New England Books and Authors

Photo: elizabethstrout.com 291 pages, published by Random House , ©2022 It hasn’t been an easy life for Lucy Barton, and it’s about to get harder. Lucy lives alone in New York City. She is a novelist, a single woman with two grown daughters, and the main character of the novel “Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout. Lucy loves her girls dearly, and she doesn’t want them going through what she had to endure during her childhood: grinding poverty and an apathetic mother. Adulthood hasn’t been easier her ex-husband, William, had cheated on her and ultimately left her for the woman he cheated on her with. Spring is coming to New York, but so is a virus that is afflicting otherwise healthy people and killing many. William, a parasitologist, is familiar with the virus in ways laypeople cannot comprehend. He convinces his daughters to leave the city. As far as Lucy goes, William has plans for her to join him in a rented house in the town of Shirley, Maine .  Lucy is apprehensive about leav...

128 pages; Published by The History Press ©2018 An annual fishing excursion among ten friends at Moosehead Lake turns tragic in the spring of 1928. Older residents of Brockton, MA may recall the story of the Mac II sinking and claiming the lives of her captain and nine of the vacationers. For those that haven't heard of it, "The Brockton Tragedy" looks back at the events that took place on the secluded waters in the Pine Tree State. The city of Brockton worked together with Maine's State Forestry Service to bring the Mac II to surface and recover the bodies of those lost. In a time when the fastest way to send and get information was a landline telephone and the mail, families of the missing men were anxious for any information they could get. Moosehead Lake has been a favorite vacation for people who love the outdoors. "Brockton Tragedy" gives the reader a look at the 75,471 acres that provide plenty of space and opportunity for outdoorsy people to cam...