DescriptionNewberry is a curious clam. He also has a very sore neck! When the local doctor prescribes a purple muffler for the pain, Newberry takes it all in stride, and what follows makes for some very funny listening! From starfish to sandpipers, barnacles to crickets, the whole crew of Maine shorelife is dazzlingly brought to life in Vincent Dethier's hilarious, heartwarming Newberry: The Life and Times of a Maine Clam .
DescriptionAt first, it seems that Peter Hatcher's summer vacation is going to be a scene from his worst nightmare. Peter's parents have decided to spend three weeks in Maine sharing a house with Cootie Queen Sheila Tubman and the rest of her family. To make matters worse, Peter's younger brother, Fudge, the five-year-old human dynamo, has decided to marry Sheila! But things begin to look up once Peter discovers that Maine is full of surprises, and his best friend Jimmy Fargo joins him at the shore to share in the fun!
DescriptionA divorced woman, Roberta Jewett, returns to Camden, Maine, with her 3 daughters, to start a new life on her own. It's the summer of 1916 and Roberta faces the obstacles of rumors and innuendo, not to mention the lack of support from her mother and sister. In her efforts to rebuild both her life and a ramshackle house on the harbor, Roberta endures violence, betrayal, and her share of pain. But she also finds love, friendship, and acceptance from a most unlikely source. Come to Camden and share this summer story by the master weaver of life's tales, LaVyrle Spencer, New York Times best selling author and winner of the Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion Award.
DescriptionSpecial effort was made to capture the dialect in these seven gems carefully lifted from the treasures of life in New England at the turn of the century. Included are: "Miss Tempy's Watchers", in which two friends, one poor, one well-to-do, sit up wi…
DescriptionAward-winning children's author Robert McCloskey has touched the imaginations of children all across America with his stories and illustrations. Drawing from his own boyhood experiences and those of his daughter, McCloskey's stories leave young readers and listeners full of new discoveries of the world at their feet. His classic Time of Wonder takes place in the beautiful islands of Penobscot Bay, Maine. From a foggy morning spring to the high and low tides of summer, to the aftermath of a hurricane on a cool gentle morning in fall, Time of Wonder will lull you with its simple, rhythmic prose.
DescriptionA dark and sweeping adventure, Dreamcatcher is set in the haunted city of Derry - the site of Stephen King's It and Insomnia . In it, four young boys stand together and do a brave, good thing, an act that changes them in ways that they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, as grown men who have gone their separate ways, these friends come together once a year to hunt in the woods of Maine. This particular year, a stranger stumbles into their campsite, and before long, the friends are plunged into the most remarkable adventure of their lives. They wind up in a life and death struggle, their only hope for survival locked in their shared past...and in the dreamcatcher.
