‘A Man for All Branches’ relates Coffin’s impressive career and captures his equally notable devotion to his family.
Books
Want to save the world? Start by saving a single turtle
Sy Montgomery’s enchanting new book, ‘Of Time and Turtles,’ will make you want to be a better animal.
Bedside table: ‘Recipe for a Good Life’ by Lesley Crewe
Book recommendation from readers.
Echo Brown, acclaimed storyteller and a voice of Black women, dies at 39
She channeled the many agonies of poverty and racism into acclaimed autobiographical work.
Novel based on Malaga Island’s history is a finalist for National Book Award
‘This Other Eden’ by Paul Harding tells a fictional story based on the real-life atrocity of the state forcibly removing a mixed-race community from the island off the coast of Phippsburg.
Portland publisher launches new poetry festival
Littoral Books is putting on it first Portland Poetry Festival on Saturday.
Darrell Hartman’s new book promises a sensational story, and it delivers
In ‘Battle of Ink and Ice,’ Arctic explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook face off again, accompanied by newspaper accounts that devote many juicy inches to their rivalry,
Stephen King’s ‘Holly’ is admirably nuanced about autism
With his latest novel, King proves that he’s willing to keep evolving.
Bestsellers: ‘Holly,’ ‘The Wager’
The current bestselling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Bedside table: ‘Band of Brothers’ by Stephen E. Ambrose
Book recommendations from readers.