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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Shucked Apart’ and ‘Got Warrants? Dispatches from the Dooryard’

by Bill Bushnell February 25, 2022February 24, 2022

A new mystery from the Maine Clambake series, and 80 vignettes about drunks, shoplifters and other morons doing stupid things

by Christi Carras February 23, 2022February 24, 2022

He consistently denies sexually abusing his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.

by Dana Wilde February 18, 2022February 17, 2022

Gary Lawless’ new book, “How the Stones Came to Venice,” not an easily summarized book, but it’s the most magical I’ve read in a while.

by Bill Bushnell February 11, 2022February 10, 2022

A laugh-out-loud knee-slapper from Maine humorist John Gould, and the third in the Goff Langdon mystery series

Her new collection, ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter,’ is among three finalists for the $20,000 Story Prize.

by Dana Wilde February 4, 2022January 27, 2022

Tom Sadowski had a keen understanding of crazy even before Covid and sedition struck.

by Bill Bushnell January 28, 2022January 25, 2022

Science, suspense, folklore and delightfully charming characters from Betty Culley, and winter gardening from Blue Hill landscape designer Cathy Rees

The York School Committee is considering whether to grant an appeal from a local resident who asked to have a sex education book removed.

The top check-outs within the Minerva consortium of 60 libraries and from the Portland Public Library.

Lists of the most-borrowed books of 2021 include tales of struggle, hope and humor, as well as local authors.