Largely set at a fictional Maine college, ‘Until Alison’ reckons with a student’s murder and her former friend’s guilty conscience.
Books
Read the poem ‘Instructions to Lover,’ by Egypt Pooler
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Bestsellers: ‘The Correspondent’ and ‘1929’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Read the poem ‘Listening with Aline,’ by Charles Brown
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Bestsellers: ‘The Correspondent’ and ‘The Gales of November’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
A disregarded object gets (more than?) its due in ‘Rope’
Cape Elizabeth writer Tim Queeney looks at the everyday tool through time, from Neanderthal to Mars exploration.
Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited memoir is a humble look at greatness
In ‘Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts,’ the author best known for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ offers a wise and witty account of the life that shaped her writing.
In the rollicking ‘White Python World Tour,’ ’80s metal band meets spy thriller
Scarborough resident Travis Kennedy’s debut novel is terrific fun from first page to last.
Bestsellers: ‘Heart the Lover’ and ‘Nations Apart’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Read the poem ‘On Finding an Abandoned Well,’ by Peter Beckford
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.