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With a generous portion of wry Yankee wit, this new collection from Tim Cotton will leave you laughing, crying, or maybe both at once.

In this anthology, former Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair has collected the work of Maine poets that were featured in his popular column, "Take Heart." Featuring a poem each week, the columns ran in thirty newspapers across the state and reached more than a quarter of a million readers. These are poems about longing and pleasure and death and love, poems about natural world, poems that will inspire tears and laughter and help you carry on--poems from the heart, all penned by Maine writers, whose astonishing vision this book celebrates.

The poems in A Fixed White Light enter the lives of six of these courageous and mostly forgotten women, giving readers the opportunity to experience their heroism as well as their trials in a time when they were often met with skepticism and discrimination.

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley. He is taking his first steps to map the geology of 300 square miles of Baxter State Park. He soon discovers a series of unusually shaped rock outcrops-part of an unknown geologic formation, hundreds of millions of years old, still mystifying today because of its relative lack of change despite nearby volcanic activity and massive land movement. Wading on, he has another surprise. In a thin layer of black shale beside the stream, he finds a small fossil of a plant.Little does he know, but a Harvard PhD's discovery of Pertica quadrifaria in the northern Maine wilderness in the mid-1950s will help scientists unlock the details of a major event in the history of our planet-the transition of plants to land, an occurrence that continues to have a critical influence on the Earth's life-supporting processes, including climate.

A selection of tales in the vein of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Rudyard Kipling written by a Maine literary lion.

Newly discovered work by a previously unknown Maine poet.

Twelve year old Alex does not like change, but finds himself pulled along by events he can't control. With the help of his sister and some new friends, he finds a strength he didn't know he had.

Ed Rice chronicles the tragically short life of Olympic and Boston Marathon runner Andrew Sockalexis--who died at the age of 27 from what was likely tuberculosi--focusing on his running and the races that earned him recognition from the sports community and made him revered at home.