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Under the Grey Gull's Wing
by Alta Ashley
In 1971, Alta Ashley, M.D., became a correspondent for the Courier Gazette of Rockland, Maine, and eventually wrote for other area newspapers. Some articles in this book are edited copies that had been printed in local papers. These are a collection of local events and other happenings-of-interest on Monhegan Island.
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My World Is an Island (Gay's Island, Maine)
by Elisabeth Ogilvie
This is about Maine writer, Elisabeth Ogilvie's life on Gay's Island off the Maine coast. It is inspiring, and full of the satisfaction only found from living close to the land and sea. Ogilvie says the book is "a good history of a significant period of my life, when I was first daring to think of myself as a professional writer. And it is a memorial to the persons I have loved and lost. Perhaps its strongest feature is its quiet and gentle tone, that and the way it makes the island the chief character in the book."
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Gift from the Sea
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
With meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment, here is an inimitable classic that guides us to find a space for contemplation and creativity in our own lives. Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form ... It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart.
--New York Times Book Review
Drawing inspiration from the the shells on the shore, Lindbergh's musings on the shape of a woman's life will bring new understanding to readers, male and family, at any stage of life. A mother of five and professional writer, she casts an unsentimental eye at the trappings of modern life that threaten to overwhelm us--the timesaving gadgets that complicate our lives, the overcommitments that take us from our families. With great wisdom and insight she describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of a life lived in enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking work when it was first published, this book has retained its freshness as it has been rediscovered by generations of readers and is no less current today.
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Follow the River
by Frances Wright Turner
Early settlers founded their homes along riverbanks to use the river for building gristmills, sawmills, and ships. The background for this book is the historic Penobscot River in Maine. Using journals and letters of Judith Snow, the author tells the story of five generations of the Snow family.
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