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Best-Sellers: ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ ‘River of the Gods’

June 5, 2022June 3, 2022

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

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Bedside table: Solace, and a new perspective, in a difficult time

June 5, 2022June 3, 2022

Book recommendations from readers.

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OFF RADAR: ‘Elemental: A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands’

by Dana Wilde June 3, 2022June 2, 2022

A book of essays, poems and short stories about who belongs where, and at what cost

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Bedside table: A ‘splendid’ and singular memoir

May 29, 2022May 27, 2022

Book recommendations from readers.

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Half sisters wrestle with their father’s death and their sibling ties in ‘I Know You Love Me, Too’

by Ilana Masad May 29, 2022May 28, 2022

Amy Neswald structures her debut novel as linked stories that take place over decades.

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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Thoreau’s Maine Woods’ and ‘Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding’

by Bill Bushnell May 27, 2022May 26, 2022

Dean Bennett’s very smart contemporary exploration of Thoreau’s three journeys into Maine’s North Woods, and an expansive illustrated history of Maine shipbuilding told by Nathan Lipfert

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Maine poet, faced with terminal diagnosis, keeps writing

by Eric Russell May 23, 2022May 22, 2022

Nick Stone, a corporate lawyer for decades, started writing poetry in retirement. His second book, ‘Seaward: A Lyrical Memior,’ was published last month, eight months after he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer.

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