A Myth of Messina by Nikolai Dejevsky, PhD
The turmoil and alienation of a precocious, nature-loving youth reflect the changing identity of the American Dream in small-town life among Russian émigrés of Richmond Maine in postwar America.

A Voice for the Redwoods by Loretta Halter
Follow the heartwarming life story of a California Redwood, told through its eyes, spanning from a time when America was inhabited by Native Americans up to modern times.

Above the Gravel Bar: The Native Canoe Routes of Maine by David S. Cook
With this book you can put your canoe in a nearby river or pond and travel prehistoric routes to campgrounds thousands of years old. Discover the birchbark canoe with the Indians of the Northeast.

The Adventures of Sir Goblin, The Feline Knight by Barbara E. Moss
Join this unusual, twenty-pound tomcat in seven tales of adventure and mystery as he becomes the center of extraordinary events. Experience the sights, sounds, and realities of medieval Europe through true-to-life descriptions of knights, castles, and town life.

Freda's Diary: The Ongoing Life of a Central Maine Woman, 1927 –1999 — a Born-Again Experience by Freda C. Merry. A simple, honest day-to-day account of the life of an American woman, from a marginalized life in rural central Maine of the 1920s, to a position of leadership in the community.

Indian Summer: The Return of The Myth of The Running Man by Vance Cornell
A wild, anti-Armageddon, a paranormal love story with pathos and comedy. This is the return of the Native American myth of the Running Christ, told with a humanistic voice from the future.

Letters From A Civil War Surgeon by Dr. William Child of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. Out of print, try Amazon.com used books.
These civil war letters, recently discovered and shown on CNN, Paula Zahn Now, are published with 176 black & white halftones including over 150 pictures of the original letters next to the text, transcribed by Dr. Child's descendents.

Madalynn The Monarch Butterfly And Her Quest To Michoacan by Mary Baca Haque
Journey with Madalynn as she migrates to Mexico. Madalynn encounters a variety of birds on her travels. Come and enjoy how they entertain, educate and challenge her liberating spirit. English text with Spanish translation and study guides.

Manitou: A Mythological Journey In Time by Ramona du Houx
Welcome to Manitou, the Land of Living Imagination. Join five adventurous souls and sail upstream into the cosmically balanced atmosphere of the powers of nature with Merlin the magician, and Polar Bear. You soon find out there is more to a polar bear and to Merlin than you ever imagined.

Martin McMillan and the Lost Inca City by Elaine Russell
Martin takes his skateboard on an archaeological dig in Peru — and rides down a secret path to adventure. He gains insight into the modern adult world, the Incan world, and his own world, while becoming immersed in a new culture where meetings and clashes between richly diverse civilizations lead to a web of secret activity.

Millicent the Magnificent by Burton Hoffmann, PhD
Amanda discovers that there is magic in music when a mockingbird she names Millicent speaks. When Millicent sings, Amanda's piano teacher is enchanted, and the new friends and family plan a musical career for the magical mockingbird.

Moods and Memories by Nikolai Dejevsky
Fifty-eight trips in blank verse provide meetings with people and places of Maine and beyond where philosophy, art, and historical events are highlighted by the poetic merging of Russian and American traditions.

My Tainted Blood by Hubert C. Kueter, PhD
Colby professor emeritus of German literature recounts surviving the Nazis and postwar racism. The half-Jewish teenager forages to feed family and friends. With humorous and picaresque adventures involving German, Russian, and African American soldiers, Kueter tells the multifaceted story of the German Jews and their unrequited love of Germany.

Nighthawk's Dreams by Jesse Arbour and other unknown poets with Shakespeare, Hardy and Tolkien
Jesse 'Nighthawk' Arbour has the creativity that inspires you to recollect poems that conjure mythical lands. His poems are collected here — alongside a handful of other poems by authors both known and unknown, and work by several visual artists.

 

One Dream and Collected Stories by Bet Shoshannah Pecora and anonymous authors
Endorsed by President Clinton and Maine Governors King and Baldacci, this is a hard-hitting and nationally-recognized collection of stories written by young people dealing with alcohol, substance abuse, and the consequences this has on their lives.

Polar Bear's Welcome children's story audio cassette by Ramona du Houx. Out of print.
This is a 60 min. story cassette that definitely shows why the word "wild" has more than one meaning. Ride the rainbow from Maine to Greece to the North Pole with characters from the author's novel, Manitou. It's a year-round Christmas adventure.

Seasons by David Kroner and Ramona du Houx
Captures the curiosity that children naturally have about the world and the seasons. Engages through exciting adventures of the imagination — from pumpkins that come alive to the dragons of stormy weather. Calms with reflective rhymes that look closely at the beauty of the changing year.

The Deadman's Guide to Living, Book I: Correcting Life's Mistakes Before You Make Them by Dorian E. Deveraux
The Deadman's Guide to Living is the first in this series of thought-provoking, philosophical poetry meant to stimulate, motivate, and enlighten one's mind into a new level of conscious thought: taking one's spirit through the negatives and positives of existence and leaving you with more answers than questions.

The Legend of Aurora by Susan Ellen Katz
A mythological story of music, by music therapist Susan Ellen Katz. "This starlit saga takes us to the realm of dreams, music and imagination. Rest and be rewarded with this lyric, romantic story." -Don Campbell, author of The Harmony of Health and Sound Spirit.

The Proud and the Immortal by Oswald Rivera
Written with warmth and wit, this is the story of a community within a community under the streets of New York City. With compelling insight from first-hand experience, the reader is brought underground to live in disused Amtrak tunnels under Riverside Park with a family of friends existing on the edge day by day, foraging above ground and surviving in the streets, until they are moved out—.

Two Birds in a Box by KT Valliere-Denis Ouilette
A true story of a successful attempt to save fledgling sparrows and return them to the wild, while working with their parents and the wider community of sparrows, with helpful advice from National Audubon Society Volunteers.

Welcome Radio: Tales From the General Store by Annie Stillwater Gray
This is disk jockey Annie's novelized radio variety show, with Annie and Andy at The General Store, now in its tenth year. In a northern Maine town, mythological characters use a magical doorway to appear as guests on the radio show, while the local inhabitants have their own stories to tell. Against the seasonal background and drama of Maine's changing weather, tensions build as the community takes sides over buried treasure and the enduring quest for love and fulfillment.

Venice and the Water: A Model for Our Planet by Piero Bevilacqua
Traces Venice’s political and environmental history. Bevilacqua recommends the time-tested scientific approach that kept private interests secondary to those of the commonwealth, as a model for rescuing the planet. New edition, revised and expanded, with an afterword by Massimo Cacciari, Mayor of Venice. Published in Italian, French, and German, Venice and the Water is now available in English, translated by Charles A. Ferguson, professor emeritus of Colby College.

Wisdom of Bear by Holly Barry, Dawn Renée Levesque, and Ramona du Houx
Beginning with the story of a little boy who wanders off to live with bears, bringing a name to his people, this collection of poems and prose explores our relationship with Nature and her bears, with humorous, original, and moving tales based on mythology.

Women Who Walk With The Sky by Dawn Renée Levesque
Welcome to eight mythological tales adapted from Native traditions. Adventure with the heroines who bring balance back to the sun, moon, the sky and the people.

Woodland of Weir: America in 2276 AD by Nikolai Dejevsky
A prophetic novel before 9/11, extrapolating the pressures that lead to a dictatorship disguised as democracy. The New United States of America — NUSA — emerges from the environmental and psychic aftershocks of a failed attempt to stop Halley's Comet from impacting Earth. In the Northeastern Zone, beyond the borders of accepted civilization, democracy survives, while truth, patriotism, and betrayal are uncovered with an unfolding romance in the "Woodland of Weir."

Your Maine Lands: Reflections of a Maine Guide by Tom Hanrahan
On behalf of Maine's Department of Conservation, a master Maine guide introduces the free amenities of the nearly one million acres of Maine's public lands, including hunting and fishing, with advice on how to prepare for a visit to the North Maine Woods. With 38 illustrations by Maine artist and veteran Kelly Thorndike.