Nationally-recognized author announces release of ‘The House Is On Fire’
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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Speak to the Winds’ and ‘Murder on the Class Trip’
The sixth of Ruth Moore’s masterful novels about Maine, and the third book in Lee Hollis’ ‘Maya and Sandra Mysteries’ series
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AUTHOR EVENT: Dale Potter-Clark
Local historian will speak about The Underground Railroad at Vienna and Mount Vernon venues
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The rise and fall of Monson, Maine
‘Here & Everywhere Else’ tells the story of the remote town over several hundred years. But be forewarned: it’s dense reading.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Comfort is an Old Barn’
A selection of writings that reveals the capabilities and sensitivities that make up a top-notch reporter
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A resilient Greek nanny changes the course of her young charge’s life
In ‘My Xanthi,’ a now-adult Nick reads his nanny’s old letters and comes face to face with the brutality of her life in wartime Greece.
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In ‘Monkey,’ writer Agnes Bushell meditates on the Russian novel
The novel tracks the search for a lost book within the book, also called ‘Monkey,’ as well as the writer of that unusual book.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Perilous Obsession’ and ‘Eastport’
Ogunquit author Geoffrey Cooper’s fifth mystery in his thriller series, and an excellent history of a small island town
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Book review: A boy goes on a quest through mysterious realms to atone for his mother’s fatal mistake
In ‘Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods,’ writer Catherynne M. Valente’s sense of place is imaginative and gripping.
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Novel set in Damariscotta could become basis for Hulu series
‘The Midcoast’ author Adam White, who grew up in Damariscotta, said the series is being developed for the streaming service but has not gotten final approval.