Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Fifty days of solitude Fifty days of solitude Doris Grumbach Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation abo… OL114069W
Cabin Cabin Lou Ureneck The account of a years spent building a small post-and-beam cabin in the hills of western Maine tells a deeper story about brotherly bonds, home and nature. It explores the satisfaction of building a… OL16495285W
After the eclipse After the eclipse Sarah Perry xv, 350 pages ; 24 cm OL19718745W
The stranger in the woods The stranger in the woods Michael Finkel "For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person … OL20055689W
Winter's Light Winter's Light John Preston In these stirring autobiographical essays and social commentaries, a prolific writer and gay rights pioneer--whose voice was stilled by AIDS in 1994--tells of the search for a place to belong. Presto… OL2651446W
All's for the best All's for the best Daniel W. Sawtelle "At the outbreak of the Civil War, Daniel Withum Sawtelle was a young man working on his family's farm in the north woods of Maine. The Republican son of a Democrat, he initially took little notice o… OL6208231W