You Know You're In New Hampshire When– : 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Granite State
An entertaining collection of 101 quintessential places, people, events, customs, lingo, and eats that help define the personality of this proud state.
More Than Petticoats : Remarkable New Hampshire Women
More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Hampshire Women celebrates the women who shaped the Granite State. Short, illuminating biographies and archvial photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Hattitude : Knits For Every Mood
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Elaine Clough in memory of Myrtle Butson.
Country Living : Simple Country Wisdom
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Elaine Clough in memory of Myrtle Butson.
Charleston In the Long Ago
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Imperfect Endings
Publishers Weekly A deceptively cheery tale about her mother?s plans to end her own life underscores the author?s conflicted role in filial caring and responsibility. Carter?s mother, a widow living in Washington, D.C., had suffered from Parkinson?s disease for more than 20 years, and by 2001 had grown debilitated and depressed about her physical helplessness; […]
Mrs. Adams In Winter : a Journey In the Last Days of Napoleon
Library Journal In early 1815, Louisa Adams left St Petersburg, Russia, with her young son to travel 2000 miles by horse and carriage to meet husband John Quincy Adams in Paris. As had been all too common in her marriage, she had been living alone for almost a year after her ambitious husband temporarily (it […]
Peter Jennings : a Reporter's Life
Fred Baerkircher – Library Journal This account of the life of a longtime anchor of American evening news was culled largely from interviews conducted for a televised remembrance of Peter Jennings, which aired shortly after his death in 2005. Presented verbatim, the material comes from Jennings's colleagues, friends, and family members and is arranged into […]
Stones Into Schools : Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, In Afghanistan and Pakistan
The New York Times – Janet Maslin Much of Stones Into Schools hinges on the logistical challenges, but this book is also suffused with its author's unorthodox tactics and distinctive personal style?It also colorfully describes the local sidekicks and power brokers without whom, [Mortenson] says, "I would still be nothing more than a dirtbag mountaineer […]