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Welcome
to Islandport
We are a dynamic, award-winning publisher dedicated to stories rooted in the essence and sensibilities of Maine and New England. We strive to capture and explore the grit, heart, beauty, and infectious spirit of the region by telling tales, real and imagined, that can be appreciated in many forms by readers, dreamers, and adventurers everywhere.
Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn won Academy Awards for what 1981 movie filmed on Squam Lake?
New Hampshire
Trivia
by Rebecca Rule
Rebecca “Becky” Rule’s New Hampshire Trivia is a fascinating, educational, and entertaining collection of facts and stories that will test your knowledge and spark your curiosity to learn even more about this great state. Plus, Becky adds in her signature sense of humor to make this book of trivia fun and engaging. There’s something for everyone with more than 500 questions in such categories as History, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Notables, Natural Wonders, Strange and Unexpected, and much more.
Stories from a Bed & Breakfast on the Edge of Town
Farmhouse
On the Edge of Town
by Lew-Ellyn Hughes
Lew-Ellyn Hughes dreams of leaving city life and finding a place where she can see her beloved Maine wilderness from her window each morning. Her dreams finally come true when she finds a nineteenth-century farmhouse for sale in Stratton, an idyllic town nestled in between lakes and mountains. She decides to turn it into Diamond Corner, a cozy, five-room bed-and-breakfast, sharing her love of Maine with visitors from all over the world. Farmhouse on the Edge of Town is a collection of heartwarming and humorous stories from fifteen years of owning the bed-and-breakfast that features a cast of hardy Mainers, colorful guests, and lovable family, as Lew-Ellyn juggles their wants and needs with her trademark humor and insight. From opening up a bakery in her kitchen to painting her house to shoveling snow, her stories will delight anyone who’s ever spent time in a small town.
More than 100 Historic Images!
Shipping Dec. 3
Working the Sea
by Michael Crowley and Penobscot Marine Museum
Drawn from the pre-digital photographic archives of National Fisherman and Atlantic Fisherman, Working the Sea features more than one hundred historically significant images that highlight the sweeping changes that took place in America’s nineteenth century fisheries, focusing especially on the boats and people that have always served as the backbone of the industry. Working the Sea was made possible by the generosity of National Fisherman, a leading Maine-based trade magazine for commercial fishing that once billed itself as “the saltiest magazine on the newsstand,” and its predecessor Atlantic Fisherman. The two magazines together have donated more than three thousand images to the Penobscot Marine Museum.
Praise for
The Islanders
byLewis Robinson
“In Lewis Robinson’s riveting new novel The Islanders, his eighteen-year-old protagonists are…brave and smart and decent and resourceful. Also, wildly entertaining.”
—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
"Accomplished... lean and sure-handed. [Robinson] is a keen observer of truths about place...and about people, too." —Boston Sunday Globe
"A thrilling story of teenage survival and camaraderie."—Kirkus Reviews
“Robinson is at his expansive best, reaching into a fraught American moment while retaining his gift for creating endearing characters...I was enthralled from first page to last, and couldn’t wait to get back to the island.”
—Monica Wood, author of How to Read a Book
"With an impeccable sense of timing and razor-sharp depictions of character, Lewis Robinson takes the reader through incidents that are too intriguing to resist; funny, unexpected, and always oddly poignant, this storyteller has a v