Novelist Daniela Petrova explores how infertility can destroy a relationship.
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Former Maine pastor wins top New York Book Festival award
Steve Burt’s ‘The Bookseller’s Daughter’ won the $1,500 grand prize Tuesday.
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Maine writers – and a librarian – bring home book awards
The Maine Literary Awards honors recently retired Bangor Public Library director Barbara McDade.
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Writer Jane Brox discusses the nature of ‘Silence’
Her newest book explores monasteries and penitentiaries as a way to examine the history of quiet.
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Country star Tim McGraw and biographer Jon Meacham team up to write a book
The unlikely duo’s shared love of music and history leads to ‘Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation.’
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A novella takes on Zen and the art of the breakup
In John Manderino’s ‘Bopper’s Progress,’ a newly heartbroken slacker visits a monastery to give spiritual enlightenment a whirl.
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‘The River’s’ wilderness overflows with beauty and suspense
In Peter Heller’s new novel, what starts as a leisurely canoe trip through the northern wilderness turns into a harrowing dash.
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Sara Collins’ ‘The Confessions of Frannie Langton’ is a startling debut
A former slave stands trial for murdering her master and his wife in the historical novel.
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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, she meets, and marries, a Thai man. But when their son gets sick, everything changes.
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A national debate over politics, principles and impeachment – in 1868
The heroes of Brenda Wineapple’s riveting “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” believed that the “soul of the country” was at stake.