In ‘Now You See the Sky,’ Catharine H. Murray writes of loss and grief between 2 very different worlds

As a young woman working in a refugee camp in Thailand, shemeets, and marries, a Thai man. But when their son gets sick, everything changes.

In new book, David McCullough follows pioneering New Englanders into Ohio

The part-time Camden resident talks about why he set out to write 'The Pioneers.'

Looking for a new Maine read? Consider these 3

Portland bookseller Josh Christie summarizes two novels and a memoir due out this summer.

Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning master of sweeping historical fiction, dies at 103

A meticulous researcher, he specialized in stories of personal conflict set against the backdrop of compelling historical events.

Vivid, intimate stories of 9/11, from those who survived and those who didn’t

In 'Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11,' Mitchell Zuckoff sets out to write an exhaustive, prismatic chronicle. Remarkably, he pulls it off.

In Sarah Graves’ latest mystery, chocolate can be deadly for the denizens of a fictionalized Eastport

'Jake' Tiptree, the likable heroine from the 'Home Repair Is Homicide' cycle, opens a shop, but all is not sweets and roses.

Janet Anderson-Murch wins 2019 CrimeFlash Contest

Read her winning story, with an O. Henry-like plot twist, here.

Signings, etc.

In ‘Beyond the Truth,’ a police shooting in Portland brings protests, grandstanding – and a search for justice

Detective Sargent John Byron struggles with his own demons as he tries to uncover the mystery behind a popular high school athlete's shooting.

Ian McEwan tells android tale in ‘Machines Like Me’

I robot?