OFF RADAR: The ongoing influx of Maine-based books

Maine Authors

Published
December 20, 2018

OFF RADAR: The ongoing influx of Maine-based books

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.
Published
December 13, 2018

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Deck the Hounds’ and ‘Bealport: A Novel of a Town’

Check out the 18th novel in the Andy Carpenter mystery series or the sharp, edgy fictional account of a small town facing economic ruin
Published
December 6, 2018

OFF RADAR: ‘American Ghost’

The short, sketchy life of Thumb Rivera
Published
November 15, 2018

OFF RADAR: More notes from the stacks

There are many Maine-associated books that could light up a winter afternoon for you, writes Dana Wilde
Published
November 8, 2018

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Overkilt’ and ‘Finchosaurus’

Read the 12th volume in the Liss MacCrimmon mystery series and a charming middle-grade reader's mystery
Published
November 1, 2018

OFF RADAR: ‘Add Water, Add Fire’

Karie Friedman's poetic diamonds in the backwoods rough
Published
October 25, 2018

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The House on Perry Street’ and ‘Midcoast Maine in World War II’

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
Published
October 18, 2018

OFF RADAR: Two new poetry collections

'A Smattering of Stanley' by military veteran George S. Chappell and 'The Heroin Diaries' by physician Mary Dowd
Published
October 11, 2018

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Paper Coast’ and ‘Secrets Haunt the Lobsters’ Seas’

Short stories that will challenge the reader and an environmental-themed murder mystery
Published
October 4, 2018

OFF RADAR: Broadening the audience

'Where You Happen to Be' and 'Leaves Surface Like Skin' both help to crack the door open a little wider for people who are discovering poetry