The South Berwick native is best known for her 1896 novel ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs.’
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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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50 years later, lessons learned in Skowhegan still resonate | Column
The immersive experience of playing Anne Sullivan more than a half century ago at Skowhegan Area High School taught an invaluable lesson.
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Residents on a tiny island in Maine struggle as climate change reshapes their lives
In alternating chapters, the many well-drawn characters in ‘Little Great Island’ each gets to tell the story from their perspective.
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Waterville man is ready for the most exciting time of his life | Column
A lifetime of experience has readied Walter Dale for what’s next.
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Meet the BFFs behind the mobile bookstore for Maine romance fans | Column
Despite a decline in reading for pleasure, two former Barnes & Noble coworkers have found a niche with Novella.
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Maine’s black market for baby eels is spawning a crime-thriller subgenre
‘The Glass Eel’ is the latest of several books and TV shows to explore elver poaching.
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Author Ben Shattuck chose the Maine woods for ‘The History of Sound’
The story, now a film starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, takes place at Bowdoin College, Augusta’s defunct train station and the backwaters of Maine.
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New book details how Maine’s North Woods was protected
Karin Tilberg’s ‘Loving the North Woods’ gives a detailed history of the region’s recent conservation, but misses a few key points.
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From Stephen King to New Jersey diners, History Press books cover local lore around the US
A writer from Maine, Sharon Kitchens has turned her passion for Stephen King’s books into a published work
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Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist
Hemingway’s missing novel. Alice’s backwards-printed book in “Through the Looking Glass.” Sylvia Plath’s never-finished autobiography. Reid Byers owns copies of all those “invisible” books that bibliophiles wish were real.