Set on an unnamed island in Maine, Portland writer Meghan Gilliss’ first novel is evocative and haunting.
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Michael Laudor was a Yale golden boy. Then a psychotic break led to tragedy.
‘The Best Minds’ details Jonathan Rosen’s friendship with Michael Laudor, who, in the grip of psychosis, killed his pregnant fiancee.
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Bedside table: ‘The Ride of Her Life’
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Trackers,’ ‘Poverty’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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A teenage boy heads toward adulthood while facing some tough circumstances
Travis Dandro’s second graphic memoir, the touching ‘Hummingbird Heart,’ paints the teen’s deeply emotional world.
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A friend’s mysterious death becomes a writer’s inspiration
In “This Isn’t Going to End Well,” Daniel Wallace explores the mysterious life of a man he thought of as a brother.
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Bedside table: We’ll read Michael Pollan whatever the subject
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Temporary Splendors: Two new poetry collections embrace the transitory
Claire Millikin’s ‘Elegiaca Americana’ and Ellen Taylor’s ‘Homelands’ tackle similar themes in quite different ways.
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It’s easy to see what’s wrong with car culture. Fixing it is harder
In ‘Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It,’ Daniel Knowles says a lot about how cars make life worse, and not enough about what to do about it.
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Bedside table: A good book on a tough subject
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