Longfellow Books

08/27/2026

⭐️ TONIGHT! ⭐️
7pm @ Longfellow Books

Don’t miss our event with Ayelet Waldman & Rebecca Traister as they discuss Ayelet’s book, A PERFECT HAND!

A deliciously funny, gorgeously detailed, utter enthralling novel, A Perfect Hand is a glorious novel of class, gender, and England on the cusp of enormous change.

We hope to see you there!

08/26/2026

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!

HARD AS A HEADSTONE by Richard Cass
in conversation with Gabi Stiteler
Tuesday, September 1 @ 6pm

Join us to celebrate the launch of Richard Cass’s Ardmore Theberge mystery series! Islandport Press is reissuing the first Ardmore novel, THE LAST ALTRUIST, alongside the “binge-worthy” (Gerry Boyle) stand-alone sequel, HARD AS A HEADSTONE.

This is sure to be a fun night, so we hope to see you there!

08/24/2026

A fishing family. A vanishing waterfront. A daughter finding her way back.

Join Mechanics' Hall and Longfellow Books for the launch of Mia Millefoglie's memoir "Daughters of Stone and Tide: Loss and Resilience in a Fisherman's Family," in conversation with acclaimed author Susan Conley.

Rooted in Gloucester's storied waterfront, the book is a love letter to a disappearing fishing industry and the community that shaped generations of it. Through one woman's journey, Millefoglie traces family, immigration, and heritage—and the questions of where, and to whom, we belong.

Together, she and Conley dig into the craft of memoir: the truths uncovered, and the ones left sealed.

08/23/2026

this week’s reading: seals’ role in the ecosystem (A YEAR WITH THE SEALS); a despairing woman lies in hospital reflecting grimly on her life (PLAY IT AS IT LAYS); an emily brontë-like figure’s single novel looms over the canon (THE SONG OF STORK & DROMEDARY); the seminal novel of the edges between the mundane and the fabulous (LITTLE, BIG); a curator begins to lose herself in her subject (MAY WE FEED THE KING)

08/17/2026

Tomorrow night in the store! Award-winning cemetery historian and guide Ron Romano uncovers how mysterious symbols, epitaphs, monument forms, and cemetery landscapes tell the stories of those whose lives were cut short in Maine.

We hope to see you there!

https://longfellowbooks.com/event/2026-08-18/stories-maine-cemeteries-ron-romano

08/13/2026

Two weeks away! Ayelet Waldman & Rebecca Traister will be in the store discussing Ayelet's newest novel, A Perfect Hand! This event is FREE, but you can RSVP today!

A richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady’s maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England.

We hope to see you there!

Join us for an event with Ayelet Waldman, who will be discussing her book A Perfect Hand! She will be in conversation with Rebecca Traister.

08/03/2026

LAUNCH EVENT! ⭐️

FREIGHT by Ryan Lowell
in conversation with Gabriela Stiteler
Tuesday, August 11 @ 6pm

As a lone semi-truck makes its snowy way to the US-Canadian border, a series of vivid characters are inexorably drawn into a desperate, comedic, and murderous scheme to steal its precious cargo.

In the rough-and-tumble tradition of Dennis Lehane, S.A. Cosby, and classic American noir, Freight is a thrill-ride view of the world of labor, life and love—a searing portrait of men at work and also at their worst.

Ryan Lowell’s fiction has appeared in Portland Monthly Magazine, Worker’s Write Journal and other publications. His story “Things Fall Apart” was a Glimmer Train short story award contest finalist. Freight is his first novel. He lives in South Portland, Maine, with his wife and two sons.

07/26/2026

this week’s reading includes an unforgettable villain origin story (CIRCE) and an obscure little poem (THE ODYSSEY); a history of nightlife (UP ALL NIGHT); a hopeful apocalypse (ODE TO THE HALF-BROKEN); an arresting depiction of the male loneliness epidemic (DAD HAD A BAD DAY); an absurd & hilarious novel about megalomania and authoritarianism (ADA); and a romantasy sequel (THE EXQUISITE TORMENT OF LOVING YOUR ENEMY)