At Winslow restaurant Big G’s, the G stands for great food. The Big stands for, well BIG! It’s always fun to find a unique restaurant that marches to a different food drummer. Gerry Michaud has created a deliciously fun place.

“The Rope” By Nevada Barr Minotaur ($25.99) Since 1993, Nevada Barr has given readers solid, intriguing tours of America’s national parks from Texas to Michigan to the Florida Keys, including an urban national park in New Orleans, via her series heroine, park ranger Anna Pigeon. In this series, readers have been swept up by the […]

Death comes to Pemberley, one of the great houses in Derbyshire, and a most unwelcome guest it is. Not only does the loss of life come at a most inopportune time, the night before the annual Lady Anne’s ball, the highlight of the local social season, but it is a most violent and unexpected fatality into the bargain.

Author Rachel McClellan has announced the release of her debut young adult novel “Fractured Light,” the first in a trilogy. The Old Orchard Beach resident’s paranormal novel is already climbing to the top of the 2012 Debut Author List on Goodreads, as stated in a news release.
McClellan will launch the book at Barnes & Noble in Augusta Saturday at 11 a.m.

The first indication that “Chopsticks” is significantly more than just a novel is its trailer, which encourages readers to watch, listen, feel, look, discover, view and imagine. All of those activities are not only encouraged but enabled in this ambitious and hefty tome that works as a sort of interactive scrapbook. An exercise in multimedia storytelling, “Chopsticks” is a book, but it’s also an iPhone and iPad app peppered with videos, songs and instant messages that bring the story to life in a way that isn’t possible with words alone.