Books

Published
May 12, 2013

Book Review: Doctor’s story gets to heart of chosen limits

Laura Warren is a radiologist in a small coastal Maine hospital. Always overjoyed when cancer isn’t found in her patients, she lives a quiet life of metastasized grief and regret that she hides from everyone, especially her husband, Dan, and Ben and Sally, her teenage son and daughter. Bright, extremely well read and a native […]
Published
May 12, 2013

Signings, etc.: Jeff Foltz

Camden resident and author Jeff Foltz will sign copies of his new novel, “Two Men Ten Suns” and his award-winning novel, “Birkebeiner, A Story of Motherhood and War.” Foltz’s latest work is set during World War II and follows the lives of an American scientist and a Japanese officer, each battling his obsessions and flaws […]
Published
May 12, 2013

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The High Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate,” by Scott Nash (Candlewick) 2. “Dahlov Ipcar’s Maine Alphabet,” by Dahlov Ipcar (Islandport) 3. “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 4. “The Interestings,” by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead) 5. “The Hit,” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 6. “Tapestry of Fortunes,” by Elizabeth Berg (Random House) […]
Published
April 28, 2013

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Poems to Learn by Heart,” by Caroline Kennedy (Disney) 2. “I Love Bugs,” by Philemon Sturges (HarperCollins) 3. “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn (Crown) 4. “Good Night Maine,” by Adam Gamble (Our World of Books) 5. “If I Built a House,” by Chris Van Dusen (Dial) 6. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert […]
Published
April 28, 2013

Book Review: Book a memoir for people of the woods

“Someone — I wish I could remember who — has since described me as ‘a man in the woods with his head full of books, and a man in books with his head full of the woods.’ “ So writes Sidney Lea, Vermont’s current poet laureate. Without sentiment but with a lot of love, his […]

Published
April 28, 2013

Signings, etc.: R. Ann Rousseau

Author Robin Ann Rousseau will discuss her new novel, “Portsmouth: A Love Story,” which takes readers on a journey through the main streets and back doors of New Hampshire’s Seacoast, past and present. Meet the ghost of Hannah at the Three Chimneys Inn in Durham; walk the beautiful beach at Wallis Sands in Rye; and […]
Published
April 28, 2013

Author Q&A: Sleuth-telling

For Victoria Doudera, a detour into selling real estate opened the door that led to writing what's become a series of mystery books.
Published
March 31, 2013

Author Q&A: Eats of Eden

A new book by Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman teaches beginning gardeners how to grow and cook their own food.
Published
March 31, 2013

Signings, etc.: Neil Rolde

Award-winning historian, author, former legislator and York native Neil Rolde will talk about the newly updated edition of his book, “York Is Living History.” Originally published 41 years ago, the work features a lively, succinct history of York’s first four centuries, and is chock-full of events, drama and change. Rolde’s latest edition details changes from […]
Published
March 31, 2013

Book Review: Tracing the ebb and flow of grief

A tsunami survivor shares her story about loss and healing in 'Wave.'