In 84 CE a Votadini princess named Alauna is chosen by her father to guide a Roman cohort assigned to build a fortress in the southern highlands of Britannia. Unlike her father, Alauna hates the Romans and longs to free her people from the imperial yoke. Their trek north is filled with dangers as Aluana leads the troops into unforeseen perils. But the Roman commander, a prefect of engineering named Tertius Vulpienus, is a man Alauna comes to admire for his intelligence, strength, and bravery. What began as hate turns into respect and then into something unexpected as Alauna and Vulpienus confront a danger which threatens them all.
When a body washes up on the shore of a harbor island, LT Nichols, Laurel, Maine’s Chief of Police, discovers it’s the son of the town's most noteworthy summer resident—Randolph Grimes, the US Secretary of Commerce. Subsequently, the case is deemed too big for the smalltown officer, and a United States marshal is flown in from Washington. But when this outsider arrests one of Laurel’s sons for murder, Nichols has his doubts and launches his own investigation. As a result, a host of federal agents line up to shut him down. And that’s when the real trouble starts.
Stephen King's Maine: A History & Guide
Sharon Kitchens
The History Press
Much of Western Maine reads like a Stephen King novel. The dense dark woods and backcountry ponds. The century-old houses with gravel driveways and immense flower gardens, acres of farmland, miles from a highway. Serpentine country roads dotted with farmstands, and picturesque main streets lined with battered pickups. Places where— especially during the dark and rainy days of October and November— things can get downright spooky. Author Sharon Kitchens identifies the locations which serve as the basis for King's fictional towns of Castle Rock, Jerusalem's Lot, Derry, and Haven. Drawing on historical materials and conversations with locals and people who know King, the author sheds light on daily life in places that would become the settings for Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Cujo, IT, and 11/22/63.
Anthology of Awe & Wonder
Dennis Camire
Deerbrook Editions
"In Anthology of Awe & Wonder, each ode, each murmuration, each sly revelation exists in a lexical realm all its own, pushing the limits of what the heart and the intellect can do. Camire sends the reader on one hundred raucous rides that always, as if by magic, gracefully resolve. This collection plumbs terrestrial soil while pressing its hand to the border wall of that other realm, daring to answer Jack Gilbert’s call to “risk delight.” In Camire’s hand, this dense, textured testament to wonder is deviously shadowed — it buzzes with a playfulness that belies its essential heartache. When awe unfolds its intricate geometries and shows its magnificent interiors, it can alter you. This stunning text does just that" —Michelle Lewis, author of Animul/Flame, Winner of Marystina Santiestevan Book Prize.
"In Earth School, David Sloan brings us to a place built upon intuition, a poetry grounded in the earth yet attuned to the forces beyond our ken. A mother’s former ferocity fades; sons should be sadder, yet are left to ponder the link between ‘mother’ and ‘smother.’ Such word play and wit enliven these poems, and as I read them I felt in the presence of a master whose skill with language and metaphor constantly surprised me. . .Sloan allows a reader to deeply feel these poems’ tenderness, unencumbered and transparent. In this book, as in Sloan’s title poem, “the tunes are always simple, / hummable, wise. / And when they end, / [we feel] both revived and forsaken, / a diver who glimpses treasure /and momentarily grasps the gold / before the currents rip it away” —Jefferson Navicky, author of Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands.
Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude for Neurodiversity
From the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon and Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a different way. Told from the loving perspective of a mother of an autistic child, Next Level shows the full humanity of people who move through the world and communicate in their own unique, complete, and powerful way. Doyon's powerful love letter to her son invites us to "level up" and see our shared humanity in new and limitless dimensions.
Where Maine Reads
Edited and Photographically Illustrated by Buddy Doyle
Independently Published
A collection of pictorial essays on readers simply reading wherever they choose to curl up with a good book, this volume depicts 50 randomly selected Mainers, along with their essays about reading. Contributors include Maine writers such as Monica Wood, Richard Russo, Lily King, Paul Doiron, Josh Bodwell, Linda Greenlaw, and Bill Nemitz, along with Governor Janet Mills, various Maine educators and students, a librarian, a firefighter, a rabbi, a chaplain, and a fella who sells used books from his ice cream truck. A foreword is provided by Senator Angus King. This project was produced in concert with Maine Public, and proceeds from book sales go to help fund their children’s literacy projects, statewide. The author's creative efforts were funded by Maine State Credit Union, and he was motivated by this quote from Stephen King’s memoir: “So I read when I can, but I have a favorite place and probably you do, too."
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