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

In ‘What the Taliban Told Me,’ Ian Fritz recounts what led him to war in Afghanistan, and how it changed him.

‘The Axeman’s Carnival,’ by Catherine Chidgey, is a darkly comic tale of a woman’s relationship with a magpie.

Jessica Anthony’s darkly comic novella is a Cheeveresque meditation on mid-century middle-class disappointment.

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

Camille Bordas’ novel mines the neuroses and dramas underlying our jokes.

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