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Spring 2009:

The American College Town: By Blake Gumprecht
Overviews: Drift and Swerve, by Samuel Ligon '89G; Back Lane Wineries of Sonoma, by Tilar Mazzeo '92; A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920, by Dorothy A. Pettit '67, '68G, '76G and Janice Bailie.

Winter 2009:

Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music, by Dana Jennings '79
Overviews: Live Free and Eat Pie!: A Storyteller's Guide to New Hampshire, by Rebecca Rule '76, '79G; Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels, by David A. Berona '02G; Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution, by Gerald M. Carbone '82.

Fall 2008:

King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff
Overviews: Causeway: Poems by Elaine Sexton '76; Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding, by Heather King '77; Scott Peterman Photographs, by Scott Peterman '91

Spring 2008:

A Bell, A Dog, and a Monkey: 1957—The Space Race Begins, by Michael D'Antonio '77
Overviews

Winter 2008:

The Woman in the Woods: Linked Stories, by Ann Williams '80, '90G
Overviews

Fall 2007:

Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park, by Tod Papageorge '62
Overviews

Spring 2007:

Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon, by James Sullivan '87
Overviews

Winter 2007:

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History, by David Frankfurter
This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911, by Pavel Cenkl '94G
Overviews

Fall 2006:

New Hampshire, Then & Now, by Peter E. Randall '63
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire and Utopian Dreams, by Michael D'Antonio '77
Overviews

Spring 2006:

The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, by Marilyn Johnson '78G
The Best People in the World, by Justin Tussing '93
Overviews

Winter 2006:

The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail, by Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan '81
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, by Anne Farrow '73, '76G, Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank
Overviews

Fall 2005:

Wentworth By the Sea: The Life and Times of a Grand Hotel, by J. Dennis Robinson '73
William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life, by Susan Goodman '72, '74G, '85G, '88G and Carl Dawson
Overviews

Spring 2005:

Off White: A Memoir by Laurie Gunst '73, '74G
In the Shadows of the Sun by Alexander Parsons
Overviews

Winter 2005:

The State Boys Rebellion: A True Story, by Michael D'Antonio '77
Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic, by Scott Silverstone '85
Also of note

Fall 2004:

There is Room For You by Charlotte Bacon
The Beecher Sisters by Barbara A. White
Also of note

Spring 2004:

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction by Robert Begiebing '77G
The Darkest Jungle by Todd Balf '83
Also of note

Winter 2004:

Turning to Earth: Stories of Ecological Conversion, by F. Marine Schauffler '98G
Dead Men Tapping: The End of the Heather Lynne II, By Kate Morse Yeomans '95
Also of note

Fall 2003:

The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems, by Charles Simic
Reason for Leaving: Job Stories, A Novel, by John Manderino '88G
Also of note

Spring 2003:

Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott '78G
Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture by Douglas Lanier
Also of note

Winter 2003:

A Building History of Northern New England by James L. Garvin
Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy and Popular Culture, by Thomas Newkirk
Also of note

Fall 2002:

Cross-Grained & Wily Waters: A Guide to the Piscataqua Maritime Region, by W.Jeffrey Bolster
A House All Stilled, by A.G. Harmon '93G
Also of note

Spring 2002:

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, by Laurel Ulrich '80G
Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home, by Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron
Also of Note

Winter 2002:

Cold by John Smolens '82G
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation, by J. William Harris
Short reviews of eight books by alumni and faculty

Fall 2001:

My Twice-Lived Life by Donald M. Murray '48
The Fourth Hand by John Irving '65
Short reviews of eight books by alumni and faculty

Spring 2001:

A Chemical History Tour: Picturing Chemistry from Alchemy to Modern Molecular Science, by Arthur Greenberg
Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution, by Shawn Francis Peters '91G
Short reviews of 12 books by alumni and faculty

Winter 2001:

The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la, by Todd Balf '83
Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hmapshire Poets, edited by Rick Agran '91, Hildred Crill, Mark Decarteret, with an introduction by Maxine Kumin
The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in teh Age of the American Revolution, by Eliga H. Gould

Fall 2000:

Soldiers, Sailors, Slaves and Ships: The Civil War Photographs of Henry P. Moore, by W. Jeffrey Bolster and Hilary Anderson
Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon
Sam the Cat and Other Stoires by Matthew Klam '86

Spring 2000:

The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi '78, '79G
Weaving Work and Motherhood by Anita Ilta Garey
Sanctuary: Gardening for the Soul, photography by Dency Kane '68, text by Lauri Brunton and Erin Fournier

Winter 2000:

The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton by Robert J. Begiebing '77G
Soul of the Sky compiled and edited by Dave Thurlow and C. Ralph Adler '76
Cosmology and Creation by Paul Brockelman

Fall 1999:

Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois '82
The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy by Kurkpatrick Dorsey
In the Presence of Horses by Barbara Dimmick '76, '83G

Spring 1999:

The Meetinghouse Tragedy by Charles E. Clark
At the Breast by Linda M. Blum
Time Machines by Paul Nahin

Winter 1999:

How to Catch a Shark by Donald H. Graves
A Widow for One Year by John Irving '65
Ecology and Religion: Scientists Speak, edited by John E. Carroll and Keith Warner, OFM

Coming soon: Fall 1998


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