The nonfiction book ‘Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America’ by part-time Southwest Harbor resident Gigi Georges has garnered national attention since its release.
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A mother’s chocolate cake brings up the kitchen confessions of writer Monica Wood
The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don’t ask Wood to bake it.
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Paper Palace, ‘I Alone Can Fix It’
The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books and More in South Portland.
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Bedside Table: ‘Hamnet’ worth reliving a plague
“A friend recommended this book to me, and it sat on my bedside table for months before I finally picked it up. ‘Hamnet,’ by Maggie O’Farrell. Just wow. I was not prepared for how good this book would be. Literary, gorgeous, atmospheric. Even as I started it, I was just thinking I would read it […]
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A mysterious and twisty street full of mysterious and twisty kids
Eccentricity has its charms for ‘The kids of Cattywampus Street.”
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An all-Black musical was a Broadway smash – and then was mostly forgotten
“Shuffle Along” brought Black and White audiences together 100 years ago, writes Caseen Gaines.
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Bedside Table: Trees have a lot to teach us
“During the pandemic, many of us have found solace in nature. ‘Finding the Mother Tree, Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest,’ by Suzanne Simard (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021), took me on the most mind-expanding walk in the woods I’ve yet experienced. “Born into a family of foresters, Dr. Simard was led by her […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn’ and ‘Crying in H Mart’
Top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Mel Brooks memoir ‘All About Me’ out this fall
His career includes the films ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Blazing Saddles’ and the film and Broadway play ‘The Producers.’
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Portland writer collaborates with his ER-doctor cousin on book about COVID-19
‘Every Minute Is a Day’ chronicles the turmoil and challenges of the pandemic as experienced at a hospital in the Bronx. It was published this week by Penguin Random House.
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