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‘Brightly Shining’ is a bittersweet tale of Christmas past

by Ron Charles The Washington Post November 24, 2024November 19, 2024

In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.

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

by Genanne Walsh November 20, 2024November 21, 2024

Mainer Penny Guisinger’s new memoir, ‘Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions,’ is ‘searching, forthright and witty’ – and important.

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books from Nonesuch Books & More.

by Michael Dirda The Washington Post November 13, 2024November 14, 2024

Robert Shaplen’s ‘Free Love’ delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.

by Thomas Urquhart November 13, 2024November 14, 2024

Author Brandon Keim makes a cogent case for reevaluating how we understand – and treat – the creatures around us, even those we fear or loathe.

by Ron Charles The Washington Post November 10, 2024November 4, 2024

Nayantara Roy’s debut finds an American woman traveling to India to claim her inheritance: a house full of people.

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

by Dewey Meteer November 7, 2024November 8, 2024

In Peter Nichols’ latest thriller, a green detective races to find the murderer before he strikes again.

by Talya Zax Special to The Washington Post November 3, 2024October 28, 2024

Yael van der Wouden’s novel is about a Dutch woman in 1961 forced to address her family’s past.