The Big Book of Jewelry Making
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by the Lisbon Lions in memory of Rosemary Colombi.
First Out: My Life On the Mt. Washington Cog Railway
Lou D Allesandro : Lion of the New Hampshire Senate and Thoughts For Presidential Hopefuls
There may have been little to predict the trajectory of Lou's life in politics from his youthful school days, but the whole of the New Hampshire State Senator's life has been one filled with surprise and the unexpected. Lou's story is a compelling one. It demonstrates that all things are possible and even more importantly […]
Window On the Bay
Jenna Boltz’s life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce from her surgeon husband nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive-care nurse. Now that Paul and Allie have gone to college and moved out, Jenna can’t help but wonder […]
Rough Magic
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse raceâ€â€•an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a […]
The Last Stone
On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of […]
The League of Wives
The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington―and Hanoi―to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.
Asymmetry
One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master of the poetic form. In Asymmetry, his first collection of poems in five years, he revisits the themes that have long concerned him: the enduring imprint of history, the beauty of nature, the place of the exile. Though as sanguine […]
48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing In the White Mountains
Connecting with friends and with nature, Suchors redefines success: she discovers a source of spiritual nourishment, spaces powerful enough to absorb her grief, and joy in the persistence of love and beauty. 48 Peaks inspires us to believe that, no matter what obstacles we face, we too can attain our summits.
The Library Book
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’†[…]