Author: Brian Vanden Brink
Publisher: Down East Books
Keywords: america, vanishing, photographs, ruin
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0892727934
ISBN-13: 9780892727933

Brian Vanden Brink is one of America’s most sought-after architectural photographers. He is also drawn to the mystery and unexpected beauty found in abandoned architecture. Here Vanden Brink captures and illuminates in stunning black and white images abandoned structures such as mills, bridges, grain elevators, churches, and storefronts-structures that once were important and useful. With text by historic preservation expert Howard Mansfield, this collection of photos grants permanence to places that may soon vanish forever.

Author: Janice Wright
Publisher: Down East Books
Keywords: designs, new, dramatic, sweaters, masterpiece
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1994-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0892723343
ISBN-13: 9780892723348

Author: Eleanor Morse
Publisher: Down East Books
Keywords: forest, unexpected
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-04-25
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0892727446
ISBN-13: 9780892727445

In this quirky first novel, the U.S. Forestry Department mistakenly delivers 1,000 spruce tree seedlings to former attorney Horace, who decides to plant the tiny trees in the wild. Horace’s wife begins to think he’s gone mad. Into the mix come an ex-convict, who helps Horace plant the trees, and his girlfriend. Four souls adrift finally come together on a Maine island, where they discover unexpected joy in each other’s company and ultimately come together as a family.

Author: Holly Nadler
Publisher: Down East Books
Keywords: town, boston, ghosts
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-09-25
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0892725354
ISBN-13: 9780892725359

Ranging from the 18th century to the present and from Beacon Hill to windswept Cape Ann, Holly Nadler’s collection of true ghost stories from Boston and its environs offers a varied sampling of supernatural phenomena. Many of these tales offer a satisfying dose of ghoulish and frightening details; others are colored with a certain poignancy or even humor.

Author: Thomas Verde
Publisher: Down East Books
Keywords: legends, ghosts, maine
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0892722738
ISBN-13: 9780892722730

Freelance writer and reporter Tom Verde became interested in Maine ghosts and legends when he was researching a series for public radio programs. He discovered that Maine has a rich history of supernatural phenomena. He writes: "I have accepted the testimonies of the people in this book as truth. You will have to judge for yourself."

Author: Karel Hayes
Publisher: Down East Books
Keywords: visitors, winter
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0892727500
ISBN-13: 9780892727506

This charming and highly original story reveals what happens at a vacation cottage once the summer visitors have left for the winter. With fewer than two dozen words, the story is told primarily in pictures. Children and adults will revel in the activities of a family of bears that takes up residence in the empty camp.

Author: Nancy Johnson
Publisher: Down East Books
Keywords: war, story, civil, place, sounding, sweet
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-10-25
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0892727578
ISBN-13: 9780892727575

Moses is found as an infant next to his dying mother, an escaped slave, and is brought to Boston and raised with a baker’s family. He grows to be a willful teenager, and after his uncle enlists in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment--the first and most famous black Civil War regiment--Moses is keen on following him to war, hoping to serve his country and find out about his mother.