"With an artful hand, Gibson seamlessly blends themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, and forgiveness, painting a vivid portrait that will stay with you long after the last page is turned."

Come to the event, celebrate Anna, and get a chance to shop* our anniversary sale early! See our page for more information about the sale!

*patrons must attend event to shop the sale early

Anna will be discussing all things process (from picture books to middle-grade interactive nonfiction books to young adult biographies) and celebrating her latest book, THE DANGER FILES: REAL LIFE DISASTERS! This event will be on Friday, November 21 at 7pm.

You can even get in an early discount if you join us for our kickoff event on Friday, November 21 at 7pm with Anna Crowley Redding to celebrate the release of her newest book, THE DANGER FILES: REAL LIFE DISASTERS!

Get your holiday shopping done early, submit all of your pre-orders for upcoming releases, and ask the staff for some recs while you're in the neighborhood!

Gail will read from SPARROW, ALWAYS, the 3rd book in her SPARROW series. You'll get a chance to meet Clifford, a 6-month yellow Lab, and his puppy-raiser, Sherry Baron from Guiding Eyes For the Blind (Maine region) and learn all about raising a puppy with a purpose.

”Maddie, a photojournalist from an aristocratic New England family, is ten years older, married, and has two children, while Helen, the daughter of Eastern European immigrants, is an attorney working at a public defender’s office in Boston."

"Outside the Lines is the poignant and intricate story of a secret love affair between two women set in the 1980s.”

"A rich and nuanced story beginning with a moment of fear and abandonment that will reverberate across decades and change the course of many lives, by a beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author."

"Ten of Maine’s beloved and up-and-coming fiction writers give us characters on the mend, home again, woefully married, struck by lightning, unmedicated, bewitched, at sea, displaced, embarrassed, in love...and all headed for authentic, wholly credible happy endings."

This collection includes stories by Kaylie Borden O’Brien, Gerry Boyle, Nick Bushell, Robert Diamante, Art Dingley, Madison Ellingsworth, Eleanor Morse, Dave Patterson and Lynn Siefert.

“Brimming with compassion and heart, this is the remarkable conclusion to the story readers have been following since Shannon Bowring’s debut novel, THE ROAD TO DALTON."

"Both a love letter and a window into the rural places that have shaped many, IN A DISTANT VALLEY sets the stage for a final act to play out across a deep winter in Maine.”

"Steeped in the myths we spin about self, family, and nation, the poems of ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES by Iain Haley Pollock attend to the complexities of violence in America, racial justice, and the intersection of personal and national identity."