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Bestsellers: ‘My Friends,’ ‘Raising Hare’

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

by Thomas Urquhart May 15, 2025May 14, 2025

The dense, enigmatic novel reunites the reader with the fictional translator Sy Kirschbaum as he arrives in the village of Z.

by Tobias Carroll May 8, 2025May 9, 2025

Sarah Orne Jewett’s book hasn’t lost its relevance or beauty.

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

by Ron Charles The Washington Post May 8, 2025May 8, 2025

In ‘Fever Beach,’ a rich environmentalist infiltrates a white-supremacist group led by an idiotic MAGA fanatic.

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

by Amy MacDonald May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

A delightful, laugh-out-loud funny picture book from Midcoast writer and illustrator X. Fang.

by Jacob Brogan The Washington Post May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

Antonio Muñoz Molina’s ‘Your Steps on the Stairs’ tells a story of love, loneliness and one very good dog.

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

by Kellie Carter Jackson Special to The Washington Post April 25, 2025April 21, 2025

In ‘Last Seen,’ historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost loved ones through advertisements.