NEW HAMPSHIRE BOOK COLUMN
by Donna Gilbreth, Supervisor
Reference and Information Services
Anneser, Allison and Sara Thyr. REFINED TO REAL FOOD: MOVING YOUR FAMILY TOWARD HEALTHIER, WHOLESOME EATING. J.N. Townsend Publishing. 2005. $15.95 ISBN 1880158485
"Educates the reader about shifting families toward healthier, wholesome eating by providing a game plan to get there and recipes to implement to make it happen.". Anneser lives in New Hampshire.
Balint, F.A. BRIEF MOMENTS IN A LIFETIME. Cork Hill Press. 2004. $13.95 ISBN 1594082464
Travels and adventures over 50 years from Pennsylvania to Paris, and finally to Wilton, N.H.
Eslick, Tom. MOUNTAIN PERIL (White Mountains Mysteries). Viking Adult. 2005. $26.95 ISBN 0670033863
The fourth mystery about prep school science teacher Will Buchanan who must find a serial killer of female hikers. The author is a teacher at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H.
Levine, Neil, and others. A WORK OF ART FOR KINDRED SPIRITS: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S ZIMMERMAN HOUSE. Currier Museum of Art (www.currier.org). 2004. $16.95
Illustrated guide to Manchester's Wright-designed house, built in 1950, and now owned by the Currier Museum.
McWilliams, Brian S. SPAM KINGS: THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE HIGHROLLING HUCKSTERS PUSHING PORN, PILLS, AND @*#?% ENLARGEMENTS. O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2004. $22.95 ISBN 0596007329
Expos‚ of those sending electronic junk mail - the "spam kings." The author lives in New Hampshire.
Meyers, Fern K. AMERICA'S MUSICAL PIONEERS AND THE CORNISH COLONY. Common Sense Press (order from Fern Meyers, SilverWood USA, P.O. Box 349, Etna, N.H. 03750). 2005. $19.95 ISBN 0966187822
Musician Meyers portrays the lives of composers and musicians at the Cornish Art Colony, known as the "Athens of America."
Meyers, Fern K. and James B. Atkinson NEW HAMPSHIRE'S CORNISH COLONY. Arcadia (Images of America Series). 2005. $19.99 ISBN 0738537535
The Cornish Colony of artists, writers, and musicians was first settled by colleagues of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1885, and flourished until 1925.
Monadnock Writers' Group. PRIVATE PLACES: POETRY, PROSE, PICTURES. Monadnock Writers' Group (P.O. Box 3071, Peterborough, N.H. 03458). 2004. $5.00 plus $4.00 S&H ISBN 0964500213
Works of poetry, prose and photography by 31 members of the Monadnock Writers' Group.
Monkman, Jerry. WHITE MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY TO NEW HAMPSHIRE'S MOST RUGGED PLACES. University Press of New England. 2005. $35.00 ISBN 158465404X
Photographers Jerry and March Monkman of Portsmouth portray the story of the regrowth of the White Mountains after extensive logging a century ago.
Putnam, Constance E. THE SCIENCE WE HAVE LOVED AND TAUGHT: DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL'S FIRST TWO CENTURIES. University Press of New England. 2004. $35.00 ISBN 1584653701
First full-time history of Dartmouth Medical School, the fourth-oldest medical school in the country. It was founded in 1797 in Hanover by Dr. Nathan Smith.
Ruckstuhl, Charles Emil. ANDY AS I KNEW HIM. Authorhouse. 2004. $17.95 ISBN 1418426709
Memoir of the author's stepfather, C.W. Anderson, the famous children's author and illustrator who lived in New Hampshire.
Spirito, K. CANDY-COLORED CLOWN. Authorhouse. 2004. $16.95 ISBN 1418423572
Fourth novel in the LaRosa Chronicles, the saga of an Italian-American family in New England. The author lives in New Hampshire.
Tirabassi, Maren C. and Maria I. Tirabassi. DAYBOOK FOR NEW VOICES: A CALENDAR OF REFLECTIONS AND PRAYERS BY AND FOR YOUTH. Pilgrim Press. 2004. $18.00 ISBN 0829816038
A collection of prayers, poems and reflections for every day. The authors lives in New Hampshire
Wetherell, W.D. A CENTURY OF NOVEMBER: A NOVEL. University of Michigan Press. 2004. $24.00 ISBN 04721214431X
A Vancouver apple grower journeys to Belgium, where his son recently died in a World War I battle. Winner of Michigan Literary Fiction Award. The author lives in New Hampshire. |