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Featured Maine Books February 2023 |
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At Lighthouse Point
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Fresh out of culinary school, Blaine Grayson returns to Three Sisters Island with big plans for work, family, and love. But the island and her not-my-boyfriend best friend Artie have changed, leaving her to wonder if her plans might need to factor in more than just her own desires.
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Death of a Wicked Witch by Lee HollisWhen a local food truck owner dies tragically while catering a Halloween party, reporter Hayley Powell is fast on the case and finds herself caught between witnesses and witches as she tries to catch a killer.
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Death of an Italian Chef by Lee HollisWhen Chef Romeo, who just opened up a new restaurant in town, dies from complications after having a heart attack, Hayley Powell, whose hospitalized brother swears it was murder, must find the person who had no reservations about killing the chef.
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Hiking Acadia National Park: a guide to the park's greatest hiking adventures by Dolores KongEstablished as the first national park in the eastern United States, Acadia National Park has 120 miles of hiking trails through more than 40,000 acres along the coast of Maine. Fully revised and updated, this new edition covers ridge trails, forest paths, oceanside strolls, and cliff climbs for hikers of all ages and abilities.
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A Summer Love Affair by Holly ChamberlinPetra Quirk returns to the small town of Eliots Corner for the summer and discovers a diary that prompts a confession from her mother in the second novel of the series following Barefoot in the Sand.
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Remodelista in Maine: A Design Lover's Guide to Inspired, Down-to-earth Style by Annie P. QuigleyWith its elegant simplicity and rugged DIY sensibility, the Maine aesthetic is both evergreen and timely. In this one-of-a-kind book, the Remodelista team offers readers both a guide for the design-minded traveler and a master class in re-creating the Maine look in one's own home. Author Annie Quigley takes readers into 10 exceptional homes, ranging from a renovated farmhouse to a sophisticated artists' retreat, offering invaluable design lessons along the way. There are interviews with local experts, who teach readers how to channel the Maine way of life (chop firewood, hunt for flea market finds, and weather the summer without AC), and step-by-step projects for Maine-inspired home decor, including printed tea towels, mussel-shell votives, and balsam fir pillows. Expertly curated itineraries include design shops, galleries, restaurants, hotels, and more. And finally, the Remodelista team highlights the "Maine 25": classic, beautiful products that are built to last, sourced from local makers. It adds up to the perfect travel companion, design inspiration, and how-to manual, all rolled into one!
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Death of an Ice Cream Scooper by Lee HollisWhen Lydia Partridges husband is accused of murdering one of his students, food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell, agreeing to help Lydia find out her husband is a killer and a cheater, must get the scoop on this case before someone else is frozen in death.
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Cooking Maine style: tried and true recipes from Down East by Marjorie StandishMarjorie Standish is an iconic figure in the world of traditional New England cooking, known for her popular column, "Cooking Down East" for the Maine Sunday Telegram. She emphasized simple, but good recipes, that could be made with ingredients that can be found in most pantries. Sandra Oliver, Maine's modern-day Marjorie Standish, offers a carefully curated selection of the very best recipes from Standish's cookbooks.
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Lucy By the Sea: a novel
by Elizabeth Strout
Former married couple now lifelong friends, New Yorkers Lucy Barton and William, as a panicked world goes into lockdown, hunker down in a little house in Maine on the edge of the sea where they are faced with fear, struggles and isolation as well as hope, peace and possibilities.
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Haunted Maine: ghosts and strange phenomena of the Pine Tree State
by Charles A. Stansfield
Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder...let your imagination run wild as you read about Maine's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of Davy Jones' curse to sailors or Big Squaw Mountain's Eternal Flame, but perhaps you haven't heard about: the phantom pirate ship, which haunts the coast's waters, the destroyed vessel on the sea floor below; Robert Cartier's bewitched axe, which beheaded its owner and floats aimlessly throughout the Maine woods; and flying canoes, used in a deal with the devil by lonely loggers, who quickly regretted their agreement.
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When the Land Turned Green: the Maine discovery of the first land plants by Dean B. BennettLittle does he know, but a Harvard PhD's discovery of Pertica quadrifaria in the northern Maine wilderness in the mid-1950s will help scientists unlock the details of a major event in the history of our planet-the transition of plants to land, an occurrence that continues to have a critical influence on the Earth's life-supporting processes, including climate.
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The Singing Trees: a novel by Boo WalkerMaine, 1969. After losing her parents in a car accident, aspiring artist Annalisa Mancuso lives with her grandmother and their large Italian family in the stifling factory town of Payton Mills. Inspired by her mother, whose own artistic dreams disappeared in a damaged marriage, Annalisa is dedicated only to painting. Closed off to love, and driven as much by her innate talent as she is the disillusionment of her past, Annalisa just wants to come into her own. The first step is leaving Payton Mills and everything it represents. The next, the inspiring opportunities in the city of Portland and a thriving New England art scene where Annalisa hopes to find her voice. But she meets Thomas, an Ivy League student whose attentions--and troubled family--upend her pursuits in ways she never imagined possible. As their relationship deepens, Annalisa must balance her dreams against an unexpected love. Until the unraveling of an unforgivable lie. For Annalisa, opening herself up to life and to love is a risk. It might also be the chance she needs to finally become the person and the artist she's meant to be.
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Maine Community Cookbook: 200 More Recipes; Celebrating Home Cooking in the Pine Tree State by Margaret HathawayFollowing the Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook, this second volume is a brand new collection of more than 200 family recipes, stories, and photos...filled with dishes and stories from home kitchens in all of Maine's 16 counties, including recipes from well-known Mainers such as Senator Olympia Snowe, historian Heather Cox Richardson, 101-year-old lobsterwoman Virginia Oliver, James Beard Award-winning Chef Sam Hayward, best-selling author Abdi Nor Iftin, and summer resident and humorist John Hodgman.
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Notes on the Landscape of Home by Susan Hand ShetterlyIn an age of restlessness, Shetterly explores what it means to stay in one place by writing about the things she finds in the natural world around her home on the ragged edge of the continent.
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This Other Eden : a novel
by Paul Harding
Inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast, this novel brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters who struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice.
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The Furies: two Charlie Parker novels
by John Connolly
When murder and mayhem arrive in Portland, Maine, Charlie Parker is faced with two connected crimes involving the enigmatic sisters Strange, new clients who are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined as the city shuts down in the face of a global pandemic.
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Lungfish : a novel
by Meghan Gilliss
Squatting in the former home of her deceased grandmother on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, Tuck, along with her spirited young daughter, relies on the island for sustenance and answers, living moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia and hunger that shoots through her life.
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Faron Goss by Diane LechleitnerWhen the body of Alison Goss washes up on Menhaden Island, in the Gulf of Maine, the working-class fishing community of hard-hewn ways and salty perspectives is faced with handling the future of her unusual son, Faron.
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Fly fishing maine: local experts on the state's best waters
by Bob Mallard
Maine has the most diverse fly-fishing opportunities in New England and is a popular destination for anglers seeking trout, landlocked salmon, striped bass, and a host of other gamefish. This guide to the state's best fly fishing covers rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, and salt water. It also includes extensive information on backcountry ponds and other out of-the-way places. In addition to the top fishing destinations, author Bob Mallard covers fascinating Maine angling history and includes chapters on fish species and conservation. With contributions by a who's who list of Maine writers, this book is sure to be a valuable resource for residents and visitors alike.
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Robbed Blind by Gerry BoyleFreelance investigative reporter McMorrow finds himself in the tattered Maine mill city of Clarkston, immersed in an overnight world of store clerks, shelf stockers, and eccentrics as he chases the details of a zombie-masked robber taunting the down-and-out city. But when The New York Times pulls the story and McMorrow can't bring himself to leave, his wife questions why yet another story has gone from assignment to unpaid mission to find a killer.
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