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Jennifer Finney Boylan’s new novel with Jodi Picoult is literally a dream come true
The Maine-based writer and LGBTQ activist had never met Picoult before they decided to co-write ‘Mad Honey,’ a murder mystery novel that went on sale Oct. 4.
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Posted inBooks, Food & Dining, Maine Authors, Recipes
Bloody good: Stephen King-themed cookbook blends delicious, dreary into fearsome froth
In ‘Castle Rock Kitchen,’ released this month by Ten Speed Press, a cookbook author from New Brunswick and a Maine photographer let their creative juices splatter.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Night of the Living Rez’ and ‘Peanut Butter Memoirs’
Morgan Talty’s debut collection of 12 interconnected stories about a multigenerational Penobscot family, and a gritty, unvarnished view of a cop’s profession from David Wilson
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A new book about Stephen King promises a lot – and it delivers
In ‘Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences,’ Bev Vincent is at once curious, thorough, scholarly and lively.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?’
Bill McKibben, author of the first widely circulated book about the threat of climate change, explains how shirking our responsibilities has finally brought before us what you might metaphorically call the resulting wrath.
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Novel by Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
Karunatilaka won the prestigious award for fiction for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.’ Among those in the running was part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout.
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Bedside table: Vacation reading
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Book review: ‘Mother Brain’ delves into the science of how our brains are rewired by parenthood
The book interweaves research and data with personal stories from new parents.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Wreck of the Portland’ and ‘Muddled Through’
Journalist J. North Conway’s dramatic story of the 1898 storm that ravaged the New England coast, and the 10th book in the ‘Maine Clambake Mystery’ series