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Pink Chimneys
Publisher: Islandport Press$19.95Nineteenth-century Bangor, known as the Queen City, is a city of sharp contrasts–from the elegant mansions of Broadway, built from lumber fortunes and bootlegged alcohol money to the poverty-stricken Joppa neighbourhood lined with taverns and frequented by desperate men and “fallen women.” To survive, Maude, a headstrong midwife, Fanny, the rags-to-riches housemistress of the infamous Pink Chimneys brothel, and Elizabeth, an orphaned, demure seamstress, must form unlikely alliances and discover the strength to overcome the odds in a culture that tries–and fails–to limit their potential.
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Cover Story
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Crime Reporter Jack McMorrow returns to his old beat at The New York Times and just when he thinks he has found a huge story when the mayor is found murdered, things go awry – Jack suddenly emerges as a prime suspect in his own story.
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Mystery of the Missing Fox
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Who would want to catch fox kits? And why? Cooper, Packrat, and Roy must protect a fox den, save the kits, and rule out Summer, the new girl who lives across the lake, as a subject.
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Straw Man
Publisher: Islandport Press$24.95In Straw Man, crime reporter Jack McMorrow and his wife, Roxanne, have settled into small town life in Prosperity, Maine. But the town isn’t as sheltered as they thought. When violence breaks out, the couple are forced to face their most destructive enemies yet – each other.
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Albert’s Almost Amazing Adventure
Publisher: Islandport Press$17.95Just what did Albert do over his summer vacation? Is it possible that sharks, pirates, and scientists were involved? Author and illustrator Marty Kelley explores the imaginative power of children in this hilarious picture book that will delight – and surprise – young readers.
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Huntin’ and Fishin’ with the Ole Man
Artist: John HulubPublisher: Islandport Press$16.95The Ole Man and company love to hunt and fish, but in the process they find themselves in plenty of pickles that require ingenuity, humor, outdoor know-how, and a lot of patience to endure. Hilarious tall tales that will become a staple at a camp or in the canoe, and will come in handy when the snows come or the fish won’t bite.
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A Blanding’s Turtle Story
Artist: Jada FitchPublisher: Islandport Press$10.95A Blanding’s Turtle Story follows one turtle through her seasonal cycle of hibernating, foraging, and nesting, with some unexpected challenges – and help – along the way.
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Borderline
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95In Gerry Boyle’s 5th Jack McMorrow novel, journalist McMorrow travels to the sleepy town of Scanesett, Maine. When a man known as P. Ray Mantis has disappeared from a tour bus, no one in town seems to care. Except Jack McMorrow, who knows there’s a story too good to pass up.
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Ghost Buck One man’s Family and its Hunting Traditions
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Celebrated author, illustrator, environmentalist, and hunting enthusiast Dean B. Bennett writes a book that is half-memoir, half-history of a waning Maine tradition. In Ghost Buck: One Man’s Family and Its Hunting Traditions, Dean Bennett adds personal depth and poignancy to a multi-generational tale that explores the erosion of public land use, the degradation of the environment, and the changing rural culture in the Northeast since the 1800s.
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Sugar Mountain Snow Ball
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Cheerful Ruby LaRue and reserved Eleanor Bandaranaike couldn’t be more different. Ruby has lived her whole life in a small ski town while Eleanor’s family comes from Sri Lanka. But these unlikely best friends share one thing: they both have BIG plans. So when a fortune teller urges them to go outside their world to unlock their dreams, they plunge down a whirlwind path to try to reach their goals.
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Father Fell Down the Well
Publisher: Islandport Press$14.95Captain Kendall Morse has been telling stories and singing songs since he was knee high to a grasshopper in Machias, Maine. His latest book, Father Fell Down the Well is a wonderful collection of traditional Downeast stories featuring sometimes subtle, sometimes laugh-out-loud humour.
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The Havener Sisters
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95The third book in Ardeana Hamlin’s Pink Chimneys series, The Havener Sisters follows the fortunes of the Havener triplets in nineteenth century Maine as they experience what happens when it becomes necessary to embrace change later in life. Hamlin returns to the setting and characters that have made her Pink Chimneys series a favorite of thousands of readers in this well-researched and engaging novel.
The Havener Sisters follows Abbott’s Reach as the third book in Ardeana Hamlin’s beloved Pink Chimneys series. The story After eight years of life as land-lubbers, the sisters are suddenly faced with a crisis in economic circumstances that propels them into new adventures—some welcome, some not. Her latest effort will transport the reader back in time at the dawn of suffrage and the Industrial age in the Northeast.
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A Little Brown Bat Story
Publisher: Islandport Press$10.95After a long summer spent fattening himself up on mosquitos, a Little Brown Bat must find a safe place to spend the winter in the second book of the Wildlife on the Move series.
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Hold This !
Artist: Priscilla AlpaughPublisher: Islandport Press$17.95A girl and her father go for a walk, experiencing all the sights, sounds, smells, and feels of the woods. With every step and stumble, Mika finds both the wonders and treasures of nature, but the true discovery for both daughter and parent comes at the end, when they both realize a true treasure is a hand to hold.
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How to Cook a Moose
Artist: Kate ChristensenPublisher: Islandport Press$24.95Inspired by her new home in New England and the slow food movement re-energizing sustainable farming, Kate Christensen picks up where she left off in her last memoir, Blue Plate Special. Christensen creates a tempting, modern stew that will delight readers as only she can, using the ingredients of true love, personal appetite, humor, history, and original recipes.
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Once Burned
Publisher: Islandport Press$26.95There’s something smoldering in the drop-dead pretty town of Sanctuary and veteran crime reporter Jack McMorrow is back to sniff it out. In this long-awaited tenth installment of the wildly popular McMorrow mystery series, best-selling author Gerry Boyle crafts a smoking-hot story that will keep you riveted until the very last page.
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Chantarelle
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Three of Ayda’s four realms are either burning or under siege by dark forces in Chantarelle. Book Two of The Five Stones Trilogy explores the conflict between love and loyalty, and the pain of sacrifice in the face of staggering odds and a growing evil power. This is the thrilling follow-up book to The Fog of Forgetting.
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Islandport Guide to Maine Lighthouses
Publisher: Islandport Press$12.95A family friendly guide to all sixty-four Maine lighthouses, including a special section for mariners detailing the twenty-two lighthouses approachable by sea. This book also includes information on surrounding attractions to help the lighthouse enthusiast, daytripper, picnicker or romantic plan a getaway to remember.
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Dahlov Ipcar’s Farmyard Numbers
Publisher: Islandport Press$12.95Search for animals, introduce numbers, create stories around the scenes, and more in this board book that uses illustrations from Dahlov Ipcar’s most popular children’s books, including The Cat at Night, Hardscrabble Harvest, One Horse Farm, and more.
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Closer All the Time
Publisher: Islandport Press$24.95The residents of small-town Baxter are going nowhere fast—but not for lack of trying. In this deftly written novel, veteran author Jim Nichols strings together the bittersweet stories of several different characters bound together by shared geography and the insular nature of small-town life. With the Atlantic coastal waters as a backdrop, Nichols artfully explores the nature of connection—hoped for, missed, lost, and found—in Closer All the Time; that very special novel that delivers quick-moving, compelling storytelling with a lasting emotional wallop.
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Animal Hide and Seek
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Sometimes, you need to know what to look for in order to see an animal, even if it’s hiding in plain sight! In Animal Hide and Seek, author and artist Dahlov Ipcar first offers young readers portraits of woodland animals and then, on the companion page, sets the animal into its natural setting, camouflaged for the careful reader to find. Gentle prose describes the animals and their habits, from deer to rabbits, from squirrels to salamanders.
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Fog of Forgetting
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Move over, Narnia. The journey to Ayda has begun. Sneaking out for a quick boat ride on a summer day, five children find themselves engulfed in a curtain of dense, powerful fog that transports them from the rocky coast to the mysterious island of Ayda. Rescued by Seaborne, a machete-toting wayfarer of few words, the children suddenly find themselves at the center of a centuries-old battle between Dankar, the ruler of Exor, and three siblings that rule the other realms of Ayda. At stake are the four stones of power and the elusive Fifth Stone that binds them all.
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Mystery of the Eagle’s Nest
Publisher: Islandport Press$19.95Trouble has returned to Wilder Family Campground. When Cooper and Packrat find their geo-cache box full of illegal eagle parts, their lazy summer is over. Someone wants those valuable parts back. And if they can’t get the parts back, they’ll settle for holding one of the rare Pine Lake eaglets hostage instead. Cooper, Packrat, and Roy must elude two goons, tolerate an annoying teenager, keep tabs on a shady new camper, and stake out the eagle’s nest—all without getting grounded.
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The Contest
Publisher: Islandport Press$25.95When the Samuel Tippett Fly Fishers club devises a fishing contest to determine the world’s best trout fly, they have no idea that the pursuit of perfection will soon overtake reason. During their quest, the ten participants fight over rules and cease caring about the feelings of their fellow members. This is a tale of how camaraderie among anglers can be tested while arguing the merits of one’s “piscatorial philosophy,” and ultimately, about finding a balance between chasing an ideal and reveling in life’s most important moments.
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Lake Where Loon Lives
Artist: Brooke CarltonPublisher: Islandport Press$19.95There’s a lake. A loon. Two chicks. Sounds peaceful, right? Guess again! The Lake Where Loon Lives starts quietly, but the cumulative story builds, one line at a time, to a wacky and wonderful and splashy crescendo, as the loons are joined by a playful fly, a slippery fish, and a curious boy on the dock.
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Backtrack
Publisher: Islandport Press$18.95Former naval officer, avid outdoorsman, sportsman, and award-winning journalist V. Paul Reynolds journeys back along the path of his life to revisit and share with readers many of his outdoor experiences. In the 1940s, Paul’s father took him to favorite hunting and fishing spots, helping give birth to his son’s lifelong love affair with the outdoors. Later, Harvard eventually took his son to his first smoke-filled hunting camp, where amber liquid flowed and profanity filled the room. Reynolds would soon understand how the outdoors could bestow both the love of nature and the joy of friendship.
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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.
