Books
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Bedside table: The interlocking stories in ‘The Overstory’ form a paean to trees
'The Overstory' by Richard Powers. W.W. Norton & Company. Paperback, 512 pages, $18.95
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
The joy, commitment and hard work behind a friendship ‘too big to fail’
'Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close' gives friendship the same respect as society normally reserves for marriage and family.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
Bedside Table: A stack of Bruce Robert Coffin mysteries
This reader read the first Detective Byron mystery by the local writer, and couldn't stop.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
‘Intimations’: Exquisite essays wring truths from the pandemic
Zadie Smith's slim but amply perceptive volume is a kind of balm in an anxious year.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
A Vietnamese boy grows up in a small Pennsylvania town and searches for his place in the world
In Phuc Tran’s memoir "Sigh, Gone," books, punk rock and encouraging teachers all help him to eventually flourish.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
Going home to a papermaking past, Maine native embarks on a deeply personal journey
Kerri Arsenault, who grew up in Rumford-Mexico, draws attention to a Faustian bargain with her investigative memoir.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2020
Foreword of Michael Cohen’s book: Trump ‘wouldn’t mind if I was dead’
Michael Cohen’s memoir about President Trump will be released Sept. 8 by Skyhorse Publishing, which confirmed the news Thursday to The Associated Press.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2020
Bedside Table: A Maine Spiritualist camp drew thousands in its early 20th-century heyday
“The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna” by Mira Ptacin. 218 pages. Liveright/Norton. $26.95
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PublishedAugust 9, 2020
In this moving debut novel, Maine writer Betty Culley tells a tangled tale in free verse
Set in the aftermath of a terrible gun accident, 'Three Things I Know are True" revolves around 15-year-old Liv, her immobile brother, his best friend and an upcoming trial about who is at fault for the tragedy.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2020
In ‘Memorial Drive,’ Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother’s life from the man who took it
Trethewey excavates her mother's life, transforming her from tragic victim to luminous human being.
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