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Allen Eskens’ ‘Nothing More Dangerous’: Resonant themes about race emerge in ‘Dangerous’
Evocative of Stephen King’s ‘Stand By Me,’ boys’ story in 1970s Missouri explores prejudice.
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Book review: ‘My Penguin Year’ works best as companion to nature series
‘My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors’ by Lindsay McCrae works best as companion to nature series.
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Maine winter reading list
Books that best suit the season from Islandport Press.
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Book review: Richard Russo easy to recognize in ‘Chances Are…’
The Maine writer’s new novel follows three college friends, now in their 60s, who reunite on Martha’s Vineyard.
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A strong-willed wife, her devoted husband and a losing battle with cancer
In ‘Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death,’ novelist and editor Michael Korda becomes the voice for so many caregivers.
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A nameless boy has much to deal with in this understated and moving debut novel
In Dave Patterson’s ‘Soon the Light Will Be Perfect,’ the 12-year-old narrator tries to make sense of his mother’s illness, his father’s job instability and other complexities of approaching adulthood.
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Anonymous author’s ‘Warning’ portrays a presidency on the brink
A new book by an unnamed ‘senior official in the Trump administration’ says staffers considered resigning en masse last year.
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Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize
But it deserves all the glory.
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‘Precious and Adored’ offers century-old love letters with a difference
The book gathers 30 years of intimate letters that chronicle a passionate love affair between two women at a time such relationships were kept mum.