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When her ferocious mother dies, a prodigal daughter returns home to Maine
‘Welcome Home, Stranger,’ Kate Christensen’s latest book, is a meditation on complicated grief.
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‘The Maid’ was a surprise hit. Its sequel lives up to the hype
‘The Mystery Guest,’ the second installment in Nita Prose’s Maid Novels series, is both a delightful whodunit and a pointed social commentary.
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Book signings to raise funds for Lewiston
The last of a series of signings will be in Camden and Lewiston.
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Bestsellers: ‘Tom Lake,’ ‘Democracy Awakening’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Deaths at a Florida ‘reform’ school inspire a masterful horror novel
Tananarive Due’s latest novel, ‘The Reformatory,’ is based on the notorious Dozier School for Boys. The author’s great-uncle was among its victims.
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Bedside table: ‘Elon Musk’ by Walter Isaacson
Book recommendations from readers.
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A navy lieutenant battles storms, pursues slave traders and wrestles with his conscience
In Robin Lloyd’s thriller ‘Hidden Cargo,’ set just after the Civil War, protagonist Everett Townsend has his hands full.
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Bedside Table: ‘Blood Sugar’ by Sascha Rothchild
Book recommendations from readers.
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Book about Maine’s Malaga Island falls short in Booker Prize contest
Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’ was also nominated for a National Book Award.