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Hope Library Will Host Doiron Reading

The Hope Library will host a free, online reading by Paul Doiron of Camden, best-selling author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels set in the Maine woods, on Thursday, February 4, at 7 p.m. To attend, email hope@hope.lib.me.us....
Restorative Justice Founder’s Book Addresses Polarization

On January 6, the world was witness to the storming of the United States Capitol by enraged and disaffected people demanding that the results of the presidential election be investigated or even overturned. Long after the ...
E. B. White Book for Sale at Skidompha

Skidompha Public Library in Damariscotta is selling copies of the new book “Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and E. W. Smith.” Proceeds benefit the library. White and Smith, popular ...
Book Review: The Perfect Science Fiction, Fantasy and Genre-Bending Tales for the Chilly Days Ahead

Winter is here. It may have taken a long time to come in George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, but when it hits, all you want to do is curl up in bed and lock the doors against the snow zombies. Winter has long ...
Book of Letters by E. B. White Benefits Library

A trove of correspon- dence between authors E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith, forgotten in a Damariscotta bank vault for nearly four decades, was rediscovered in 2016 and has been published by Down East Books in ...
Book Review: Jeff Bezos’s Thoughts on Big Business, Outer Space and The Washington Post

It is quite strange, whether or not you’ve stopped to consider it, that Jeff Bezos has never published a book. Shelf after shelf could be filled with memoirs or “thought leadership” tomes from company founders who’ve ...
News from Skidompha Library in Damariscotta —

Skidompha Library, located at 184 Main Street in Damariscotta, is highlighting the books in its Maine collection, some of which are shown here, that focus on the state’s four Wabanaki tribes — Maliseet, Micmac, Penobscot and ...
Book Review: In a You-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up age, Hiaasen Can

Nearly all of the dozens of Carl Hiaasen’s hugely popular satirical novels, young people’s stories, nonfiction books and column collections — mainly about political corruption and environmental despoliation in the state of Florida ...
Book Review: The Charismatic, Amoral, Institution-Destroying Frebrands Strongmen of U.S. History

In the 1990s, when liberal demo- cracy seemed to have triumphed over its Cold War rivals, Americans and West Europeans sought to understand the pathologies of the ethno-nationalists, neo-Nazis, demagogues and authoritarian ...

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