books

Eleven surviving crewmen faced the miseries of shipwreck and the uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau.

Peter Abrahams and Jill Erickson talk about volumes of poetry, novels that feature poetry, and biographies featuring poets.

A good book can take us to another time or place.

Womencrafts is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend with events that are open to the public.

A local author is back with the second edition of her Cape and Islands ice cream field guide.

Linda Coombs lives in Mashpee and wrote Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, which came out last year. A committee in Texas moved the book to fiction after an anonymous complaint.

Barnstable Land Trust to host weekend-long reading honoring Thoreau’s ode to Cape Cod.

Cape and Islands State Senator Julian Cyr filed legislation this summer that would prevent book bans based on personal or political beliefs.

A new book traces the steps of Henry David Thoreau.

Our monthly book show takes a look at great stories of the sea.