These poems seem to reflect, if not actual dreams, maybe the often-tenuous inner lives of some health care workers.
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A musician returns – and reconnects – to her Maine hometown after decades
Laurel Dodge’s debut novel, ‘The Buoyant Letters of Mimsy Bell,’ is moving and unfolds in unexpected ways.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Downtown, Up River’ and ‘Bungalow Terrace’
Nostalgic, often forgotten moments of Bangor’s life in the 1970s, and a debut novel about a rock ‘n’ roll
band’s meteoric rise to star status.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘To Woo and To Wed’ and ‘Ghost Town’
A delightfully charming and funny Victorian rom-com, and a complex suspense thriller
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Gripped by a mysterious illness, a Mainer finds an unexpected kindred soul
In ‘American Breakdown,’ writer Jennifer Lunden spins twin tales of how the medical establishment dismissed her illness, and, some 100 years earlier, that of Alice James, the sister of Henry James.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Tributaries: Essays from Woods and Waters’
Ryan Brod take us onto rivers, streams and lakes in central Maine.
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A Mainer took refuge in her garden during COVID, then wrote about it
In the understated and evocatively written ‘A Gardener at the End of the World,’ Margot Anne Kelley muses on time, pandemics and plants.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Fire Exit’ and ‘Art of Penobscot Bay’
A debut novel from a masterful writer, and a magnificent tribute to Maine art
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Monty Python skit inspires latest book by Maine children’s author Julie Falatko
The South Portland author’s latest book, ‘Help Wanted: One Rooster,’ depicts a struggling farm and the farm’s search for a rooster to help make things right. Plus a few other Maine reads for your kids this summer.
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A small-town Maine librarian’s obsessions keep the pages turning
Hilarity – and chills – ensue in Portland writer Sarah Braunstein’s second novel, ‘Bad Animals.’