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
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OFF RADAR: ‘Sideshots: Stories from a Land Surveyor’s Traverse through the District of Maine’
This survey of backwoods Maine will illuminate its times and places for historians
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Reesie the Blind Dachshund’ and ‘Percy’s Patience’
Books for children tell the true tale of a beloved shelter dog, and a great story about Percival Baxter
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OFF RADAR: ‘So Much Older Then’
A memoir of the anti-war protest years
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A mother’s chocolate cake brings up the kitchen confessions of writer Monica Wood
The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don’t ask Wood to bake it.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Heirloom Gardener’ and ‘On Harbor’s Edge’
John Forti’s collection of essays on sustainable growing, and an intriguing, well-written debut novel from Kate Hotchkiss
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OFF RADAR: ‘The Best of Elizabeth Hand’
Death, darkness, dismay and the supernatural are hallmark characteristics of Elizabeth Hand’s highly literary weird fiction, and “The Best of Elizabeth Hand” collects a dozen exemplary stories from across her long career.
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Portland writer collaborates with his ER-doctor cousin on book about COVID-19
‘Every Minute Is a Day’ chronicles the turmoil and challenges of the pandemic as experienced at a hospital in the Bronx. It was published this week by Penguin Random House.
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Portland bookstore joins effort to replace books lost in Frenchville school fire
The book drive is part of a statewide effort involving Maine authors, bookstores and literary groups to replace 9,500 books lost in a blaze last month.