MONMOUTH — Cumston Public Library invites the public to a talk by Maine author Christine Burns Rudalevige at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23. Come and learn new ways to create recipes for sustainable and delicious meals and find out the latest tips and tricks for making the most of your produce. Rudalevige will talk […]
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Maine native pens debut novel
PORTLAND — An indie company for indie writers, 46 Series Entertainment, has announced the publication of “The Probability of Time,” the debut novel by Maine native Tim Koster. Koster was born and raised in Portland and graduated from Deering High School in 2004. Throughout his childhood, he was an avid storyteller and fell in love […]
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Author Matthew Cost to give presentation around his new book
AUBURN — The Auburn Public Library welcomes historical fiction novelist Matthew Cost to share from his newest release, “I Am Cuba: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution,” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in the Androscoggin Community Room. The free-to-the-public presentation includes images from the Cuban Revolution of 1953 to 1959 detailing the events. Cost […]
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New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community
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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Bates College program encourages diverse picture books for children
Children should be able to see themselves in the books they read, educators say, because it will help them succeed in an increasingly diverse nation.
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Small-town Maine makes the perfect setting for cozy murder mysteries
There’s no gore in this growing sub-genre of good, clean killings among quaint surroundings.
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Little Free Library open to Carrabasset community
In the fall of 2018 a Little Free Library near the Carrabassett Valley Town Office joined the movement to share books and create communities of readers.
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Lewiston, Auburn participate in state library book borrowing program
The program is a part of a year-long pilot called the Maine Reciprocal Borrowing Program to create more cohesive lending across libraries.
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Retired teacher Laura Lee Perkins publishes ninth book
The former Lewiston educator recently released “WAITING — The Sacred Quivering of the Soul.”
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Book World: Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism
That a black woman should write the greatest novel of the 20th century is a glorious rebuke to our long history that denigrated women and African Americans.