Islandport Press - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont

FICTION (alphabetical by title)

Abbott's Reach
by Ardeana Hamlin
$16.95

available as an eBook
In this sweeping historical novel, a headstrong woman prepares to go to sea with her husband, setting the stage for romance, adventure, and family strife.
more/order

Bert and I ... The Book
by Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan
$16.95

available as an eBook
Bert and I ... The Book features more than sixty classic stories from the legendary storytellers Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan, the godfathers of Down East humor, who together created the now-iconic "Bert and I" stories starting in the 1950s.
more/order

Billy Boy
by Jean Mary Flahive
$15.95
Twenty-year-old Billy Laird can’t read or write, and as his Pa says, “his mind just don’t work the way most folks’ do.” But Billy has a heart of gold and good friends in his hometown of Berwick, Maine, and when they rush to enlist in the Union Army, he goes with them. He is ill prepared for the training and fighting that follows, but he gets by with the help of his friends. Soon, however, he is sent alone to a different unit. Lonely and unsure of what to do on his own, Billy runs off and meets up with a runaway slave, Elijah. Together the two make their way north to their fates. Inspired by a true event, this tale of friendship, loyalty, and compassion will enthrall readers of all ages.
more/order

Breaking Ground
by William Andrews
$16.95

available as an eBook
Julie Williamson is embroiled yet again in another mystery set at the Ryland Historical Society in western Maine. This time, a well-known benefactor is murdered on the morning of the ceremony to celebrate construction of an important new building. Breaking Ground is the suspenseful sequel to Andrews' Stealing History.
more/order

Contentment Cove
by Miriam Colwell
$15.95
Miriam Colwell’s Contentment Cove—her fourth novel set in Maine and her first in more than five decades—is a riveting story of class distinctions in a 1950s Down East coastal village during a time of cultural change. Meet Dot-Fran, Hilary, and Mina, three residents of a Maine coastal village in the 1950s. Dot-Fran, the youngest, is a native; she runs the town's drug store. Hilary, middle-aged, is a worldly artist. The wealthy Mina and her husband retired to the town after being enchanted with its charm during a one-night visit. Their disparate lives become entwined and eventually clash tragically.
more/order

Harbor Journal, Vol. II
various authors
$24.95
Harbor Journal, Vol. II is a literary sampler from more than 50 Maine artists and writers, including nonfiction, poetry, fiction, sketches, photographs and more.
more/order

Love on the rocks: Stories of Rusticators and Romance on Mount Desert Island
Edited by John and Kathryn Muether
$15.95
This anthology celebrates Mount Desert Island in its golden age, the late 19th century, when it was a summer playground for wealthy out-of-staters, and most importantly to many, a place for the rich to meet their future husbands and wives. This special era in Maine history spawned a new genre of fiction that was known as “The Bar Harbor Novel,” romance stories about the rich falling in and out of love during their summer sojourns. The 11 pieces included in this collection include those by the great Constance Harrison, Marion Crawford, and Edward Church.
more/order

Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature
By various authors
$22.95 [currently out of stock]
This book is a treasure chest of Maine fiction, poetry, essays, legends and more. Spanning centuries, genres and topics, the more than 100 selections offer something for everyone.
more/order

Mary Peters
by Mary Ellen Chase
$15.95
Mary Peters is the first of Chase's highly acclaimed and bestselling Maine novels, capturing in vivid, compelling detail and historical accuracy a period of transition and turmoil along the coast of Maine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The novel is filled with wonderful details of the natural world, both at sea and on land. It also captures the pervasive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution as coastal people stood on the brink of a new world, slowly turning from the glorious era of sail to serving the incoming tide of wealthy summer vacationers.
more/order

Mercy: The Last New England Vampire
by Sarah L. Thomson
$16.95, Middle Grade Fiction

available as an eBook
Fourteen-year-old Haley is struggling to cope – with her stepmom and baby brother, with her beloved cousin's terminal illness, with dropping grades at school. When she digs deep into her family history for a school project, she uncovers a disturbing New England tradition and a ghostly past. Haley must overcome her doubts and confront a vampire in order to save herself and her family. Mercy, by accomplished children's author Sarah L. Thomson, is inspired by a true New England story.
more ...

Mind Over Mussels
By Hilary MacLeod
$18.95
Just when you think nothing happens on a quiet island in the Atlantic ... there's another murder.
more/order

Revenge of the Lobster Lover
By Hilary MacLeod
$18.95
Thrills and chills abound in this fast-moving murder mystery set on an island off the coast of Atlantic Canada.
more/order

Silas Crockett
By Mary Ellen Chase
$15.95
This stirring tale recounts the sweeping changes that took place on the Maine coast during the 19th and early 20th centuries. By offering superior historical detail, authenticity and great writing, Chase's classic novel is considered one of the most distinguished books in Maine history. Part of our new Maine Classics series.
more/order

Stealing History
by William D. Andrews
$15.95
Stealing History is Islandport Press' first original fiction title - a murder mystery set in a historical society in western Maine. Stealing History is sure to enthrall readers who love to curl up with a good mystery, especially one that weaves details of small town life, delightful characters and history into a suspenseful tale that keeps them guessing up until the last page.
more/order

Windswept
by Mary Ellen Chase
$15.95
Windswept is the romantic and tumultuous saga of a Maine family who makes its home Down East. The novel spans six decades, starting in the late 19th century. First printed in 1941, Windswept was a national bestseller and the biggest seller of Chase's career.
more/order

Young
by Miriam Colwell
$15.95
Young is a lively and moving story of one young woman’s restlessness and struggle with life in a small Maine coastal town during the 1950s. Young’s timeless themes still resonate as Evelyn, a recent high school graduate, confronts the question: What is she going to do with her life? All she knows for sure is that she is ready to escape a place where people know her every move and where her mother bakes bread that Evelyn delivers to the increasing number of summer residents.
more/order