Room at the Inn

Lafayette Hotels Group, based in Bangor, has purchased the Holiday Inn by the Bay in downtown Portland. Lafayette Hotels owns and operates 22 hotels in Maine, as well as hotels in Michigan and New Hampshire.

Our New Books
	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.
	Interventions \| Four individually bound stories presented in a lovely slipcase.
	Grandma Drove the Lobsterboat \| The redoubtable Grandma—this book is a sequel to Grandma Drove the Snowplow—is at it again.
	Wild Fox \| This is Cherie Mason’s touching story of how she befriended a wild creature, knowing that his instincts would soon lead him away forever. Suffused with gentle wonder, Wild Fox speaks to the deep human longing to span the gulf between species.