Authors say these often idyllic locales – where there’s nowhere to run or hide – present opportunities for heightened drama, suspense and romance.

“Beach Read” or “Book Lovers”? The debate rages on.

The week’s bestselling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

‘Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time’ looks at the Beat writer from his college days until just before the publication of his most famous work.

In ‘The Unsinkable Aly Brown, RN,’ a nurse crosses the Pacific and solves medical mysteries en route.