‘Long Run to Glory’ tells the story of Joan Benoit Samuelson’s historic marathon, the first ever Olympic marathon that women were allowed to run.
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Bestsellers: ‘The Women,’ ‘The Wager’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Poet Richard Blanco confronts questions of identity in his latest collection
In ‘Homeland of My Body’ he take on issues of sexual, political and cultural belonging with his usual polish and breadth.
Bestsellers: ‘The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers,’ ‘Maine: A Love Story’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
A whodunit about a missing novelist deftly defies categorization
Darkly comic, Jennifer Croft’s ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey’ is a fiercely inventive story that explores the cult of celebrity and the delicate art of translation.
Bedside table: For this Mainer, ‘The River We Remember’ is a book to remember
Book recommendations from readers.
Tech writer Kara Swisher has a new book. Enter the AI-generated scams.
Selling a new book these days often means competing for readers’ attention with knockoffs that bear signs of having been generated largely or entirely by artificial intelligence tools.
Bedside table: It’s ‘Late in the Day’ for the U.S. publication of this terrific book, says a fan
Book recommendations from readers.
The author died far too young. Her brilliant short stories live on.
Decades after Diane Oliver’s death in a motorcycle accident, ‘Neighbors and Other Stories’ offers a startling glimpse of what might have been.