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Welcome to the Mid-April edition of MWPA's Ex Libris Maine.
This edition offers new books by Maine authors in the categories of Fiction, Crime Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young Readers / Young Adults, and Children's.
For more information on any title below, simply click on the book's cover.
She thought she was getting fired. It was so much worse. When unlucky-in-life office grunt, Shelly Carter, is invited to her boss’s mansion for dinner, she assumes she’s about to get fired. Instead, Mrs. Kaden has a different position in mind for her. Marry her son, William, and become filthy rich. What? There are a few catches. Her son has no interest in Shelly nor in getting married. And then there is that slight issue of his agoraphobia. He hasn’t taken a single step outside the mansion he was raised in since he was a child. Shelly was only planning to marry once in her life. Should she marry for love or financial freedom? Why not both? If you like fish out of water, arranged marriages, reluctant billionaires, enemies to lovers, and spicy romance, then this one is for you. Exclusive to the Yonder App.
This is the adventure of Trisha Donahue, age 44, who begins to change forever when the company she works for denies her a well-earned promotion, and gives it instead to a much less qualified man. She’d been a star team player, determined to fit in, while putting up with—as the only woman in her department—frequent teasing and belittling. But a moment will arrive when she finds a chance to take steps in a different direction. On a journey taking place in one momentous day, she encounters people who help her. All the while, at home are her husband and kids, who are changed alongside her because she meets the right moment and says yes to it.
8 Ballo’s mother was certain he was going to be born a girl, but when he comes out a boy, she writes down simply the number 8, as he has seven older siblings. She meant to change it to a real name at some point but never got around to it. Now, in his mid-thirties, 8 is a college-educated man, a veteran of the Great War, jilted in love, and has his own private investigator business. He enjoys his friends, a good book, jazz music, and a very simple life. When he is hired to find the young flapper daughter of a German businessman, life suddenly becomes much more complicated.
Big Dreams, Big Change, Big Growth: 21 Days To Making It Happen
This book details the 21 mindset shifts that have been helping me, my friends, and my mentors go after our own big dreams for the past two decades. The mindset shifts inside have helped us start dream businesses, replace toxic relationships with healthy ones, travel to dream destinations with our families, and get out of our ruts to step into our full potential again and again. With this book, you will have something to read, something to think about, and something to write about. For the next 21 days, you will have something to help you move toward making the big changes you want to make in your life. Each day's material will guide you through an individual mindset you’ll be shifting to move past your ruts and step into your biggest dreams.
The Wandering Radiance: Selected Poems of Hilde Domin
Hilde Domin is one of the most highly regarded German poets of the post-war period, but until now has been little-known among English readers. Domin fled Germany in the early 1930s as “Hilde Palm,” spending 22 years as a refugee before discovering her vocation as a poet in exile. Taking the nom de plume “Domin” in homage to the Dominican Republic which had taken her in as a refugee, she eventually returned to Germany in 1954, one of the few Jewish artists and intellectuals to do so after the Shoah. She understood her vocation as a poet as a constructive response to the philosopher Theodor Adorno’s claim that “it would be barbaric to write poems after Auschwitz.” Jay Parini has written of this collection that "These shimmering poems lodge in the heart and blaze in the mind as they trace the journey of a deep soul through exile and self-realization."
View from a Borrowed Field
Meghan Sterling
Lily Poetry Press
In Meghan Sterling’s award-winning collection, "lupines, snow, sky, lust, loss, dreams, and quiet desperation" echo across a Maine landscape. "Sterling is a vessel of blue, a passionate flower bud on a branch tip encased in ice. She is a mother with her whole body shielding her daughter from pandemic, from ghost-guns, from a breaking world, breathless with a mad love for her small child, a wild soft petal blooming in these pages. 'I have desired like that every day of my life, with all of my cells sprung and solitary as if I lived in the center of the moon… I have lost myself in love for her and it is good.' Through the beauty and tragedy of these poems, the mirror of their ache and wonder. . .the borrowed field becomes, finally, home"—Kai Coggin, author of Mining for Stardust, Incandescent, and Wingspan.
Its curiosity, friendliness, bravery, and acrobatic antics have long made the black-capped chickadee a favorite of bird watchers of all ages. Oh, Chickadee! presents a year in the life of a chickadee, answering such questions as, Where do they nest? How do they protect themselves from predators? and How do they survive the frigid winter? This book brings the more hidden world of these endearing birds into view.
A middle grade mystery full of prime-time puppers, Houdini-inspired whodunits, and a reminder that puzzles are best solved with a little teamwork. Eleven-year-old Rondo McDade is starting to feel left out. His older brother, Epic, is heading into high school, and his younger sister, Elvis, is always mad at him. His parents keep pushing him out of their dog-friendly bed and breakfast, the Perro del Mar, and into the company of the new kid in town while a famous TV show films on location at the Perro. It’s an important week for the town, and everyone knows Rondo has a history of causing trouble. Even if he doesn’t mean to.
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