Books
The Sage of Dibbin Creek
In 1975, Sam Candage, a fatherless twelve-year-old boy with learning challenges, strains to learn to read and write. Alone, he finds solace in nature, fishing and exploring his favorite creek. Sam finds himself falling behind in school until he meets a wise and kind man who, through the sport of fly fishing, teaches him about biology, stewardship, conservation, and the true meaning of friendship. When the mentor teaches Sam how to read, the boy’s life is changed forever.
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All the Creatures that Breathe
In 1985, three Harvard archaeology graduate students travel to Peru for a backpacking trip to seek adventure, culture, and historic sites. While exploring undiscovered Incan ruins on the remote, eastern frontier of the old empire, the friends witness an unspeakable crime. Their enchanting trip becomes a primal fight for survival.
The three friends must come to terms with their experiences, and each student's recovery and healing process becomes intensely personal and continues for decades.
This is a story of exploration, endurance, and the cruelty of lost love.
In his new novel, Dee takes readers on a true adventure, immersing them in a backpacking expedition into remote parts of the Andes. He guides the readers from the preparation and logistics of the excursion through its long, dirty, sweaty, reality — warts and all.
““Get ready to be immersed in this story in the first chapter. Dauphinee’s story of 3 Harvard grad students melds adventure and culture in a compelling page-turner. He tells their tale with intersecting North and South American locations with a big dose of Peruvian and Incan history, foods, political strife, anthropology, and archeology.
The interplay of the characters has integrity and Dauphinee makes you feel like you know them intimately.
Follow the journey and be ready for a completely captivating experience.””
When You Find My Body
On Three Bestseller Lists for over a year!
This book tells the story of events preceding Geraldine Largay’s vanishing in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine, what caused her to go astray, and the massive search and rescue operation that followed. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive.
Marrying the joys and hardship of life in the outdoors, as well as exploring the search & rescue community, When You Find My Body examines dying with grace and dignity. There are lessons in the story, both large and small. Lessons that may well save lives in the future.
“Among all the books written about fly fishing in recent years, Maine author Denis Dauphinee’s debut book, “Stoneflies & Turtleheads” is by far one of the best.”
Highlanders without Kilts
Highlanders Without Kilts is a story of love, war, uncommon disaster, and triumph. In 1917, the world was embroiled in a terrible war, the likes of which had never been seen nor imagined. Canada, still a dominion of Great Britain, was early in the fight and sent seven-and-a half percent of its population to fight for King and Country, ultimately contributing a force of more than 600,000 soldiers, nurses and chaplains. In April of that year, the entire Canadian Expeditionary Force, fighting together for the first time, battled their way to the top of Vimy Ridge in northern France.
In December, the city of Halifax was rocked by a devastating accidental explosion that caused 9000 casualties. Highlanders Without Kilts is the story of one Nova Scotia battalion’s odyssey, and one family’s dreadful loss. From the unspeakable death and destruction came a nation’s altered sense of self and a newborn path to its future.
“But rather than treat the Battle of Vimy Ridge as a straight history text — others have done that — Dauphinee decided to take some liberties and treat the event as a launching point for some powerful fiction.”
The River Home
Tucked into the north Maine woods, along the West Branch of the Penobscot River, is the fly fishing destination town of Roslyn. The river, and dozens of streams in the valley, are waters famous for the fish they hold. Ben Garrison, a beautiful, gentle young man with a skeletal deformity and a bad limp evolves into the most capable, accomplished hermit in town; he is a master gardener, a gourmet chef, a poet and a Zen-like fly fisher...and a confidant of the lovely farmhand Annie Nielson.
After an unspeakable tragedy, Annie and Ben explore the dynamics of an unlikely relationship. Annie must discover her own destiny while coming to grips with her untold dreams, and with her conflicting commitment to helping on the family farm, all the while fishing for the salmon and trout that are native to the cold, clear waters in the mountain streams. There are life lessons within the pages, and there is even a little fly fishing.
“There’s love and tragedy, hope and renewal, in a small rural Maine town, with plenty of references to actual places so that the story seems all so real. I laughed. I cried. I couldn’t wait to read the next chapter.”
“In “The River Home,” readers will find a well-crafted novel that uses fly fishing as a device to tell a much more important tale.”
Stoneflies and Turtleheads
Denis "Dee" Dauphinee has been a farmer, photographer, orthopaedic physician's assistant, a climbing and fishing guide, and a writer contributing to several "small, almost unheard-of newspapers." He spent an entire decade wandering the earth, searching.
For what, he didn't know. And everywhere he went, he fly fished...and usually got into some sort of trouble-or hurt-or both.
“Among all the books written about fly fishing in recent years, Maine author Denis Dauphinee’s debut book, “Stoneflies & Turtleheads” is by far one of the best.”
It's a thing.
Kicking Pig Press is basically Dee and a few friends who are semi-retired from the publishing world. Originally, the council of publishing and design professionals was pulled together for Dee’s independently published works. Now we are beginning to publish other authors, though we’re not currently accepting submissions.
"The name “Kicking Pig Press” comes from a family saying used when people are running late; “Let’s kick this pig.”
(Dee drew the pig, so don’t blame anyone else.)
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PO Box 45, Bradley, Maine 04411