Down East Books
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We Took to the Woods
$19.95 Add to cartIn her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Ran… [more below]
- Author: Dickinson, Louise Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0892727365
- Language: English
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In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet’s Portable Workshop
$21.95 Add to cartIdeal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing–and reading–contemporary poetry.It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures… [more below]
- Author: Kowit, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1684752736
- Language: English
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Three Plays by Monica Wood: Papermaker, The Half-Light, Saint Dad
$24.95 Add to cartAward-winning novelist Monica Wood’s first play, Papermaker, debuted at Portland Stage in Portland, Maine, setting the theater’s all-time attendance record and enjoying successful runs at other region
- Author: Wood, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1684752523
- Language: English
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The Great Fire of 1947: And the End of Bar Harbor’s Golden Era
$24.95 Add to cartThe Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor’s Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Moun
- Author: Smith, Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1684752604
- Language: English
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Sea Dog Rescue
$19.95 Add to cartCan a sea dog baker and a brave merpup solve the mystery of the sunken fishing boat before it’s too late?
When Walter the baker (and brave sea dog!) discovers his friend Big Boris is being blamed for
- Author: Sheckels, Astrid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1684752396
- Language: English
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Notes on the Landscape of Home
$22.95 Read more“If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some of the boundaries between you and it dissolve,” write Susan Hand Sh
- Author: Shetterly, Susan Hand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750296
- Language: English
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Donut Holes for the Soul: Recollections, Musings, and Missives from the Dooryard
$39.50 Add to cartTake a nostalgic journey through the joys of everyday life with Erma Bombeck Award-winner Tim Cotton.
In Donut Holes for the Soul, Cotton weaves together a collection of essays that celebrate simple- Author: Cotton, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1684752485
- Language: English
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The View from Here: Reflections on the Deep North, the Wild East
$22.95 Add to cartFranklin Burroughs grew up in South Carolina and has lived in Maine for more than fifty years. This new collection includes brief essays originally published in Down East magazine’s “Room With a View”
- Author: Burroughs, Franklin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1684751888
- Language: English
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The Last One Out of Town Turn Out the Lights: The Epic 1975 Foxcroft Academy Basketball Season
$24.95 Add to cartThe Last One Out of Town Turn Out the Lights tells the inspiring untold story of how a soul-crushing school district consolidation in 1975 changes the fate and fortunes of two rural Maine high schools
- Author: Albee, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1684752469
- Language: English
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One Man’s Meat
$30.00 Add to cartIn print for fifty-five years, One Man’s Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. White’s witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1684751152
- Language: English
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Down East Delicious: 175 Recipes from Maine Kitchens
$29.95 Add to cartResiding on Maine’s Islesboro Island, Sandra Oliver is a revered food historian with a vast knowledge of New England food history, subsistence living, and Yankee cooking. For the past five years, she
- Author: Oliver, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1684752043
- Language: English
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The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop
$19.95 Add to cartTim Cotton has been a police officer for more than thirty years. The writer in him has always been drawn to the stories of the people he has met along the way. Dealing with the standard issue ne’er-do… [more below]
- Author: Cotton, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168475111X
- Language: English
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The Mystery Traveler at Lake Fortune
$31.58 Add to cartWhen the Baker family arrives from Boston to Lake Fortune, in rural Maine, they are welcomed by a rickety cabin with an outhouse, a thunder and lightning storm, and a creature in the attic that masque
- Author: Pelletier, Cathie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1684750768
- Language: English
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Death on Katahdin: And Other Misadventures in Maine’s Baxter State Park
$18.95 Add to cartThis fascinating addition to the North Woods canon looks at the variety of ways people have met their death on Maine’s highest and most remote mountain. It’s all here, from falls, exposure, and cardia… [more below]
- Author: Minetor, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1608934179
- Language: English
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Crossing
$29.95 Add to cartSal Taylor Kydd’s book of photographs and poetry, Crossing, takes us on a meditative journey, exploring the islands of the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay. Through her delicate vignettes, she explore
- Author: Kydd, Sal Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1684751969
- Language: English
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A Town Built by Ski Bums: The Story of Carrabassett Valley, Maine
$29.95 Add to cartLocated 60 country miles from Interstate 95, Carrabassett Valley, Maine doesn’t look like a classic rural New England town. Only a handful of buildings pre-date 1950. Settlement is concentrated in two
- Author: Wright, Virginia M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1684751799
- Language: English
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Gelato Fiasco: Recipes and Stories from America’s Best Gelato Makers
$29.95 Add to cartJoshua Davis and Bruno Tropeano, two guys right out of college, felt that something was amiss. People in Maine created some of the best of everything in the world — higher education, ships, televisio… [more below]
- Author: Simonds, Cynthia Finnemore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1608939960
- Language: English
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Moxie: Maine in a Bottle
$16.95 Add to cartIn this compendium of all things Moxie, Maine author Jim Baumer shows us why this soft drink has garnered such a loyal and vocal following. Through history, photos, festivals, and more, Moxie: Maine i… [more below]
- Author: Baumer, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 160893683X
- Language: English
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Superb Maine Soups: Innovative Recipes from Simple to Sumptuous
$18.95 Read moreSoups warm your heart as well as your stomach. A former caterer, Simonds answers questions such as, How do you simmer a sumptuous stock? What are the essential ingredients for creamy chowder? How do y… [more below]
- Author: Simonds, Cynthia Finnemore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 0892727381
- Language: English
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Shells: Nature’s Exquisite Creations
$40.00 Add to cartJoyce Tenneson, s detailed photographic studies of luminous sea shells adrift on a velvet-soft background remind us that startling beauty exists even in the most ordinary places. These surprising imag… [more below]
- Author: Tenneson, Joyce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0892729767
- Language: English
