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The Margaret Wise Brown Pen Name Quiz!

The prolific children’s author had a thing for pen names. Which of these belonged to her?
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5 Essential Contemporary Maine Books

The best of the last decade, as selected by Emily Russo and Josh Christie, of Portland’s Print: A Bookstore.
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5 Superb Maine Poetry Collections

Maine’s most important writers of verse, as selected by Gary Lawless, poet and co-owner of Brunswick’s Gulf of Maine Books.
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Can You Name This Wilderness Railroad Bridge?

This month's Where in Maine is no place to jump the track.
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Maine News You May Have Missed

Local police pull a prank, Mainers populate outer space, and more.
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Here is our favorite letter from March's "Where in Maine?" photo of Willard Beach.
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5 Irresistible Maine Mysteries

The best suspense, crime, and detective reads with Maine at their heart, according to Paula Keeney and Ann Whetstone of Kennebunk’s Mainely Murders bookstore.
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100 Books Every Lover of Maine Should Read

Novels to memoirs, kids' books to cookbooks.
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Here is our favorite letter from April's "Where in Maine?" photo of Great Wass Island Preserve.
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June 2020

Every book on our curated list — novels to memoirs, kids’ books to cookbooks — helps prove Stephen King’s maxim that “books are a uniquely portable magic.”
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How Mainers Are Coping With COVID-19, Week 8

A brewery starts offering protective face masks, UMaine and the Maine MEP create a safer way to transport COVID-19 patients, and more.
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Scenes From Last Summer’s Great Maine Scavenger Hunt

Our salute to the hundreds of Down East readers and fans who took to Maine's byways and backroads in 2019.
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