISBN-10: 0811706184
A book for those interested in shooting clay pigeons written by student and instructor, both from Maine.
Stephen King on the Small Screen - Mark Browning
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/15/2011
Share Stephen King on the Small Screen ISBN-13: 9781841504124
ISBN-10: 1841504122
From the cover:  In this follow up to Stephen King on the Big Screen (2009), Mark Browning turns his critical eye upon the much-neglected subject of the best-selling author's work in television, examining what it is about King's fiction that makes it particularly suitable for the small screen. 
Beyond catch & release : exploring the future of fly fishing - Paul Guernsey
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/25/2011
Share Beyond catch & release %3a  exploring the future of fly fishing ISBN-13: 9781616082352
ISBN-10: 1616082356
Described on its flyleaf as "a clear and brilliant look at the ethics of fly fishing and what we must do to ensure the survival of the tradition", angler and author Guernsey explores the social and environmental factors threatening this sport and what can be done to ensure its future.
Ghosts of Acadia - Marcus A. LiBrizzi
Publisher: Down East
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/16/2011
Share Ghosts of Acadia ISBN-13: 9780892729210
ISBN-10: 089272921X
Ghost stories from Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park.  Great for campfire reading.  S'mores, anyone?

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