Books & Stationery

Create and decorate your own mini cakes, cookies, and pies with easy-peasy, no bake, air-dry clay. This kit includes all of the instructions for rolling out clay just like fondant. Make faux flowers, stack on the sprinkles, add expressive faces, and...

Stickers are even better when they're squishy! Make 60 one-of-a-kind puffy stickers to spruce up your stuff. The kit comes with a Puffy Sticker Maker as well as full-color and color-in illustrations to make your own. Sticker fanatics everywhere will love...

This classic collection of parent-approved meals includes a rainbow whisk, the perfect mix of tried-and-true recipes (like French Toast with Strawberry Butter), and totally modern flavors (like the Aloha Sushi Burrito). All 30 recipes include...

Brush up on your face painting skills and create shimmering masterpieces in minutes with Klutz®Glitter Face Painting. This kit comes with 6 shimmery paint colors, more than 45 gems, and cosmetic-grade glitter. With 45 designs to choose from, you'll...

For the hundreds of thousands of followers of the Bangor, Maine, Police Department on social media, the Got Warrants? feature brings a regular dose of levity. Pulled straight from daily reports, these short interludes provide a welcome spin on the...

Painstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts about American heroism and breathtaking courage during the largest war in world history, this anthology brings readers to the front lines in inspiring detail. Courage, duty, and honor became...

When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he'd experienced in war. "You’re not getting...

Some battlefields - such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all...

For focus, exercise, and pleasant distraction, scientist Declan McCabe takes frequent walks along Vermont's Winooski River. The brief trips provide solitude, grounding, and an opportunity to explore. Slowing down, and observing carefully, reveals diverse...

Mama Gray Saves the Day! is based on a series of photos taken by Roger Stevens, Jr. and shared all around the world via the Internet in March of 2019. A mother squirrel protected her babies by harassing a mature bald eagle bent on a snack, until it...

This book features photographs of one of Maine's most iconic seabirds. Filmed entirely on location on Machias Seal Island, the puffin population is in a rebound from near extinction in the early 1900s. Puffin lovers throughout the World will enjoy these...

The origins of a remarkable number of everyday words and phrases are anchored in our seafaring past. Three Sheets to the Wind: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions is an entertaining compilation revealing the maritime roots of common English...

Barnyard Babies is chock-filled with photos of the cutest baby animals growing up on small family farms in Maine. The book is very popular with younger readers, and those readers who are still young at heart! High-quality soft cover Over 80 original...

This book is filled with important facts about 9 baby animals you might encounter while in the woods or near the waters of New England. Complete with tracks of all the animals, this is a great book for the budding naturalist in your family. High-quality...

Maine Moose on the Loose is a whimsical tribute to the Dr. Seuss-style of rhyming that the author loved as a child coupled with dozens of photographs honoring Maine's largest land mammal. This book is guaranteed to be a favorite by young and old alike...

Exploring the Southern Maine coast and interior from Kittery to Portland, this eclectic book guides readers to geological points of interest such as waterfalls, glacial boulders, rock profiles, and towering cliff views; to historic houses, garrisons, and...

This book chronicles the life of a loon family in Northern Maine from the time the adult loons arrive at ice-out in the lake where they will raise their chick. It's filled with dozens of photographs taken by the author as he watched the loon chick hatch,...

If you want to know about boats, trust a sea dog to set you on course. Award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Astrid Sheckels has created a whole raft of sea dogs to help young readers begin their ABCs and their nautical explorations...

What Do Baby Foxes Do is a fun and informative book filled with over 50 photographs of baby foxes, just being baby foxes! A great choice for early readers, the book has simple, predictable rhyming words and is filled with fun fox facts that are...

This companion to Twelve Days of Winter is another book to read or sing along with children. In this reimagined version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, wildlife is observed during summer. The animals enjoy warmer weather, blooming flowers, and sunny...