BOOKS: Best sellers for the week of Feb. 16

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February 16, 2012

BOOKS: Best sellers for the week of Feb. 16

Publishers Weekly best-seller list
Published
February 16, 2012

BOOKS: Liked “Presumed Innocent”? You’ll love “Defending Jacob”

Scott Turow’s 1987 “Presumed Innocent” was a watershed for the legal thriller, delivering what started out as a typical plot that evolved into a tense look at the law, ethics and revenge, as it moved to a jaw-dropping finale. Readers will have the same reaction to William Landay’s superb “Defending Jacob,” which begins as a typical legal thriller then matures into a suspense-laden insider’s view of the law, ethics and familial bonds.
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February 16, 2012

BOOKS: Poetry and memoirs

New releases from local writers.
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February 16, 2012

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: “Available Dark” a graphic mystery, dark chocolate stars in “Desserted”

It may be hard to believe, but there actually are people who are so obsessed with murder and death they collect “murderabilia,” especially crime scene photographs of dead bodies.
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February 16, 2012

TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): It’s time to celebrate in Bethel

We’ve waited a long time for winter to arrive. It’s time to stop waiting and celebrate, even though this winter is but a small snow-shadow of itself.

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February 16, 2012

The Cottars plan Feb. 23 Unity concert

Back on Aug. 1, 2003, the Unity College Center for Performing Arts hosted a show by four talented and very young people: Ciaran and Fiona MacGillivray and Jimmy and Roseanne MacKenzie, better known as The Cottars. This talented Celtic band from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, wowed the crowd in Unity with their considerable musical abilities and toe-tapping brand of roots music.
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February 9, 2012

TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Everything’s BIG at Big G’s

At Winslow restaurant Big G’s, the G stands for great food. The Big stands for, well BIG! It’s always fun to find a unique restaurant that marches to a different food drummer. Gerry Michaud has created a deliciously fun place.
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February 9, 2012

BOOKS: ‘The Rope’: Rebuilding a life amid a stunning landscape

“The Rope” By Nevada Barr Minotaur ($25.99) Since 1993, Nevada Barr has given readers solid, intriguing tours of America’s national parks from Texas to Michigan to the Florida Keys, including an urban national park in New Orleans, via her series heroine, park ranger Anna Pigeon. In this series, readers have been swept up by the […]
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February 9, 2012

BOOKS: Murder mystery enters Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ territory

Death comes to Pemberley, one of the great houses in Derbyshire, and a most unwelcome guest it is. Not only does the loss of life come at a most inopportune time, the night before the annual Lady Anne’s ball, the highlight of the local social season, but it is a most violent and unexpected fatality into the bargain.
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February 9, 2012

MAINE AUTHORS: “Fractured Light,” “Disposable Causes”

Author Rachel McClellan has announced the release of her debut young adult novel “Fractured Light,” the first in a trilogy. The Old Orchard Beach resident’s paranormal novel is already climbing to the top of the 2012 Debut Author List on Goodreads, as stated in a news release. McClellan will launch the book at Barnes & Noble in Augusta Saturday at 11 a.m.