Books
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
The surprising history of the humble notebook
Roland Allen’s instructive and entertaining chronicle reveals the vital role notebooks played in the achievements of luminaries like Erasmus, Charles Darwin and Agatha Christie.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘What If We Get It Right?’
The week's top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2024
Han Kang is first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Kang, a poet and novelist, was awarded for books, including 'The Vegetarian' and 'Human Acts,' that explore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea's turbulent history.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2024
In his last book, a famous newspaper editor paid tribute to the poets he loved
The late Mike Pride, a Concord Monitor editor on the 'poetry beat,' describes the lives and works of the New England poets he so deeply admired in 'Northern Voices.'
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PublishedOctober 7, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on seeing and hearing his words performed
Before a reading in Portland, the author of 'The Sympathizer' spoke about the experience of having his work turned into a miniseries and audiobooks.
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PublishedOctober 6, 2024
‘Shred Sisters’ is the kind of novel readers won’t want to end
Betsy Lerner’s debut is a smart, funny and moving portrait of two very different siblings.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2024
Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week's top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2024
Shannon Bowring’s ‘Where the Forest Meets the River’ owes a debt to ‘Winesburg, Ohio’
But the author's second novel, a sequel to 'The Road to Dalton' and likewise set in a small, fictional northern Maine town, is kindlier – and less shocking – than Sherwood Anderson's American classic.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2024
In ‘Discipline,’ 3 intertwining stories explore the dual meanings of the word in the title
An art appraiser, a troubled teen boy and the daughter of a famous artist get alternating eras and chapters in writer Debra Spark's new novel.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2024
A new novel about Oscar Wilde offers an alternative ending to his story
Louis Bayard’s 'The Wildes' reimagines how scandal affected the Irish playwright’s family and how it might have been different.
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