‘In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy’ beautifully weaves personal story with history, social history, geology and more.
Books
A new guide for aspiring memoirists asks who has the right to tell a family story
Elissa Altman’s ‘Permission’ combines Altman’s personal history with her shrewd perspective on the form’s pitfalls and rewards.
Bestsellers: ‘Wild Dark Shore,’ ‘Raising Hare’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
A marriage is tested in the isolation of an Arctic whaling station
In Cynthia Reeves’ tense ‘The Last Whaler,” a couple stranded in in Svalbard in the mid-1930s is haunted by their pasts.
Bestsellers: ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ ‘Abundance’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
In Jennifer Haigh’s ‘Rabbit Moon,’ a family must find ways to carry on
In Haigh’s latest novel, a 22-year-old American woman living in Shanghai is the victim of a terrible accident.
‘Going to Maine’ takes readers on a wacky, wild and wonderful walk
Sally joins her best friend for an epic hike on on the Appalachian Trail, America’s most beloved footpath. In her memoir of the trip, she shares the monumental adventure that completely changed the course of her life.
10 noteworthy books for April
Discover new books in April, including historical fiction, futuristic sci-fi, and a war-time memoir.
Bestsellers: ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ ‘The Constitution of The United States’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
As ‘Wolf Hall’ returns, questions about Thomas Cromwell remain
Four historical books about the Tudor court offer insight into what really happened.