After thirty years, fourteen books, and countless thrills, award-winning author Gerry Boyle writes the exciting and bittersweet final chapter for his signature character Jack McMorrow in the gritty novel, Hard Line. In this dynamic, whipsaw finale, Boyle takes readers on a wild ride with everyone’s favorite investigative reporter—a ride which leaves no one unscathed. Filled with action ripped from current events and nods to old characters and past stories, Hard Line builds with breathtaking pace to a dramatic stand-off between the forces of violent chaos and order—all set amidst the quiet pines, rough towns, and gray skies of rural Maine. In his conclusion to the McMorrow series and the two-book story arc he started in Robbed Blind, Boyle delivers his most gripping book yet.
Near the end of World War II, a German U-boat deposited two Nazi saboteurs on the coast of Maine. History tells us they were quickly captured. But what if there was a third man? A top-secret agent with a long-term mission known only to a select few in the Nazi high command—men who anticipated the ways genetic engineering could someday be used to launch a Fourth Reich? In The Third Man, this agent collaborates with a geneticist and the Ku Klux Klan to weaponize the emerging science of DNA research, first to develop lethal bacteria and ultimately to engineer modifications to the human genome. Years later, an accidental discovery at the U-boat’s landing site provides a glimpse of his mission, drawing Professor Brad Parker and Maine State Police Lieutenant Karen Richmond into a struggle to stop the creation of a new class of neo-Nazi warriors.
After their nuclear family exploded into a vaporous mushroom cloud, two siblings could only duck and cover. Young Susan basked in the glow of her brother, Robert, and was singled out by her teachers by association. Certainly, Robert's little sister would excel. But how could she ever reach their expectations? Eventually, Susan talked her way into a job at Rolling Stone Magazine. Three years later, while organizing "No Nukes" concerts at Madison Square Garden (Featuring Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and many others), she became ensnared in a rock-politics scramble, and her brother saved her. Many years later, though, Susan could not save him. Only in retrospect can she piece together how Robert's too-brief life was a brilliant disguise. This memoir winds together Susan's rock-and-roll odyssey with an exploration of Robert's life, teasing out clues as to why the past so dangerously swamped him.
Laughing at the Sky: Wild Adventure, Bold Dreams, and a Daring Search for a Stolen Childhood
Overwhelmed by traumatic flashbacks, a gutsy woman embarks on a five-year sailing odyssey to heal from her hidden past. Her quest is to reach the Bay of Virgins in French Polynesia and overcome a childhood scarred by violence and her mother's mental health struggles. Sailing her fragile boat beyond remote archipelagos, she searches for the final missing piece of her story. What she doesn't realize is that in order to heal, she must first break apart. A band of badass characters guide Heidi’s journey of self-discovery, including a therapist who's climbed to 24,000 feet on Mount Everest; a spirited third gender leader of a matrilineal society; and an outrageous Marquesan warrior. For fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Tami Oldham Ashcraft's Adrift, this bestselling memoir beautifully illuminates an inspirational voyage of healing the emotional wounds of childhood trauma to realize bold dreams. "Powerful, Tender, & Smart"—Meredith Hall, New York Times bestselling author.
"Early in his luminous Night Garden, David Stankiewicz suggests that love and longing will be his subject, and what a graceful and rich exploration these poems are. With coffee, pen and notebook, with Augustine and Coltrane, on a riverbank, in a museum with his good eyes, he carries us into our own deep longings—for the sacred, for love, for what has been lost—and for the present moment to be fully realized and overflowing, which is what these poems achieve. Like the fisherman he is, Stankiewicz casts lines into the depths and brings up for us 'the bright throbbing thing.' Through their attention to lived experience and language, these poems take us from various outskirts into the heart where things started don’t end, but 'somehow go on being born.' These are poems that sing us into transformation through intelligence, deep spiritual insight, and the sheer beauty of his language" —Betsy Sholl.
"Caroline Sulzer’s poems are precise and eloquent. In Tell Me The Moon, she uses language to build a rich visual world where we become aware of the profound manifestations of time’s passage. Reading her lyrical work, we both ache and celebrate as she writes from the perspectives of mother, daughter, and granddaughter. She has created a liminal space where we can move back and forth in time and experience the complexities of loss and love —Stuart Kestenbaum, Maine Poet Laureate 2016-2021. "Caroline Sulzer’s Tell Me The Moon is a singular book, both urgently current and timeless. Each poem cracked me open in small increments—cracked me open in totally unanticipated ways. She’s a tender and wise writer, gut honest, the language sustenance in her hands, where sometimes ‘Sentences are violet / moving toward or away / from the violent.’ Such deft handling of joy and sorrow, loss! —Annaliese Jakimides, award-winning poet and author.
All That Names Us
Keith Walker
Saddle Road Press
"Eloquent and indelible, these plainspoken poems are intensely real, evoking people and places in postwar America, both the rural South and the rustbelt North. Like my favorite books of poetry, this collection is also a secret autobiography. One by one, the poems are very fine, but they link up to suggest a memoir that looks both out at the world and deep into the soul"—Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters. "Keith Walker writes from inside what he has richly absorbed. His poems are faithful, like James Wright, to his empathy for the lost, the lonely, the rejected. They embody the full emotional register that glows with spiritual resonance and deep compassion. Ultimately, Walker's poetry arrives at the too-rare understanding that 'the heart has a shelf for everything.' This numinous collection expands the heart"—Philip Terman, author of My Blooming Everything.
"The Inside of ME is a profound reminder of what happens on the inside when we go outside. It prompts children to think about their magical, interconnected world and the possibility of a reciprocal relationship with nature. Each illustration renders a scene from a special place in Maine that is both open to the public and accessible to most small children. In the back of the book are invitations to adventure to those places. “An irresistible and inclusive invitation: to skip, roll, or run to the sea, to the pond, to the woods--where magic awaits! Recommendations for specific spots in Maine to visit, and fun activities to do there, guarantee unforgettable encounters with nature—moments that can change a kid's life. Brava!”—Sy Montgomery, National Bestselling Author of How to Be a Good Creature & National Book Award Finalist for The Soul of an Octopus.
Emperor penguin dads are no ordinary dads! In Emma's latest journey, she learns her family will soon be growing, and she's not sure how she feels about it. She has a very special bond with her dad. Will this continue with the addition of a new brother or sister? This family-centric tale shows just how unique and special emperor penguin dads (and all wonderful dads) truly are and is a perfect story for Father's Day or for any celebration of a beloved dad. This second book in the Emma the Emperor Penguin series was written and illustrated by mom and son team, Kim and Teddy Powers. The featured illustration of Emma was drawn by Teddy at age 6, during his love of all things penguins. Emma continues to take us to interesting places, and this story in particular celebrates two things this kidlit team dearly loves— penguins and dads!
The Space Between You and Me
Julie True Kingsley
Islandport Press
For Clem, summers are for Maine—for wandering the blueberry barrens, helping her grandmother on the farm, and stargazing with her parents. But her grandmother is gone, she hasn’t talked to her mom in months, and her dad is devoted to the family business. Now, all Clem wants to think about is a dance audition that could get her into Juilliard. She doesn’t need another distraction. Then she meets Rico. He’s nothing like the boys back home in LA or the boys in Maine. His secrets rival her own and as they grow closer, she must confront the hidden realities of places she thought she knew. In Julie True Kingsley’s debut novel, Clem and Rico’s worlds are threatening to tear them apart. Can they bridge the space between them before summer is just a memory?
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