Your Pregnancy Week By Week
The most up-to-date book available for pregnant women, "Your Pregnancy Week by Week", written by an obstetrician, is designed to help all women from before they conceive until they give birth. Women learn how their bodies change as the weeks progress, as well as how the baby develops and a vast amount of invaluable information […]
The Long Walk
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Pansy Parker. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners? desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
A Bitter Brew :faith, Power, and Poison In a Small New England Town
"An April 27, 2003, in the idyllic hamlet of New Sweden, Maine, population 621, Walter Reid Morrill was among friends, sipping coffee in the fellowship hall of the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church. Within fifteen hours, the devoted husband and grandfather was dead – and fifteen other members of the congregation fell gravely ill." "Ruled a […]
Virtual Vintage
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Linda Kraft. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Vintage clothing has never been more chic, with everyone from celebrity trendsetters to style-conscious professionals searching for wearable treasures from the past. Virtual Vintage is the first and only guide that helps both the novice and the fashion connoisseur evaluate and confidently participate […]
The One Percent Doctrine : Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In this troubling portrait of the war on terror, America's intelligence agencies confront not just al-Qaeda but the Bush administration's politicized incompetence. Journalist Suskind (The Price of Loyalty) follows the triumphs and failures of the "invisibles"?the counterterrorism experts at the NSA, the FBI and especially the CIA?as they painstakingly track […]
Native Plants of the Northeast : a Guide For Gardening & Conservation
Presented by the Lisbon Public Library Board of Trustees in honor of Jean Haywood. No other single volume on native plants has such comprehensive horticultural coverage. Nearly seven hundred species of native trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers from the northeastern quarter of the United States and all of eastern Canada are included. Of […]
Return to Wild America : a Yearlong Search For the Continent's Natural Soul
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Janice Fogg in memory of Raymond Dickinson. Library Journal Review: Starred Review. In 1953, Houghton Mifflin published Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher's classic Wild America:The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague. This reprise is by another […]
I Feel Bad About My Neck : and Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
Publisher Weekly Review: Reviewed by Toni BentleyThe honest truth is that it's sad to be over sixty," concludes Nora Ephron in her sparkling new book about aging. With 15 essays in 160 pages, this collection is short, a thoughtful concession to pre- and post-menopausal women (who else is there?), like herself, who "can't read a […]
Berries
This gardeners guide is a collection of essays on the delicious rewards of berry cultivation. Edited by Jennifer Bennett, the guide contains expert advice on cane, bush, ground and wild berries as well as planting, care, maintenance and harvest.
A Three Dog Life
Publisher Weekly Review: Stephen King's front-cover endorsement of Thomas's memoir as the best he's ever read?and a "punch to the heart"?will surely pique interest in this wrenching, elegiac portrait of her third husband, Rich, who flounders in a miasmic present after a hit-and-run in their Manhattan neighborhood shatters his skull, destroys his short-term memory and […]