Down East Books: 419 books
by Eileen Ogintz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Before you plan your family’s next vacation to Maine, get some help from a travel professional… and your kids! The Kid’s Guide to Maine lets the kids help plan your trip and guides you as you explore Vacationland from the southern beaches to the great north woods. Inside you’ll find kid-tested...
by Eileen Ogintz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Before you plan your family’s next vacation to Maine's Acadia National Park, get some help from a travel professional… and your kids! The Kid’s Guide to Acadia National Park lets the kids help plan your trip and guides you as you explore one of America's most popular national parks. Inside you’ll...
Port City Shakedown
A Brandon Blake Crime Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This first book in a new series is set in and around the Portland, Maine, waterfront. It introduces Brandon Blake, a loner who lives on his old wooden cruiser. Raised by his alcoholic grandmother after his mother was lost at sea, Blake learned to depend on himself. During an assignment for a law-enforcement...
Front Page Teaser
A Liz Higgins Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
This Boston-based mystery stars smart and sassy Beantown Banner reporter Liz Higgins, who rails at being assigned only light news highlighted in front page teasers. She vows to change that by finding a missing mom and nailing front-page news in the process. Liz's quest takes her into Boston's lively...
Indians in Eden
Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mt. Desert Island
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden. This engaging, richly illustrated, and meticulously researched book chronicles the intersecting lives...
by C. S. Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The perfect guide for both seasoned and novice seaglunkers, The Sea Glass Hunter's Handbook reveals how to locate the best beaches and predict optimum conditions; understand coastal access laws; determine the personal and professional value of sea glass' and identify the source of individual fragments....
Sea Glass Crafts
28 Fun Projects You Can Make at Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Sea glass connects civilization and nature, often in surprising ways. And collecting sea glass and pottery shards is more popular than ever. However, beyond simply admiring their beauty, many collectors are at a loss as to just what to do with their collections. Sea Glass Crafts is filled with ideas...
by Carl Little, David Little
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The city of Portland and its surroundings, including the islands of Casco Bay, have inspired a wide range of art over the past 200 years. The “city by the sea,” as Longfellow famously called it, has been a visual talisman for a host of artists, from early masters like Harrison Bird Brown and John...
Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs
The Rise and Fall of the Crooker Shipyard in Bath, Maine
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Brothers William Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker were among the most prominent mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilders in Bath, Maine, itself one of the most prominent shipbuilding cities in the world during that time. This colorful history of the Crookers' company by the great-great grandson of William...
Maine Street
Faces and Stories from a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Photographer Patrisha McLean moved to the coastal town of Camden, Maine, 18 years ago and found it to be full of characters, in the quirky sense of the word and in terms of the word's other meaning, too-people of character. With camera and pen, McLean zooms in on 80 of her most memorable neighbors...
by Theresa Mattor, Lucie Teegardeb
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Frederick Law Olmsted and others saw the landscape as it was and enhanced it, instead of imposing rigid design upon it. Groundbreaking landscape architects Beatrix Farrand and Fletcher Steele, among others, were brought to Maine by patrons, and the resulting public parks, campuses, institutional grounds,...
Moving to Maine
The Essential Guide to Get You There and What You Need to Know to Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This is a completely revised and expanded edition of the best-selling, comprehensive guide covering not only reasons to move to Maine but also what newcomers will find once they get here. The book answers questions about what Maine is really like as a place to live, providing a broad range of information...
Moving to Maine
The Essential Guide to Get You There and What You Need to Know to Stay
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2007
This is a completely revised and expanded edition of the best-selling, comprehensive guide covering not only reasons to move to Maine but also what newcomers will find once they get here. The book answers questions about what Maine is really like as a place to live, providing a broad range of information...
by Carl Little
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals. This clearly evident love of animals is due in part to the summers she spent with her family in Maine. In 1923 the Zorach family (her parents were the famous artists William and Marguerite Zorach) bought...