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903) We own the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise. Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative-a famous aviator-they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind the scenes. The KKK is on the rise in Maine that summer, inspired by the racial fears...
904) Grit
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's summer in rural Maine. When 17-year-old Darcy Prentiss isn't raking berries with her sister during the day, she's drinking and swimming with the boys in the quarry at night. But the fun is what's been keeping Darcy's mind off the disturbing secret she shares with Nell, the disappearance of her ex-best friend, and that hazy Fourth of July party that ended with Darcy drunk, flat on her back, and wondering how she let it get this far. Everything...
905) The rescue
Author
Series
Dog whisperer volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily's nightmares of drowning lead her to an injured dog near her family's coastal Maine home, and as she nurses him back to health, she becomes aware that they have a strange psychic connection.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better world, A Man Apart is the story--part family memoir and part biography--of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow's longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them examine and understand their own. Coperthwaite inspired many by living close to nature and in opposition to contemporary society, and was often compared to Henry...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
221 pages : map ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear. Includes historical facts and a map of Sudan.
Author
Series
Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"After Lucy P. Simmons's parents drown, Lucy must find a way to keep her greedy aunt and uncle from taking her family's house. A mysterious woman who seems to come from the sea, as well as the house itself, come to Lucy's aid"--
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1,018 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. It seems murder follows her around, whether it be to the houses of her seemingly endless number of friends, nieces, and nephews or right in her hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine. She has become a respected amateur criminologist, helping the police solve crime. Jessica is sometimes assisted by her friends, relatives or other sleuths.
913) Imagining Ichabod: my journey into 18th-century America through history, food, and a Georgian house
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
914) Northeast
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
This video takes viewer to visit the states of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Also to explore the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain ...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist's final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business. "I'm an artist, not a business man," Robert Indiana said, refusing to copyright his iconic LOVE sculpture in 1965....
917) Mistwalker
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Forbidden to set foot on her family's lobster boat after her brother's death, sixteen-year-old Willa will do anything to help her grieving, financially-troubled family, even turn to the weird Grey Man who haunts the lighthouse near her small Maine village.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xix, 483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
x, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the remarkable visionaries who have quietly dedicated their lives and their fortunes to saving the planet from ecological destruction. While many people remain paralyzed by the scope of Earth's environmental woes, eco barons--a new and largely unheralded generation of Rockefellers and Carnegies--are having spectacular success saving forests and wildlands, pulling endangered species back from the brink, and pioneering the clean and green...
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