“I just finished reading ‘The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History’ by Molly Caldwell Crosby. Its 285 pages-plus begins with an author’s note that ends with a chilling quotation from John Edgar Wideman’s book ‘Fever’: ‘Nothing is an accident. Fever grows in the secret places of our […]
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Book review: In ‘Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs,’ a strong case for a new way of storytelling
Writer Jennifer Finney Boylan recounts her joys and sorrows, and ruminates on mortality, through the lens of dogs she has known, lived with and loved.
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Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book
‘Recitatif,’ written in the early 1980s, is coming out Feb. 1.
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Jenni Fagan’s ‘Luckenbooth’ is a deliciously weird gothic horror
Set in Edinburgh, the book takes place in a nine-story building haunted by a rotating collection of troubled characters.
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Book review: The extraordinary heroism of a single woman saved countless lives
Robert Mrazek’s book tells the riveting story of a little-known, exceptionally courageous Filipino woman who risked her own life to save American POWs during World World War II.
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Bedside table: A dose of storytelling makes the history lessons stick
“I find that reading and discussing well-written and researched historical novels is a great alternative for learning history. We’re reading ‘Oliver Wiswell’ by Kenneth Roberts for a course I’m leading at York County Community College’s South Coast Senior College. It’s Roberts’ third historical novel that spans the American Revolution and is written from the Loyalist […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Lincoln Highway,’ ‘These Precious Days’
The current bestselling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Sam Waterston to kick off annual Moby-Dick Marathon
The cover-to-cover reading of Herman Melville’s iconic man-versus-whale novel starts Friday.
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As Washington’s farming techniques evolved, so did his views on slavery
What the first president’s own documents reveal about his life and work as a farmer.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘Call Us What We Carry’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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