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Books About Maine
*Seafaring*
	*The Lobster Chronicles* by Linda Greenlaw
	*The Secret Life of Lobsters*
*Fiction*
	*Olive Kitteridge* by Elizabeth Strout
	*Under the Dome: A Novel* by Stephen King
	*The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah* by Stephen King
	It by Stephen King
	*Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)*
	*Waiting For Spring* by R.J. Keller
	*'Salem's Lot* by Stephen King
	*Riptide* by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
	*The Sign of the Beaver* by Elizabeth George Speare
	*Blueberries for Sal* by Robert McCloskey
	*Contemporary Maine Fiction* by Wesley McNair
	*Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine: A Novel* by Ann Hood
	*Wild Rose (Wild Rose Series #1) (Steeple Hill Women's Fiction #15)* by Ruth Axtell Morren
	*Today's Best Maine Fiction*
	*Lobsterland* by Susan R. S. K. Carlton
	*Hatchet Harbor: A Maine Coast Adventure*
	*Maine Squeeze* by Catherine Clark
	*Murder on the Rocks (Gray Whale Inn Mysteries, No. 1)* by Karen MacInerney
	*Murder Most Maine (Gray Whale Inn Mysteries, No. 3)* by Karen MacInerney
	*Gravely Dead: A Midcoast Maine Mystery* by Lawrence Rotch
	*Otherworldly Maine*
	*An American Outrage: A Novel of Quillifarkeag, Maine*
*A Sampling of Maine Authors*
	*Here If You Need Me: A True Story* by Kate Braestrup
	*One Morning in Maine (Picture Puffin)* by Robert McCloskey
	*Without a Map: A Memoir* by Meredith Hall
	*Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir* by Kate Braestrup
	*Bag of Bones* by Stephen King
	*Peterson Field Guide: Eastern Birds' Nests* by Hal H. Harrison
	*The Maine Woods* by Henry David Thoreau
	*The Beans of Egypt, Maine* by Carolyn Chute
	*The Romantics* by Galt Niederhoffer
	*The Little Locksmith: A Memoir* by Katharine Butler Hathaway
*Maine Atlas*
	*Maine Atlas & Gazetteer* by Delorme
	*Maine: An Explorer's Guide, Fourteenth Edition (Explorer's Guides)* by Christina Tree and Nancy English
*Maine Birds*
	*Birds of Maine Field Guide* by Stan Tekiela
	*Maine Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species (State Nature Guides)* by James Kavanagh and Raymond Leung
	*Maine Birding Trail: The Official Guide to More Than 260 Accessible Sites* by Bob Duchesne
	*Birding Maine: Over 90 Prime Birding Sites at 40 Locations (Falcon Guides Birding)* by Tom Seymour
*Maine Boating*
	*Building the Maine Guide Canoe* by Jerry Stelmok
	*River Guide: Maine, 4th (AMC River Guide Series)* by John Fiske
	*Sea Kayaking along the New England Coast, 2nd* by Tamsin Venn
	*A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast* by Jim Bildner
	*Canoe Trip: Alone in the Maine Wilderness* by David K. Curran
	*The Outboard Boater's Handbook: Advanced Seamanship and Practical Skills*
	*Where Cool Waters Flow* by Randy Spencer
	*Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast* by Hank Taft and Jan Taft
*Maine Beaches*
	*The Beaches of Maine (Ulysses Travel Guides)* by Joel Pomerleau
	*The Naturalist's Guide to the Atlantic Seashore: Beach Ecology from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras* by Scott Wesley Shumway
	*Geological and botanical features of sand beach systems in Maine (MSG-B)* by Bruce W Nelson
*Maine Biking*
	*Moon Spotlight Maine Biking* by Chris Bernard
	*Road Biking Northern New England: A Guide to the Greatest Bike Rides in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine (Road Biking Series)* by Sandy Duling
	*Mountain Bike! Maine* by Sarah Hale and David Gibbs
	*Mountain Biking Northern New England* by Paul Angiolillo
	*Discover Acadia National Park, 2nd: AMC Guide to the Best Hiking, Biking, and Paddling (AMC Discover Series)* by Jerry Monkman and Marcy Monkman
	*Moon Acadia National Park (Moon Handbooks)* by Hilary Nangle
*Maine History*
	*Eminent Mainers: Succinct Biographies of Thousands of Amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, And a Few People from Away Who Have Done Something Useful Within the State of Maine* by Arthur Douglas Stover
	*The Maine Reader: The Down East Experience, 1614 to the Present* by Charles Shain and Samuella Shain
	*Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)* by Alan Taylor
	*The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier* by Colin Woodard
	*Coastal Maine: A Maritime History* by Roger F. Duncan, Earle G. Barlow, Kathy Bray, and Consuelo E. Hanks
	*A Year In The Maine Woods* by Bernd Heinrich
	*The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands* by Neil Rolde
	*Historic Photos of Maine* by Frances L. Pollitt
	*Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present* by Richard W. Judd, Edwin A. Churchill, and Joel W. Eastman
	*More than Petticoats: Remarkable Maine Women (More than Petticoats Series)* by Kate Kennedy
	*Eminent Mainers: Succinct Biographies of Thousands of Amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, And a Few People from Away Who Have Done Something Useful Within the State of Maine* by Arthur Douglas Stover
Movies About Maine
	A Man Without A Face	This 1993 Mel Gibson movie was filmed in various Maine locations including Bath, Brunswick, Portland, Deer Isle, Rockland, and Rockport.
	Peyton Place	Filmed in 1957, this classic starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange was filmed in both Camden and Belfast.
	Cider House Rules	Starring Toby Maguire, Michael Cane, and Charlize Theron, this oscar-winning movie was filmed in Bernard and Sand Beach in Acadia National Park.
	Message in A Bottle	This 1999 romantic hit movie was filmed in Phippsburg (at Popham Beach), Bath, New Harbor and in Portland. Starring Kevin Costner, Paul Newman, and Robin Wright Penn.
	In The Bedroom	This Sundance Film Festival award-winner starred Sissy Spacek and Marisa Tomei, was filmed in 2001 at several Maine locations including Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Old Orchard Beach, Owls Head, Rockport, Trevett, and Wiscasset.
	Storm of the Century	This Stephen King thriller filmed in Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island in 1999, starred Tim Daly and Debrah Farentino.
	Pet Sematary	Stephen King’s classic horror film, starring Fred Gwynne and Dale Midkiff. This movie was filmed in 1989 in Hancock, Acadia National Park, Bangor and Ellsworth.
	Carousel	Starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, this 1956 classic was filmed in Boothbay Harbor and Newcastle.
	Casper	Casper, the famous friendly ghost, was filmed in 1995 in Camden. Starring Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman.
	Thinner	Yet another Stephen King movie, Thinner was filmed in 1996 in Camden, Appleton, Belfast, Portland, and Thomaston.