Biddeford Book Co. will open in Biddeford this summer, and Sherman’s is expected to open a Saco location by Memorial Day.
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Gulf of Maine Books to host author event at Curtis Memorial Library
Gulf of Maine Books will host an author event with Franklin Burroughs at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick to celebrate his new book “The View from Here: Reflections on the Deep North, the Wild East.” Burroughs will be in conversation with author Jane Brox. Burroughs taught English literature at […]
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Maine writer and civil rights pioneer team up on new kids’ book
Phillip Hoose collaborated on ‘Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!’ about Colvin’s refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.
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Looking for books — with a little extra? Here’s what some southern Maine bookstores have to offer
The area has a great variety of indie booksellers, in Portland, South Portland, Biddeford, Brunswick and beyond.
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Rockland Public Library to host Winter Reading Bingo for adults
Staff at Rockland Public Library think deep winter is the perfect time to hunker down and read and to keep it fun, the library is hosting Winter Reading Bingo from Feb. 1 through March 31. Participants (Rockland Library patrons ages 18 and up) are encouraged to read as many books as they like from 24 […]
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A Bowdoin professor collects his thoughts on the Black American experience
Anthony Walton’s ‘The End of Respectability’ features a dozen essays, written over time, with his observations on race in this country.
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Topsham author publishes book on controversial historical manuscript
Pennsylvania-based Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. has released “Golden Fleece: The Voynich Manuscript and British Intelligence, 1890-1960,” a new book by Topsham resident Robert C. Williams. The Voynich Manuscript resides in a library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. No one can read the manuscript, break its cipher or identify its provenance. Nothing like it […]
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Talking ‘Love & Lobsters’ with author Shannon Parker
Are critters and humans so different? It depends on who you ask. As Parker says, just like searching for a cotton candy lobster, whether in a friend or partner, one should wait for that 1 in 100 million catch.
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Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is Oprah’s Book Club pick
The novel marks the first time that 3 of Strout’s most beloved characters – Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob Burgess – fully interact with each other in the fictional coastal Maine town of Crosby.
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Book talk and wine at Vessel and Vine
Gulf of Maine Books has partnered with the wine store for an event featuring author Juliet Grames’ second book, “The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia.”