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PublishedNovember 17, 2023
British writer A.S. Byatt, author of the novel ‘Possession,’ dies at 87
'Possession,' published in 1990, follows 2 modern-day academics investigating the lives of a pair of Victorian poets. It won the prestigious Booker Prize that year and was adapted as a 2002 film.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2023
Malaga Island-inspired ‘This Other Eden’ is fiction; critics say it revives harmful myths
Paul Harding says his latest novel, up for major awards, is not meant to be historically accurate. But archivists and descendants believe it badly invites inaccurate depictions of the Maine island's mistreated residents.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2023
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Hidden Beneath’ and ‘Body of Water’
The eleventh book in the Maine Clambake Mystery series by Barbara Ross, and a debut mystery novel by Daniel Boyne
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
A poet offers an intimate, meandering picture of rural life in Maine
Baron Wormser's memoir, 'The Road Washes Out in Spring,' was reissued in March. Its sharply observed, compassionate vignettes of his own off-the-grid life and the lives of those around him endure.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2023
OFF RADAR: ‘Grackledom: Poetry/Prints/Penpets Drawings’
Leslie Moore, of Belfast, seems to be building up something of a following for her poetry and printmaking work, and her new book, “Grackledom,” is likely to further expand her community of readers.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
Children’s author/illustrator Peter Brown brings his robot to the wilds of Maine
After years of living in big cities and creating stories set in wilderness, the best-selling author of the 'Wild Robot' series moved to the Midcoast last year.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2023
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Hunger Hill’ and ‘Hector Fox and the Daring Flight’
A fast-paced crime drama debut from Philip Baker, and Astrid Sheckels's third children's book about Hector and all his quirky woodland pals
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PublishedOctober 22, 2023
In many murder mysteries, gardens provide the plot twist
Marta McDowell's 'Gardening Can Be Murder' looks at examples of where the hobby appears within this genre.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2023
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Coastal Kitchen’ and ‘The Road to Dalton’
Recipes designed to take the guesswork out of seafood, and a grimly convincing tale of a small town's small minds, resigned to despair and self-pity
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