by Meredith Hall '95G, UNH lecturer in English,
Beacon Press, 2007.

This highly personal, graceful memoir manages to be both haunting and, in the end, redeeming. It chronicles how, as a pregnant 16-year-old, Hall was banished from her family and community but eventually returned to a place where she could reconcile the mystery of love and all its failings...and its final redemptions.

by Nancy Pagh '91G,
Autumn House Press, 2007.

Winner of the 2006 Autumn House Poetry Prize, Nancy Paghs first collection is poignantly honest, tender and very funny. From Ten Reasons Your Prayer Diet Wont Work: Praying to God that you will be thin/instead of eating/only burns eleven calories/at average fervency.

by Tom Wessels '73,
University Press of New England, 2006.

Wessels, a professor of ecology at Antioch New England Graduate School, thoughtfully argues that we are trapped in a paradigm of progress that violates the scientific laws that govern all sustainable systems.

by Todd Balf '83, illustrated by Oliver Balf
Joga Press, 2006.

This father-and-son collaboration is sure to enchant the youngest members of Red Sox Nation.

by Dr. Yakov M. Zilberberg '81G,
Publish America, 2006.

The author, a professor emeritus of engineering, is a poet, playwright and fiction writer, and his second novel is an intriguing story of love and friendship in the mid-20th-century Soviet Union.

by Christopher Walsh '90,
Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006.

Walsh, who covers Alabama football for the Tuscaloosa News, shares personal experiences and advice about this misunderstood profession in this must-read for any aspiring sportswriter.

by Juliana Fern Patten '78G,
Burd Street Press, 2005.

The author discovered a box of letters that her father sent home during his two years in the South Pacific, and compiled them in this colorful account.

by Ron Moore '71, '72G,
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.

Industry consultant Ron Moore helps make sense of the plethora of quality improvement tools developed over the last two decades.

by Margo Fortier Corbett '68,
Infinity Publishing, 2006.

Corbett has a B.S. in medical technology from UNH and a passion for helping people avoid preventable medical errors through her Partner With Your Doctor System.

edited by Etta Madden '95G and Martha L. Finch,
University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

These 13 essays broaden the familiar definitions of utopianism and community to explore the ways Americans have produced, consumed, avoided, and marketed food and food-related products to further their visionary ideals.

by Albert Pia '49, '53G,
Author House, 2006.

This compilation of major works by Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), a Russian theater director and acting innovator, comprises the most valued acting principles for teachers of theater students, stage directors, and by actors of any age or experience.

by E. Ray Canterbery and Thomas D. Birch, associate professor of business administration at UNH Manchester,
Paragon House 2006.

Fitzgerald's novels can tell us not only about our past but just as much about the present and our future. Scott had originally set The Great Gatsby in the Gilded Age, an age of excesses similar to those of the 1920s. Today the Casino Economybeginning in the early 1980s and now becoming globalhas remarkable parallels to these earlier epochs.

by Dicky Jensen '82G,
Zamazama Press, 2006.

At age 60, the author quit her job, gave up her apartment and used her social security checks to travel the world. She has been on the road for 20 years, and her book is an account of the people and places she has discovered, with a lot of resourceful advice about how to live out of a backpack.

by Patricia Lynne Grace Cummings '73,
Quilters Muse Publications, 2006.

Grace was a pioneer in establishing credit unions in New Hampshire, and this memoir by his daughter reveals much about the challenges of mid-20th century life in Manchester.

by Linda Benoit Bilodeau '91,
ArcheBooks, 2006.

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In this lively second novel, a medical doctor, challenged by her own alcoholism, begins a new life treating the citizens in rural Immokalee, Fla.