Mike Bove’s post-Beat poems from Portland

Passengers and crew accounts of the last voyage of the aging liner Queen Isabella and an excellent story of April 19, 1775, when Massachusetts militiamen fought British redcoats

Stephen King’s newest release really is uplifting

The list includes three titles from Portland, a cheerful little chapbook out of Belfast, and a history of Maine politics by my Central Maine Newspapers colleague Doug Rooks.

Check out the 18th novel in the Andy Carpenter mystery series or the sharp, edgy fictional account of a small town facing economic ruin

The short, sketchy life of Thumb Rivera

There are many Maine-associated books that could light up a winter afternoon for you, writes Dana Wilde

Read the 12th volume in the Liss MacCrimmon mystery series and a charming middle-grade reader’s mystery

Karie Friedman’s poetic diamonds in the backwoods rough

Agnes Bushell’s 12th novel is “a matriarchal epic” and Margaret Shiels Konitzky gives us an excellent history of the midcoast’s effort during World War II