Silence
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95In this compelling novel about the ravages of conflict — both inner and outer — award-winning author William Carpenter juxtaposes the trauma and injury of a young Iraqi war veteran from Maine with the pillage and loss of a nearby island sanctuary, posing timeless questions about the nature of loss and what might survive carnage and the greed of human ambition.
Candlemas Bay
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Moore’s fourth novel Candlemas Bay (1950) focuses on the daily struggles of the Ellis family, a family that has successfully fished local waters for two hundred years, but now the current generations — from Grampie Jebron to widowed daughter-in-law Jen to grandson Jebby — struggle with change and hard times. As in her other novels, Ruth Moore uses detailed day-to-day lives to build characters of depth and tell a universal story of courage, heartbreak and love that, despite the hardships, is ultimately warm and moving.
True North Finding the Essence of Aroostook
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95In Aroostook County, the pace can be slow, nature close at hand and the beauty breathtaking. Writer Kathryn Olmstead explores it all to find the universal in the particular and showcase a region where the value of tradition is still very much alive.
Spoonhandle
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Spoonhandle, Ruth Moore’s second novel, spent 14 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List and was made into the movie Deep Waters. Spoonhandle is about Maine, brilliantly authentic, but the story told is universal, as old as time as it deals with the struggle between love and meanness of spirit, between human dignity and greed.
Chowder Rules The True Story of an Epic Food Fight
Artist: Vita LanePublisher: Islandport Press$20.95The true story of an epic food fight to keep tomatoes out of clam chowder.
The Weir
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Ruth Moore’s classic tale of Maine islanders who feud, gossip and struggle while being battered by the relentless tides of change sweeping over their community and their entire way of life.
Blue Summer
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95A riveting coming-of-age novel told in retrospect by a washed-out taxi-driving musician from Baxter, Maine, who must come to terms with his past by returning to Maine and confronting the secrets and violence in his family.
Finding Your Inner Moose Ida LeClair’s Guide to Livin’ the Good Life (Revised Edition)
Publisher: Islandport Press$19.95Move over Oprah! Maine’s funniest woman, Ida LeClair, has found her “inner moose” and become a Certified Maine Life Guide. Offering helpful hints on topics ranging from A to Zumba, Ida’s gone from “Running with the Moose” to sharing the wisdom of their ways. Don’t miss out on this uplifting and entertaining motivational moose-terpiece.
Who Would Like a Christmas Tree? A Tree for Each Season
Artist: Anne HunterPublisher: Islandport Press$15.95Readers delight in turning the page to see what purpose the balsam fir has for the wildlife that depend on it for survival.
Indigenous Business in Canada: Principles and Practices
Editor: Janice Esther Tulk, Keith G. BrownPublisher: Cape Breton University Press$27.95Indigenous Business in Canada addresses contemporary concerns and issues in the doing of Indigenous business in Canada, reveals some of the challenges and diverse approaches to business in Aboriginal contexts from coast to coast to coast, and demonstrates the direct impact that history and policy, past and present, have on business and business education.
The Birth and the Babyhood of the Telephone A Talk to Telephone Pioneers by The Other Man on the Line
Publisher: Breton Books$16.95While Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Thomas A. Watson was the craftsman who gave the telephone life. Model after model, night and day, together they battled disappointment, and were spurred on by hints of success. Then in 1875, Watson’s hands created the first telephone that actually carried the human voice.
Yet the world barely remembers Thomas Watson beyond the first sentence transmitted over the telephone: “Mr. Watson—come here—I want you.”
In this classic book, restored and expanded, The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone delivers both a detailed record of the development of the first telephone as it also reveals the very human story of the relationship between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson. We see the younger Watson grow up through the guidance of the better educated and more sophisticated A. G. Bell, as Watson receives books, and lessons in elocution and even table manners.
This moving first-person account keeps alive the story of a relationship between two brilliant, impassioned men who changed the world.
Sterling Silver
Publisher: Breton Books$16.95The personal essay has so much potential as a literary form that it’s gratifying to see it being skilfully and engagingly employed in this book. Silver Donald Cameron has plenty on his mind, and he knows how to hold our attention. Cameron easily entices us into his essay “Rocky Mountain High” with this for openers:”Downhill skiing is a certifiably silly sport, I whimper to myself as the chair-lift bears me inexorably over the treetops and gullies, like a slab of beef going around the overhead conveyors in an abattoir. “.
Le retour du Capitaine Baboune
Artist: Réjean RoyPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Oh no! Captain Baboune is at it again! This time, at the helm of an infernal machine, capturing the winds and deregulating the climate.
