The current top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charmer about friendship and the literary life
‘Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden’ whisks readers to Cambridge, Wales and Venice, in the company of a delightful gang of scholars
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Bedside table: These campers, perforce, are rolling stones
“Anyone who has ever vacationed in a camper or motor home will enjoy reading ‘Nomadland.’ The author, journalist Jessica Bruder, followed campers who lived in their vehicles full time. There are two kinds of people who travel in campers, she writes, the middle class and the Nomads. Full-timers are the new Nomads. They travel from […]
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They’re ba-ack! And so is the tongue-in-cheek storytelling of a beloved Maine children’s author
In her satirical sequel ‘The Willoughbys Return,’ Lois Lowry reunites the abandoned children of her 2008 book with their degenerate – and newly defrosted – parents.
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Finding the dignity in troubled people and places, from a sect to a small town
Shawna Kay Rodenberg recounts her childhood in a religious sect and in rural Kentucky.
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Bedside table: Exploring Maine through books
“One of my favorite summer joys is to be at the ocean. My senses compile the smell of crisp air, the sound of crashing waves, the squawking of gulls, the sensation of warm and textured sand, and of course, the beautiful scenery. It brings joy to explore our wonderful state. While sheltering in place last […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Madness of Crowds,’ ‘Hero of Two Worlds’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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A new book examines the final troubled years of Robert Indiana’s life on Vinalhaven
In ‘The Isolation Artist,’ Portland Press Herald arts reporter Bob Keyes tackles a tragic tale with echoes of Shakespeare.
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Bedside table: That smartphone you can’t put down? It all began here
“I started programming computers in the late 1970s, before Windows but after ENIAC. ‘Geniuses at War,’ subtitled ‘Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age,’ by David A. Price, tells the story of amazing men who invested their time and talents and developed a machine to help them decode the codes used by […]
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When COVID struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it.
Meg Wolitzer talks to her mom, Hilma, about motherhood, writing and Hilma’s new collection, ‘Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket.’
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