British author Mark Billingham’s talent for sculpting intensely dark police procedurals complements his skill at pinpointing believable contemporary nightmares.
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BOOKS: ‘Claire of the Sea Light’ shines light on the overlooked, undervalued
On her 7th birthday, when her father makes the agonizing decision to give her away to the local fabric vendor, who can offer a better life, Claire Limye Lanme Faustin vanishes.
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BOOKS: ‘Haldol and Hyacinths’ a report from frontlines of bipolar disorder
One of Melody Moezzi’s biggest gripes about being bipolar is that nobody rewards it. “If you have cancer, you get flowers, visitors and compassion. If you have a mental illness, you get plastic utensils, isolation and fear.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Lisa’s Legit Burritos will put a smile on your face
Here’s the best news of all: Lisa’s Legit Burritos, Gardiner’s
delightful gathering place for great food and conversation,
will soon open a second location on Water Street in Augusta.
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Ohio women decline comment on captor’s suicide
The women were held captive for a decade by Ariel Castro, who hanged himself on Tuesday.
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Kerry: Strikes not about Obama’s red line
Instead, Kerry told Congress Tuesday that ‘this debate is about the world’s red line … that anyone with a conscience ought to draw.’
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ALLEN AFIELD: Regulations make things complex
For much of my adult life, I had fished for Atlantic salmon in Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where guides told me long-lining was illegal for the king of freshwater game fish. That law struck me as odd, even though I seldom resorted to using the tactic in Maine, where it’s legal.
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Movies Aug. 30-Sept. 5
Flagship Cinemas • Pittsfield Community Theater • Narrow Guage Cinemas • Railroad Square Cinema • Regal Augusta 10 • Skowhegan Drive-In • Strand Cinema
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea’ and ‘The Last of the Doughboys’
In 1961, famed British author C.S. Lewis wrote: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” He might have written that sentence just for 12-year-old Florine Gilham, whose mother mysteriously disappears, leaving the young girl with nothing but overwhelming grief and fear.
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ALLEN AFIELD: Guide has fun guidingfor bass
William Clunie of Dixfield, a fishing, float-trip operator, guides trout and smallmouth bass anglers on the Androscoggin River, and in summer heat, his bass clients outnumber trout casters interested in the river’s rainbows, browns and brookies.