MIDNIGHT RIDER FOR THE MORNING STAR: From the Life and Times of Francis Asbury, by Mark Alan Leslie, 2008, Francis Asbury Press, Wilmore, Ky., 257 pages, $14.95, paperback, available online at www.amazon.com. It was the painting of Francis Asbury, clutching an open Bible, astride a… Read More
GOD STORIES: INSPIRING ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DIVINE, edited by Jennifer Skiff, 288 pages, Crown Publishing, New York, N.Y., $21.95, hardcover. Michele Croan and her mother were extremely close. Like sisters is how the Seal Harbor shop owner described their relationship. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN, by L.A. Meyer, Harcourt, New York, 2008, hardcover, 436 pages, $17. Corea author L.A. Meyer has returned with the sixth chapter in his young-adult “Bloody Jack” series, featuring the misadventures of plucky orphan Jacky “Bloody Jack” Faber. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
Going to Grandma’s house was always a big adventure for me. Always delighted by my visits, she would help me cut out paper dolls from old catalogs or fetch the big box that contained old photographs of her five children. We would laugh together at the dresses and… Read More
How do you define a “God Story,” and how did you come to be interested in this topic? I define a God Story as something that happens to you that is so profound it confirms your belief in God or a Divine power. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
It’s only natural that Vermont mystery author Archer Mayor would bring his well-known creation, Joe Gunther, to Maine. “The old joke goes that all Vermonters vacation in Maine before they end up dying in Florida,” Mayor said in a phone interview from his home in Newfane, the seat… Read More
The story of The Gingerbread Boy is one of those magnetic folk tales that uses suspense, magic and fatalism to teach a merciless truism about life. In it, an old woman makes a gingerbread cookie in the shape of a boy, but when she opens the oven, the… Read More
HOT MAHOGANY, by Stuart Woods, 2008, Putnam, New York, hardcover, 293 pages, $25.95. Stuart Woods’ most famous protagonist, New York cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington, returns for the 15th time in a real caper novel. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
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WRITING ON STONE: SCENES FROM A MAINE ISLAND LIFE, written by Christina Marsden Gillis, photographs by Peter Ralston, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, and Island Institute, Rockland, 2008. $24.95. Does Maine’s slogan, “The Way Life Should Be,” extend to offshore locales such as… Read More
ADAM THE KING, by Jeffrey Lewis, Other Press, New York, 2008, 224 pages, hardcover, $21.95. If you were to ask me what I’ve been reading recently, I might tell you that it’s a book about guilt and redemption, about love and fate, about the past’s… Read More
OLD TOWN – Many of us, for better or worse, will have the opportunity at least once in our lives to provide personal care and emotional support to someone we love who is ill. The experience is complex, demanding and, potentially, deeply rewarding. Often, though,… Read More
“The Loveliest Woman in America” is a beguiling title. It’s also a fascinating memoir written by Bibi Gaston as she attempts to exhume the life of her grandmother Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, who ended her own life at age 33 in 1938. Bibi Gaston knew little… Read More
THE STORY OF SUGARLOAF, by John Christie, 2007, Down East Books, Camden, Maine, hardcover, $50. For Sugarloafers, it’s a great read, but for all Maine skiers, it is a must-read. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
MARGARET CHASE SMITH: A WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT, by Lynn Plourde; color illustrations by David McPhail. Ages 8-11. 32 pages. $16.95 hardbound; $7.95 paperback. Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the first woman from a major political party to run for president. That distinction goes to Maine… Read More
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TOTE ROADS AND MEMORIES: THE STORY OF A REAL MAINE WOODSMAN, paperback, St. John Valley Times, Madawaska, September 2007, $14.95. FORT KENT – John Sinclair was a giant of a man, a woodsman who became an icon in the Maine logging business, and an administrator… Read More
David Valdes Greenwood’s account of his years growing up in central Maine is chronicled in his book “A Little Fruitcake: A Childhood in Holidays.” It’s easy to underestimate this book because the title implies that it is seasonal, but this is a book for all seasons. It is… Read More
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‘The Maine Book’ a campus chronicle Former AD Haskell compiles UM sports history in 750-page almanac
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A forest – or rather 1,000 seedling trees – is inadvertently left outside of a suburban Connecticut home. This multitude of seedlings just happens to arrive at the time when the home’s owner, Horace Woodruff, an attorney at a local hospital, has been laid off. One door closes;… Read More
Forget complicated, celebrity-endorsed exercise plans, specialized diets and quick-start weight-loss programs. Bob Lehnhard says it all boils down to balancing the energy we take in against the energy we put out. An associate professor of exercise physiology and biomechanics at the University of Maine, Lehnhard,… Read More
Earlier this year, Joe Hill exploded onto the publishing scene with his debut novel, “Heart-Shaped Box,” about a merciless ghost and an aging rock musician. The novel itself, an instant best-seller, has plenty of suspense for many readers. But another mystery soon was solved shortly… Read More
“CAMP PHOENIX: THE HISTORY OF A MAINE SPORTING CAMP,” by Bill Horner, M.D. Mention Nesowadnehunk Lake in this neck of the woods and it’s a sure bet that the ensuing conversation will conjure up images of wild brook trout boiling for emerging mayflies – green… Read More
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A dozen years ago or so, the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport mounted a remarkable show devoted to sailors’ valentines. In addition to exploring the history of this folk art – and debunking the myth that sailors actually made these ornate shell souvenirs – the exhibition featured a… Read More
“BRIDE ISLAND,” by Alexandra Enders, Plume, 2007, 276 pages. In a “Note to Booksellers” in a review copy of Alexandra Enders’ first novel, her editor states that “there is an evergreen audience for this type of paperback women’s fiction.” Plume, a member of Penguin Group,… Read More
William J. Baker had to retire to finish the book about sports and religion that he started 20 years ago. “Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport” is the retired professor’s opus. It was published earlier this year by Harvard University Press, two years from… Read More
“THEME SONG FOR AN OLD SHOW,” By Jeffrey Lewis, Other Press, New York, 2007, 149 pages, hardcover, $22.95. Jeffrey Lewis, in the third novel of his “Meritocracy Quartet” (after “Meritocracy: A Love Story” [2004] and “A Conference of the Birds” [2005]), has found the perfect… Read More
OPENING DAY, Susan Bartlett, illustrated by Luanne Wrenn, Tilbury House, Gardiner, 2007, 32 pages, hardcover, $16.95. “Opening Day” is a children’s book about a boy named Sam who goes hunting with his friend Eric Cundy and Eric’s father, Mr. Cundy. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
“WINDSWEPT,” by Mary Ellen Chase, originally published in 1941 by The MacMillan Co., re-issued by Islandport Press of Yarmouth, Maine, 2006, $15.95. “Windswept” is a truly sweeping Maine novel by Mary Ellen Chase spanning the years from 1881 to 1939. A beautiful, even monumental book… Read More
“HERE IF YOU NEED ME,” Kate Braestrup, Little, Brown and Co., August 2007, 224 pages. In “Here If You Need Me,” due out in August, Kate Braestrup without reserve opens the deep wound of her husband’s unexpected death and gives us the privilege of watching… Read More
“BLAZE,” by Richard Bachman, Scribner, New York, 2007, hardcover, 285 pages, $25. Every now and then, news breaks of a lost manuscript by a famous author being found and published. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
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“WITH RECKLESS ABANDON,” by Capt. Jim Sharp, Devereux Books, 2007 paperback, $18.95 Jim Sharp was obsessed his whole adult life. He couldn’t keep his eyes or hands off them. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
NO MORTAL REASON, by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Pemberley Press, Corono Del Mar, Calif., 275 pages, paperback, $17.95 The only problem with “No Mortal Reason,” Kathy Lynn Emerson’s third installment in her Diana Spaulding mystery series, is that it’s not set in Maine. Emerson three years… Read More
“CANUCK & OTHER STORIES,” edited by Rhea Cote Robbins. Translated by Sylvie Charron, Ph.D.; Sue Huseman, Ph.D.; Jeannine Bacon Roy and Madeleine C. Pare Roy. 2006, Rheta Press. $18.99 Stories by Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Sarah Orne Jewett and other English-speaking women writers… Read More
University of Maine physics and astronomy professor Neil Comins has found a niche for himself not only as a high-level star researcher, but also as an authoritative respondent to the age-old question: What if? His first book, “What If the Moon Didn’t Exist?” (published in… Read More
BURT HATLEN – NEW POEMS, by Burton Hatlen; Vox Audio, Magdalena, N.M., 2006; CD, $7. The 11 poems in this CD collection follow up UMaine professor Burt Hatlen’s first CD released by Vox Audio two years ago. These are, as the simple title indicates, mostly… Read More
MAINE’S JEWISH HERITAGE, by Abraham J. Peck and Jean M. Peck, Arcadia Publishing, Portsmouth, N.H., 2007, 127 pages, $19.99, paperback. Jews throughout Maine and the world will gather with family and friends at Passover Seders on Monday night to answer the question, “Why is this… Read More
THE BOATBUILDER’S APPRENTICE: THE INS AND OUTS OF BUILDING LAPSTRAKE, CARVEL, STITCH-AND-GLUE, STRIP-PLANKED, AND OTHER WOODEN BOATS by Greg Rossel; McGraw-Hill, Camden, Maine, 2007; 342 pages, large-format hardbound, $39.95. Boats and airplanes take up a lot of space in my boyhood memories. In 1960s summers,… Read More
CONTINENTAL LIAR FROM THE STATE OF MAINE: JAMES G. BLAINE, by Neil Rolde, Tilbury House Publishers, Gardiner, Maine, 2007, 368 pages, soft cover, $20. In “Continental Liar” author Neil Rolde examines the man he considers – and most historians would agree – to be the… Read More
In New England, it seems you can’t throw a rock without hitting a stone wall. But have you ever really looked at a stone wall? William Hubbell has, and he has taken pictures and done his research and put it all together in “Good Fences.”… Read More
In 1830, George Erskine, a slave in east Tennessee, finally saved $2,400 to buy his freedom and that of his wife and seven children. Soon, the family began a new life in Liberia, on the western coast of Africa, a country established for former slaves where they could… Read More
Mainers who grew up during the Great Depression frequently brush off the hardships. Since everyone was pretty much the same, they frequently say, they didn’t know they were poor. Not so Thomas Hanna. He begins his humorously rueful memoir, “Shoutin’ into the Fog,” with this… Read More
A DARK MUSIC, by Robert Froese, Flat Bay Press, Harrington, Maine, paperback, $15. Want to know what it’s like to go on a successful archaeological dig in the southern New Mexico desert during a hot summer? Read Robert Froese’s new novel, “A Dark Music,” in… Read More
You don’t have to travel to Transylvania to freak out on Halloween. As author Holly Mascott Nadler tells us, “In all the country, New England holds the richest repositories of stories of the supernatural. And why not? The region has all the elements of a… Read More
Mary Ellen Chase’s novel “Mary Peters” begins with the 9-year-old Mary Peters looking out on the gleaming white port of Cadiz, Spain. But the real subject of this reissued 1934 novel (Islandport Press, $15.95, 2005) lies on the other side of the Atlantic, in the changes experienced along… Read More
Editor’s Note: Freelance contributor Brad Viles has written a short novel about one person’s hike on the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Descriptive and imaginative, Viles steps outside his newspaper style to entertain even those of us who don’t have the wanderlust to spend days on the… Read More
“LISEY’S STORY,” by Stephen King, Scribner, New York, 2006, hardcover, 512 pages, $28. Stephen King has aged well. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length;… Read More
WHILE YOU’RE HERE, DOC: FARMYARD ADVENTURES OF A MAINE VETERINARIAN, by Bradford B. Brown, Tilbury House, Gardiner, Maine, 2006, 192 pages, $15. If you have any doubt that a veterinarian’s life is adventurous, think again. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
How many of us wish we had seen the Maine woods in its pre-industrial condition? It’s too late for that, of course, but the next best thing is to read “Manly Hardy: The Life and Writing of a Maine Fur-Buyer, Hunter, and Naturalist” (Maine Folklife Center, 2005, $19.95). Read More
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KATAHDIN, AN HISTORIC JOURNEY: Legends, Explorations and Preservation of Maine’s Highest Peak, by John W. Neff, Appalachian Mountain Club, distributed by the Globe Pequot Press, Inc., Guilford, Conn., $19.95. Katahdin. The name itself has a long history. Native Americans, the Penobscots, gave it that name… Read More
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Editor’s Note: Maine Bound is a column featuring new books which are written by authors with Maine ties or set in the Pine Tree State. MORE THAN PETTICOATS: REMARKABLE MAINE WOMEN, by Kate Kennedy, Falcon, San Ramon, Calif., 2005, 160 pages, $10.95. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
CANDLES BURNING, by Tabitha King and Michael McDowell, Berkley Books, $24.95. In “Candles Burning,” Tabitha King has taken on the task of completing a manuscript left unfinished by the late mystery and horror author Michael McDowell. The result is a genre-blending tour de force that… Read More
A small pile of children’s books had been sitting on our piano for a few weeks when my 16-year-old noticed the top book: “Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud,” by Lynn Plourde. “Hey, I remember that one – that was a lot of fun… Read More
ABIDE WITH ME, by Elizabeth Strout, Random House, New York, 2006, 297 pages, hardback, $24.95 Elizabeth Strout has been fascinated with pastors’ lives since she attended Congregational churches with her parents as a little girl. In a different lifetime, the award-winning writer might have become… Read More
BEACH STONES, photographs by Josie Iselin, text by Margaret W. Carruthers; Abrams, New York; 2006. $17.95. Has anyone ever walked along a rocky beach and not picked up a stone to look more closely, perhaps to bring it home? googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Editor’s Note: is a column featuring new books that are written by Maine authors, set in the Pine Tree State, or have other Maine ties. TEMPLE STREAM: A RURAL ODYSSEY, by Bill Roorbach; Random House/Dial Press, 2005; 288 pages, hardback, $24. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
Editor’s Note: Maine Bound is a column featuring new books written by Maine authors or set in the Pine Tree State. FINDING AMY: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER IN MAINE, by Capt. Joseph K. Loughlin and Kate Clark Flora, University of New England Press, Hanover,… Read More
ISLANDERS: REAL LIFE ON THE MAINE ISLANDS, by Virginia L. Thorndike, Down East Books, Rockport, Me., 2005, $16.95, 336 pages. An Islesboro woman, identified only as Lydia, kept house years ago for a summer resident “from away,” who was preparing for the trip back to… Read More
Don’t let the title fool you. The words “The Considerate Jackass” generally don’t bring to mind things like intrigue, murder and twisted public servants. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
FATAL AS A FALLEN WOMAN, by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Pemberley Press, Corona del Mar, Calif., 2005, 274 pages, hardback, $24.95 Diana Spaulding is ready to settle down as the deadly winter of 1888 ebbs and spring peeks its head above the horizon. The crime reporter… Read More
WORD FUGITIVES: IN PURSUIT OF WANTED WORDS, by Barbara Wallraff, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 192 pages, $14.95. Let’s suppose that you are chortling over someone’s boast about a visit to a posh resort. You may or may not know that both “chortle” and “posh” are… Read More
John McDonald plays the role of tourist on the cover of his latest book, “down the road a piece: A Storyteller’s Guide to Maine” (Islandport Press, 2005). Armed with a copy of The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer and standing in front of the famous sign… Read More
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Julia Bayly of Fort Kent and Penney Gray, who lives in the Rumford area but works at her family’s Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, have been friends for years. Dogs and mushing brought them together. Gray was mushing in the annual Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog… Read More
FACE DOWN BESIDE ST. ANNE’S WELL, by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Perseverance Press, McKinleyville, Calif., 240 pages, paperback, $13.95 Rosamund Appleton is absolutely certain that her tutor has been murdered. Others at Bawkenstanes Manor believe the Frenchwoman, found “limbs twisted and stiff and whitened by a… Read More
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Editor’s Note: Maine Bound is a column featuring new books written by Maine authors or set in the Pine Tree State. THE NARROWS, by Alexander C. Irvine; Del Rey-Ballantine Books, 2005; 342 pages, trade paperback, $13.95. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
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EXPLORING THE SPIRIT OF MAINE, A SEEKER’S GUIDE, by Karen Wentworth Batignani, 2005, Down East Books, Camden, 234 pages, $14.95. Ever feel tempted to consult a shaman? Or learn how to be a shaman? Interested in finding out about solstice celebrations conducted by local pagans?… Read More
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BLACK BANGOR, AFRICAN AMERICANS IN A MAINE COMMUNITY, 1880-1950, by Maureen Elgersman Lee, University Press of New England, 2005, 177 pages, paperback, $22. Maureen Elgersman Lee’s new book on the black community in Bangor between 1880 and 1950 is an important addition to our understanding… Read More
After a long summer of endless weekends in the outdoors hiking and backpacking, I actually look forward to winter. I get a chance to slow down along with the season and rest. The days are shorter. The time I spend outside snowshoeing and skiing is usually limited to… Read More
It’s one thing to use diaries and journals to flesh out the 150-year history of a business, and quite another to be confronted with boxes – dozens of boxes full of pieces of paper, some as small as 1-by-2 inches. But out of this wealth… Read More
NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN “Nine Mile Bridge: Three Years in the Maine Woods” (Islandport Press, $15.99), by Helen Hamlin is a reissue of Helen Hamlin’s bestselling memoir first published in 1945. A Fort Kent native from a family of Maine game wardens, Hamlin took… Read More
ANY BITTER THING, by Monica Wood; Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2005; 347 pages, hardback, $23.95. To start with, Lizzy goes out jogging near her home in southern Maine at night, in the rain, in dark clothes. A car hits her and drives off. Another car… Read More
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“Noises at Night,” a picture book by Beth Raisner Glass and Susan Lubner, illustrated by Bruce Whatley, may very well become required reading for sleep-challenged children and their parents. Glass and Lubner use the fears that children often take to bed with them and change… Read More
RUNNING THE BULLS, by Cathie Pelletier, University Press of New England, Lebanon, N.H., 2005, 276 pages, $17.48. It has been nine years since we’ve had a Cathie Pelletier novel, but the recently-released “Running the Bulls” is as sure and accomplished as anything she has written… Read More
“I always feel in Maine like I’m walking on the surface of the Earth. In the South, I always feel like I’m knee deep.” – Anne Rivers Siddons In her new novel “Sweetwater Creek,” Anne Rivers Siddons is waist-deep in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Read More
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CONTEMPORARY MAINE FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES, edited by Wesley McNair, Down East Books, Camden, 2005, 295 pages, $25. Those of us fortunate enough to call Maine home may have sensed, in recent years, that a great deal of first-rate fiction was being written… Read More
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HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, by J.K. Rowling, Arthur A. Levine Books; illustrations by Mary GrandPre; Scholastic Inc., New York, 2005; $29.99, children’s hardcover. Parents and schoolteachers should be glad that the new “Harry Potter” book was released in July, a month in which… Read More
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FACE DOWN BELOW THE BANQUETING HOUSE, by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Perseverance Press, McKinleyville, Calif., 240 pages, paperback, $13.95 A visit in 1573 from Queen Elizabeth I was a lot like having the President of the United States “drop in” to take the pulse of the… Read More
EVERYBODY NEEDS A HIDEAWAY, written and illustrated by Dean Bennett, Down East Books, 32 pages, hardcover, $15.95. Through several significant books on wilderness, Dean Bennett, professor emeritus of education at the University of Maine at Farmington, is considered one of the, well, deans of environmental… Read More