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Set on Cranberry Island, Karen MacInerny’s novel Berried to the Hilt (Midnight Ink, Woodbury, Minnesota; paperback; 312 pages; $14.95) is part murder mystery, part Treasure Island. The little Maine island is swamped with archaeologists and treasure hunters after a lobsterman uncovers a sunken ship, but things take a turn for the worse when someone turns up dead.

Almost every eligible Penobscot man at Indian Island served in WWII. In From Indian Island to Omaha Beach (Tilbury House, Gardiner, Maine; paperback; 176 pages; $15) Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride, authors of Indians in Eden (Down East Books, 2009) tell the story of one of those men, Charles Shay, who was a young medic when he landed at Omaha Beach.

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Our New Books
	Interventions \| Four individually bound stories presented in a lovely slipcase.
	Take Heart \| In this collection of verse, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair has collected the work of Maine poets from his popular “Take Heart” column, featuring a poem each week in thirty newspapers across the state and reaching a quarter of a million readers.
	The Maine Lobster Book \| This fun, fact-filled book brings the reader on the lobster’s journey from ocean floor to plate, stopping along the way to get to know the people and places of Maine’s iconic industry.
	Grandma Drove the Lobsterboat \| The redoubtable Grandma—this book is a sequel to Grandma Drove the Snowplow—is at it again.