There are many books about Maine, both fiction and nonfiction. Some of the books that can be found at BookMarcs are self-published by authors. The BookMarcs staff wrote and published "The Story of Bangor: A Brief History of Maine's Queen City." This is the only narrative history of Bangor available. The price is $12.95. We also carry books by Maine publishers such as Down East Books, Tilbury House, Blackberry Press, and the University of Maine Press. You're invited to browse the new books below, which have joined our stock within the past few weeks, or see a list of our other Maine Books.

Back in print by popular demand, this updated, full-color edition of follows famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau's sojourns in Maine and offers modern commentary on how the route has changed. Drawing on Thoreau's faithfully recorded itineraries in his classic book The Maine Woods, author J. Parker Huber provides a comprehensive map and summaries of Thoreau's travels.

From Moosehead Lake to Katahdin, returning to Bangor down the Penobscot River, today's traveler can use the book's revised maps to retrace these routes for an hour, a day, or several weeks. Huber artfully organizes these excursions into a grand tour of Maine's most impressive scenery. Beautiful color photography by Bridget Besaw shows the remote areas readers can still explore. Pictures of local flora and fauna help readers identify local species which continue to thrive.

Thoreau was an early advocate for conservation, and his observations of people and places infuse The Wildest Country with his appreciation of his surroundings-his delight in the elusive laughing loons; his sampling of indigenous tea substitutes; and his pact with Penobscot guide Joe Polis to exchange every bit of knowledge each possessed within 11 days.

The Wildest Country is an exciting and memorable journey into Thoreau's, and our, Maine. It's an essential book for naturalists, travelers, and armchair adventurers who want a glimpse of the past-as well as a look at what we can still preserve for future generations of explorers.

Also, take a look at the Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Map and Guide, a 17" by 28" wall map that shows all three of Thoreau's expeditions.
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The 20th Anniversary, Fifth Edition!

The definitive cruising reference to Maine's complex coast – its deep bays and rivers, its offshore islands, its secret gunkholes, and its fabled cruising harbors.

Additional coverage of New Brunswick's Fundy coast and the Saint John River.
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Fred Ranco, a citizen of the United States and the Penobscot Indian Nation, tells the story of his life growing up during the Great Depression on a small Indian reservation in Maine. His stories relate the good and the bad, the fun and the hard times. He remembers fondly how his father taught him to hunt. Fred loves hunting. He remembers his grandparents who spoke to him in his native tongue and taught him to make baskets and canoes and various handicrafts for trade. He also recalls prejudice, racism, and economic hardship.

This little book provides a glimpse into the life of an ordinary man living extraordinary circumstances. It reveals the strength of the human spirit and the healing power of human love.
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A vivid portrait of Maine life in the 19th Century, a time of great prosperity and grim poverty, of fortunes in lumber and real estate gained overnight and lost just as quickly.

In those turbulent times, three women – Maude Webber, Fanny Abbott Hogan, and Elizabeth Emerson – strove to overcome society's prejudices in order to survive and even win a measure of independence. Their lives suddenly collide in Bangor's notorious house with the pink chimneys.
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David Cook takes the us on a birchbark canoe journey through the landscape in the context of Northeastern geological development and Indian prehistoric culture. On rivers, lakes, over carries, and through coastal routes, we follow the archaeological and historical record, informed by accounts of early explorers.

First attempted in the nineteenth century, the publication of these ancient canoe routes, in daily use for millennia, is finally accomplished and in its third edition, with translations of Indian place names, a thorough index, notes and bibliography.
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Miriam Colwell's Contentment Cove – her fourth novel set in Maine and her first in more than five decades – is a riveting story of class distinctions in a 1950s Down East coastal village during a time of cultural change. Meet Dot-Fran, Hilary, and Mina, three residents of a Maine coastal village in the 1950s. Dot-Fran, the youngest, is a native; she runs the town's drug store. Hilary, middle-aged, is a worldly artist. The wealthy Mina and her husband retired to the town after being enchanted with its charm during a one-night visit. Their disparate lives become entwined and eventually clash tragically.
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Although both Scott and Helen Nearing wrote a variety of autobiographical works, this is the first comprehensive biography of Helen Knothe Nearing (1904 - 1995). Killinger examines Helen's spiritual formation as a member of the early-20th-century Theosophical Society, her complex relationship to "old left" socialist Scott Nearing, and their lives together first in New York City and later as pioneer homesteaders in Vermont and then in Maine.

Although deeply respectful of her subject, Killinger brings to light some of the central paradoxes of Helen Nearing's life. The Nearings' door was always open despite Helen's impatience with "company." And her abiding belief in living the principles of a simple "good life" did not impede her willingness and ability to market those principles with great success. As Killinger shows, Helen K. Nearing almost single-handedly created the Nearing mythos, still very much a factor in the ongoing interest in this remarkable couple.
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The variety and scope of Maine's products have played an undeniably important role in its history. This book celebrates the simple beauty of handmade objects and the arduous endeavors of Maine's great artisans and manufacturing workers during the industrial age in the Pine Tree State.

Rivard, director of the Maine State Museum for 14 years and of the American Textile History Museum for eight years, offers readers a glimpse into the state's essential past – the ingenious ways in which products came to fruition as the nature of industry was changing.
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More than just lighthouses and lobster, Maine is a state with a rich history and a personality all its own. Maine Impressions is a lush portrait of this beloved state, with images from the coast, cities, and the interior. In addition to the iconic sites, the book features a peppering of festivals and locations that are loved by locals. Visitors will want to take home a bit of Maine culture – and Mainers will cherish this tribute to their state.
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According to historian Benjamin Band, the first record of a Jew in Maine concerns Susman Abrams, a tanner who resided in Union until his death at 87 in 1830. Historical records beginning in 1849 also tell of a small Bangor community that organized a synagogue and purchased a burial ground. But it was not until the late 19th century that Jewish communities grew large enough to establish multiple synagogues, Hebrew schools for boys, kosher butcher shops, and Jewish bakeries. Eventually there were Jewish charitable societies, community centers, and social clubs across the state. Now, 150 years later, Jews serve every Maine community in every possible capacity, free from the barriers of social or religious discrimination. This book honors the accomplishments of Maine's Jewish residents. Buy This Book