Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook: 200 Recipes Celebrating Maine's Culinary Past, Present, and Future (Paperback)

By Karl Schatz, Margaret Hathaway

$18.18

The past, present, and future eh? You can't ask for more coverage than that! Delightful and informative anecdotes, captivating historical photos, and great recipes abound in this triumphant Maine bicentennial cookbook. No Maine kitchen should be caught without a copy!

Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith (Hardcover)

By E. B. White, Edmund Ware Smith, Martha White (Introduction by)

$22.46

The charm of an exchange of vibrant and well-turned letters is one of literature's enduring pleasures. The correspondence of E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith found in Chickens, Gin, and  a Maine Friendship, so full of wit, life, wry humor, and nuanced affection is a pure pleasure to read. No matter how dreary the world may be on a given day, there is no fog so thick that a few of these epistles cannot dispel it with these warm voices from a sunny world

Long Bright River: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Liz Moore

$23.40

Moore delivers a powerhouse here, a detective story which transcends its genre and defies its readers' expectations. Her take-no-prisoners style left no possibility for a sequel and leaves its readers with a story which lingers in the mind long after the last word is read. Long Bright River delivers an exceptional detective story and exposes the true nature of a profound and ongoing social tragedy in doing so.

Piranesi (Hardcover)

By Susanna Clarke

$24.30

What a remarkable book Piranesi is. Fifteen years have passed since Clarke's last novel, the magnificent Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.  Clarke has transposed this period of stasis in her life into the pages and passages of Piranesi, infusing the tale with atmosphere and insight. Piranesi, he who is the mysterious hero of this tale, inhabits an almost infinite house filled with halls of porcelain statues and a questing sea whose tides he has mastered. As the truth of his odd existence unspools, it feeds a quiet intensity that suddenly steps out into the light of a brilliant and satisfying conclusion. Many are the tales of portals to adjacent worlds. Piranesi has an air of authenticity about which is unique.

The Ranger (Hardcover)

By Nancy Vo

$16.16

The Ranger is an unusual story, spare in its telling and powerful in its rendering.  A Ranger cares for a wounded fox and receives a lesson in that caring is not a quid pro quo but an act unto itself. This deeply resonant book of is a treasure to share.

A Deadly Education: A Novel (The Scholomance #1) (Hardcover)

By Naomi Novik

$25.20

Naomi Novick, always an intricate storyteller, weaves her magic upon the worthy subject of a school of dark magic as explored though they eyes of a most dangerous student narrator, Galadrial. Galadrial has no interest in giving either her readers or her classmates the story they expect. The challenging engagement offered by her unsettling narrator is used to great effect by Novick. A Deadly Education which will delight her existing fans as well as drawing in the readers of other tales of nefarious magical education such as Lev Grossman's Magicians Trilogy.

Foodie Faces (Hardcover)

By Bill Wurtzel, Claire Wurtzel

$16.19

Foodie Faces is just genius. This series of emotive faces rendered from pieces of food, will cause the most serious mien to bend into a smile. The magic that the Wurtzel team brings to these pages creates the best kind of learning, where knowledge just happens in the process of discovery and enjoyment. If you don't  love Foodie Faces your heart is astray indeed.

Lift (Hardcover)

By Minh Lê, Dan Santat (Illustrator)

$16.19

Minh Le's engaging, high concept tale of multiple dimensions accessed within an apartment building by a magical elevator, is brought vividly to life by Dan Santat's sublime art. This is just the book for anyone looking to give a more challenging picture book to engage the imagination of 4-6 year olds. There is so much to discover, so many unexpected twists and turns, that children will wander its pages over and over again.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)

By V. E. Schwab

$24.29

Schwab proffers up a deliciously atmospheric story, one which adds elements of attitude and agency to the traditional tale of a Faustian bargain. Addie Laroux, seeking escape from an arranged marriage in the rural France of 1714, makes a bargain with a god who answers in the night and grants her an immortal life which leaves no trace on those living around her. Addie cannot be remembered by any of the lives she touches. Yet she transcends her circumstances in a manner that other Gothic victims such as Melmoth the Wanderer can only envy from a distance. This is a compelling and deeply absorbing account, a page turner with real depth. A novel not to be missed.