Heinrich, Bernd
Summary: Naturalist Heinrich spends a year living in a log cabin he built, with no running water or electricity, conducting research on ravens, songbirds, insects, and mosses, and recounting his day-today experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 HEIThoreau, Henry David
Summary: Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bramhall House 1950
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Summary: Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, this guidebook shows you the Pine Tree State with new perspectives on timeless destinations and introduces you to those you never knew existed. Discover vintage treasures at Elmer's Barn north of Wiscasset. Explore the eclectic antique vehicle collection at the Cole Land Transportation Museum near Bangor. Leap back through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 2019
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Summary: A latest entry in the popular series finds the intrepid detective racing against time to acquire a list of strategically important names from the site of a mysterious plane crash in the Maine woods, an effort that lures both good and evil individuals including a brutal serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2013
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Summary: Hired to kidnap a boy from his father, Spenser heads for the Maine woods to give a puny fifteen-year-old a crash course in survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1981
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PARMcPhee, John.
Summary: In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.829 MCPConnolly, John
Summary: In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone--ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk--has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2024
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Summary: Presents a memoir of the author's cursed travels through the woods of Massachusetts and coastal Maine, describing his midlife transformation from an idealistic youth to an eccentric family man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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Summary: "For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER FINConnolly, John
Summary: The wreckage of a plane never reported missing turns up in the woods of Maine. Rumored to contain records of humans who struck deals with the Devil, the plane is highly sought-after by both good and evil men. But as rival forces converge, all face mortal danger from what survived the crash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: "From internationally bestselling author and "creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre" (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring Private Investigator Charlie Parker. When the body of a woman--who apparently died in childbirth--is discovered, Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child. In the beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CONCorbett, Ron
Summary: "Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have more than two hundred million unaccountable dollars on their books. Money like that comes from moving something other than wood across the border. The first agent the FBI sent undercover was their best man--sure to get the answers that were needed. He was dead within a month. Now, Danny Barrett...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CORLong, McKenzie
Summary: "One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii This land is your land. When it comes to national monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more fraught. Gold Butte in Nevada, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LONCorbett, Ron
Summary: "In this thrilling new series from Edgar-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator in the Maine wilderness walks on two feet-and it is Danny Barrett's job to bring him down. Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have more than two hundred million unaccountable dollars on their books. Money like that comes from moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORHashimoto, Meika
Summary: "Max the puppy has fallen in love. From the moment Emi walks into the shelter with her long black hair and bright smile, he knows she's meant to be his forever person. Emi's family has just moved to Maine from Japan, and he can tell that she is in desperate need of a friend like Max. After Emi adopts him, Max goes to live with her high up on a mountain homestead where he explores his new world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. When his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is shot outside her farmhouse, Mike joins the hunt to find the man responsible and is forced to confront past choices and determine the kind of man he truly is"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: "When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETSummary: "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMEKing, Stephen
Summary: Once upon a time in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men and reunite during hunting season in the woods of Maine. These men will be plunged into a horrific struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance for survival is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001
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Summary: "Blaine Grayson returns to Three Sisters Island with a grand plan--to take Camp Kicking Moose to the next level. Her dream starts to unravel when she discovers Moose Manor's kitchen has been badly remodeled by her sister, Cam, who doesn't know how to cook. Added to that blow is the cold shoulder given by her best friend, Artie Lotosky, now a doctor to the unbridged Maine islands. As old wounds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "Here is a trove of Carson writing never before published or collected, uncovered by Linda Lear, author of the recent and acclaimed Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Included are examples of her early and often remarkable nature writing for newspapers and for the Fish and Wildlife Service; journal observations on shore life; letters, including the "Lost Woods" correspondence concerning her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 CARPtacin, Mira
Summary: "A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest- running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna-an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019