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Published
January 2, 2011

Book Review: Bully! for third Roosevelt chronicle

'Colonel Roosevelt' may describe a denouement, but Teddy still heaped his plate full, and with passion.
Published
January 2, 2011

Book Review: Gunther tale fraught with foreboding from the get-go

From the first sentence of “Red Herring,” you’re instantly caught by a sense of being privy to something secret and pregnant with meaning. Archer Mayor opens this book, his 21st in the Joe Gunther series, with the line: “Doreen Ferenc slipped her nightgown over her head and let it fall the length of her body […]
Published
January 2, 2011

Author Q&A: Making the best of the worst of times

Charles Dickens' wife of 22 years wasn't the loser he claimed she was when he dumped her, a Bates College professor discovers.
Published
January 2, 2011

Signings, etc.

GLENNA JOHNSON SMITH Ninety-year-old Presque Isle resident Glenna Johnson Smith will sign copies of her book, “Old Maine Woman, Stories from the Coast to the County,” on Saturday in Brunswick and on Jan. 9 in South Portland. Smith’s book is a collection of her columns for “Echoes” magazine and other works pondering life in Maine. […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Book review: Veteran’s memoirs of war, upstate Maine is intriguing

Longtime Maine Sunday Telegram readers will remember Dick Goodie. An avid runner, he organized Maine road races in the 1960s. He’s a tireless supporter of Maine World War II veteran events, and a freelance writer who — 31 years ago — landed a story in this newspaper’s sports section that earned the Maine Press Association’s […]

Published
October 17, 2010

Books: All Aboard

Geoffrey Wolff has long been enthralled by Joshua Slocum's solo sail around the globe. Now he's inviting you along on Slocum's adventures.
Published
October 17, 2010

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Fall of Giants,” by Ken Follett (Penguin) 2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk,” by David Sedaris (Little Brown) 4. “The Reversal,” by Michael Connelly (Little Brown) 5. “Painted Ladies,” by Robert Parker (Penguin Group) 6. “Torment,” by Lauren Kate (Random House) […]
Published
October 10, 2010

Book review: Amateur or scientist, ‘Landscapes’ helps lead the way

Some high-quality books have recently come out of the Maine Department of Conservation. While aimed at the professional scientist, they offer considerable leeway to engage the enthusiastic amateur as well. A couple of years back, I reviewed the Maine Geological Survey’s formidable “Maine’s Fossil Record: The Paleozoic” for this publication. Now the Maine Natural Areas […]
Published
October 10, 2010

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Fall of Giants,” by Ken Follett (Penguin) 2. “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little Brown) 3. “Freedom,” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 4. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 5. “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk,” by David Sedaris (Little Brown) 6. “Mockingjay,” by […]
Published
October 10, 2010

Books: New on the Shelf

“The Good Daughters.” Joyce Maynard. William Morrow. 288 pages. $24.99. Joyce Maynard’s new novel hangs on a couple of plot twists so cliched that one might be tempted to call them gimmicks. But one reads Maynard for characters, not plots. The author’s deft and delicate touch as she plumbs the depths of her characters’ psyches […]

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