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Books
Game warden can’t shake his father’s past in ‘Widowmaker’
The latest in Paul Doiron’s mystery series has the warden searching for the truth about a man who could be his half-brother.
Book review: ‘Death of Fred Astaire’ a touching, funny exploration of family, love and gender
Leslie Lawrence’s essays tell her story of coming of age and motherhood in an age of powerful change.
Book review: ‘Goodnight, Beautiful Women’ a glimmering collection
The characters are tormented by forces external and, especially, internal.
Book review: Stephen King brings trilogy to a bloody good ‘End’
‘End of Watch,’ out on Tuesday, is the latest in his Bill Hodges Trilogy.
Book review: A tale of a dog and his neurotic human in ‘Lily and the Octopus’
South Portland native Steven Rowley writes about a beloved dog and the owner who can’t let go.
Book review: Kids, meet Bach
In his series, ‘Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers,’ Mike Venezia introduces the classical master to young readers.
Book review: Bach revealed as a rebel in ‘Music in the Castle of Heaven’
Composer John Eliott Gardiner’s tome on the great composer shows him as far more than a ‘bewigged, jowly’ old man with talent.