The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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An obsessively curious child animates this comic debut novel
‘The History of a Difficult Child’ is an endearing coming-of-age story set in post-revolutionary Ethiopia.
Bedside table: ‘The Summer Place’
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‘Uphill Both Ways’ tells of one family’s adventures, and misadventures, on the Colorado Trail
Writer Andrea Lani walked nearly 500 miles with her husband and school-age sons. She interweaves the family’s personal story with the environmental story of the landscape they hiked through.
Bedside table: ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens (plus 1)
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Best-Sellers: ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ ‘The Wager’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfictions books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Sports memoir scores with mix of basketball lore and American history
An NBA star tells his deeply personal story against an unflinching national portrayal in ‘The Education of Kendrick Perkins.’
An Irish woman looks back, with plenty of humor and heartbreak
In ‘The Rachel Incident,’ by Caroline O’Donoghue, a young Irish woman remembers the friendship that shaped the rest of her life.
Bedside table: The Stepping Off Place by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
Book recommendations from readers.
Best-Sellers: ‘Demon Copperhead,’ ‘In Other Words, Leadership’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.