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Books

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

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.

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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,” […]
Published
November 6, 2011

Signings, etc.

T.R. REID
Published
October 23, 2011

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The Son of Neptune,” by Rick Riordan (Hyperion Books) 2. “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar Straus & Giroux) 3. “The Art of Fielding,” by Chad Harbach (Little Brown) 4. “The Burning Soul,” by John Connolly (Atria Books) 5. “The Cat’s Table,” by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf Publishing) 6. “Habibi,” by Craig […]
Published
October 23, 2011

Book Review: In which true love lies betwixt the lines

It's not 'Middlesex' redux, but 'Marriage Plot' isn't chopped liver, either.
Published
October 23, 2011

Signings, etc.: Mary Jo McConahay

Author Mary Jo McConahay will speak about her book, “Maya Roads,” in a special Monday edition of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series. In the book, McConahay draws on her three decades of traveling and living in Central America to chronicle the people, the politics and the nature of the Central American rain […]