Books
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PublishedNovember 12, 2023
Malaga Island-inspired ‘This Other Eden’ is fiction; critics say it revives harmful myths
Paul Harding says his latest novel, up for major awards, is not meant to be historically accurate. But archivists and descendants believe it badly invites inaccurate depictions of the Maine island's mistreated residents.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
Bestsellers: ‘The Exchange,’ ‘Democracy Awakening’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
A poet offers an intimate, meandering picture of rural life in Maine
Baron Wormser's memoir, 'The Road Washes Out in Spring,' was reissued in March. Its sharply observed, compassionate vignettes of his own off-the-grid life and the lives of those around him endure.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
Book talk
Upcoming area book events.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
A passionate argument for the necessity of functioning infrastructure
Deb Chachra's 'How Infrastructure Works' is a perfectly timed entreaty to rethink the systems that make modern life possible.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
Bestsellers: ‘This Other Eden,’ ‘Democracy Awakening’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
A stirring guide to the great Dutch painters
In 'The Upside-Down World,' Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser combines biography, art criticism and touches of memoir.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
Children’s author/illustrator Peter Brown brings his robot to the wilds of Maine
After years of living in big cities and creating stories set in wilderness, the best-selling author of the 'Wild Robot' series moved to the Midcoast last year.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
Off the Shelf: ‘The Berry Pickers’
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