A story of the first woman to solo thru-paddle the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, and another about boy detectives in the latest of the Cooper and Packrat mystery series

All the gothic elements, up to date with jet lag and cellphones, are woven pretty niftily together in this well-written romance set in the psychic vicinity of Manderley and Jamaica Inn, writes Dana Wilde.

George Smith writes about the ones that got away (or didn’t) and David Rosenfelt releases a new Andy Carpenter mystery.

Stephen King’s latest novel, written with his son, Owen, and a first novel from Sarah Faber

Read about the creation of the Appalachian Trail and the second book in the Elder Darrow mystery series

You need intimacy with Shakespeare’s “King Lear” to get the most out of Baron Wormser’s new novel

A new Detective Byron mystery and simple recipes for fairy party fun

New poetry collections by Dave Morrison and Robert Chute

Break away from technology and pay attention to nature with a 5-year journal, and laugh your way through a humorist’s essays

Maine authors take a look at ocean life and a historical whodunit