“I started programming computers in the late 1970s, before Windows but after ENIAC. ‘Geniuses at War,’ subtitled ‘Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age,’ by David A. Price, tells the story of amazing men who invested their time and talents and developed a machine to help them decode the codes used by […]
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When COVID struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it.
Meg Wolitzer talks to her mom, Hilma, about motherhood, writing and Hilma’s new collection, ‘Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket.’
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Best-sellers: ‘Midnight Library,’ ‘I Alone Can Fix It’
The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Four Maine books coming out this fall you shouldn’t miss
Portland bookseller Josh Christie’s recommendations range from food to philosophy to fiction.
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An idyllic California town and the wildfire everyone should have expected
Lizzie Johnson chronicles what was lost, and why, when Paradise, Calif., burned in 2018.
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Bedside Table: A daughter tackles her famous father’s complicated story
‘You Can’t Catch Death: A Daughter’s Memoir’ by Ianthe Brautigan, St. Martin’s Press, 2000
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Best-Sellers: ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘Downeast’
The top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Bedside Table: Readers’ book picks
A French memoirist inspires a Maine writer.
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Memoir offers intimate portrayal of one woman’s journey through skin cancer
In ‘Skin,’ Maine writer Kate Kennedy tackles her diagnosis and treatment with a purposeful – and defiant – precision.
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This 1800s doctor’s orders were deadly
‘The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream’ re-creates the homicidal doctor’s heartless life in short, highly dramatic chapters.
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