It’s not ‘Middlesex’ redux, but ‘Marriage Plot’ isn’t chopped liver, either.
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Author Q&A: Divided we stand
A new book by Portland writer Colin Woodard traces our history – and offers perspective on our present – as a politically and culturally fractured land.
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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 […]
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Book review: We can and will go home again
Jean Thompson’s novel explores elements that drag us back to our pasts.
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Signings, etc.
The Danforth in Portland will be the site today of a book launch party for Dana Moos, celebrating the release of her new cookbook “The Art of Breakfast: How to Bring B&B Entertaining Home” (Down East Books, $28.95). Moos is the former innkeeper of the Kingsleigh Inn in Southwest Harbor and current general manager of […]
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Author Q & A: You ought to be in pictures
What makes Maine Maine? A Northport couple tries to capture its essence in words and stunning images in the new book ‘Maine Icons.’
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Book review: Power in the pieces, and in the whole
Portland writer Sarah Braunstein’s debut novel, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children,” is an unflinching probe into the frailty of children’s dreams and desires. Even though grown-ups figure prominently, most remain emotionally crippled by childhood wounds. When one returns to the house he grew up in and is kissed by a woman now living there, […]
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Signings, etc.
JIM NICHOLS Author Jim Nichols, who lives in Warren, will be reading from and discussing his novel “Hull Creek” (Down East Books, $24.95). The novel deals with change on the Maine coast and the challenges it presents to young fishermen. Nichols is appearing as part of the library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series, so people are […]
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Best-Sellers, June 5, 2011
1. “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making,” by Catherynne M. Valente (Macmillan) 2. “The Moment,” by Douglas Kennedy (Simon & Schuster) 3. “Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs,” by Leonard Cohen (Everyman’s Library) 4. “One Was a Soldier,” by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Macmillan) 5. “The Throne of Fire,” by Rick Riordan […]
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Author Q & A: French lessons
David McCullough’s latest book tells stories about Americans – one a Mainer – who went abroad to study and came back agents of change.