Peaks Island writer Frederic Fahey writes a gloomier version of the Twain tale.
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Dan Brown clearly had fun writing his new book. It’s contagious
Robert Langdon is back in ‘The Secret of Secrets.’ Prepare for 600 hilariously hectic pages of murder, mayhem and New Age murmuring.
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Lauren Wolk’s lyrical ‘Candle Island’ gets so much right
But her recent YA novel gets one thing all wrong: the summer residents versus locals dynamic.
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‘Little World’ is the brief, transporting story of a young saint
In Josephine Rowe’s novel, the body of a girl refuses to decompose and is suspected of causing miracles.
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A fast-paced debut novel about a start-up seems ripped from real-life events
In Austin Taylor’s ‘Notes on Infinity,’ 2 brilliant Harvard students meet, compete, drop out, form a startup and become romantically entangled. Then things start to go awry.
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This true story of CIA book smuggling reads like an Ian Fleming novel
Charlie English provides a fascinating account of how the agency smuggled Camus, Orwell and Vonnegut behind the Iron Curtain in ‘The CIA Book Club.’
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The true story of a shipwrecked couple’s fight to survive
Sophie Elmhirst’s ‘A Marriage at Sea’ chronicles the doomed aquatic adventure of a British husband and wife in 1972.
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In Peter Heller’s latest, two hunters emerge from a week in Maine’s North Woods to find total devastation
‘Burn,’ an apocalyptic novel of friendship, is a terrific read.
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‘Among Friends’ captures the joy and danger of intimacy
Hal Ebbott’s novel unpacks the aftermath of an interaction that threatens a decades-long friendship between two men.
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The death of a hiker in the Maine wilderness loosely inspired ‘Heartwood’
Amity Gaige borrows from the tragedy of the AT hiker known as ‘Inchworm,’ but the novel tells a very different story.