We had a sensational response to our contest, with over 35 entries. Thanks to everyone who entered! To recap the contest, the winning entry went to the best single, complete sentence…
FARMINGTON – Lovecraft once wrote that “the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” Pshaw, I say! There are…
Today, we'll be featuring a debate between two experts on the so-called Digital Revolution in publishing, Genghis Khan, and our own Amy Graham.…
In which two reading experts, our own Margaux DePue and Otto von Bismarck, the one time chancellor of a Germany unified by his own wily hand, vie with each other in the…
We watch a disaster movie to see disasters of course, cities falling into the ocean, giant asteroids hitting National Landmarks, and so forth, and if a disaster movie delivers enough unthwarted asteroids…
FARMINGTON - On July 13 national bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will be coming to Farmington to share her sensational new Young Adult Fantasy, Falcon Quinn and The Black Mirror. The Falcon…
On Thursday, June 17, renowned local scholar Doug Walrath will be celebrating the release of his outstanding new book from Columbia University Press, Displacing The Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of…
This Thursday, May 20th that is, Downeast Editor Paul Doiron will be coming to Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksllers to discuss his new book, The Poacher's Son, a terrific thriller about a…
Reasons for reading Fantasy novels are intrinsically bound to the actions they depict, escape from tyranny, the restoration of good through effort, the comfort of obscure fatalism, the transmutation of the ordinary…
Welcome to the First annual Mrs. Cook's Class ARC Review Project, in which Mrs. Cook's 4th grade class at Cascade Brook School in Farmington read and reviewed ARCS (Advanced Reading Copies) of…