Books

Published
April 15, 2012

Signings, etc.: Sarah Fiorini

Sarah Fioroni will be talking about and signing her new book, “A Family Farm in Tuscany.” Fioroni has been a chef, cooking instructor, sommelier, and manager of her family’s organic farm near historic San Gimignano, in Italy. The book includes family stories, traditions and recipes. WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, […]
Published
April 15, 2012

Book Review: ‘Arcadia’ a fictional romp in author’s peerless fashion

Once in a great while, a book comes along that is so strikingly singular yet so pleasingly spot-on, it deserves a “Hurrah!” before anything else. So “Hurrah!” to Agnes Bushell’s “Death in Arcadia,” a detective novel and fictional romp through Portland’s contemporary social strata, centered on what is undoubtedly the Maine College of Art. Although […]
Published
April 15, 2012

Author Q&A: Humor ME

John McDonald's latest book is the distinctly droll 'Maine Trivia.'
Published
December 8, 2011

Book about believing revives holiday mystery

With a new version of 'The Night Before Christmas,' a Maine publisher takes a side in the dispute over who wrote it.
Published
November 6, 2011

Signings, etc.

T.R. REID
Published
November 6, 2011

Book Review: Inside the business, genius of a pioneer

The biography also portrays Steve Jobs as a nasty, confounding person.
Published
November 6, 2011

Book Review: King explores time travel with ’11/22/63′

This is classic Stephen King, and he doesn't fail his readers here.
Published
November 6, 2011

Author Q&A: Storm Chaser

Intrigued by an episode from her family's past, Maine writer Barbara Walsh investigates, only to find much more: A tale of loss, love and redemption.
Published
November 6, 2011

Book Review: Another killer ‘Dexter’ from Jeff Lindsay

Believable storytelling and large doses of dark humor mark the latest tale of this avenging serial killer.
Published
November 6, 2011

Books: Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “1Q84,” by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) 2. “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar Straus Giroux) 3. “The Cat’s Table,” by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf Publishing) 4. “The Sense of an Ending,” by Julian Barnes (Knopf) 5. “Heroes of Olympus Book 2: The Son of Neptune,” by Rick Riordan (Hyperion Books) 6. “Mr. Fox,” […]

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