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Books
Books and videos make
excellent introductions to an area, as well as noteworthy remembrances of your
visit. The Puffin Pines Country Gift Store carries a variety of
non-fiction and fiction books on Maine and Atlantic Canada, for adults and for children, and several videos as well. We feature the
following on our web site.
Books
for Teens and Adults
Beloved
Island, by Jonas
Klein
This 274-page soft cover book
covers the relationship between the Roosevelt family and the Canadian island of
Campobello from the 1880s. More specifically, it deals with how Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt were influenced by their summers on the island. $23.00
Cranberry
Chronicles, by Edward
Lodi
This 133 page soft cover book
contains a variety of articles and poetry remembering a young man's adventures
while working in cranberry bogs in the 1950s and 1960s. Read this book to
learn what growing cranberries really is like. It is a companion book to Deep
Meadow Bog below. $20.00
Cranberry
Country Recipes, by
Yolanda Lodi
This 100 page soft cover book
contains almost 40 recipes (and stories that embellish them) for using
cranberries. From chicken and seafood to soups and sauces to breads and
pies, Yolanda Lodi will make your mouth water as she blends cranberries and
foods from many ethnic cultures into these delectable delights. $20.00
Deep
Meadow Bog, by Edward
Lodi
In this 132 page soft cover
book, the author details his memories of his Cape Cod childhood working in the
cranberry bogs. This narrative is a companion book to Cranberry
Chronicles above. $20.00
The
Machias Bay Region,
by Jim and Jane Harnedy
In 128 pages of old black and
white photographs, the authors take the reader on a tour of the Machias Bay
region - home to Indian petroglyphs more than 1,500
years old and the only building in Eastern Maine with a direct link to the
Revolutionary War. This wonderful soft cover photographic history
captures how much, and yet how little, has changed over the years. Part
of the Images of America series. $25.00
Shapes
that haunt New England,
by Edward Lodi
The author has collected and
written 21 fictitious ghost stores, and two true ones, in these 140
pages. After you read this book, you may decide to avoid certain places
in rural New England - especially at night. $20.00