Book recommendations from readers.
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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Read an excerpt from Morgan Talty’s ‘Night of the Living Rez’
The Levant author’s first book, a collection of short stories, comes out July 8.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Dead By Dawn’ and ‘Maine Al Fresco’
The 12th Mike Bowditch mystery by Paul Doiron, and Ron Chase’s 50 finest outdoor adventures
AUTHOR EVENT: William Anthony
Maine author to talk about his new novel ‘Farnsy,’ set in Damariscotta
Book review: When a librarian and her widowed mom fly to England to help run a family bookstore, they get more than they bargained for
‘Chapter and Curse,’ the first in a new mystery series from Elizabeth Penney, offers likeable characters and plausible motivations – for murder.
Tracy Flick is back – and she’s tired of losing
Flick, the ambitious high school student from Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel ‘Election,’ is now an assistant principal in the sequel, ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win.’
Bedside table: Two books, one soothing, one a lot less so
Book recommendations from readers.
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
New children’s books by Maine writers, illustrators tackle disabilities, with uneven success
Each takes a different approach to stories about, in part, children with disabilities going to school.