The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Binnie Kirshenbaum once again blends bleakness with comedy
In her new novel, ‘Counting Backwards,’ a collage artist struggles with the declining health and hallucinations of her scientist husband.
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In ‘The Land Between the Rivers,’ an observer views Maine with a sharp eye
Todd R. Nelson’s 65 essays range in tone and subject matter, with poetry playing a big role.
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Bestsellers: ‘The God of the Woods,’ ‘Anxious Generation’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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A new biography of New Yorker editor Katharine White is admiring and thorough
Over nearly 600 pages, Amy Reading argues that White deserves credit for the magazine’s high quality, and for making life easier to manage for her husband E.B. White.
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‘The Paris Express’ is a riveting mix of social commentary and mystery
Emma Donoghue’s historical novel was inspired by a train crash in late 19th-century France.
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Karen Russell’s ‘The Antidote’ is a dazzlingly original American epic
Russell’s first novel since ‘Swamplandia!’ takes place on a vast historical canvas and is shot through with elements of magic.
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Bestsellers: ‘James,’ ‘The Serviceberry’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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The gripping ‘Slippery Beast’ is part crime tale, part natural history
Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a deep dive into the facts, figures and fascinating people that swirl around the intriguing eel.
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Bestsellers: ‘Three Days in June,’ ‘How We Learn to Be Brave’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.