Books

Book recommendations from readers.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘Horse,’ ‘Atomic Habits’

August 14, 2022August 12, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World, News

Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

by JOSHUA GOODMAN August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

Rushdie’s 1988 novel, ‘The Satanic Verses,’ was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections.

Books, Life & Culture, Maine Authors

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake’ and ‘Peaks Island and Portland Harbor’

by Bill Bushnell August 12, 2022August 11, 2022

Another fast-paced crime story by Sarah Graves, and a time capsule of life, work, people and events in the 19th and 20th centuries

Books, Nation & World, News

‘The Snowman’ children’s author Raymond Briggs dies at 88

by JILL LAWLESS August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

Briggs’ wordless book, about a boy’s wintry creation that comes to life, has sold more than 5.5 million copies around the world.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors

Book review: Honoring Maine’s organic farming past and embracing the future

by Dave Canarie August 7, 2022August 6, 2022

A book about 50 years of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association offers many perspectives on the organization’s history – and its potential future.