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, […]
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Author Q&A: Humor ME
John McDonald’s latest book is the distinctly droll ‘Maine Trivia.’
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Book Review: King explores time travel with ’11/22/63′
This is classic Stephen King, and he doesn’t fail his readers here.
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Book Review: Inside the business, genius of a pioneer
The biography also portrays Steve Jobs as a nasty, confounding person.
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Book Review: ‘Gale’ explores family tragedy and mystery
“August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey Into the Storm” by Barbara Walsh reads like a suspense-filled work of fiction. Instead, it’s a gripping family saga in which Walsh connects the dots between a long-ago storm at sea and her grandfather’s abandonment of her father. Walsh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who lives in Winthrop. […]