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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82
Paulsen, known best for his ‘Hatchet’ novels, was a three-time finalist for the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book.
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Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both
Her new book, ‘There Is Nothing for You Here,’ offers a sober, and alarming, portrait of the 45th U.S. president.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Oslo, Maine: A Novel’ and ‘Historic Taverns and Tea Rooms in Maine’
A heart-rendering, complex tale of fractured families, and the story of how Maine’s taverns and tea rooms influenced society, economics and politics for nearly 300 years
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Tanzanian writer awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and recently retired as a professor at the University of Kent in England.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Green Grass’
The book’s no-nonsense, sometimes airy prose to some extent underemphasizes the sordid violence it details.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Case of the Missing Cattle’ and ‘The Lowering Days’
A fast-paced frontier whodunit and a first novel that shows polish and promise for the author
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Author Event: Kay Tobler Liss
New novel ‘The Last Resort’ explores themes of environmental and social justice
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OFF RADAR: ‘North by Northeast 2″
Follow-up to 2019 anthology features new fiction from Maine writers
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Blue Summer’ and ‘Maine Quilts’
A new novel from Jim Nichols, and a photographic and narrative history of quilting in Maine