America The Story of Us
Synopsis: AMERICA: THE STORY OF US focuses on how events small and large are intrinsically linked to the exploration and innovation, leading us from the frontier to 21st century cities, from the Mississippi to the moon, from Jamestown to 9/11 up to present day. Moving though time and space linking key events, people and locations, […]
Finding Chandra : a True Washington Murder Mystery
The New York Times – Elyssa East ?Higham and Horwitz have written a remarkably detailed, straight-up expos? of bureaucratic incompetence and human folly, set against the alluring backdrop of Washington?the book sheds new light on this sex scandal turned murder mystery and media circus. It builds suspense through the careful articulation of the things that […]
The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security : Practical Strategies For Money, Work, and Living
Synopsis: America's baby boom generation has done a poor job preparing for retirement. Now, the economic crisis has ushered in a new reality that will be with us for years to come. Boomers must reexamine their retirement outlook: income, the role of work, and lifestyle expectations. The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security details realistic […]
The New Health Care System
Town Roads and Private Roads and Cemeteries Lyman, NH
Landaff Center Cemetery, Landaff, NH
Pastures of Plenty : the Future of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Conservation In New England
From Edible White Mountains: The how and why for a return to grazing, for a full range of dairy and meat products (including sheep, pigs, goat and poultry) is spelled out in detail in the University of New Hampshire book, Pastures of Plenty: The Future of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Conservation in New England by […]
The Great Life Photographers
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Poppy Clark. From the Publisher: This book represents the work of every LIFE magazine staff photographer from the 20th century, as well as a handful of others closely affiliated with the magazine, including Alfred Eisenstadt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, Eugene Smith, and Joe McNally. The Great LIFE Photographers […]
A Twisted Faith : a Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
Publishers Weekly Crime novelist Olsen (Heart of Ice) paints a disturbing portrait of a community undone by its appealing young pastor. On Washington State's Bainbridge Island, across Puget Sound from Seattle, the fundamentalist Christ Community Church employed youth pastor Nick Hacheney, a charismatic if not attractive young man who'd grown up in the area. Hacheney […]
War
The Washington Post – Philip Caputo: With his narrative gifts and vivid prose?as free, thank God, of literary posturing as it is of war-correspondent chest-thumping?Junger masterfully chronicles the platoon's 15-month tour of duty. But what elevates War out of its particular time and place are the author's meditations on the minds and emotions of the […]