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Heart Stones

Harry N. Abrams, 2007 When a Heart Like a Stone is a Good Thing Just in time for all the sweethearts you want to wish a Happy Valentine’s Day, Heart Stones is hot off the press. Here, her images — created with a flatbed scanner and computer — portray a fascinating array of classically, and

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Two cookbooks

Stonewall Kitchen Favorites: Delicious Recipes to Share With Family and Friends Every Day Clarkson Potter, 2006 The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese By Jeffrey P. Roberts Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2007 The Truth About Good Food We New Englanders bump up against a Puritan cultural legacy: it should not feel good to feel good. And

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An Unexpected Forest

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 2007. A fairy tale where dreams come true This novel, by Peaks Island resident Eleanor Morse, reads as a kind of fairy tale for adults, catching four people in the crux of personal crises. Horace Woodruff, a middle-aged but not yet ready to retire lawyer in Connecticut, has been fired

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The Trouble With Lobsters

When lobstermen began receiving crustacean demands in writing last spring, they thought of it as a joke. In an effort not to take any of it seriously, they claimed to be unable to read the handwriting. Lobsters were impugned as bad spellers, practically illiterate. All they were asking for was more respect. Well, that and

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Seashells

Photographs by Josie Iselin & text by Sandy Carlson New York: Abrams, 2007. The Benificence of Beaches Calling to my nieces to go for a walk when they visit me on Vinalhaven, I ask, “Wanna go shopping?” They’ve learned that for me, island-bound, “shopping” means beachcombing. We give ourselves a list of what we’d like

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Sippewisset: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh

Chelsea Green, 2006 Home on the Marsh Tim Traver, a science writer, attempts the near-impossible with this first book. Consider the word “dumbstruck” and what it means: something hits us so hard that we are unable to find adequate words to describe it. Does this lead to an eventual effusion in an attempt at articulation?

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Still Point

A current collaboration in Rockland provides the opportunity to enjoy the works of artist Bo Bartlett in two different venues, the Farnsworth Museum and Archipelago Gallery at the Island Institute, just steps apart. The Farnsworth features many large canvases, as well as several cases displaying sketches and journal entries. In what seems a curatorial choice,

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