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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

Thomas E. Ricks

$18.59

$19.99

Clashing Over Commerce: A History of Us Trade Policy

Douglas a. Irwin

$34.50

A Country Is Not a Company

Paul Krugman

$9.29

$9.99

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

$11.16

$12.00

Us Constitution 101: From the Bill of Rights to the Judicial Branch, Everything You Need to Know about the Constitution of the United States

Tom Richey and Peter Paccone

$15.80

$16.99

Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction

Robert C. Allen

$12.08

$12.99

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

$16.74

$18.00

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

$17.67

$19.00

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Fiction we're reading now

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Table for Two: Fictions

Amor Towles

$29.76

$32.00

Poor Deer

Claire Oshetsky

$15.80

$16.99

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Louise Erdrich

$16.73

$17.99

Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

$25.11

$27.00

Entitlement

Rumaan Alam

$27.90

$30.00

Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel

Sena Jeter Naslund

$16.73

$17.99

Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Samantha Harvey

$15.81

$17.00

North Woods

Daniel Mason

$26.97

$29.00

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Non Fiction We're Reading Now

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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

Lauret Savoy

$15.76

$16.95

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Burgoyne

$18.60

$20.00

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Sonia Purnell

$32.55

$35.00

Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

Sebastian Smee

$32.55

$35.00

Didion and Babitz

Lili Anolik

$27.89

$29.99

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

$19.53

$21.00

Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction

Jerry Brotton

$25.11

$27.00

The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

Samantha Harvey

$15.81

$17.00

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Our favorite books about people & the sea

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Reading the Glass: A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships

Elliot Rappaport

$29.76

$32.00

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

$9.24

$9.94

We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition) (Revised)

David Lewis

$31.61

$33.99

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

David Abulafia

$41.84

$44.99

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Sebastian Junger

$14.83

$15.95

The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

Lincoln Paine

$26.04

$28.00

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Anniversary)

Alfred Lansing

$18.59

$19.99

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

William Finnegan

$17.67

$19.00

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Local Authors, more or less

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Working the Sea: Photographs from the Penobscot Marine Museum

Michael Crowley

$34.36

$36.95

The Land Between the Rivers: Thoughts on Time and Place

Todd R. Nelson

$28.69

Art of Penobscot Bay

David Little and Carl Little

$32.50

$34.95

Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family

Debra Spark and Deborah Joy Corey

$16.74

$18.00

A Slow Rise: Favorite Recipes from Four Decades of Baking with Heart

Daniel Leader

$37.20

$40.00

Lobstering Women of Maine: Paintings and Stories of Women and Girls Who Fish the Maine Coast

Susan Tobey White

$27.90

$30.00

Notes on the Landscape of Home

Susan Hand Shetterly

$21.34

$22.95

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All Things Maine & The Downeast Coast

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The Midcoast

Adam White

$16.74

$18.00

The Prints of Siri Beckman: Engraving a Sense of Place

Carl Little and Siri Beckman

$37.15

$39.95

The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War

Bernard Cornwell

$16.99

The Weir: A Novel of the Maine Coast

Ruth Moore

$17.62

$18.95

The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

Colin Woodard

$18.60

$20.00

Our Maine: Exploring Its Rich Natural Heritage

Malcolm Hunter, Kent Redford, et al.

$32.50

$34.95

When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

Monica Wood

$18.99

Fellowship Point

Alice Elliott Dark

$18.60

$20.00

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All Things Maine & The Downeast Coast

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Favorite Children's Books about Maine!

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Sea Dog Boats: An Alphabet Book

Astrid Sheckels

$18.55

$19.95

The Circus Ship

Chris Van Dusen

$17.66

$18.99

One Morning in Maine

Robert McCloskey

$18.59

$19.99

Sea Dog

Astrid Sheckels

$17.62

$18.95

Nic and Nellie

Astrid Sheckels

$16.69

$17.95

Big Truck Little Island

Chris Van Dusen

$16.73

$17.99

Miss Rumphius

Barbara Cooney

$17.66

$18.99

How to Catch a Keeper!

Stephanie Mulligan

$17.62

$18.95

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Favorite Children's Books about Maine!

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