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This story is the story of Wiley Hornbuckle. It is a story of survival and peace. It is the story of the author’s lifetime experience with depression, the grace of God and the wealth of suffering.

Excerpt: My thoughts go back to the big city of Portland where I started school at age six-we went directly into first grade- Lenora and I. Our first day at school in Portland she got us both in trouble...I never forgot it.

As Tilly and Skeet prepare to embark upon a new future together, something devastating stops them cold. Would it ever come to be, especially after the shocking news they have just received?

“The spirituals always signified that something important was going on; something extraordinary that needed God’s special attention.”

A young boy seeks friendship in a forbidden place where he learns valuable lessons in acceptance, forgiveness, and the indomitable human spirit.

Tilly Fig is about the life of a teenage girl and her best friend.
It is a story of love, friendship…and murder.

My grandfather asked me to pray every day and he would take care of me. I have lived up to my promise and he has been my guardian angel. He has saved my life 28 times. Additionally, I have witnessed 59 angelic encounters in my home. All has been covered in this book.

A blend of biography and military history, Looking for Eddie recounts the life and death of U. S. Marine Corporal Edward Joseph Couchon, Jr., a charismatic young man of exceptional promise and deep religious faith.

Voices from the Past: Oral Histories of a Maine Fishing Village—brings to life a time when humor and tragedy underscored the everyday existence of these seafaring people.

“Fans, new and old, of smart and inquisitive Jessie Tyler will love going along on her latest adventure, as a relaxing family trip to beautiful Baxter State Park lands Jessie right where she isn’t wanted—in the middle of a murder investigation.”

Hester Pennix, the legendary schoolmarm; Devon Finley, the improvident med student; Ludmilla Dandridge, the doubting professor; and Henry Fleming, the Civil War soldier; are just some of the characters who populate John Hagan’s second collection of short stories, Ties That Inspire.

Explores themes that include friends and heroes, epiphany, coming of age, futile pursuit, lost love, arcane experience, and ironies of life. Although fictional, these characteristics provide feasible realistic slices of life, coupled with plausible resolutions.

Maine Passages is a collection of stories about a boy growing up under the influence of his Maine environment. In a sense it is a period piece as the stories reveal middle class society of the 1940s to the early 1960s.

My Mother's Dressing Room
by Siobhan McDonough

Framing a Life, Building a House
by Eileen Sypher