The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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‘Rough Sleepers’ follows a doctor’s relentless efforts to treat homeless patients
The book by part-time Mainer Tracy Kidder weaves scenes from the streets of Boston with the problems that are keeping people there.
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Beside Table: EMT learns profession’s backstory
Book recommendations from readers.
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‘The Faraway World’ brings the immigrant experience a little closer
Patricia Engel’s 10-story collection is mostly set in the United States, Colombia and Cuba.
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The moon falls to Earth in a 1939 novel that remains chillingly relevant
“The Hopkins Manuscript,” newly reissued, recounts a global catastrophe through the sometimes humorous perspective of an ordinary Englishman.
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Maine author Cathie Pelletier seeks the cold, hard truth
After 12 novels, the Allagash-based author has developed a passion for narrative nonfiction and the research that goes with it. Her latest book, ‘Northeaster,’ follows the stories of a dozen or so people impacted by a huge Maine storm in 1952.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Horse’ and ‘Unraveling’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Bedside table: Bonus, just 1 protagonist but 18 books (so far)
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In his latest novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding fictionalizes Maine’s Malaga Island
In luminous prose, ‘This Other Eden’ tells a wrenching tale of mixed race islanders forcibly removed by the state.
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In the gripping ‘My Father’s House,’ a priest takes on the Nazis
Joseph O’Connor’s novel is based on the true story of a group in Vatican City whose daring exploits during World War II saved lives and changed outcomes.