Kevin Barry’s novel is both an Irish-flavored western fraught with danger and brutality and a love story filled with caustic humor and pathos.
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Viola Davis and James Patterson to collaborate on novel set in the contemporary, rural South
It will be the first work of fiction for actress Davis.
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Bestsellers: ‘Pitch Dark,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s bestselling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Gripped by a mysterious illness, a Mainer finds an unexpected kindred soul
In ‘American Breakdown,’ writer Jennifer Lunden spins twin tales of how the medical establishment dismissed her illness, and, some 100 years earlier, that of Alice James, the sister of Henry James.
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The ‘nice lady’ next door who was actually a crime boss
Fredericka Mandelbaum made a fortune skirting the law in Gilded Age New York. Margalit Fox’s new book, ‘The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum,’ tells the fascinating true tale.
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Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
FICTION Hardcover 1. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner Books) 2. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) 3. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday) 4. “The Women,” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press) 5. “Funny Story,” by Emily Henry (Berkley) 6. “The Comfort of Ghosts,” by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Crime) 7. […]
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A Mainer took refuge in her garden during COVID, then wrote about it
In the understated and evocatively written ‘A Gardener at the End of the World,’ Margot Anne Kelley muses on time, pandemics and plants.
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In ‘Bear,’ a grizzly claws at a family bond in a mix of horror and enchantment
Julia Phillips’ modern-day fairy tale follows two sisters struggling to get by on San Juan Island.
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Hillary Clinton to release essay collection about personal, public life
‘Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty’ will be out in September.
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A fictional dad and his daughter observe nestlings in this debut children’s book
Maine journalist Roger McCord’s ‘Flight of the Phoebes’ was inspired by his own family and a family of real-life phoebes.