Download or read book Maine Speaks written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook of Maine literature for the general reader, as well as junior and high school students, by writers whose lives have been touched by Maine.

Download or read book Handcrafted Maine written by Katy Kelleher and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the sublime beauty of Maine—its primordial forests, remote lakes, rugged mountains, and craggy coastline blooms a handmade culture fed by heritage, self-sufficiency, and collaboration. Handcrafted Maine: Art, Life, Harvest & Home features lively profiles of more than twenty artists, artisans, and craftspeople—weavers and potters, a painter, an architect, a boatbuilder, a leatherworker, bakers, lobster-men, and more—at work in the woods, towns, and cities of Maine, celebrating the triumphs and challenges of entrepreneurship and independence. Including more than 225 inspiring color photographs and intimate narrative portraits, Handcrafted Maine provides a window into the inner lives of creatives and brings to life the powerful environment and spirited character that nurture the unbridled ingenuity and common-sense approach to craft and life found Down East.

Download or read book Hearts in Suspension written by Stephen King and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes a reprint of King's "Hearts in Atlantis," the fictional story of a U. Maine freshman; an essay by King about his years at UM (1966-70); reprints of King's college newspaper column; personal narratives by King's fellow students and friends; and a gallery of photographs"--

Download or read book Unsettled Past Unsettled Future written by Neil Rolde and published by Gardiner, Me. : Tilbury House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Maine's Native people, with many generous voices sharing their stories, hopes, and fears.

Download or read book Murder Most Maine written by Karen MacInerney and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's springtime on Cranberry Island—and love is in the air. It seems like every woman has the hots for buff trainer Dirk De Leon. He and his equally-gorgeous business partner, Vanessa Black, are leading a weight-loss retreat at the Gray Whale Inn—forcing innkeeper Natalie Barnes to lighten up her butter-laden breakfast menu. The mood on the island darkens when two grisly discoveries are made. The first is a skeleton walled up at the island's lighthouse. The second is a corpse of the fresh variety—the handsome Dirk! Could the spirit that once embodied the skeletal remains—perhaps the lighthouse keeper who disappeared a century ago—be responsible for Dirk's death? The police pin the blame on Natalie's boyfriend who—to her dismay—had a long-ago fling with Vanessa. To find the true killer and ease her own aching heart, Natalie must untangle the knot of jealous girlfriends and spurned admirers that once surrounded the hunky trainer. Praise: "MacInerney adds a dash of the supernatural, throws in some touristy tidbits and finishes with some tasty diet-right recipes."—Publishers Weekly "All thumbs up for Murder Most Maine, another in the engaging series of Cranberry Island mysteries. Karen MacInerney writes with verve and vitality, and her Natalie Barnes is a Maine original. I'm ready to book a room at the Gray Whale Inn!"—Susan Wittig Albert, bestselling author of Nightshade and other China Bayles Herbal Mysteries

Download or read book Writing New England written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet to Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Thoreau to Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and John Updike, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind from the Puritans to the present. 9 halftones.

Download or read book White Pine and Blue Water written by Henry Beston and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a volume that is true Maine--as eloquent of "downeast" as a bough of fir balsam, as the thunder of a wave of a rocky shore, as the lonely splendor of the northern lights in the sky behind Katahdin. In WHITE PINE AND BLUE WATER has been collected the best of three centuries of fact and fiction written about the wonderful country that is Maine. The recorded history of this northern land starts in the troubled era when the French and English battled each other and the Indians for sovereignty, told here in the words of early travelers, missionaries, soldiers. Then came the bloody days of revolution when Benedict Arnold marched on Quebec. The volume records the strange tale of two forgotten heroines, Maine women who accompanied their husbands on the trek through the Maine wilderness. As America grew, prosperity came to Maine through her ports. Her seafaring days are described by such authors as Rachael Field and Edwin Arlington Robinson, while 19th century men and women--Longfellow, Henry Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and James Russell Lowell among others--relate their own experiences in the Maine of that era. The inland Maine of tall trees and great rivers comes to life in the words of writers such as Stewart Holbrook and Ben Ames Williams. In telling of the Maine of living memory Robert P. Tristram Coffin describes the ice trade on the Kennebec and Sarah Orne Jewett writes of an old seacoast mansion. F. Marion Crawford notes the entrance of the summer visitor at Bar Harbor in the eighteen nineties. The farmlands and farmers of Maine command the attention of Elizabeth Coatsworth, Gladys Hastings Carroll and E. B. White, while Ruth Moore tells of Maine fishermen and Louise Dickinson Rich describes that imposing man, the Maine guide. Henry Beston is a student of things American, a distinguished naturalist, and a Maine farmer. In preparing this volume he has been able to draw on a knowledge both of Maine literature and of the land itself. His wife is Elizabeth Coatsworth, the poet. Mr. Beston has written a number of books, including NORTHERN FARM, which state-of-Mainers put at the top of their own list.

Download or read book An Anthology of Maine Literature written by Robert Lecker and published by [Orono] : University of Maine at Orono Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imagine what It s Like written by Victoria Bonebakker and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of wisdom and science is the territory of this anthology--ground that is contested, sometimes harrowing, and often ennobling. The human experience of health care, whether ancient or modern, has always engaged those who practice it and those who encounter it as patients. Both those who live with illness of body and mind, and those who live and work alongside the patients, crave the opportunity to reflect on their experiences. In recent years, practitioners and patients alike have called attention to a crisis in our collective experience of medicine. There is a growing awareness of very different cultural expectations about the nature and treatment of illness. The intersection of medicine and the humanities is busy. Machinery seems to crowd the space, while human encounters are often brief and deeply unsatisfying to patients and caregivers alike. Despite disparate approaches to the crisis in health care--from economics to ethics--there is agreement that patients and the world of medicine need more time together, so that illness does not find expression only in the context of the emergency room. It is as a response to the collective sense of crisis and alienation that Imagine What It's Like has been constructed. Inside and outside the health care community, many have called for the chance to use the humanities not only as opportunities to reflect on their own experiences, but also as a means of improving the experiences of all of us whose lives will be touched by illness and healing, birth and death. Created by the Maine Humanities Council for its Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care programs, Imagine What It's Like contains eighty-three selections ranging from poems to short stories to excerpts from longer works. The selections are divided into five sections--The Experience of Illness, Beginnings and Endings, Trauma and Recovery, Coming to Terms, and Healing Costs--and are followed by suggestions for longer readings.

Download or read book Finding Amy written by Joseph K. Loughlin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, first-hand account of a murder investigation in a rural state

Download or read book Wait written by Jeri Theriault and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wait is an anthology of poems and visual art by Maine poets and artists inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21. It includes work by three former and one current Maine state poets laureate, and art work by some of Maine most prestigious visual artists. Over sixty poets and artists contributed to the anthology. It was published by Littoral Books of Portland.

Download or read book North by Northeast 2 written by Agnes Bushell and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North by Northeast 2 is an anthology of short fiction by sixteen contemporary Maine writers, some well-established, others just beginning their careers.

Download or read book Dawnland Voices written by Siobhan Senier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology includes both classic and contemporary literary works from ten New England indigenous nations: the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Mohegan, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Schaghticoke, and Wampanoag. Through literary collaboration and recovery, Siobhan Senier and Native tribal historians and scholars have crafted a unique volume covering a variety of genres and historical periods. From the earliest petroglyphs and petitions to contemporary stories and hip-hop poetry, this volume highlights the diversity and strength of New England Native literary traditions. Dawnland Voices introduces readers to the compelling and unique literary heritage in New England, banishing the misconception that “real” Indians and their traditions vanished from that region centuries ago.

Download or read book The House on Perry Street written by Agnes Bushell and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five generations, Tallis women have lived in the big brownstone on Perry Street in Greenwich Village: Ada, adventurous and ambitious, who inherited the house in 1878; her daughter, Julia, suffragist, union organizer, and political agitator; Julia's daughter, Lydia, the reigning matriarch; Lydia's daughter, Nora, '60's peace activist and mother of Marina, the narrator of this matriarchal epic filled with an array of eccentric characters from a writer who has been charting America's political landscape since the appearance of her first novel, Local Deities in 1990.

Download or read book Dear Maine written by Reza Jalali and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Maine, written by Morgan Rielly, an author and state senator, and Reza Jalali, a former refugee and executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, recounts the trails and triumphs of 20 immigrants who have arrived in Maine over the past few decades. Dear Maine includes black and white photographic portraits by Lilit Danielyan.

Download or read book Bittersweet Justice written by Erin Maine and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder isn't supposed to happen in quiet country communities, but as her neighbors slept on a chilly July night, her killer laughs and tosses Rachel Harteman, a pregnant housewife, from the bluff high above the shores of her home in upstate New York and into the frigid water below, watching her take her last breathe and disappear to a watery grave below. Her husband, the lone suspect has no alibi and had been heard fighting with her moments before her screams were heard as she plummeted to her death. A quick trial, easy conviction follows, and Henry Harteman is sentenced to life in prison. Case closed and life went back to normal in the sleepy town on Oneida Lake; except Rachel won't rest until the motive for her murder is revealed.Thirty years later when Nicole Brentwood sets her sights on a dilapidated lake front estate, her husband Jared has no idea what he's in for, but knows it's futile to attempt to change his wife's mind. Both quickly realize that they are in over their heads when it becomes apparent that their new home not only came with the previous owner's furniture, but with the previous owner!

Download or read book An Anthology of Maine Literature written by Robert Lecker and published by [Orono] : University of Maine at Orono Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: