In Kat Rosenfeld’s latest, ‘You Must Remember This,’ old family secrets abound, and the sense of place is palpable.
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The 7 titles featured in this year’s Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival
Each year, the festival highlights a handful of books to share with young Maine readers. Here are this year’s featured stories.
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Bedside table: ‘Irving Berlin: A Daughter’s Memoir,’ by Mary Ellin Barrett
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How Thomas Smallwood helped hundreds of enslaved people find freedom
Scott Shane’s ‘Flee North’ tells the gripping story of Thomas Smallwood, who was born into slavery and who Shane credits with coining the term ‘underground railroad.’
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Bestsellers: ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ ‘The Creative Act’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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In Zadie Smith’s ‘The Fraud,’ truth is an illusion
The new novel by the author of ‘White Teeth’ was inspired by the trial of the 19th century.
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Bedside table: ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ by Bonnie Garmus
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One of Maine’s most famous poets was a brilliant and witty charmer … with an edge
A complex portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay emerges from two new collections of her letters and diaries.
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Knott’s Harbor, Maine, is Emily Henry’s ‘Happy Place.’ Do you recognize it?
How authors go about creating fictional Maine towns, like the one from Henry’s recent bestselling romance novel.
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‘Happy Place’ locales that might look familiar, if you’ve been to this Midcoast town
Author Emily Henry hasn’t talked about where she vacations in Maine, but a Sherman’s bookseller has a theory.