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New Maine Books June 26, 2025 |
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The savage, noble death of Babs Dionne
by Ron Currie
In Waterville, Maine, crime matriarch Babs Dionne faces a drug kingpin's enforcer and her youngest daughter's mysterious death, unleashing her fierce determination to protect her family, her empire, and her town from the chaos threatening to consume them.
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We can't save you : a tale of politics, murder, and Maine by Thomas E. Ricks"Thomas E.FBI agent Ryan Tapia is torn between duty and sympathy for a group of Native American protesters led by Peeled Paul Soco, who aim to raise awareness of climate change while facing opposition from the White House, eventually risking his career to warn them of an impending attack."
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7 Days : A Dee Rommel Mystery
by Jule Selbo
"When an avid environmentalist and scion of Portland is murdered, Dee's boss, private investigator Gordy Greer, puts Dee on the case." Book #4 in the Dee Rommel series.
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Water Finds a Way a Novel by Meghan PerryCan coming home bring redemption? Or at least a measure of peace? Recently released from prison, Blake Alvares returns to the only place she ever felt safe, the now derelict Maine town in which she harbored as a teen. Determined to conceal her secrets and losses, she soon finds herself dragged into others' lives when she takes a job on a boat owned by a notorious young lobsterman.
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The summer guests
by Tess Gerritsen
In Purity, Maine, former spy Maggie Bird and her Martini Club of ex-CIA operatives are drawn into the search for a missing teen with ties to their past, as they confront an innocent friend's wrongful suspicion, a buried corpse, and dark secrets that threaten to unravel everything they've worked to protect.
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Death by chocolate pumpkin muffin by Sarah Graves"Decorations of cobwebs and creatures are just being taken down across Eastport's picturesque houses as the community says farewell to Halloween and ushers in winter with the unique confectionaries found only at the Chocolate Moose. Revelers have gathered on the waterfront for a party at local celebrity Hank Rafferty's ramshackle mansion, known as Stone House. The home repair TV show star and his guests await a devilish dessert delivery from Jake and Ellie--who arrive just after Hank's body falls to his death from the house's turret's balcony. Despite his show's popularity, Hank was not exactly beloved in Eastport, prompting the police to conduct a homicide investigation...Did any of them take the murderous plunge, or is there another ghost in Hank's shady past yet to be revealed?"
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Maine characters : a novel
by Hannah Orenstein
"From beloved author Hannah Orenstein, this love letter to lake life is "the Parent Trap for adults," the story of two half-sisters who meet for the first time at their father's cabin in Maine after his unexpected death."
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Loving the North Woods : 25 years of historic conservation in Maine
by Karin R. Tilberg
"Loving the North Woods is a chronicle of the difficult challenges that led to tremendous conservation achievements in the great North Woods of Maine. Focusing on the remarkable period of activity from 1990 to 2015, during which historic achievements in American conservation unfolded, this book explores how people love a place and how they bring that love into action. The stories of conservation in Maine's North Woods, hidden in files of land trusts, state government archives, forest landowners' records,and in the memories of those who participated, can inspire and guide us now and far into the future."
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Butterflies of Maine and the Canadian maritime provinces
by Phillip G. DeMaynadier
"This book describes the biology and distribution of butterflies of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island). Included are detailed species profiles (with color photographs, maps, and flight graphics) and chapters summarizing methods of study, biogeographic patterns, conservation concerns, and potential future species occurrences."
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Life and art : essays by Richard Russo"Sharp, tender, extraordinarily intimate reflections on work, culture, love and family from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of SOMEBODY'S FOOL and THE DESTINY THIEF."
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The Mourner's Bestiary by Eiren Caffall
"A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness. Author Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease [polycystic kidney disease or PKD] and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy. A literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall’s The Mourner’s Bestiary is also a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems -- the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound -- and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores." |
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Going to Maine : all the ways to fall on the Appalachian Trail
by Sally Chaffin Brooks
"Sally has no reason to upend her comfortable, conventional life to spend 5 months hiking the Appalachian Trail; no reason except that her charismatic best friend, Erin, asked her to come along. A woefully out-of-shape Sally quickly realizes that she maynot actually be prepared for the realities of thru-hiking...As she and Erin trek from Georgia to Maine, they collect a ragtag band of hikers and together stumble from one hilarious (and sometimes scary) predicament to another. By the time she reaches Maine...readers will cheer for the stronger, more self-assured Sally that has emerged."
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