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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Bedside table: Father and son share stories of survival
Book recommendations from readers.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Soft Features’
A wholly accurate story about the complications and obstacles most journalists face as they struggle to live up to their own and their professional ethics.
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Iran denies involvement in attack on Salman Rushdie but blames him
In 1989, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding the author’s death, and while Iran has not focused on Rushdie in recent years, the decree still stands.
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Book review: In his latest novel, Jeffrey Lewis tackles some very big questions
‘Land of Cockaigne’ examines the impact the wealthy have on their communities, the ugliness of reactionary politics, and the sometimes insular nature of small towns.
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Bedside Table: A fictional 1955 ‘mass dragoning’ has plenty of relevance for real world 2022
Book recommendations from readers.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Horse,’ ‘Atomic Habits’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York
Rushdie’s 1988 novel, ‘The Satanic Verses,’ was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake’ and ‘Peaks Island and Portland Harbor’
Another fast-paced crime story by Sarah Graves, and a time capsule of life, work, people and events in the 19th and 20th centuries
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‘The Snowman’ children’s author Raymond Briggs dies at 88
Briggs’ wordless book, about a boy’s wintry creation that comes to life, has sold more than 5.5 million copies around the world.