A powerful new novel by award-winning Maine author and poet William Carpenter, and Gretchen Legler’s essays about crafting a sustainable rural life
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Four new books toast the tastes of Maine, the importance of a well made drink and our shared food history
Stock your pantry and liquor cabinets. Maine cooks and authors share enough fond food memories, cherished recipes and smart techniques to keep you well fed and amply lubricated all summer long.
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A forgotten 19th-century Maine comic writer gets his day in the sun
Lots of fascinating material in ‘Diggio, Haybis Korpus & E Plewrisy Unicorn!’ if you can get past the fact that the imaginary Ethan Spike was a ‘reprehensible bigot.’
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Best-Sellers: ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ ‘River of the Gods’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Bedside table: Solace, and a new perspective, in a difficult time
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Elemental: A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands’
A book of essays, poems and short stories about who belongs where, and at what cost
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Bedside table: A ‘splendid’ and singular memoir
Book recommendations from readers.
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Half sisters wrestle with their father’s death and their sibling ties in ‘I Know You Love Me, Too’
Amy Neswald structures her debut novel as linked stories that take place over decades.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Thoreau’s Maine Woods’ and ‘Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding’
Dean Bennett’s very smart contemporary exploration of Thoreau’s three journeys into Maine’s North Woods, and an expansive illustrated history of Maine shipbuilding told by Nathan Lipfert
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Maine poet, faced with terminal diagnosis, keeps writing
Nick Stone, a corporate lawyer for decades, started writing poetry in retirement. His second book, ‘Seaward: A Lyrical Memior,’ was published last month, eight months after he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer.