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Carter, Isabel Hopestill. Shipmates: A Tale of the Seafaring Women of New England. New York: W. Scott Company, 1934. A novel by a Maine author about a young school teacher who marries a sea captain, raises her children aboard ship, and has many adventures in strange ports.

McLane, Charles B. Red, Right, Returning. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House; Rockland, ME: Island Institute, 2004. A novel set on a Penobscot Bay Island after World War II.

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