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BOOKS: Liked “Presumed Innocent”? You’ll love “Defending Jacob”

Scott Turow’s 1987 “Presumed Innocent” was a watershed for the legal thriller, delivering what started out as a typical plot that evolved into a tense look at the law, ethics and revenge, as it moved to a jaw-dropping finale. Readers will have the same reaction to William Landay’s superb “Defending Jacob,” which begins as a typical legal thriller then matures into a suspense-laden insider’s view of the law, ethics and familial bonds.

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The Cottars plan Feb. 23 Unity concert

Back on Aug. 1, 2003, the Unity College Center for Performing Arts hosted a show by four talented and very young people: Ciaran and Fiona MacGillivray and Jimmy and Roseanne MacKenzie, better known as The Cottars. This talented Celtic band from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, wowed the crowd in Unity with their considerable musical abilities and toe-tapping brand of roots music.

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BOOKS: ‘The Rope’: Rebuilding a life amid a stunning landscape

“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 […]

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MAINE AUTHORS: “Fractured Light,” “Disposable Causes”

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.