(Image: Richard and Kate Russo)

(Belfast, ME) Four celebrated authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo, Maine Warden Service chaplain Kate Braestrup, novelist Monica Wood, and garden writer Lisa Colburn, will be featured at four events at Left Bank Books this weekend as part of the second annual Belfast Bound Book Festival.

On Friday night, July 27th at 7:00 pm., Monica Wood will talk about her newest book, When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine. Just published by Houghton Mifflin, it is Wood's own story, set in 1963, in a town dominated by its paper mill, when three unexpected and almost unimaginable tragedies strike: the sudden death of her adored father who worked at the mill; the assassination of President Kennedy, leaving a young widow and children who look like Wood's grieving family; and a first strike at the mill, a foreshadowing of death for a once-proud way of life there. Wood's wonderful novels will also be available for signing, including Any Bitter Thing and Ernie's Ark, both set in Maine and published to great acclaim.

(Image: Monica Wood)

On Saturday morning, July 28th at 10:30 am, garden writer Lisa Colburn will talk about and sign copies of The Maine Garden Journal, inside secrets from "Maine people who love to get their hands in the dirt." Colburn was raised in extreme northern Maine, where it seemed everyone gardened, and now lives in Orono, which she says feels like the tropics by comparison to Aroostook County! She is active in gardening education programs statewide and speaks frequently on a wide range of garden topics. The Maine Garden Journal is brand new this season, full of knowledge, inspiration and glorious photographs—a must-read for gardeners and those who think about gardening when they can't actually be outside!

(Image: Lisa Colburn)

On Saturday, July 28th at 2:00 pm, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo will sign his newest work, Interventions, a novella and three long stories published by Down East Books this spring. The new collection is a tribute to the printed word: four paperbacks in a beautiful slip-case, with accompanying art prints by Russo's daughter Kate. Each one of the stories is a gem of wit and compassion, with characters who could easily have stepped out of such Russo favorites as Empire Falls, Straight Man, or Nobody's Fool. Plenty of Russo's earlier novels will be available at the signing, and Russo's daughter Kate is expected to join him.

On Sunday afternoon, July 29th at 2:00 pm, Kate Braestrup, author and chaplain to the Maine Warden Service, will talk about new writing projects, an overture from HBO, and her three New York Times best-sellers: Here If You Need Me, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity, and Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer into Your Life. Braestrup is a fabulous speaker: funny, warm, and utterly down-to-earth. Her books are modern classics—great to read, give away, and buy all over again, and perfect for Mainers and vacationers alike.

(Image: Kate Braestrup)

All four events will be held at Left Bank Books, which moved to Belfast from Searsport last month and is now located at 109 Church Street, in the historic brick Opera House Block just across from the Belfast Post Office and police station. All events are free and open to the public. For more information or to reserve signed copies from any of the events, please call the shop at 207-338-9009. For more information about the Belfast Bound Book Festival, please see the festival website at www.belfastboundbookfestival.com.

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