Books
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PublishedJune 11, 2011
Signings, etc.
The Danforth in Portland will be the site today of a book launch party for Dana Moos, celebrating the release of her new cookbook “The Art of Breakfast: How to Bring B&B Entertaining Home” (Down East Books, $28.95). Moos is the former innkeeper of the Kingsleigh Inn in Southwest Harbor and current general manager of […]
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PublishedJune 5, 2011
Best-Sellers, June 5, 2011
1. “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making,” by Catherynne M. Valente (Macmillan) 2. “The Moment,” by Douglas Kennedy (Simon & Schuster) 3. “Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs,” by Leonard Cohen (Everyman’s Library) 4. “One Was a Soldier,” by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Macmillan) 5. “The Throne of Fire,” by Rick Riordan […]
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PublishedJune 5, 2011
Author Q & A: French lessons
David McCullough's latest book tells stories about Americans – one a Mainer – who went abroad to study and came back agents of change.
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PublishedJune 5, 2011
Signings, etc.
JIM NICHOLS Author Jim Nichols, who lives in Warren, will be reading from and discussing his novel “Hull Creek” (Down East Books, $24.95). The novel deals with change on the Maine coast and the challenges it presents to young fishermen. Nichols is appearing as part of the library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series, so people are […]
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2011
Best-Sellers
FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The Confession,” by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday) 2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Full Dark, No Stars,” by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster) 4. “Dead or Alive,” by Tom Clancy (Penguin) 5. “Cross Fire,” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 6. “Diary of a Wimpy […]
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2011
Book Review: Bully! for third Roosevelt chronicle
'Colonel Roosevelt' may describe a denouement, but Teddy still heaped his plate full, and with passion.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2011
Book Review: Gunther tale fraught with foreboding from the get-go
From the first sentence of “Red Herring,” you’re instantly caught by a sense of being privy to something secret and pregnant with meaning. Archer Mayor opens this book, his 21st in the Joe Gunther series, with the line: “Doreen Ferenc slipped her nightgown over her head and let it fall the length of her body […]
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2011
Author Q&A: Making the best of the worst of times
Charles Dickens' wife of 22 years wasn't the loser he claimed she was when he dumped her, a Bates College professor discovers.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2011
Signings, etc.
GLENNA JOHNSON SMITH Ninety-year-old Presque Isle resident Glenna Johnson Smith will sign copies of her book, “Old Maine Woman, Stories from the Coast to the County,” on Saturday in Brunswick and on Jan. 9 in South Portland. Smith’s book is a collection of her columns for “Echoes” magazine and other works pondering life in Maine. […]
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PublishedOctober 17, 2010
Book review: Veteran’s memoirs of war, upstate Maine is intriguing
Longtime Maine Sunday Telegram readers will remember Dick Goodie. An avid runner, he organized Maine road races in the 1960s. He’s a tireless supporter of Maine World War II veteran events, and a freelance writer who — 31 years ago — landed a story in this newspaper’s sports section that earned the Maine Press Association’s […]
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