Filter By Subjects
Authors, American 20th century Biography Chinese Americans Fiction Hawaii Social life and customs Iftin, Abdi Nor Lende, Heather 1959- Maine Biography Maine Social life and customs Solitude United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Women novelists, American 20th century BiographyFilter By Genres
Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. collective biographies. Essays. Novels.Filter By Subjects
Authors, American 20th century Biography Chinese Americans Fiction Hawaii Social life and customs Iftin, Abdi Nor Lende, Heather 1959- Maine Biography Maine Social life and customs Solitude United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Women novelists, American 20th century BiographyFilter By Genres
Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. collective biographies. Essays. Novels.Iftin, Abdi Nor
Summary: Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 IFTIftin, Abdi Nor
Summary: Now a proud resident of Maine, on the path to citizenship, Abdi Nor Iftin's dramatic, deeply stirring memoir is truly a story for our time: a vivid reminder of why western democracies still beckon to those looking to make a better life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IFTIN, ABDI NOR IFTFrench, Erin
Summary: "Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 FRELegler, Gretchen
Summary: ""Woodsqueer" is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kindof stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences not just making a living but making a life-in this case, an agrarian one more in tune...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEGLER, GRETCHEN LEGDauphinee, Dee
Summary: Geraldine Largay vanished in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Her disappearance sparked the largest search-and-rescue operation in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.87 DAUFinkel, Michael
Summary: "For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 KNICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER FINWoodard, Colin
Summary: A history of coastal Maine's lobster communities describes their defense of local traditions, their resistance to groups that would exploit their resources, and the wisdom gleaned from lifetimes spent in support of community interests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 WOOGould, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 GOUMaines, Nicole
Summary: "Nicole Maines knows a little something about a "happily-ever-after." Not just because she's a self-professed expert in the Disney princess canon (Ariel's flowing orange hair? ICONIC). But also, she's lived it. After coming out at the age of three, her family had not only come to terms with her transgender identity and accepted her, but they won a landmark court case in the Maine Supreme Court....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ureneck, Lou.
Summary: The account of a years spent building a small post-and-beam cabin in the hills of western Maine tells a deeper story about brotherly bonds, home and nature. It explores the satisfaction of building and of physical labor. Inspired by his From the Ground Up New York Times blog, this is the author's memoir about building and brotherhood. Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 URENECK, LOU & PAUL UREShulman, Alix Kates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SHUHarpaz, Beth J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HARBraestrup, Kate.
Summary: The author documents her decision to pursue her husband's ambition to become a minister after his tragic accidental death, describing how she eventually became a spiritual counselor for families with missing loved ones during search-and-rescue missions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAESTRUP, KATE BRAHaley, John West
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 1985
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7441 HALBeston, Henry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 BESRooney, Jamie
Summary: "A police officer currently serving as the Resource and Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Officer in York, Maine, candidly relates her story of her childhood poverty, abuse, and dysfunctional families that motivated her to make something positive out of her life."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 ROONEY, JAMIE ROORoot, Phyllis
Summary: Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple starfish and pink morning glories by the shore. And she planted her first garden, tucking bright marigolds between rocky ledges. When she was twelve,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THAHyde, Thomas W. (Thomas Worcester)
Summary: "Thomas W. Hyde, a native of Maine who rose rapidly through the Union ranks and eventually received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Antietam, published his portrait of the Army of the Potomac in 1894. Following the Greek Cross tells the story of an illustrious army unit and offers rare glimpses into the Northern perspective on the war. One of the most cited - and most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7441 HYDArsenault, Kerri
Summary: "A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 ARSGrumbach, Doris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 GRUColeman, Melissa.
Summary: With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLEMAN, MELISSA COLGrumbach, Doris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 GRUGray, Edward G.
Summary: "The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Paine's grand political vision for the United States. Thomas Jefferson praised Tom Paine as the greatest political writer of the age. The author of 'Common Sense' and Rights of Man, Paine helped make revolutions in America and France. But beyond his inspiring calls to action, Paine harbored a deeper political vision...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lende, Heather
Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006