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photo by Beth Leonard Local author power trio at Gulf of Maine Books! Cynthia Lord, Maria Padian, Josephine Cameron

Julia Bouwsma will read from her book of poems Midden at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick on Saturday, May 4, at 2 PM, with book su...

David Vermette will read from and discuss his book "A Distinct Alien Race" at Gulf of Maine Books on Tuesday, April 30, at 7 PM. ...

Please join us for a publishing party for "The Proper Way To Meet A Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems", poems selected by Paul Jane...

Making Mirrors - Writing/Righting by and for Refugees, edited by Jehan Bseiso and Becky Thompson, has just been released by Olive Branch Pr...

North Country Press has just published Quarry - The Collected Poems of Peter Kilgore - a 300 page collection of poems by this wonderful Mai...

Happy 100th Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti! Shown here at Gulf of Maine Books, back in our old 61 Maine Street location (now Henry and Mar...

On November 11 we sent out an email to a number of writer and reader friends, asking them to recommend five books for people to read for the...

Gulf of Maine Bookstore has added extra help for the Holiday Season! (photos by Beth Leonard) Bridie says "How can I help?" ...

Gulf of Maine Books will host Maine author Carolyn Chute Saturday, February 7, 3 PM Reading from, and discussing, her new novel Treat Us ...

  Gulf of Maine Books will celebrate Halloween a little late this year, with a Saturday, Nov 2, 3 PM booksigning with author and actor Gun...

Here are our bestsellers from our booth at this year's Common Ground Fair: #1 - Art of Fermentation - Sandor Katz #2 Wild Fermentat...

In the March 31, 2013 edition of the New York Times Book Review, novelist Elizabeth Strout, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "Oli...

Common Ground Fair photo by Roger Leisner, The Maine Paparazzi Beth Leonard and Gary Lawless opened Gulf of Maine Books in February, 1979...

The Arizona legislature has passed a bill ( House bill 2281) which outlaws ethnic studies programs that "promote resentment toward a ra...

Gulf of Maine Books opened on Maine Street in Brunswick in February, 1979. There was a bad ice storm that day, but we were open, serving waf...

To start the new year, we have created a Gulf of Maine Books poetry site, where we will post one or two poems a week, with links to more inf...

Margaret Leonard has worked here with us at the bookstore over the last 32 years, but her real work, her creative work, is as a painter. You...

Here is a list of Summer Events at Gulf of Maine Books 134 Maine Street, Brunswick 729-5083 All events are free and open to the public. Ju...

Here is our book event schedule for March: Friday evening, March 18, 7 PM at Frontier Cafe - a book table to accompany the showing of the fi...