Books
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PublishedJuly 28, 2024
Maine island mystique: Why so many books feature these isolated settings
Authors say these often idyllic locales – where there's nowhere to run or hide – present opportunities for heightened drama, suspense and romance.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2024
A musician returns – and reconnects – to her Maine hometown after decades
Laurel Dodge's debut novel, 'The Buoyant Letters of Mimsy Bell,' is moving and unfolds in unexpected ways.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2024
The somewhat definitive ranking of Emily Henry novels
“Beach Read” or “Book Lovers”? The debate rages on.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2024
Ernest Hemingway fans celebrate the author’s 125th birthday in his beloved Key West
More than six decades after his death, fans, scholars and relatives continue to congregate on the island city to celebrate the author’s award-winning novels and adventure-filled life.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2024
A New Yorker cartoonist and a historian walk into a bar…
Book-related talks and events around Maine.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2024
Bestsellers: ‘Pitch Dark,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week's bestselling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2024
A lyrical new children’s book recounts a day in the life of Rockland’s Lobster Lady
At 101, Virginia Oliver still lobstered every day. 'The Lobster Lady' tells how she got her start fishing at age 8, in a time when other girls definitely didn't, and what kept her lobstering through the decades.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2024
The 1995 political thriller that now feels prescient
Charles McCarry’s 'Shelley’s Heart' is not only exceptionally suspenseful but also unnervingly realistic.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2024
A new biography focuses on a pivotal period for Jack Kerouac
'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.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2024
Bedside table: Will an intrepid cruise ship nurse foil a murder?
In 'The Unsinkable Aly Brown, RN,' a nurse crosses the Pacific and solves medical mysteries en route.
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