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Welcome to the Mid-November edition of MWPA's Ex Libris Maine.
This edition offers new books by Maine authors in the categories of Crime Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Nonfiction, Childrens, Poetry, and Young Adult/Young Readers.
For more information on any title below, simply click on the book's cover.
Every Transaction Has Two Sides. One Could Cost Her Everything. When Ellen Hartmann, a single mother and CPA, flies to Nashville to finalize her passion project—an innovative financial wellness program—she expects to launch a new chapter in her career. Instead, she walks into a mystery. Her marketing partner, Sam Davis, has vanished. His mother is found dead. And Ellen, along with Sam’s loyal driver, Henry, is left to pick up the pieces. As Ellen investigates Sam’s disappearance, she uncovers more than just missing files. Secrets, lies, and a criminal past begin to surface, threatening not only her project but her reputation and livelihood as well. Back home in Maine, her accounting firm teeters on the edge as a charming new hire schemes to take over her business. Torn between two cities, two lives, and two versions of herself, Ellen must decide what—and who—is worth fighting for.
During the waning days of the Cold War and the dawning of the internet, computer hacker Raven has been selling high technology secrets to the Soviet Union and eluding capture by the FBI. Recently expelled college student Mev Hayes unexpectedly lands a position at a top lab at MIT where she’s encouraged to continue her controversial computer research. But when the search for Raven points her way, Mev finds that opportunity comes at a cost in this struggle for technological dominance.
The supernatural shift of Penelope Goode continues in Book II of the Goode Vibrations series. While trying to make sense of her ability to see into the past, she leaves her hometown for the mountains of northwestern Maine to visit a relative threatened with losing his property. In the shadow of the Bigelow Mountain range, Pennie finds herself steeped in a community of loggers, hunters, and fishers, sensing the vibrations of hardy souls who settled in the valley. Her visions take her back to the days before the villages of Flagstaff and Dead River were flooded by the power company. Sinking deeper into the past, she dreams of Benedict Arnold’s expedition through the untamed wilderness of the valley. By sensing the vibrations of the land’s storied history, Pennie discovers injustices of the past, and the freedom America fought for 250 years ago, to continue her fight for individual rights today.
In this ambitious and articulate book, Denis Ledoux reconstructs what life must have been like for the first French settlers in Canada. Focusing on four figures, he presents a story of crossing an ocean and making a home in a wilderness which the colonists were ill-prepared to inhabit.“To understand who these people were,” says Ledoux, "I needed to get beyond the facts and the dates that genealogy provided me.” The result of this research is a book offering a plethora of relationships and descriptions of what daily life in seventeenth-century Canada must have been like for French settlers.
Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
With groundbreaking original data and historical insights, Nations Apart is an essential guide to understanding why Americans are so divided on many hot button issues, creating geographic fissures that have been exploited by authoritarians. Colin Woodard shows how colonial era settlement patterns and the cultural geography they left behind are at the root of our political polarization, economic inequality, public health crises, and democratic collapse. But there is a road map to right the country: a carefully researched, vigorously tested common story for the country built on the Declaration of Independence. Combining compelling storytelling with scholarly vigor, Nations Apart offers a blueprint for bridging the rifts that divide us and ensuring the American dream of democratic self-government will reach its 300th birthday.
The Mystery in the Room: A Physician's Journey Treating Patients with Rare Diseases
"The practice of medicine is part science, part humanity, and in these pages, both are on full display. Every patient has a story to tell. But not every patient has the good fortune to be cared for by a gifted storyteller like Chuck Radis. Rheumatology is the last frontier of internal medicine, navigable only by an astute observer. Chuck's essays provide the reader with a glimpse into that world, in which the lodestars are intelligence, experience, and luck" —Philip Seo M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
Big Band Night at the Good Life Bar
Kali Lightfoot
Moon Pie Press
"A collection alive with curiosity, wit, and hard-won wisdom. . .Lightfoot balances candor with lyric precision, finding joy in small moments and meaning in ordinary rituals. This book is a luminous meditation on aging, resilience, and the unexpected consolations of daily life" —January Gill O'Neil, award-winning poet and author of Glitter Road.
The Tidely-Idley Returns to Sea
Sam & Hazel Coolidge
Illustrated by Pamela Pittsley
Penobscot Books
In this is fun story for all ages, the father/daughter team of Sam and Hazel restore an old Coast Guard boat to resemble Burt Dow’s Tidely-Idley, made famous by author Robert McCloskey in Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man. As Sam notes, “This is a story of fiction, based on actual events. Everything in the story after we got the boat home really happened.” The two work hard together and, with a lot of neighborly help, get the boat in shape to take to the water. Pamela’s beautiful watercolors run throughout the book, and there are plenty of photos showing what it took to get Tidely-Idley shipshape. Royalties earned from the sale of The Tidely-Idley Returns to Sea have been generously donated by Sam Coolidge to the Chase Emerson Memorial Library in Deer Isle, Maine.
Dino Love
Darcey Comeau
Archway Publishing
Dino Love follows Nire and Noremac, a Stegosaurus and Brontosaurus, who disobey their elders' admonitions not to play with their Pterodactyl friend. In the end, ignoring the judgments of others by including different dinos in their play saves the day, and all the dinosaurs unite in celebrating new friendship.
The moving story of a superhero-loving boy born without hands who finds the hero inside himself. Benji feels like he's had more than his fair share of good luck—so it's frustrating that his disability tends to make people think the opposite. Adopted from an overseas orphanage, he’s grown up surrounded by the love of his dads and little sister who has Down syndrome. But it seems like the only thing people notice about him is his missing hands. He wishes that it didn't bother him when people stare at him and that he could be confident like the superheroes he admires. When Benji meets Staff Sergeant Snyder, a real-life hero and quadruple war amputee, he wonders if it's time for him to become bionic and get prosthetics. Then something unexpected happens that Benji feels is his fault, so he has no choice–he has to do something.
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