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Kindness, compassion, charity-or pure love-these are qualities we are taught to share with others in building a community of care. But what about with ourselves? In her fourth book, a poignant and mindful memoir, Author Loretta Boyer McClellan tells us for the first time of her journey with an aggressive case of severe rheumatoid arthritis and chronic pain, a re-discovery of wholeness, and what it means to love ourselves unconditionally. Through an artist's perspective, readers join in a personal and insightful narrative of trial and triumph, connection and clarity, framed by the beauty of...

With genuine characters and settings steeped in history with stunning visuals, American debut Author, Loretta Boyer McClellan paints an engaging, coming-of-age journey, rich in the beauty of friendship and abiding love. Misthaven of Maine offers readers an empowering, contemporary story, amidst the sweeping vistas and echoed grace of New England. Born and raised in Boston, with unyielding ties to her ancestral home of Maine and to the sea, sixteen year-old Eliza Hales is from affluent, yet grounded means. Despite experiencing her mother's death when she was a young girl, inner strength and...

Posing the question of, "Do I dare?" in whether or not to dodge raindrops, the metaphor for "life happens" is unleashed in this inspiring collection of 28 poems and prose from Poet, Artist and Author of the Misthaven of Maine novels, Loretta Boyer McClellan. Using nature in all its might, majesty and tranquility as a recurring theme, readers engage in an emotional ascent in poetic storytelling, both gratifying and transforming. Several forms of poetry are included in this volume, including Haiku and Tanka, known for their richness of season and poignancy. Whether challenged by physical or...

Continuing the Misthaven of Maine saga with Volume Two in the series, Loretta Boyer McClellan paints an engaging, contemporary story of love and family against the historic backdrop of majestic, Down East Maine. Doctor Eliza Hales Longfellow, museum art historian and artist has lived a charmed, but grounded upbringing. Raised in Boston by her widowed father, summers at her ancestral home at Misthaven, along with a little trial and error return her as an adult to her childhood love and perfect match: Maine native and Attorney, Caleb Longfellow. Now twenty-seven and twenty-eight, back from...