A Sea of Spectres
by Nancy Taber
On the choppy coastline of Prince Edward Island, an ocean-phobic detective evades the deadly lure of a phantom ship by delving into her family's history and harnessing her matrilineal powers of premonition.
Daughters of Long Reach
by Irene M. Drago
Drawn to its rich maritime history, Ellie and Ty Malone purchase a grand home in Bath, Maine, and discover the story of a prominent shipbuilding family who lived there in the 1800s. Daughters of Long Reach explores love and loss through the lens of multiple families who are separated by time but connected by the rolling tides of the Kennebec River.
Moondoggle: Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight for Tidal-Electric Power at Passamaquoddy Bay
by Mark C. Borton
For 25 years, Franklin Roosevelt tried to build the world’s first tidal-electric power plant - by harnessing the Bay of Fundy’s giant tides. The enormous project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of coastal Maine and Canada. Moondoggle is a dramatic tale about the appeal of tidal power, the difficulties in realizing its potential, and the engineers and three U.S. Presidents who tried to make clean and renewable tidal power a reality. Now on the 100th anniversary of the “Passamaquoddy Project’s” conception, Moondoggle - the only book on the project - explores what almost was, and what could be.
This Lark of Stolen Time
by Richard Cumyn
Lauder Jones and Mountcastle, two Halifax families both alike in dignity, linked by love and circumstance. Douglas Lauder Jones, obscure story writer, calls it "Life and No Escape." His lovelorn son John thinks it's the end of happiness. Neuroscientist Ursula Lauder Jones sees it as sink-or-swim parenting. Whatever it is, her daughter Merin, new owner of a movie house on Barrington Street, wants to sit through it twice. Her sister Anya, summer student working at Mountcastle Framing on Spring Garden Road, relishes life's richly varied fabric. And the youngest, Cary, budding writer, recognizes it as apt material for the many stories stitching this novel's intriguing brocade.
Midden
by Julia Bouwsma
Utilizing a wide range of poetic styles - epistolary poems to ghosts, persona poems, erasure poems, interior poems, interviews and instructions, poems framed both in the past and in the present - Midden delves into the vital connections between land, identity, and narrative and asks how we can heal the generations and legacies of damage that result when all three of these are deliberately taken in an attempt to rob people of their very humanity.
Catherine's Cadeau: A Novel
by Ann Davidson and Terry M. Thibodeaux
When Monique LeBlanc disappears from Nova Scotia, her cousin Michelle is panic-stricken. Their summer vacation has taken an ominous turn, and a search begins. At the site of Monique's disappearance in Grand-Pre Historic Park, police find a picture of her mother, Catherine, who passed away years ago, near Evangeline's statue. Michelle knows that Monique is visiting the park to honor the dream she shared with her mother of visiting their Canadian homeland. What she doesn't know is that Monique has gone back in time to her ancestors' exile, actually living through the horrific deportation of thousands of Acadians to Louisiana in 1755.
Down East, A Maritime History of Maine
by Lincoln Paine
Maine's maritime history, from the coastal travel of Native Americans to the Basque fishing industry to the pleasure boating of today, incorporating ecology, culture and art into its well-researched history.
Island: The Complete Stories
by Alistair MacLeod
The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years.
Saint John: 1877-1980
by David Goss
Saint John: 1877-1980 highlights the many changes the city has seen over the years, through photographs of its neighbourhoods, play places, tourist attractions, and residents.
Historic Acadia National Park, The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures
by Catherine Schmitt
If parks could speak, what would they say? Historic Acadia National Park is a vibrant collection of true stories that share different aspects of Acadia National Park’s history. From its glacial origins, to its rising peaks near the tourist-town Bar Harbor, Acadia has a unique and fascinating history for Down Easters and tourists alike. Many of the tales focus on some of Maine's most famous land formations including Pulpit Rock, Sargent Mountain Pond, Mount Desert Rock, Otter Creek, and even the Trenton Bridge. Learn about the people who first walked these woods and how Acadia National Park evolved into the national treasure it is today.
When the World Fell Silent
by Donna Alward
A novel of the 1917 Halifax explosion.
The Atlantic Coast, A Natural History
by Harry Thurston
The Atlantic Coast draws upon the best and most up-to-date science on the ecology of the region as well as the author’s lifetime experience as a resident, biologist, and naturalist.
Jeanne Dugas of Acadia
by Cassie Deveaux Cohoon
Descended from one of the three most prominent families in Acadia, Jeanne Dugas (1731-1817) and her family lived for more than thirty years under the threat of capture and deportation by the British militia and attacks by pirates and privateers.
Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot
by Steven Long
Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot, with an insightful introduction by Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, an esteemed Indigenous attorney, activist, and author from the Penobscot Nation, presents a captivating journey along Maine’s vital Penobscot River. This charity anthology, weaving together the works of local writers, offers a deep dive into the river’s lasting impact and its integral role in the region’s heritage.
Night of the Living Rez
by Morgan Talty
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.
Évangéline: The Many Identities of a Literary Icon
by Joseph Yvon Theriault
A thorough exploration of the role of Longfellow's literary icon Évangéline and her role in the North American cultural landscape, available for the first time in English.
Pier 21: A History
by Jan Raska and Steven Schwinghamer
A definitive history of Halifax’s immigration gateway by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 researchers Jan Raska and Steven Schwinghamer.
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
by Mary Henley Rubio
From Montgomery’s apparently idyllic childhood in Prince Edward Island to her passion-filled adolescence and young adulthood, to her legal fights as world-famous author, to her shattering experiences with motherhood and as wife to a deeply troubled man, this fascinating, intimate narrative of her life will engage and delight.
Maine in the World: Stories from Some of Those from Here Who Went Away
by Neil Rolde
From its earliest beginnings, the land that became Maine produced adventurous inhabitants who went outside its boundaries to do interesting things that sometimes made them famous or even infamous. In Maine in the World: Stories of Some of Those From Here Who Went Away the following individuals are profiled: poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Pulitzer Prize winner Edna St. Vincent Millay, opera singer Lillian Nordica, Hollywood movie director John Ford, and Samantha Smith young "US ambassador for peace" during the Cold War.
Mabel Bell: Alexander's Silent Partner
by Lilias Toward
An intimate biography told from family letters and papers. Alexander Graham Bell took for his lifelong mate a woman of great strength and courage. Undeterred by her deafness since the age of five, Mabel Hubbard Bell raised their family, ran the household, and conceived of, financed, and nurtured the Aerial Experiment Association that resulted in the first manned flight in Canada.
