‘Look!’ and learn from two compelling new picture books, one about Scott Joplin, the other Winslow Homer.
Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Goose Lady,’ ‘Hector Fox and the Giant Quest’ and ‘The Finest Christmas Tree’
Three books for children featuring good messages, happy tales and woodland creatures
OFF RADAR: ‘The Name She Gave Me’
This story moves along with such momentum that you frankly forget you’re reading poems
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Death of an Italian Chef’ and ‘Salt and Roses’
The 14th book in the Hayley Powell Mystery series, and essays that allow the reader to almost see, smell, hear and feel the Maine coast
OFF RADAR: ‘Aventurine and the Reckoning’ and ‘Amber Road’
A couple of romances by central and eastern Maine writers
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Buccaneer Coast’ and ‘Operation: Midnight’
Maine writer James Nelson’s first volume in a new historical fiction series, and Brunswick author Rick Simonds’ third suspense novel
OFF RADAR: ‘Take It Easy: Portland in the 1970s’
John Duncan’s photos capture the artistic exuberance that powered the renascence in the Old Port.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Wild Design’ and ‘The Horse Soldier’
A collection of essays that explore amazing structures built by nature’s architects, and a beautifully written western about an old lawman facing the end of an era
OFF RADAR: ‘Thoreau’s Maine Woods: A Legacy for Conservation’
Thoreau’s Maine woods excursions in maps and illustrations
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Shucked Apart’ and ‘Got Warrants? Dispatches from the Dooryard’
A new mystery from the Maine Clambake series, and 80 vignettes about drunks, shoplifters and other morons doing stupid things