BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS from book reviewer Bill Bushnell September, 2007

Maine Books

SEASMOKE: CRIME STORIES BY NEW ENGLAND WRITERS, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw. Level Best Books, 2006.

WINDSWEPT By Mary Ellen Chase. Islandport Press, 2006.

THE ROAD WASHES OUT IN SPRING: A POET'S MEMOIR OF LIVING OFF THE LAND By Baron Wormser. University Press of New England, 2006.

CONTENTMENT COVE By Miriam Colwell. Islandport Press, 2007.

SMOKED By Patrick Quinlan. St. Martin's Press, 2006.

THE RELUCTANT PATRIOT By Roger F. Duncan. Down East Books, 2006.

THROUGH A HOWLING WILDERNESS: BENEDICT ARNOLD'S MARCH TO QUEBEC, 1775 By Thomas A. Desjardin. St. Martin's Press, 2006

SAND DOLLAR SUMMER By Kimberly K. Jones. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2006.

TEMPLE STREAM By Bill Roorbach. Dial Press, 2005.

OUT OF BOUNDS By John Corrigan. University Press of New England, 2006. (or any of his Jack Austin mysteries)

WHILE YOU'RE HERE, DOC: ADVENTURES OF A MAINE VETERINARIAN By Bradford B. Brown. Tilbury House Publishers, 2006. (or JUST ONE MORE THING, DOC, also by Tilbury House, 2007)

Maine Children's Books

WIND BIRD: GIFT OF THE MIST By Sarah Stiles Bright. Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute, 2006.

GRACE FOR AN ISLAND MEAL By Rachel Field. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

THE MUSHROOM MAN By Ethel Pochocki. Tilbury House Publishers, 2006

Other Titles

THE GOOD, GOOD PIG: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD By Sy Montgomery. Ballentine Books, 2006.

THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

NO SHORTCUTS TO THE TOP: CLIMBING THE WORLD'S 14 HIGHEST PEAKS By Ed Viesturs. Broadway Books, 2006.

A RACE FOR REAL SAILORS: THE BLUENOSE AND THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERMAN'S CUP, 1920-1938 By Keith McLaren. David R. Godine Publisher, 2006.

TOO DARN HOT By Sandra Scoppettone. Ballentine Books, 2006.

SEA OF THUNDER: FOUR COMMANDERS AND THE LAST GREAT NAVAL CAMPAIGN, 1941-1945 By Evan Thomas. Simon & Schuster, 2006.

GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT: THE SOLDIER AND THE MAN By Edward G. Longacre. DaCapo Press, 2006.

MY BATTLE OF ALGIERS By Ted Morgan. Smithsonian Books, 2005.

THE RIVER OF DOUBT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DARKEST JOURNEY By Candace Millard. Doubleday, 2005.

TRUE NORTH: PEARY, COOK, AND THE RACE TO THE POLE By Bruce Henderson. Norton & Company, 2005.

TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN By Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, 2005.