Ruth Moore – lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:37:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Speak to the Winds /store/speak-to-the-winds.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=speak-to-the-winds-2 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:51:03 +0000 /store/speak-to-the-winds-2 Three generations after Chin Island was inhabited by a bustling community of laborers, only a few families remain. A feud begins on Christmas Day, troubling the remaining inhabitants when they […]

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]]> 90922 Candlemas Bay /store/candlemas-bay.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=candlemas-bay Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:50:41 +0000 /store/candlemas-bay Moore's fourth novel Candlemas Bay (1950) focuses on the daily struggles of the Ellis family, a family that has successfully fished local waters for two hundred years, but now the current generations — from Grampie Jebron to widowed daughter-in-law Jen to grandson Jebby — struggle with change and hard times. As in her other novels, Ruth Moore uses detailed day-to-day lives to build characters of depth and tell a universal story of courage, heartbreak and love that, despite the hardships, is ultimately warm and moving.

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]]> 87680 Spoonhandle /store/spoonhandle.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spoonhandle Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:50:35 +0000 /store/spoonhandle Spoonhandle, Ruth Moore's second novel, spent 14 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List and was made into the movie Deep Waters. Spoonhandle is about Maine, brilliantly authentic, but the story told is universal, as old as time as it deals with the struggle between love and meanness of spirit, between human dignity and greed.

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]]> 85873 The Weir /store/the-weir.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-weir Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:50:23 +0000 /store/the-weir Ruth Moore's classic tale of Maine islanders who feud, gossip and struggle while being battered by the relentless tides of change sweeping over their community and their entire way of life.

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