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Mystery on Pine Lake
Artist: Carl DiRoccoPublisher: Islandport Press$18.95Cooper thought living at a campground would be cool. But trouble has come to the Wilder Family Campground and Pine Lake, where a family of loons is trying to build a nest. Someone is out to harm the loons. Is it the bully with a chip on his shoulder? The irritable camper with a shady past? Or the publicity-seeking reporter? It’s up to Cooper and new friend Packrat to figure out who, why, and how to stop the culprit before it’s too late.
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There are No Moose on this Island !
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Jake’s excited about going on a trip to an island, and he really, really, really wants to see a moose. But his dad insists: There are no moose on this island. Both Jake and a friendly moose would like to disagree! In playful rhymes, author Stephanie Calmenson brings the reader along with Jake and his dad, as they explore the mammals, birds, insects, and sea life on and around the island. With graceful illustrations by Jennifer Thermes, Jake (and the reader) start to see the moose, a little bit at a time, but Dad’s either got his nose in a book or has binoculars glued to his eyes. In the end, it’s Jake who shows his dad the value of putting aside the guidebook and ferry schedule to truly experience the beauty and magic of the outdoors.
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Nic and Nellie
Artist: Astrid SheckelsPublisher: Islandport Press$20.95Everyone gets homesick. And Nic is no different. She’s so excited about spending the entire summer on a small New England island wit her grandparents that she counts down the days through winter and spring. But when the grand adventure finally begins, she finds tears and loneliness instead of joy and freedom. Astrid Sheckels’s picture book Nic and Nellie is a gorgeously illustrated, heartwarming story of a girl and her beloved dog, Nellie, who slowly learn that new places really aren’t so scary, and that often friends can be found around every corner –even in old rowboats, tidal ponds, and stinky mudflats.
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Seashells Treasures From the Northeast Coast
Publisher: Islandport Press$12.95Let the treasure hunt begin! As any visitor to the beach knows, all sorts of treasures ca be found if you look. This beautifully illustrated pocket guide helps young beachcombers find and identify shells of animals commonly found in the Northeast from Maine’s rocky coast to the sandy shores of Cape Cod and Long Island.
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Iciest, Diciest, Scariest Sled Ride Ever !
Artist: Jennifer ThermesPublisher: Islandport Press$19.95On a cold, icy winter day when “the world was ice and we were skaters without skates,” seven children set out on a sledding adventure that soon soars to epic proportions. Lizzie and her friends convince Grampa Bud to let them use his custom-built runner sled. But first they have to get the long sled up the iciest, diciest, scariest hill ever! Storyteller Rebecca Rule infuses this story with her trademark wry sense of humor and wonderful sense of language, making it perfect for story time or one-on-one reading.
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Strangers on the Beach
Publisher: Islandport Press$24.95Billionaire Ferdinand Sevigny is brave, bold, and brash. But his latest stunt –to sail blinded, single handed, across the Atlantic –goes horribly awry, depositing him onto the summer tourist town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine. His sudden arrival trigger a eerie of sinister events that even he cannot forestall: a naked woman washes up on a beach; a confused teen-aged boy stumbles upon a crime; a naïve policeman struggles with a deadly conflict of interest. Now Sevigny, and all those lives he touches, must make decisions that will define them forever.
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Finding Your Inner Moose Ida LeClair’s Guide to Livin’ the Good Life
Publisher: Islandport Press$18.95Susan Poulin, the creator, performer, and creative force behind the popular character “Ida LeClair,” has written her first Ida LeClair book, a “self-help” guide intended to help readers get in touch with their “inner moose.” Ida, a “certified Maine life guide,” offers heartfelt and hilarious advice on such topics as relationships, physical fitness, and housecleaning. Ida lives in the fictional town of Mahoosuc Mills, where, among other things, she is a cashier at the grocery store and enjoys attending Zumba classes.
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Suddenly, the Cider Didn’t Taste So Good Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine
Publisher: Islandport Press$18.95Retired Maine Game Warden John Ford has seen it all. He’s been shot at by desperate prison escapees, been outwittedby wily trappers, and rescued scores of animals. As a tenacious and successful warden, he was always willing tospend the time needed to nab violators of the state’s fish and game laws. At the same time, though, he wasn’t a cold,heartless, go-by-the-book enforcer; he usually had a good quip ready when he slipped the handcuffs on a violator,and he wasn’t above accepting a lesson learned as sufficient penalty for breaking the law. Ford is also a very giftedstoryteller and he writes of his adventures in Suddenly, the Cider Didn’t Taste So Good, a collection of true tales, bothhumorous and serious, from the trenches of law enforcement, and also includes heartwarming accounts of his rescueof hurt or abandoned animals.
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One Horse Farm
Publisher: Islandport Press$19.95Dahlove Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s and young adult books, starting with The Little Fisherman (by Mararet Wise Brown) in 1945 and including The Cat at Night, Hardscrabble Harvest, My Wonderful Christmas Tree, and Wild Animal Alphabet. Today, her vibrant and fanciful artwork is known worldwide, and her paintings are in the permanent collections of numerous renowned museums. New editions of her books continue to delight young readers in the 21st century.
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My Cat, Coon Cat
Artist: Jeannie BrettPublisher: Islandport Press$19.95Sandy Ferguson Fuller has lived her entire professional life in the world of children’s books. An accomplished writer and illustrator, her titles include Moon Loon, Out in the Night, and Hannah and the Perfect Picture Pony. She is also the co-author of the series, The BLUES Go Birding, the first of which, The BLUES Go Birding Across America, was released in 2010 by California-based Dawn Publications. Jeannie Brett has previously illustrated four children’s books: L is for Lobster, A Maine Alphabet; Fishing for Numbers, A Maine Numbers Book; M is for Mayflower, A Massachusetts Alphabet; and One if by Land, A Massachusetts Numbers Book. She has also written and illustrated Little Maine and illustrated Little New York, Little North Carolina and Little South Carolina, board books of state-themed early readers books. Brett has lived in Maine for more than three decades.
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Abbott’s Reach
Publisher: Islandport Press$18.95Ardeana Hamlin grew up in Bingham, Maine, in the 1950s and 1960s, in the days of the river drives, the veneer mill, and the woods operations. Now a newspaper journalist, she lives in Hampden, Maine, and is the author of two previous novels, Pink Chimneys and A Dream of Paris.
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Dahlov Ipcar’s Farmyard Alphabet
Publisher: Islandport Press$12.95Dahlov Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four-decade-long career. Today, her distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections of numerous renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The Calico Jungle
Publisher: Islandport Press$18.95Dahlov Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four-decade-long career. Today, her distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections of numerous renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Windswept
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95The third of Mary Ellen Chase’s Maine novels (following “Mary Peters” and “Silas Crockett”), “Windswept” is the romantic and tumultuous saga of a Maine family who makes its home Down East. Spanning six decades, starting in the late nineteenth century, the novel depicts their lives as they meet head on the joys and challenges of the changing and encroaching world and eventually, World War II. Through it all, their home provides the family with a safe haven in which to sink their roots as they strive to nurture their humanity and spirituality, all the while surrounded by the natural beauty of the Maine coast. “Windswept” was a national best-seller and the biggest seller of Chase’s career.
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Stealing History
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95Just a few days into her new job as director of a busy historical society and museum nestled in the mountains of quaint Ryland, Maine, flatlander Julie Williamson discovers all is not as it should be. Her dream job is more of a nightmare. She expected to find an eccentric board of trustees, a cool reception from the assistant director who had wanted her job, and a necessary adjustment to small-town life, but she didn’t expect that some of the museum’s most valuable artifacts, including a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin, would quickly turn up missing. And when a murder hits especially close to home for Julie, she becomes embroiled in an ever-widening and complex mystery. “Stealing History” is sure to enthrall readers who love to curl up with a good mystery, especially one that weaves details of small-town life, delightful characters and history into a suspenseful tale that keeps them guessing up until the last page.
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Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar
Publisher: Islandport Press$14.95A Moose and a Lobster Walk Into a Bar is a wonderful mix of classic Maine storytelling, stretched truths, and wry observations made by John McDonald during his many travels through the Pine Tree State. In this collection of essays and stories, John extols the important economic power of Maine’s yard sale industry, bemoans the fact that Massachusetts, still upset because it allowed Maine to become a state in 1820, is buying it back one house at a time, and relates how the state’s infamous black fly was really just an attempt at controlling tourists gone haywire. You will also meet Maine characters like Uncle Abner, Merrill Minzey, and Hollis Eaton, and find yourself pondering just where the truth ends and the story begins.
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Simple Gourmet Lamb
Publisher: Islandport Press$9.95You can create an entire meal for your family, friends and guest to all enjoy. True, I do love to cook; however, I do not want to be in the kitchen all day. So the dishes are not complicated and they allow you to use many ingredients that are already in your pantry. You will see what grapes pair well with each lamb dish and their unique combinations and layering of herbs and spices, resulting in an uncanny wonderful finish on your tongue. Enjoy the simplicity with gourmet results!
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Shoutin’ into the Fog
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95“Shoutin’ Into the Fog” is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a long-time resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with second-hand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, this is a book written with sensitivity, humour, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.
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Where Cool Waters Flow
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95Master Maine Guide Randy Spencer knows the lakes, streams, and woodlands around Grand Lake Stream, Maine, like few others. He has learned the ways of the old Maine Guides – from the proper way to prepare shore lunches, to where to find the best salmon and bass, to how to survive in the wilderness – from some of the area’s local legends. Now, in his first book, “Where Cool Waters Flow”, Randy puts you in the casting seat of his Grand Laker, introduces his many ‘sports’ who come from miles away to decompress, brings you out on the trail during fall hunts, and takes you on many other adventures as only an insider can.
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Nine Mile Bridge
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95In this critically acclaimed Maine classic, first published in 1945, Helen Hamlin writes of her adventures teaching school at a remote Maine lumber camp and then of living deep in the Maine wilderness with her game warden husband. Her experiences are a must-read for anyone who loves the untamed nature and wondrous beauty of Maine’s north woods and the unique spirit of those who lived there. In the 1930s, in spite of being warned that remote Churchill Depot was ‘no place for a woman’, the remarkable Helen Hamlin set off at age twenty to teach school at the isolated lumber camp at the headwaters of the Allagash River. She eventually married a game warden and moved deeper into the wilderness. In her book, Hamlin captures that time in her life, complete with the trappers, foresters, lumbermen, woods folk, wild animals, and natural splendour that she found at Umsaskis Lake and then at Nine Mile Bridge on the St. John River.
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When I’m With You
Artist: Leslie MansmannPublisher: Islandport Press$15.95Elizabeth Elder has worked as a teacher and a journalist. When I’m With You is her third book and her first full-color children’s book.
Leslie Mansmann has a degree from the Philadelphia College of Art and has worked for more than 25 years
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Hardscrabble Harvest
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95This is a charming story in verse about the running battle between a farm family and the mischievous animals that plunder their fields. Crows peck at freshly sown seeds, ducks eat new strawberry plants, rabbits nibble on tender lettuces, and racoons dine on ears of ripening corn. All summer long the young farmer and his wife are hard-pressed to protect their growing crops. But autumn comes at last, and the family is ready to celebrate its harvest-bushels of red tomatoes, a cellar full of apples for cider, and pumpkins for pie. In rollicking verse and wonderful illustrations, Dahlov Ipcar tells of all the hard work that goes into making a bountiful fall harvest.
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The Little Fisherman
Artist: Dahlov IpcarPublisher: Islandport Press$16.95The Little Fisherman is a milestone in the illustrious career of the legendary Dahlov Ipcar. The Little Fisherman, originally published in1945, was the very fist children’s book illustrated by the then-twenty-eight-year-old artist. The book, with its authentic coastal scenes, helped establish her distinctive style and ignited a four-decade creative run that saw her write and illustrate more then thirty books, all from her farm studio overlooking her farm on Georgetown Island, Maine. The fact that Ipcar’s first book was also written by the legendary writer Margaret Wise Brown only adds to its importance in the world of children’s literature.
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Cat at Night
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Dahlov Ipcar has writen and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four decade long
career. Today, her distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections of
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Fish House Door
Artist: Astrid SheckelsPublisher: Islandport Press$18.95
The late Robert F. Baldwin was a modern day troubadour, singing, playing the banjo, and collecting and
telling stories wherever he went. His articles and stories have appeared in numerous magazines. His
children’s books include This is the Sea That Feeds Us, and Cities Through Time: Beijing.
Astrid Sheckels was born and raised in the farming town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. She cannot remember a
time when she wasn’t listening to, telling, or illustrating stories. Her detailed illustrations give every story more depth and dimension. Astrid’s first children’s book was the award-winning The Scallop
Christmas published by Islandport Press in 2009. She lives, paints, and teaches in western
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My Wonderful Christmas Tree
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Dahlov Ipcar has writen and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four decade long
career. Today, Ipcar’s distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections
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Scallop Christmas
Artist: Astrid SheckelsPublisher: Islandport Press$16.95Jane Freeberg lives on Georgetown Island in Midcoast Maine and has lived in the state for thirty years. The Scallop Christmas is based on a true story told to her by her friend Marcia, who lived most of the story.
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Dispensing Aid
$20.00The floors were deep with plaster and glass, shelving was toppled, and heavy wooden counters broken. Amidst this disarray pharmacists gave first aid to the injured who came to the drug stores seeking care almost immediately following one of the worst disasters in Canadian history, the Halifax Explosion.
Dispensing Aid tells the stories of druggists in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, the care they provided, their narrow escapes and the unexpected roles they played. The common medications of a hundred years ago are identified and their usage described. Photographs of corner drug store promotions, century old prescriptions and medication bottles add to this book’s unique perspective of an unforgettable time in Halifax’s history.
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Halifax Explosion Mystery
$9.95It’s 1934 and junior detectives Dan Veinotte and Becky Wentzell travel to Halifax to find an heirloom lost during the Halifax Explosion. Dan is caught with stolen property and taken to the County Jail. To clear his name he must first help a jail mate prove her innocence. The plan is foiled and Dan is left to die in the tunnels beneath the Citadel. Follow the clues to reveal the identity of a reluctant villain.
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Mystery Marauders
$9.95It’s 1933 and junior detective Dan Veinotte faces his toughest case yet–the mystery of Oak ISland. Skeletons, a cryptic message, a Spanish coin, and an old family ring lead to a ghostly encounter. Clairvoyant friend Becky Wentzell fears for Dan’s life. Follow the clues and solve a 120-year-old mystery.
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Halifax in Your Pocket
$9.95A photographic tour of Halifax’s most popular and historic sights, this little book is ideal for pocket or purse. Acts as a first step in exploring Halifax’s colourful past, as well as the vibrant present day city.
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The Dolphin Way
Publisher: AR Live$16.95Discover the magic of an underwater world with three-year-old dolphin Mattie and his friends. As youngsters, it’s their first time attending the “Dolphin Olympics”, where dolphins from all over the world gather to participate in events such as the “Great Challenge” and the “Most Flips in a Single Jump” contest. Challenges for Mattie are quick to find him, and during his exploits he gains the knowledge and confidence to become an independent dolphin.
The Dolphin Way tells the tale of Mattie’s adventures while also revealing important facts and information about dolphins and their wonderful, fragile underwater environment. Learning about dolphins, marine life, and so much more is made easy and fun. All of the fun facts have been researched with an eye on the educational curriculum that every child should know.
