More than 1,000 Carnegie libraries across the U.S., including 17 in Maine, will receive the money to mark the country’s 250th birthday.
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A new stamp honors Maine writer Sarah Orne Jewett
The South Berwick native is best known for her 1896 novel ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs.’
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Meet the BFFs behind the mobile bookstore for Maine romance fans | Column
Despite a decline in reading for pleasure, two former Barnes & Noble coworkers have found a niche with Novella.
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The Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival will give away these 7 books
The annual program highlights Black and Black immigrant children’s books and their creators.
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Maine’s black market for baby eels is spawning a crime-thriller subgenre
‘The Glass Eel’ is the latest of several books and TV shows to explore elver poaching.
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From Stephen King to New Jersey diners, History Press books cover local lore around the US
A writer from Maine, Sharon Kitchens has turned her passion for Stephen King’s books into a published work
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Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist
Hemingway’s missing novel. Alice’s backwards-printed book in “Through the Looking Glass.” Sylvia Plath’s never-finished autobiography. Reid Byers owns copies of all those “invisible” books that bibliophiles wish were real.
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New media at Rangeley Public Library
RANGELEY — Rangeley Public Library has announced its new media for the month of February. Adult Fiction My Bonney Lies Under by Susan Cummins Miller The Oligarch’s Daughter by Joseph Finder Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney Penitence by Kristin Koval Johnny Careless by Kevin Wade The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz The Crime Brulee Bake Off (Claire Walker #1) by Rebecca Connolly […]
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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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Local author releases new book featuring inspirational messages
Local playwright and children’s book author Paul Baribault has had released his newest book, “Into the Presence – The Christ Writings,” the last in a trilogy. The work is a compilation of the over 200 messages the author has received “in the stillness” of God’s Presence, these last eight years. His second book, “Comedy & […]