‘From the Mountains to the Sea’ offers a meticulous account of the restoration of the Penobscot River

A broad spectrum of people and groups came together with a common goal - and they actually got something done.

Best-Sellers: ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You,’ ‘The Isolation Artist’

The current top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charmer about friendship and the literary life

'Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden' whisks readers to Cambridge, Wales and Venice, in the company of a delightful gang of scholars

Bedside table: These campers, perforce, are rolling stones

They’re ba-ack! And so is the tongue-in-cheek storytelling of a beloved Maine children’s author

In her satirical sequel 'The Willoughbys Return,' Lois Lowry reunites the abandoned children of her 2008 book with their degenerate – and newly defrosted – parents.

Finding the dignity in troubled people and places, from a sect to a small town

Shawna Kay Rodenberg recounts her childhood in a religious sect and in rural Kentucky.

Bedside table: Exploring Maine through books

Best-Sellers: ‘The Madness of Crowds,’ ‘Hero of Two Worlds’

The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.

A new book examines the final troubled years of Robert Indiana’s life on Vinalhaven

In 'The Isolation Artist,' Portland Press Herald arts reporter Bob Keyes tackles a tragic tale with echoes of Shakespeare.

Bedside table: That smartphone you can’t put down? It all began here