This delightful children’s paperback could be a stocking stuffer if it was smaller.

Steve Ewing has held the title of poet laureate for Edgartown since 2010. Recently, he collected his poems in a book, called Town Meeting Poems.

As winter finally sets in, and the boat is buttoned up and other winter preparations made, it is time to turn inward, to a comfortable chair to catch up on some maritime reading.

Cartoonists Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden recently published How to Read Nancy, dissecting the comic strip they have long been obsessed with.

Patrick Ahearn is the author of a new book called Timeless, to be published in December. The book chronicles the architect's career, mostly centered around Edgartown where he has worked on 172 houses in the last 25 years.