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Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Wintering’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Book review: Poems and prints commune in ‘What Rough Beasts’
Leslie Moore mediates on the natural world and what it has to teach us.
Green Plate Special: Tamar Haspel’s new book offers much food for thought
The Washington Post columnist grew, gathered, fished and hunted for her own food, and wrote about the experience.
Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Atlas of the Heart’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Book review: Distorted identity deepens the mystery of ‘Mirror Lake’
An English translation of Quebec author Andrée A. Michaud’s 2006 thriller was published last year.
Bedside Table: Dana Wilde’s ‘Winter’ a comfort over the season’s many months
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Book review: ‘Mercy Street’ may be the last novel about abortion before Roe v. Wade is dismantled
Almost one in four American women will have an abortion during their lifetimes. Unless she’s a woman in a literary novel, in which case she’s highly unlikely to. Almost 50 years after Roe v. Wade affirmed a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, fiction writers seem reluctant to mention the procedure. Even now, as theocrats […]
Best-sellers: ‘Crossroads,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfictions books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Woody Allen releasing new book June 7
He consistently denies sexually abusing his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.