Its setting inspired by Vinalhaven, the book by Caleb Mason would benefit from rigorous editing.
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Review: The author of ‘American Dirt’ again considers the pain of displacement
Jeanine Cummins draws on her Puerto Rican ancestry in ‘Speak to Me of Home.’
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Bestsellers: ‘My Friends,’ ‘Raising Hare’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Review: Seth Rogoff’s ‘The Castle’ picks up where Kafka left off
The dense, enigmatic novel reunites the reader with the fictional translator Sy Kirschbaum as he arrives in the village of Z.
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Review: A new edition of ‘Country of the Pointed Firs’ offers reasons to return to the classic
Sarah Orne Jewett’s book hasn’t lost its relevance or beauty.
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Bestsellers: ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ ‘Abundance’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Carl Hiaasen is back and as ridiculous as ever
In ‘Fever Beach,’ a rich environmentalist infiltrates a white-supremacist group led by an idiotic MAGA fanatic.
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Bestsellers: ‘Great Big Beautiful Life,’ ‘The Book of Alchemy’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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‘We are Definitely Human’ uses humor to teach children lessons about kindness
A delightful, laugh-out-loud funny picture book from Midcoast writer and illustrator X. Fang.
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A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive?
Antonio Muñoz Molina’s ‘Your Steps on the Stairs’ tells a story of love, loneliness and one very good dog.