The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Two decades in Afghanistan, written with the intimacy of a novel
‘Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation,’ by Sune Engel Rasmussen, is told through the perspectives of ‘ordinary’ Afghans, looking outward from a broken country.
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Leonard Riggio, who forged a bookselling empire at Barnes & Noble, dies at 83
In his time, no one in the book world was more feared. With the power to make anything a bestseller, or a flop, to alter the market on an idle whim, Riggio could terrify publishers. Then came Amazon.
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Two Maine book festivals return this fall, with wider reach
The Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival and the Maine Lit Fest both plan expanded offerings.
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Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ is a witty, singular spy thriller
Kushner’s new novel, longlisted for the Booker Prize, bears all the hallmarks of her inquisitive mind and creative daring.
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Bestsellers: ‘Sandwich,’ ‘The Wager’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Leaf through these – fall’s most anticipated Maine books
You’ll find tales of towns, islands and war. Plus a cookbook.
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Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘Maine, A Love Story’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Mainer’s new book touts ‘solutionary’ thinking
Zoe Weil’s ‘The Solutionary Way’ trains people to solve problems in a way that provides ‘the most good and least harm for people, animals, and the environment.’
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The more he understands, the more an Air Force linguist wrestles with his mission
In ‘What the Taliban Told Me,’ Ian Fritz recounts what led him to war in Afghanistan, and how it changed him.