Retail giants like Amazon and Walmart may have the holiday shopping market cornered, but in some ways they just can’t compete with corner shops in places like Belfast.
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Book about Maine’s Malaga Island falls short in Booker Prize contest
Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’ was also nominated for a National Book Award.
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John Stamos highlights his new memoir for Topsham library crowd
The former “Full House” star discussed The Beach Boys, overdue library books and the “two or three thousand” kids who came down his street this Halloween during a webinar.
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Britney Spears’ memoir a million seller after just 1 week since its release
‘The Woman in Me,’ released Oct. 24, has been praised by critics as a compelling account of her rise to global fame and her ongoing struggles.
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John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, other authors sue OpenAI over copyright
they call the ChatGPT program a ‘massive commercial enterprise’ that is reliant upon ‘systematic theft on a mass scale.’
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Maine Voices: Summer-vacation books outstay summer vacations. Thank goodness.
I live on Chebeague Island, which is blessed to be littered with books. This summer, they were put to good use.
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Book Notes: ‘Sparrow Being Sparrow’ a cat-filled lesson in honesty
My husband’s grandmother loved cats, particularly the kind that slunk up to the bowl outside her kitchen door, where she scraped her dinner scraps. She lived in the same house in a quiet Maine town for seven decades, feeding the neighborhood felines until well past the age of 100, when she died peacefully at home. […]
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Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92
Gottlieb had one of the greatest runs of any editor after World War II and helped shape the modern publishing canon.
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Kittery author wins Children’s History Book Prize
Rodman Philbrick received the award from the New York Historical Society for ‘We Own the Sky,’ set in Maine in 1920.
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Quill Books & Beverage in Westbrook to close
The owners of the bookstore/cafe blamed post-pandemic changes in the city of Westbrook.