Latest Releases [back to book menu] Order by clicking here, or contact us by phone (207) 643-2795, email polarbear@polarbearandco.com Polar Bear titles are available to stores everywhere through the international wholesaler Baker & Taylor. So please visit your community's bookstores often! Growing Up on an Island Off the Coast of Maine by Carroll M. Haskell Of the many books that have been written about the people who live on islands off the Maine coast, few are by individuals who were born and raised on an island. This book is an exception. Unicycle: The Book of Fictitious Symmetry and Non-Random Truth by Paul Cornell du Houx Unicycle is the story of a book that unravels one of nature's riddles with an alternative math, by a river in Maine. Piecing Scattered Souls by David O. Solmitz "A major contribution to the newly growing body of Holocaust-survivor-children's memoirs." —Steven Cerf, George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of German and Holocaust Studies, Bowdoin College Three Hundred Years In Thirty by Nicholas N. Smith, PhD "Nicholas Smith has maintained a decades-long familiarity with Mistassini, a familiarity documented in his own photographic collection and complemented by his work as an ethnohistorian. His book should provide a welcome personal and historically knowledgeable record of the community." —Thomas Stone, Prof. of Anthropology Emeritus, SUNY Potsdam The Deadman's Guide to Living, Book II: Learning What You Already Know To Be True by Dorian E. Deveraux The second in this continuing series of philisophical poetry. 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. At the Place of the Lobsters and Crabs: Indian People and Deer Isle, Maine: 1606-2005 by William A. Haviland, PhD, professor emeritus of the University of Vermont and author of the textbook, Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, and The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants, Past and Present. At the Place of the Lobsters and Crabs is published with the Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society. Welcome Radio, Tales of the General Store by Annie Stillwater Gray A mystic novel of community radio in northern Maine, by disk jockey Annie Stillwater Gray. Venice and the Water: A Model for Our Planet by Piero Bevilacqua 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.