“Nashville Chrome.” By Rick Bass. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 256 pages. $24. Back when Elvis was a scrawny teen dreaming of becoming a gospel singer, he spent two years on tour with the Browns, a trio of siblings whose gorgeous harmonies resulted in a series of country hits in the 1950s. In “Nashville Chrome,” Rick Bass […]
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Signings, etc.: Rosemary Herbert
Rosemary Herbert, a former book review editor at the Boston Herald, will be talking about and signing her new mystery novel, “Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery” ($14.95, Down East Books). The book introduces Liz Higgins, a Boston reporter trying to move from light news to front-page stories. Herbert was editor-in-chief of “The Oxford […]
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Books: Best-Sellers
FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Freedom,” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 4. “Clockwork Angel,” by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster) 5. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin) 6. “Catching Fire,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 7. “Spider […]
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Book review: ‘Enemy Action’ revisits WWII attack in Maine waters
A book published in 2005 chronicles what happened to the USS Eagle 56 and how the truth of the event was uncovered.