Anthony Walton’s ‘The End of Respectability’ features a dozen essays, written over time, with his observations on race in this country.
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Topsham author publishes book on controversial historical manuscript
Pennsylvania-based Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. has released “Golden Fleece: The Voynich Manuscript and British Intelligence, 1890-1960,” a new book by Topsham resident Robert C. Williams. The Voynich Manuscript resides in a library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. No one can read the manuscript, break its cipher or identify its provenance. Nothing like it […]
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Talking ‘Love & Lobsters’ with author Shannon Parker
Are critters and humans so different? It depends on who you ask. As Parker says, just like searching for a cotton candy lobster, whether in a friend or partner, one should wait for that 1 in 100 million catch.
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Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is Oprah’s Book Club pick
The novel marks the first time that 3 of Strout’s most beloved characters – Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob Burgess – fully interact with each other in the fictional coastal Maine town of Crosby.
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Book talk and wine at Vessel and Vine
Gulf of Maine Books has partnered with the wine store for an event featuring author Juliet Grames’ second book, “The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia.”
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Bath Book Bash kicks off Sept. 7
The fourth annual Bath Book Bash is slated for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, with “Wings of Fire” author Tui T. Sutherland as the headliner. The festival will also feature over 30 children’s authors and illustrators along with family-friendly activities, games, workshops and more. “The mission of the Bath Book Bash is […]
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Dolly Parton is sending free books to children across 21 states – and around the world
The program has expanded statewide in places like Missouri and Kentucky, 2 of 21 states where all children under 5 can enroll to have books mailed to their homes monthly.
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Leonard Riggio, who forged a bookselling empire at Barnes & Noble, dies at 83
In his time, no one in the book world was more feared. With the power to make anything a bestseller, or a flop, to alter the market on an idle whim, Riggio could terrify publishers. Then came Amazon.
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Viola Davis and James Patterson to collaborate on novel set in the contemporary, rural South
It will be the first work of fiction for actress Davis.
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South Portland author’s young adult romance tackles cultural differences
The main characters in “The Space Between You and Me” “come to the table with very different realities,” says Julie True Kingsley.