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Books

Published
May 20, 2018

Summer reads for the discerning Mainer

Take a cruise, survive a divorce and investigate a murder, all without leaving the comfort of your beach towel.
Published
May 15, 2018

‘Right Stuff’ author Tom Wolfe dies at 88

An originator of the ‘new journalism’ style, he went on to write novels.
Published
May 13, 2018

Book review: The tortured genius of Robin Williams

Dave Itzkoff's biography is an incisive, comprehensive, very fine book.
Published
May 13, 2018

A short gator tale

An avowed mystery reader becomes a mystery writer and wins the second Crime Wave Flash Fiction Contest.
Published
May 13, 2018

Book review: In ‘Good and Gone,’ you won’t always like characters, but you’ll root for them

Megan Frazer Blakemore draws real, believable teens in her new YA novel.

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Published
May 6, 2018

Book review: A look at attitudes toward Martin Luther King Jr. – in his own time

To many Americans in 1968, MLK was hardly a hero, as explored in the book 'The Heavens Might Crack.'
Published
May 6, 2018

Book review: Filmmaking couple remember their days in the pack

The authors spent years living among and documenting a pack in Idaho.
Published
May 6, 2018

‘The Destiny Thief’ collects Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo’s personal essays and criticism

The book collects witty and wise nuggets from Russo, a genial narrator
Published
April 29, 2018

Book review: Michelle Dean on the women writers who held their own in the boys’ club

"Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion" explores the likes of Dorothy Parker, Joan Didion, Hannah Arendt and Nora Ephron, among others.
Published
April 29, 2018

The BFF protagonists find all manner of obstacles as they chase their dreams in this compelling middle-grade read

Elizabeth Atkinson's 'The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball,' now in paperback, is set in a small New Hampshire town.