Adam White’s first novel barrels head-on into class frictions along Maine’s coast.
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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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In a debut novel set on a fictional Maine island, an unusual boy comes of age
The orphaned ‘Faron Goss’ struggles to overcome his haunted childhood in a tight-knit lobstering community.
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‘Foodtopia’ and the fifth wave: Maine’s millennial farmers stand on the shoulders of their forebears
Maine author Margot Anne Kelley’s new book explores historic back-to-the-land movements and how they helped today’s young breakaway farmers succeed.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Benjamin Franklin Butler’ and ‘On the Wrong Side of the River’
A fabulous biography of ‘Colby’s most important Civil War-era alumnus,’ and stories from a Maine Guide
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AUTHOR EVENT: Kathleen Stone
Chat with Champions talk focuses on ‘They Called Us Girls’
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Bedside table: A book to convert even the nonfiction reader
Book recommendations from readers.
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Midcoast,’ ‘Gender Queer’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Late Wonders: New and Selected Poems’
This is the book to go to for either an introduction or a summation of Wesley McNair, one of Maine’s most prominent, skilled poets
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Book review: A pandemic is ravaging the world. Then, a plague is loosed on New York City
Chris Holm’s bio-thriller ‘Child Zero’ is a timely page-turner.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Island Secrets’ and ‘Visualizing Nature’
A magnificent collection of 12 stories showcasing Catherine Lee’s writing skill, and a collection of 20 short essays by 21 contributors who were asked to reflect on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1836 essay ‘Nature.’