Maine Reads

From our friends at the Belfast Free Library, some good reading for the Fall & Winter to remember Maine with books about Maine, written by an author who was born here, lived here, or has spent summers here.

Maine Fiction

Amos, Diane                 Outlaw Hearts                                                                FIC AMO

Bonnie, Fred                  Too Hot & Other Maine Stories                                        FIC BON

Bryers, Paul                  The Prayer of the Bone                                                   FIC BRY

Carey, Lisa                    In the Country of the Young                                             FIC CAR

Carpenter, William         Wooden Nickel                                                              FIC CAR

Carroll, Gladys Hasty     The Light Here Kindled                                                   FIC CAR

Chase, Mary Ellen         Silas Crockett                                                                FIC CHA

Chute, Carolyn               The School on Heart’s Content Road                               FIC CHU

Clark, William S.            Hills of Maine                                                                 FIC CLA

Coatsworth, Elizabeth    Mountain Bride                                                              FIC COA

Colwell, Miriam              Contentment Cove                                                          FIC COL

Connolly, John               Bad Men                                                                       FIC CON (PBK)

Coomer, Joe                  Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God                             FIC COO

Cooney, Ellen                Gun Ball Hill                                                                  FIC COO

Copeland, Lori               The Island of Heavenly Daze                                           FIC COP

Cummings, Rebecca      Kaisa Kilponen                                                              FIC CUM

Demarco, Tom               Dark Harbor House                                                         FIC DEM

Deveraux, Jude              The Summerhouse                                                         FIC DEV

Fahy, Christopher          Limerock                                                                       FIC FAH

Fairfield, Roy                 Amanda’s Cove                                                              FIC FAI

Fickett, David                Nectar                                                                           FIC FIC

Gautreau, Norman          Sea Room                                                                     FIC GAU

Gilbert, Elizabeth           Stern Men                                                                     FIC GIL

Gould, John                   No Other Place                                                              FIC GOU

Hand, Elizabeth             Generation Loss                                                            FIC HAN

Hawthorne, Nathaniel     Fanshawe                                                                     813 HAW

Jewett, Sarah Orne        Deephaven                                                                    FIC JEW

King, Owen                   We’re All in This Together                                               FIC KIN

King Tabitha                  One-on-One                                                                   FIC KIN

Kline, Christina Baker     Desire Lines                                                                  FIC KLI

Knickerbocker, Charles  Summer Doctor                                                             FIC KNI

Knowles, Ardeana          Pink Chimneys                                                              FIC KNO

Landay, William             Mission Flats                                                                 FIC LAN

Langan, Sarah               The Keeper                                                                    FIC LAN (PBK)

Martin, Sarah Beth         The One True Ocean                                                      FIC MAR

McLane, Charles            Red Right Returning                                                       FIC MCL

Moore, Ruth                  Speak to the Winds                                                       FIC MOO

Ogilvie, Elisabeth           High Tide at Noon                                                          FIC OGI

Pelletier, Cathie             The Weight of Winter                                                      FIC PEL

Phippen, Sanford           People Trying to Be Good                                               FIC PHI

Preston, Douglas           Riptide                                                                          FIC PRE

Reid, Van                      Fiddler’s Green                                                              FIC REI

Roberts, Kenneth           Arundel                                                                         FIC ROB

Robinson, Lewis            Water Dogs                                                                   FIC ROB

Robinson, Roxana          Cost                                                                             FIC ROB

Russo, Richard              The Whore’s Child and other Stories                                FIC RUS

Scott, Peter                   Something In the Water                                                  FIC SCO

Shetterly, Susan Hand   The Tinker of Salt Cove                                                   FIC SHE

Siddons, Ann Rivers       Colony                                                                          FIC SID

Stephens, C.A.              Sailing on the Ice                                                           FIC STE

Strout, Elizabeth            Abide With Me                                                               FIC STR

Thayer, Cynthia             A Brief Lunacy                                                               FIC THA

Turner, Philip                 I Am General Eaton                                                        FIC TUR

Williams, Ben Ames      Come Spring                                                                 FIC WIL

Wilson, Robley              The Victim’s Daughter                                                    FIC WIL

Wood, Monica               Ernie’s Ark                                                                    FIC WOO

Wood, Sally                  Tales of the Night                                                           FIC WOO

Wuori, G.K.                   Nude in Tub: Stories of Quillfarkeag, Maine                      813.54 WUO

Maine Mysteries

Blanchard, Alice            Darkness Peering                                                          MYS BLA (PBK)

Borthwick, J.S.              The Down East Murders                                                 MYS BOR (PBK)

Boyle, Gerry                  Deadline                                                                        MYS BOY, MYS BOY (PBK)

Clark, A. Carmen           The Maine Mulch Murder                                                MYS CLA

Coursen, H.R.                Murder Under the Pines                                                  MYS COU

Crossman, D.A.             Dead of Winter                                                               MYS CRO

Emerson, Kathy Lynn     Deadlier than the Pen                                                     MYS EME

Erwin, Page                   Bloodsport at Hiram Bog                                     MYS ERW

Flora, Kate                    Playing God                                                                  MYS FLO

Graves, Sarah                Dead Cat Bounce                                                          MYS GRA (PBK)

Greenlaw, Linda             Slipknot                                                                       MYS GRE

Hanstein, Woody           Not Proven                                                                    MYS HAN

Kenney, Susan              Graves in Academe                                                        MYS KEN

Kimball, Michael            Mouth to Mouth                                                             MYS KIM

King, Stephen                The Colorado Kid                                                           MYS KIN (PBK), CD KIN

MacInerney, Karen         Murder Most Maine                                                        MYS MAC

MacLeod, Charlotte        Something in the Water                                                  MYS MCL

Morison, B.J.                 Beer and Skittles                                                           MYS MOR

Oliver, Teagan                Obsidian                                                                       MYS OLI

Page, Katherine Hall      The Body in the Kelp                                                      MYS PAG (PBK)

Saum, Karen                 I Never Read Thoreau                                                     MYS SAU

Van De Wetering, Jan    The Maine Massacre                                                      MYS VAN, CAS VAN

Wait, Lea                      Shadows on the Coast of Maine                                      MYS WAI, MYS WAI (PBK)

Maine Non-Fiction

Beam, Lura                   A Maine Hamlet                                                             917.41 BEA

Beston, Henry               Northern Farm                                                               630.1 BES, LT 630.1 BES

Braestrup, Kate             Here if You Need Me                                                      B BRA

Corson, Trevor               The Secret Life of Lobsters                                             595.384 COR

Hanna, Thomas             Shoutin’ into the Fog                                                      974.185 HAN

Kennedy, Kate               More Than Petticoats                                                     920.72 KEN

Loxterkamp, David         A Measure of My Days                                                   610 LOX

MacDougall, Pauleena    The Penobscot Dance of Resistance                               974.004 MAC

Moore, James                Human Sacrifice                                                            364.152 MOO

Nelson, James L.           George Washington’s Secret Navy                                  973.35 NEL

Shulman, Alix Kates      Drinking the Rain                                                           B SHU

Wilson, Dorothy Clark    The Big-Little World of Doc Pritham                                 B PRI

Maine Anthologies

Contemporary Maine Fiction                                           FIC CON

The Eloquent Edge                                                         810.8 ELO

The Maine Reader                                                          810.8 MAI

Maine Speaks                                                               810.8 MAI

A Place on Water                                                          508.741 KIM

The Way Life Should Be                                                 FIC WAY

White Pine and Blue Water                                             810.8 WHI

On Wilderness: Voices from Maine                                  508.741 ONW

FMI

During a Belfast Harbor cruise on the MV Patience, Dr. C. Sue McCullough, Director of the University of Maine Hutchinson Center noticed the clear maps the Maine Coast Welcome Center uses to direct guests to the Belfast waterfront. It's the only area map showing the Belfast downtown and the Route One lodging corridor.

Jim LeClair of the Maine Coast Welcome Center says, “We get lots of guests trying to find Belfast from Route One, so we developed our Concierge Maps to show our guests how to find local area businesses.”

Dr. McCullough asked if the map could be modified to include the location of the Hutchinson Center so the Concierge Maps may be used by the Hutchinson Center as a guide to the Belfast area for Places to Stay, Places to Eat, and Things to Do for Hutchinson Center guests.

The Hutchinson Center in Belfast hosts many seminars and conferences, drawing attendees from all over the world. For example the COSIT 2011 Conference on Spatial Information Theory has over 125 attendees from across the world coming to Belfast ! According to Dr. McCullough, the Hutchinson Center will host over 30,000 attendees for 2011. For specific details about the capabilities of the Hutchinson Center contact Erica Hughes at 800-753-9044.

The Hutchinson Center and the Maine Coast Welcome Center have teamed up to benefit all these visitors to Belfast. Jim modified the map to show the location of the Hutchinson Center and has provided a web link so that the Hutchinson Center may provide customised Concierge Maps to their attendees or email them a web version anywhere in the world. The Maine Coast Welcome Center provides the maps so Hutchinson Center visitors experience an easier way to discover Belfast area Places to Stay, Places to Eat, and Things to Do !

The Maine Coast Welcome Center will also be listed Hutchinson Center Events on their Things to Do Calendar. Learn about the Conference on Spatial Information Theory HERE.

Here's the Hutchinson Center version of the Belfast Concierge Map. View the On-Line version HERE.

We used to think it would be easy to find rooms with the internet. Unfortunately, it's like expecting all our guests to speak the same language.

Hospitality speaks Expedia, Hotwire, Travelocity, Priceline, Tripadvisor, etc. with dialects like Hotel, motel, cottage, resort, cabin, B&B, & campground. So as we qualify our guests to find them a room to meet their needs, we use lots of tools.

We have personal experience with Hospitality partners. We maintain contact with them both seasonally for when they open & close AND daily during the peak season when they let us know what their AVAILABILITY is, what their SPECIALS are, when they are FULL and when they have CANCELLATIONS.

So when you need a room, come on by and we'll find one for you!

Go get 'em Dane !

FMI