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Madison's parents announce they're sending her to Crazy Moon, a sleep-away camp in Maine. Campers stay in tents, and days are filled with things like horseback riding, arts and crafts, talent shows and making new friends. For once Madison will be independent, creating her own Crazy Moon adventures.

With the passing of Maine Civil War hero Joshua L. Chamberlain in 1914, Benjamin Dean, the narrator, goes back to the mid 1800s to recount the circumstances surrounding his first meeting with the man who would become his mentor. Book I: Maine, chronicles the Dean family's beginnings along Penobscot Bay and the fateful year of 1853.

Through the lenses of everyday routine, the distances of childhood, and the expanses of making and reading poetry from Dante to Mary Oliver, we get in these verses penetrating reflections of wonder, anger, joy, regret, faith and doubt, hope and discouragement, resentment and love-records of a well-examined life. -Dana Wilde, author

While sneaky gray fog creeps silently across our nation, leaving chaos along the way, the Channel 5 weatherman strongly maintains, "It's just a little fog!"

Jamie Rooney has been a police officer for over 17 years in York, Maine. She has dedicated her career to working with young people and helping those less fortunate. In this book she shares her story of overcoming a childhood filled with the struggles, physical violence, drug abuse and poverty.

The vast ocean beyond the ledge of Oyster Cove beckons Prudence Stone from her salt-sprayed art studio. Her six-year marriage to Nick Pelletier is deteriorating faster than the Maine weather, and the lure of Italy is strong. Reaching out to her adopted Italian family, she is caught in a web of her own making.

It is a rare event when one gets to look into another person's innermost thoughts. Billy Todd, a sixteen-year-old boy, was just hired into a mid-coastal Maine sheriff's office to work in their communications department. Billy has kept this record of his activities. Within this novel a secret is revealed that may greatly change his life forever.

Hunting and fishing stories of George Smith and his dad, Ezra Smith.

Artists inspire artists, and "Liner Notes"-64 ekphrastic poems describing 64 musicians as artists making music-exemplifies this rich, evocative tradition.

Poems, Stories & Songs of Making Paper in Bucksport, Maine 1930 - 2014

Tippy Tom had never been to a school before. He was curious about the school that all of his human friends talked about. He decided to follow them one day.

This is an unforgettable story about a railroad that has survived two world wars, the collapse of commercial poultry in Waldo County and gone into the tourist railroad excursion business to survive!

It's the seventh inning stretch in Chicago at Wrigley Field. Chicago Cubs fans stand as one and in one voice sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." It's the middle of the eighth in Boston at Fenway Park. Red Sox fans are on their feet. "Sweet Caroline" in one voice lets you know the Sox are home.These two baseball parks are coming together in central Maine. They share similar histories, the first being that they are the first and second oldest ballparks in the majors. Fenway Park was built in 1912 and Wrigley Park in 1914; both have unique outfields. The brick outfield wall at Wrigley is low and covered with Boston ivy and the outfield wall at Fenway is the Monster Wall, built high to shield games from folks drinking and eating at bars and restaurants across the street and watching without paying. Both share hand-placed score cards on the score board, but perhaps the most memorable sharing is that of Babe Ruth who played for the Red Sox and the Yankees. Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees for $125,000. Ruth's fame and Boston's shame for trading him to the Yankees continues to this day. The Cubs dearly remember game 3 of the 1932 World Series when Babe allegedly pointed to a bleacher location and hit the next pitch there for a homer. We know the hit was true but the assigned location... Was it fact? Is it legend?Now, both team ball parks will be on the way to fields of dreams legends for children in Waterville, Maine, 1160 miles east of Wrigley Field and 186 miles north of Fenway Park. Wrigley Field will join the two-thirds replica of Fenway Park in place for several years at a children's summer camp, a short distance from Waterville but Wrigley Field, to be known as Purnell Wrigley Field, will be in Waterville. Most impressive, however, is that they will be the ONLY two licensed replicated stadiums in the country where their spirit will be alive with children playing baseball with the hopes of perhaps one day becoming a legend.

A varied collection of poems, nostalgic memories and short fiction.

Temple Mathieu had had a hardscrabble life but it was finally coming together for her. Then all hell broke loose and she wondered if she would ever live to see happiness again. She had fallen down a weird rabbit hole and needed more than luck to get her out.

This captures the wonder of the mid-1950s and the warmth of the Lebanese-American neighborhood in an evocative, poignant, and often amusing tale that reflects the generosity of the human spirit and the optimistic nature of America's immigrants.

This is a collection of excursions through Maine's woods and fields during the time of "the most gorgeous weather in the world." Inside these essays are the science and experience of what the world looks like when you turn a transparent eye to the energies bubbling up in the flora, fauna and summer starlight of backyard Maine.

The arrival of two Beluga whales threatens to split Maine's Quarry Cove and Pepper Mill villages. Angry Quarry Cove fishermen fearing for the loss of their fishing, prepare to kill the whales, while Pepper Mill Village packers see a better solution. Tiny Quarry Cove is flooded with crowds of excited whale watchers angering the police chief who joins the anti-whale crowd. Unflinchingly, lighthouse keeper and postmistress Nettie Beal aided by her two young friends Karl and Christine, face off against the law, and family pressures, mounting a full scale campaign to save the whales. The story was inspired by an actual Maine event.

Judith Robbins' poems are vivid, funny, sometimes shocking, always moving. Reading these poems, you find yourself in hardscrabble working class Worcester of the post-war era, the dark places between the tripledeckers; or you're plopped down into the unpredictable weather of inland Maine. Wherever the poems take you, the light gets in. Family, place, heritage, language: these poems bring all those things together in moments and memories that again and again give us glimpses of haven (and heaven). Jane Costlow, Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College

Why would a ghost from the Civil War seek help from a young boy in Kittery, Maine? There is a mystery afoot and the ghost won't leave until it's solved.

At last! The best of JP, captured in a book that will make long-time fans smile all over again and newcomers thrill in the discovery of an authentic American storyteller. Enjoy delightful satire in the fashion of Art Buchwald and Andy Rooney, and appreciate a special brand of insightful humor that is filled with surprises and often tinged with melancholy. It is simply Devine. --Earl Smith, author of "The Dam Committee" and "More Dam Trouble"

In Mark Nickerson's second book, Behind the Blue Lights, in addition to his usual hilarious stories of life as a Maine State Trooper, Mark delves deeper into the reasons people become law enforcement officers, and offers some poignant insight into the difficulties of life behind the blue lights. It's not all fun and games being a cop, and in this book Mark shows us both the humor and heartbreak behind the badge. As an added bonus, Mark has included stories from the archives of the Maine State Police, some heartwarming stories from another Maine State Trooper and the son of a Howland police chief who explain how the Maine State Police made a big impression on their lives as children. You'll laugh out loud at the rendition offered by one of Mark's friends as she meets the "Nissen bread man" (aka Warden John Ford). Then, you might take pause when reading the story of "Patty and her Bicycle,"it's a stark look at the emotional side of police work when dealing with children and death notifications. The last chapter offers a heartrending reminder of the ultimate price some police officers pay in the line of duty. Mark and his legendary friend, John Ford, former Maine Game Warden, Sheriff, and now author, delight audiences in Maine and beyond with their tales of law enforcement back in the day in their "Blue Lights and Funny Cider" tour. See their website at www.oldcops.com.

As told from a bear's perspective, this historical fiction tells how Ludwig van Beethoven composed his 14th Sonata titled Moonlight Sonata through his special connection and friendship with a very brave bear named Moon.

John Ford, retired Maine game warden, returns with book 3 of tales from his long career as a game warden in Maine. Each of them are filled with actual events and experiences, written as short stories, mostly humorous in nature, of the many great experiences the young game warden remembered the most.

Do you remember your first fishing trip? Your first deer hunt? Your first expedition into the wilds of northern Maine's Big Woods country? How about the unique characters you've met, what you learned from them, and the adventures-and especially the misadventures-you experienced with them? Have you dreamed of greater outdoor challenges? My Naked Safari will rekindle those memories and inspire you to create new ones. My Naked Safari is the chronicle of the author's 60-plus-year journey across New England, Eastern Canada, and even South Africa, as an amateur, self-taught sportsman. At times, he was quite ill-equipped and unprepared for his adventures. In others, he shows how much his knowledge has grown. Many of the tales are filled with humor, some with excitement, and a few with sadness. All are true. Each will leave readers relating to similar people, places, and events in their own lives. Enjoy your journey!

Tippy Tom watched a group of animals that he didn't recognize and had never known were nearby. They were beautiful, fluffy, rather long-necked, and tall. Some were brown, or white, or black, or gray, and all were huddled together. It seemed they were in a large fenced-in pasture. Tom knew about cows and horses, but he didn't know these gorgeous, unusual-looking animals.

Along the coast of Maine, fame and fortune abound; the town of Owls Head has little of either. Its people occupy a gorgeous peninsula in Penobscot Bay but have raised only two-and-a-half tourist attractions. The businesses in town with multiple employees are the general store and two lobster wholesalers. The Town Comprehensive Plan modestly states, "There are no sidewalks in Owls Head." For nearly 20 years the author and family used their house in Owls Head as not much more than a vacation spa to recover from the stresses of suburban Massachusetts. But when he retired, with time to explore and think and write, he crossed some kind of line, into much more intimacy with the place. Owls Head is ordinary, except if you walk through its neighborhoods, on ocean shores and country lanes, on points of land, undeveloped woods and saltwater marshes, even through a couple of housing developments, and then Owls Head becomes the kind of place many may seek: magically ordinary, a place of beauty and history, contradictions and community. Over the course of a year, the author visited anew, walking every lane and road and trail, even a few driveways, in town. The record of these modest walks became a book of discovery and enlightenment.

Frank Silveira, the president of the Slayers motorcycle gang in Warwick, R.I., had scoured the coast of Maine to locate a safe offload site for several tons of marijuana. He settled on the quiet fishing village of Deer Isle. Frank needed to avoid the ever vigilant United States Coast Guard and this location was just far enough away from their prying eyes. All he needed to do now was to wait for the fishing trawler and its illegal cargo to arrive under the cover of darkness. Frank had planned for everything. Everything, except Carl and Sam Peterson. The two teenage brothers had picked the same location as a clandestine meeting place to purchase a much smaller amount of pot. The chance meeting resulted in a kidnapping, a daring rescue and carnage usually reserved for the battlefield. Frank escaped and lived in exile waiting for the time when he could avenge the deaths of his friends and brothers.

Before her tears are fully spent, Prudence Stone is on a plane heading to Maine. The timely inheritance, a seaside cottage located in what appears to be a backwater town void of romantic temptations, promises to be the panacea for her broken heart. But Hannah Ellison had a different idea when she bequeathed the salt-encrusted albatross to her great-granddaughter, causing Prudence to seek a balance between her former island life and a lonely existence in Maine. Torn from the beginning, she is then challenged by the very different personalities of Hannah's two best friends; one dotty, the other ornery. These widows of Thatcher Lane both comfort and confuse and pull her in different directions. But it is the stranger's face nestled within Hannah's silver locket that tugs the hardest; that is, until Prudence finds the letters.