Douglas Preston News

The third annual Bangor Book Festival, being held Oct. 2-3 at the Bangor Public Library and the Bangor Opera House, features an ever-growing and diverse group of authors from Maine and beyond.

Lots to be curious about at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, which has not one but three delightful exhibitions curated by Catherine Bergmann.

Synopsis: an influential art critic is killed in NYC in a most disturbing way. The manner of his death makes people wonder if the Devil himself did it.

FBI Agent Pendergast is back in this more recent thriller from the author pair whose past works include the bestsellers "Relic," "Reliquary," and more.

ZOMBIES, cults and voodoo collide with police procedure in the latest supernatural FBI thriller by US authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

Unless you have memorized every word in the English language, it would be helpful to keep a dictionary handy while reading Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's latest thriller "Cemetery Dance." The writers don't truncheon readers with high-end words, but one's vocabulary accretes.

Lincoln Child knows a thing about writing and co-writing national best-selling techno-thrillers. He co-authored with Douglas Preston the 1995 release "Relic," which later became a Hollywood film, and since then has co-written and written many more scientifically themed tomes, including "Terminal Freeze," released earlier this year.

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1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult, $24.95) 2. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Little Brown and Co., $27.99) 3. Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central Publishing, $27.99) 4. The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart Books, $25) 5. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Random House, $25) 1. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown and Co., $27.99) 2. The Garth Factor by Patsi Bale Cox (Center Street, $24.99) 3. Liberty & Tyranny by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions, $25) 4. Abraham Lincoln: The 16th President by George S. McGovern (Times Books, $22) 5. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright (Little Brown and Co. $25.99) 1. Rick & Bubba's Guide to the Almost Nearly Perfect Marriage by Rick Burgess & Bill Bussey (Thomas Nelson Publishers, $16.99) 2. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore (Three Rivers Press, $14) 3. Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Dial Press, $14) 4. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk Books, $12.95) 5. The Likeness by Tana French (Penguin Books, $15) 1. Hide by Lisa Gardner (Bantam, $7.99) 2. Swan Peak by James Lee Burke (Pocket Books, $9.99) 3. Executive Privilege by Phillip Margolin (Harper, $9.99) 4. Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank (Avon Books, $7.99) 5. Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage Books USA, $7.99)

"The Host" by Stephenie Meyer 11. "Wicked Prey" by John Sandford 12. "First Family" by David Baldacci 13.

Robyn O"Brien is on a quest to identify ways that food allergies affect kids. Three celebrated authors, including a national health expert, will visit the Decatur Library in the coming days as part of library's May Festival of Writers.

Fiction 1. Gone Tomorrow , Lee Child. Jack Reacher discovers a conspiracy dating back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

Reader's advisory is library speak for recommending the right book for the right reader.

Seuss 4. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society," by Mary Ann Shaffer 5. "The Shack," by William P. Young 6. "Halfway to Heaven," by Mark Obmascik 7. "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson 8. "Unaccustomed Earth," by Jhumpa Lahiri 9. "City of Thieves," by David Benioff 10.

Recently, I was reading a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child titled "Riptide" and came across something that had to do with Atascadero's past.

Local and national bestsellers for the week of May 25-31. FICTION 1. DEAD AND GONE by Charlaine Harris 2. WICKED PREY by John Sanford 3. THE 8TH CONFESSION by James Patterson 4. CEMETERY DANCE by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child 5. FIRST FAMILY by David Baldacci NON-FICTION 1. ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN: What Men Really Think About Love, ...

NOBODY MOVE , by Denis Johnson 6 GONE TOMORROW: Jack Reacher, No. 13, by Lee Child 7 ECLIPSE: The Twilight Saga, Book 3 , by Stephenie Meyer 8 PYGMY , by Chuck Palahniuk 9 SUNNYSIDE , by Glen David Gold 10 SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE , by Alan Bradley This week FICTION National Last week Weeks on list 1 WICKED PREY , by John Sandford 1 2 ...

First Family by David Baldacci 1. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey 2. Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities by Elizabeth Edwards 3. Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels and Mariska van Aalst 4. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin 5. Outliers: The Story of ...