In her new collection, ‘Towards a Retreat,’ she examines foundational experiences and extols the natural world as refuge.
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Residents on a tiny island in Maine struggle as climate change reshapes their lives
In alternating chapters, the many well-drawn characters in ‘Little Great Island’ each gets to tell the story from their perspective.
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A spider who is mistaken for a kitten learns it’s A-OK to be yourself
‘Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten’ is charmingly illustrated by Gorham artist Kevin Hawkes.
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A sequel to ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ that’s better suited to the grown-ups
Peaks Island writer Frederic Fahey writes a gloomier version of the Twain tale.
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Dan Brown clearly had fun writing his new book. It’s contagious
Robert Langdon is back in ‘The Secret of Secrets.’ Prepare for 600 hilariously hectic pages of murder, mayhem and New Age murmuring.
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Lauren Wolk’s lyrical ‘Candle Island’ gets so much right
But her recent YA novel gets one thing all wrong: the summer residents versus locals dynamic.
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‘Little World’ is the brief, transporting story of a young saint
In Josephine Rowe’s novel, the body of a girl refuses to decompose and is suspected of causing miracles.
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A fast-paced debut novel about a start-up seems ripped from real-life events
In Austin Taylor’s ‘Notes on Infinity,’ 2 brilliant Harvard students meet, compete, drop out, form a startup and become romantically entangled. Then things start to go awry.
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This true story of CIA book smuggling reads like an Ian Fleming novel
Charlie English provides a fascinating account of how the agency smuggled Camus, Orwell and Vonnegut behind the Iron Curtain in ‘The CIA Book Club.’
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The true story of a shipwrecked couple’s fight to survive
Sophie Elmhirst’s ‘A Marriage at Sea’ chronicles the doomed aquatic adventure of a British husband and wife in 1972.