AUTHOR EVENT: Amy Calder

Award-winning reporter will discuss her new book, 'Comfort is an Old Barn' at various events

‘Rough Sleepers’ follows a doctor’s relentless efforts to treat homeless patients

The book by part-time Mainer Tracy Kidder weaves scenes from the streets of Boston with the problems that are keeping people there.

Maine author Cathie Pelletier seeks the cold, hard truth

After 12 novels, the Allagash-based author has developed a passion for narrative nonfiction and the research that goes with it. Her latest book, 'Northeaster,' follows the stories of a dozen or so people impacted by a huge Maine storm in 1952.

In his latest novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding fictionalizes Maine’s Malaga Island

In luminous prose, 'This Other Eden' tells a wrenching tale of mixed race islanders forcibly removed by the state.

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: Books for adults and the kids

A fast-paced tale of mayhem, and stories about the miracle of literacy and taking time to notice what's around you

OFF RADAR: ‘Old Orchard Beach Cycle: Poems’

Robert Gibbons' poetry covers a lot of territory

Amina Luqman-Dawson’s ‘Freewater’ wins John Newbery Medal

The middle-grade novel about a secret community of formerly enslaved people has won the Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book.

‘This Might Hurt’ furnishes estranged sisters, an evil dad, a cult-like leader, secrets and a remote Maine island

Stephanie Wrobel's new thriller seems to have it all, but the book suffers from its constantly shifting, confusing timeline.

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Midcoast’ and ‘The Best I Can Do’

A dark, brooding story about a midcoast Maine family, and a collection of humorous observations

AUTHOR EVENT: Madison VFW sponsoring book signings