The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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A group of teenage misfits are recruited to a wilderness program on a Maine island
‘The Islanders,’ Lewis Robinson’s propulsive new novel, follows the teens as they begin to discover that that the tough, character-building program has a very dark side.
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‘Brightly Shining’ is a bittersweet tale of Christmas past
In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.
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Bestsellers: ‘The Grey Wolf,’ ‘The Message’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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When a married heterosexual woman in Maine falls in love with a female friend, her world shifts
Mainer Penny Guisinger’s new memoir, ‘Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions,’ is ‘searching, forthright and witty’ – and important.
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Bestsellers: ‘The God of the Woods,’ ‘Patriot’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books from Nonesuch Books & More.
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The 19th-century church sex scandal that changed our view of privacy
Robert Shaplen’s ‘Free Love’ delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.
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‘Meet the Neighbors’ suggests we rethink what we think we know about animals
Author Brandon Keim makes a cogent case for reevaluating how we understand – and treat – the creatures around us, even those we fear or loathe.
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‘The Magnificent Ruins’ is an inviting novel of family dysfunction
Nayantara Roy’s debut finds an American woman traveling to India to claim her inheritance: a house full of people.
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Bestsellers: ‘Intermezzo,’ ‘The Message’
This week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.