BOOKS: You’ll keep turning these pages

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Published
August 30, 2012

BOOKS: You’ll keep turning these pages

Gregg Hurwitz, writer for television's "V" and comics set in the "Wolverine" and "Batman" universe, also writes amazing thrillers. He outdoes himself with his latest, "The Survivor."
Published
August 30, 2012

BOOKS: Call-girl thriller portrait of madam with mission

The newspaper headline screams "Suburban Madam Dead In Apparent Suicide." Heloise Lewis, a single mom raising a young boy, sees it at a Starbucks and is full of sympathy.
Published
August 30, 2012

‘The Well-Digger’s Daughter’ sweet to the last drop

At the center of Daniel Auteuil's astonishing summer film, "The Well-Digger's Daughter," is that eponymous daughter herself, the stunningly beautiful Astrid Berges-Frisbey. Try to find a name like that on the marquee of a blockbuster 3D fortress, even though, there she was tucked away in the credits of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."
Published
August 30, 2012

ABOUT THE MOVIES

"Celeste and Jesse Forever" A young married couple who met in high school find themselves on the verge of divorce but have trouble extricating themselves from each other's lives. With Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg. 91 minutes (R)
Published
August 23, 2012

BOOKS: Bruce Wagner’s wickedly funny “Dead Stars” digs into reality of celebrity life

It starts with Telma, a plucky adolescent who’s not only the youngest breast-cancer survivor ever, but quite possibly the most ambitious. She is unceasingly cheerful, a supportive force on the ward, a favorite of her doctors and nurses, and writes “kancer” with a “k” as a way of taking away its power. She has taken her cancer fame as far as it can go, performing at celebrity fundraisers with the likes of Michael Douglas and Beyonce, but she wants more

Published
August 23, 2012

BOOKS: Best sellers for the week of Aug. 23

Publishers Weekly best sellers
Published
August 23, 2012

TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): The sound of music defines SUMMER IN MAINE

We've said it before: Stone Mountain Arts Center is the best place to listen to music in the state. Who knew a barn could have such great acoustics?
Published
August 23, 2012

BOOKS: Plot of ‘Bad Little Falls’ is riveting

BY BRUCE DESILVA For The Associated Press BAD LITTLE FALLS By Paul Doiron Minotaur Books Maine game warden Mike Bowditch should have learned by now that he needs to mind his own business. His inability to do so in “The Poacher’s Son” (2010) and “Trespasser” (2011) has left both his personal and his professional life […]
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August 23, 2012

BOOKS: Chelsea Cain’s thriller series needs a tuneup

Chelsea Cain's fifth novel to feature Portland detective Archie Sheridan and his nemesis, Gretchen Lowell, delivers the shocks that one expects from this "The Silence of the Lambs" clone. "Kill You Twice" is the best book in the series since "Heartsick."
Published
August 23, 2012

‘The Intouchables’

The serendipitous moment always has its enchantments, and often occurs in lightly colored, sweetly scented ways: finding a wonderful jacket in a pile of Goodwill clothing, an ancient piece of silver with your own initials on it at a garage sale, or seeing a red-haired girl with green eyes passing you by in a store you never intended to enter.