The Next Day
A Widow's Story : a Memoir
The Washington Post – Valerie Sayers: Is it perverse to suggest that Joyce Carol Oates's memoir of widowhood is as enthralling as it is painful? Oates has always focused her writing so intensely that virtually all her prose is compelling, but this brave account of her recent grief seems composed with something close to abandon. […]
Bringing Adam Home : the Abduction That Changed America
Library Journal Novelist Standiford and investigating officer Matthews chronicle the riveting search for the murderer of Adam Walsh, a six-year-old boy abducted from outside a store in a Florida mall in July 1981. Most readers know the America's Most Wanted TV series and John Walsh, its host and the victim's father. The story behind the […]
This Land of Snow
Murder and Mayhem: True Crime in New Hampshire, 1882-1915
Memorial Days
Patriot: A Memoir
The Magnetic North : Notes From the Arctic Circle
Presented by New England Wire Sales Department in memory of Thomas F O’Brien Jr. Library Journal: Some people can’t stay away from cold places. Wheeler here recounts her travels to the Arctic Circle, the polar opposite of the Antarctic trek recorded in her best-selling Terra Incognita. The Arctic Circle crops Canada, Alaska, regions of Siberia, […]
Jewish Light of the White Mountains
90th Anniversary Celebration
The Death and Life of the Great American School System : How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library in memory of John Alioto by the New England Wire Sales Department. The New York Times – Alan Wolfe: Attending high school in Houston in the 1950s, Diane Ravitch came into contact with a teacher named Ruby Ratliff. A passionate lover of literature and a fierce editor of homework, […]