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  • And One to Grow On

    Recollections of a Maine Boyhood

    by John Gould ...
    Another in John Gould's Maine series, And One to Grow On: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, originally published in 1948, is a wonderful collection of anecdotes from the author's very own boyhood in his hometown—where the mailman was a spiritualist, the harbor master rated a Navy celebration, a circus went bankrupt, and practical jokers were well loved. The maybasketing, the church suppers, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stitch in Time

    by John Gould ...
    "If there is reincarnation, I'm selfish enough to wish that next time around John Gould would come back as a writer again." —Mark Kramer in the Wall Street JournalIn these observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village, Mr. Gould addresses important matters. For example, there is the question of why there are two churches in a town of 800 souls, some of whom were atheists. It seems ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The End of Me

    by John Gould ...
    56 very short stories about death from Giller Prize finalist John GouldThe End of Me is an astonishing set of sudden stories about the experience of mortality. With an ear attuned to the uncanny and the ironic, John Gould catches his characters at moments of illumination as they encounter the mystery of their finite being. A marooned astronaut bonds with a bereft cat; kids pelt a funeral ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Imagist Poets

    by John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, James Joyce ...
    In the early 1900s a new movement in poetry began. With the new century came new thinking, a reaction to both romanticism and the more formal, structured poetry of the Victorian era. Here was poetry designed to be simple, clear and precise, rather than be adorned and encrusted with more from the lexicon than what was actually needed.The original ideas sprang from T. E Hulme and from these Ezra ... Read more

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  • How To Camp Out

    by John M. Gould ...
    This book contains instructions for camping and walking in the wilderness.As an infantryman with the Union Army, John M. Gould marched and camped in an organized group for several years. He wrote down what he knew, and the result is a book that shows you how to camp and how to organize yourself when you go camping. ... Read more

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  • Old Hundredth

    Reflections on the Seasons in Maine

    by John Gould ...
    "You know that fall is here and winter comes soon when the summer people leave and Maine is restored to righteousness."So says celebrated essayist John Gould in this wonderful collection inspired by the changing of the seasons in Maine. These forty-nine essays revel in the seasonal magnificence the state has to offer and offer just enough humor, seasoned with country lore and wisdom to keep you ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Monstrous Depravity

    A Treatise on Traditional Maine Cooking

    by John Gould ...
    John Gould believes that food should consist mostly of good things to eat. Here, he summons up, with a generous garnish of risible anecdote, an earlier day when natural foods were the only kind there were and meals were lovingly prepared. Recalling simpler days, Gould waxes nostalgic about such subjects as bread, coffee, and molasses cookies. Being of practical mind, he even throws in a few mouth ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • There Goes Maine!

    by John Gould ...
    Maine's nationally acclaimed chronicler proves here that "the entire history of North America began in Maine."Long before Columbus sold Isabella his idea of a passage to Cathay, Irish fishermen went ashore in Maine to dry their cod. It's all here in this wild surmising history, from a columnist for the Christian Science Monitor. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics

    550+ Gothic Ghost Stories, Occult Mysteries, Vampires, and Cosmic Dread

    by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce0, Arthur Machen1, William Hope Hodgson2, Arthur Conan Doyle3, Grant Allen4, Théophile Gautier5, Richard Marsh6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Thomas Hardy8, Charles Dickens9, Rudyard Kipling0, Guy de Maupassant1, Elizabeth Gaskell2, Mark Twain3, Daniel Defoe4, Jerome K. Jerome5, Fitz-James O'Brien6, Catherine Crowe7, Émile Erckmann8, Alexandre Chatrian9, Pedro De Alarçon0, Walter Hubbell1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Harriet Beecher Stowe5, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman6, Louisa M. Alcott7, Edith Nesbit8, Mary Louisa Molesworth9, Francis Marion Crawford0, John Kendrick Bangs1, Gertrude Atherton2, J. K. Huysmans3, John Buchan4, Sabine Baring-Gould5, Cleveland Moffett6, Louis Tracy7, Nikolai Gogol8, James Malcolm Rymer9, Thomas Peckett Prest0, Frederick Marryat1, Oscar Wilde2, H. G. Wells3, Charlotte Perkins Gilman4, W. W. Jacobs5, Robert Louis Stevenson6, H. H. Munro (Saki)7, Wilhelm Hauff8, Mary Elizabeth Braddon9, Robert W. Chambers0, Edward Bulwer-Lytton1, Thomas De Quincey2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, E. T. A. Hoffmann4, Robert E. Howard5, David Lindsay6, Marie Belloc Lowndes7, Edward Bellamy8, Jack London9, Pliny the Younger0, Helena Blavatsky1, Fergus Hume2, Florence Marryat3, Villiers de l'Isle Adam4, William Archer5, William F. Harvey6, Katherine Rickford7, Ralph Adams Cram8, Leopold Kompert9, Vincent O'Sullivan0, Ellis Parker Butler1, A. T. Quiller-Couch2, Fiona Macleod3, Lafcadio Hearn4, William T. Stead6, Gambier Bolton7, Andrew Jackson Davis8, Nizida9, Walter F. Prince0, Chester Bailey Fernando1, Brander Matthews2, Leonard Kip3, Frank R. Stockton4, Bithia Mary Croker5, Catherine L. Pirkis6, Leonid Andreyev7, Anatole France8, Olivia Howard Dunbar9, Richard Le Gallienne00, Sax Rohmer01, Horace Walpole02, William Thomas Beckford03, Matthew Gregory Lewis04, Ann Radcliffe05, Jane Austen06, John William Polidori07, Charlotte Brontë08, Emily Brontë09, Marjorie Bowen10, George W. M. Reynolds11, M. P. Shiel12, Adelbert von Chamisso13, S. Mukerji14 ...
    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn5, J. T. Bealby15, Keene Wallace16, Samuel Henley17, Isabel F. Hapgood18, C. J. Hogarth19 ...
    THE SPELL HAS BEGUN gathers more than 550 supernatural mysteries, macabre tales, and horror classics into an expansive map of the uncanny. Ranging from Gothic romance, ghost story, and sensation fiction to decadent nightmare, psychological terror, occult speculation, and early weird fiction, the volume traces how dread assumes domestic, historical, comic, and cosmic forms. Canonical landmarks of ... Read more

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  • Jonesport Raffle

    by John Gould ...
    Beginning with the legendary story of a man in Jonesport (or was it Dexter or Waterford or Litchfield?) who raffled off his horse, which incidentally had been dead for some time, these twenty-nine tales cover the length and breadth of Maine and extend back to the sixteenth-century fishing camps that were set up a hundred years before Jamestown and Plymouth.Learn about the origin and history of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics

    Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein…

    by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce0, Arthur Machen1, William Hope Hodgson2, Arthur Conan Doyle3, Grant Allen4, Théophile Gautier5, Richard Marsh6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Thomas Hardy8, Charles Dickens9, Rudyard Kipling0, Guy de Maupassant1, Elizabeth Gaskell2, Mark Twain3, Daniel Defoe4, Jerome K. Jerome5, Fitz-James O'Brien6, Catherine Crowe7, Émile Erckmann8, Alexandre Chatrian9, Pedro De Alarçon0, Walter Hubbell1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Harriet Beecher Stowe5, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman6, Louisa M. Alcott7, Edith Nesbit8, Mary Louisa Molesworth9, Francis Marion Crawford0, John Kendrick Bangs1, Gertrude Atherton2, J. K. Huysmans3, John Buchan4, Sabine Baring-Gould5, Cleveland Moffett6, Louis Tracy7, Nikolai Gogol8, James Malcolm Rymer9, Thomas Peckett Prest0, Frederick Marryat1, Oscar Wilde2, Robert Louis Stevenson3, H. G. Wells4, Charlotte Perkins Gilman5, W. W. Jacobs6, H. H. Munro (Saki)7, Wilhelm Hauff8, Mary Elizabeth Braddon9, Robert W. Chambers0, Edward Bulwer-Lytton1, Thomas De Quincey2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, E. T. A. Hoffmann4, Robert E. Howard5, David Lindsay6, Marie Belloc Lowndes7, Edward Bellamy8, Jack London9, Pliny the Younger0, Helena Blavatsky1, Fergus Hume2, Florence Marryat3, Villiers de l'Isle Adam4, William Archer5, William F. Harvey6, Katherine Rickford7, Ralph Adams Cram8, Leopold Kompert9, Brander Matthews0, Vincent O'Sullivan1, Ellis Parker Butler2, A. T. Quiller-Couch3, Fiona Macleod4, Lafcadio Hearn5, William T. Stead7, Gambier Bolton8, Andrew Jackson Davis9, Nizida0, Walter F. Prince1, Chester Bailey Fernando2, Leonard Kip3, Frank R. Stockton4, Bithia Mary Croker5, Catherine L. Pirkis6, Leonid Andreyev7, Anatole France8, Olivia Howard Dunbar9, Richard Le Gallienne00, Sax Rohmer01, Horace Walpole02, William Thomas Beckford03, Matthew Gregory Lewis04, Ann Radcliffe05, Jane Austen06, John William Polidori07, Charlotte Brontë08, Emily Brontë09, Marjorie Bowen10, George W. M. Reynolds11, M. P. Shiel12, Adelbert von Chamisso13, S. Mukerji14 ...
    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn6, J. T. Bealby15, Keene Wallace16, Samuel Henley17, Isabel F. Hapgood18, C. J. Hogarth19 ...
    Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics' is an unparalleled anthology that casts a wide net across the shadowy waters of supernatural literature, pulling from the depths a staggering array of narratives that have shaped the horror and gothic genres. This collection boasts an eclectic mix of styles and forms, ranging from Victorian ghost stories to eerie folk tales ... Read more

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  • Last One In

    Tales of a New England Boyhood

    by John Gould ...
    There used to be a time when marvelous skyrockets could be purchased for a dime and the iceman came around once a week, when throwing a cap on and off took special talent and pants had watch pockets. When John Gould was young it didn't take much to amuse a boy. A boy would wake up in the morning ready to be "amazed all day long at all manner of things."Warmth, humor, nostalgia--these pages are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD