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Portland teacher launches children’s book

January 15, 2020January 11, 2020

PORTLAND — A party to celebrate the release of “Magnificent Homespun Brown,” a children’s book by Presumpscot Elementary School kindergarten teacher Samara Cole Doyon is set for this weekend. The event will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Indigo Arts Alliance, located at 60 Cove St. The 32-page book, […]

Books, Lewiston-Auburn

New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community

by Steve Collins January 1, 2020January 2, 2020

Cynthia Anderson’s “Home Now” offers a portrait of a city coping with an influx of immigrants and discovering in the process a path to a brighter future.

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Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98

by Harrison Smith The Washington Post December 25, 2019December 25, 2019

She often spent years crafting her novels, but ‘The Light in the Piazza’ was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.

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Maine author Andrew Clements, who wrote children’s book ‘Frindle,’ dies at 70

by Harrison Smith The Washington Post December 17, 2019December 18, 2019

Clements wrote more than 80 children’s books, including the text of picture books about a pampered Egyptian cat, an unbecoming fish and a Christmas in which Mrs. Claus stands in for Santa.