Book-signing event for ‘The Lobster Lady: Maine’s 102-year-old Legend’
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Book review: In small town Maine, a lobsterman has big ambitions and few scruples
Echoes of ‘The Great Gatsby’ resound in ‘The Midcoast,’ Adam White’s debut novel.
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Bedside table: A happy-making book
Book recommendations from readers.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan’s new novel with Jodi Picoult is literally a dream come true
The Maine-based writer and LGBTQ activist had never met Picoult before they decided to co-write ‘Mad Honey,’ a murder mystery novel that went on sale Oct. 4.
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Bloody good: Stephen King-themed cookbook blends delicious, dreary into fearsome froth
In ‘Castle Rock Kitchen,’ released this month by Ten Speed Press, a cookbook author from New Brunswick and a Maine photographer let their creative juices splatter.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Night of the Living Rez’ and ‘Peanut Butter Memoirs’
Morgan Talty’s debut collection of 12 interconnected stories about a multigenerational Penobscot family, and a gritty, unvarnished view of a cop’s profession from David Wilson
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A new book about Stephen King promises a lot – and it delivers
In ‘Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences,’ Bev Vincent is at once curious, thorough, scholarly and lively.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?’
Bill McKibben, author of the first widely circulated book about the threat of climate change, explains how shirking our responsibilities has finally brought before us what you might metaphorically call the resulting wrath.
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Novel by Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
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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Bedside table: Vacation reading
Book recommendations from readers.