Proposals to force northern nations to accept migrants, and to geoengineer a cooler planet, could make our problems worse.
Books
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In a debut novel set on a fictional Maine island, an unusual boy comes of age
The orphaned ‘Faron Goss’ struggles to overcome his haunted childhood in a tight-knit lobstering community.
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‘Foodtopia’ and the fifth wave: Maine’s millennial farmers stand on the shoulders of their forebears
Maine author Margot Anne Kelley’s new book explores historic back-to-the-land movements and how they helped today’s young breakaway farmers succeed.
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Let’s turn the Farmer’s Almanac into something real – and useful
The perennial bestseller is now disconnected from its reason for being. It wants to evoke our affection for nature but shows little interest in human nature or science.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Horse,’ ‘Atomic Habits’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout a finalist for top fiction prize
Her novel ‘Oh William!’ is among six books on the short list for the Booker Prize.
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Bedside table: A book to convert even the nonfiction reader
Book recommendations from readers.
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10 new books to read this fall
Maine’s Stephen King wrote one of noteworthy novels coming out this month.
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Midcoast,’ ‘Gender Queer’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Judge thwarts Virginia Republicans’ effort to limit sale of books at Barnes & Noble
The 2 books at the heart of the suit are Maia Kobabe’s ‘Gender Queer,’ a memoir about identifying as nonbinary, and Sarah J. Maas’s ‘A Court of Mist and Fury,’ a fantasy novel that depicts a dark fairy romance.