Karunatilaka won the prestigious award for fiction for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.’ Among those in the running was part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout.
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Oct. 17, 1996: Judge rules Bechard was insane
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Oct. 16, 1876: Frank W. Kinsman opens ‘first-class’ drug store on Water St. in Augusta
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Bedside table: Vacation reading
Book recommendations from readers.
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Maine Gardener: When buying new plants, don’t believe the hype
Chasing award-winning plants has its perils. Despite the plaudits, they won’t necessarily be winners in your garden.
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Green Plate Special: Save the Jacob’s Cattle heirloom bean!
Given that they are a ‘fine eating bean’ – rich, nutty, dense, meaty and fragrant – this assignment is a cinch.
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Book review: ‘Mother Brain’ delves into the science of how our brains are rewired by parenthood
The book interweaves research and data with personal stories from new parents.
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Oct. 15, 1926: 55 extra votes for Joseph E. Jewett appear on chair
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Influential Midcoast artist Harold Garde dies at age 99
The New York native and abstract expressionist painter moved to Belfast in the 1980s and had his most productive period there.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Wreck of the Portland’ and ‘Muddled Through’
Journalist J. North Conway’s dramatic story of the 1898 storm that ravaged the New England coast, and the 10th book in the ‘Maine Clambake Mystery’ series