Set in Waterville’s Franco-American community, ‘The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne’ is a tense, sweeping story that encompasses drug wars, a dying mill town and a mother’s love.
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Maine’s black market for baby eels is spawning a crime-thriller subgenre
‘The Glass Eel’ is the latest of several books and TV shows to explore elver poaching.
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Three bright, complicated sisters want their mother’s attention
In his moving family saga, in ‘The Frequency of Living Things,’ Nick Fuller Googins captures the complexities of sisterhood and the human heart.
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Bestsellers: ‘Katabasis’ and ‘Coming up Short’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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‘Greyhound’ sees America changing through the bus windows
Joanna Pocock’s memoir is about her travels from Detroit to California in 2023, retracing a trip she had taken 17 years earlier
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Author Ben Shattuck chose the Maine woods for ‘The History of Sound’
The story, now a film starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, takes place at Bowdoin College, Augusta’s defunct train station and the backwaters of Maine.
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Bestsellers: “How to Read a Book” and ‘Rope’ top local bestseller lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Award-winning journalist crafts a propulsive climate change thriller in ‘We Can’t Save You’
Native Americans occupy a place of honor in Thomas E. Ricks’ second of a series set in Maine starring a grief-stricken FBI agent.
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He thought he found life on Mars — and sparked an alien craze
‘The Martians’ by David Baron explores how 19th-century businessman and amateur astronomer Percival Lowell fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.
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Lauren Wolk’s lyrical ‘Candle Island’ gets so much right
But her recent YA novel gets one thing all wrong: the summer residents versus locals dynamic.