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Book Excerpt from Peter’s War
When historian and constitutional scholar Joyce Lee Malcolm first discovered a 1765 bill of sale for a 19-month-old... Read More »
Book Review | Marmee & Louisa and My Heart is Boundless
I’ve never read Little Women; boys didn’t when I was growing up, and most still don’t. Thus, much... Read More »
Book Review: ‘Go With Me’
Audio: Vermont author Castle Freeman Jr. reads from Go With Me. Listen now. Every September, when the latest... Read More »
Book Review: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure
An earlier title for Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure was Alex and the 4,000-Foot Classroom, a... Read More »
Book Review: Disaster in Lawrence
Witnesses reported that at first, it sounded like snow sliding off a roof, a familiar sound on a... Read More »
Book Review: The Classmates
The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos and the End of an Era (Hyperion, $23.95), by longtime Yankee contributor Geoffrey Douglas,... Read More »
Book Review: The Paradise of All These Parts
One of my favorite New England writers is John Hanson Mitchell, whose Ceremonial Time (1984) investigated the “deep... Read More »
Book Review: Animals
The Abenakis called him “cousin,” the Penobscots “grandfather.” The Kets of Siberia preferred “fur father.” In the Carpathian... Read More »
Book Review: Dark Nights, Dark Stories
There must be something about our long wait for spring that inspires Granite State authors to write crime... Read More »
Book Review: In the Words of E.B. White & The Great Northern Express
As soon as I’d read it, I was lost. I’d intended to review In the Words of E.... Read More »
Book Review: Peter’s War
When historian and constitutional scholar Joyce Lee Malcolm first discovered a 1765 bill of sale for a 19-month-old... Read More »
Book Review: The Call
Tolstoy once said that all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own... Read More »
Book Review: The Children in Room E4 American Education on Trial
Not long ago, Lois Luddy, who teaches at the Simpson-Waverly elementary school in Hartford, Connecticut, asked her third... Read More »
Book Review: The Price of Malice
Read an excerpt: The Price of Malice When Archer Mayor published his first murder mystery about Joe Gunther... Read More »
Book Review: Traditional Barn Dances with Calls & Fiddling
About 35 years ago, when my wife and I arrived in Concord, New Hampshire, we went to something... Read More »
Book Review: Unpacking the Boxes
Read an excerpt from Donald Hall’s book. “At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which... Read More »
Book Review: When We Were the Kennedys
This year millions of words will be printed and spoken about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of... Read More »
Book Review: Wild Acadia
Jerry and Marcy Monkman, frequent Yankee contributing photographers, first visited Acadia National Park together in 1989. Since then,... Read More »
Book Reviews: Antiques and Art
Here are two remarkably similar stories about remarkably dissimilar works of art. Maryalice Huggins calls hers “a love... Read More »
Book Reviews: The Missing Fathers Club
A traveling father, a runaway father, a silent father, and a father who never shows up: These are... Read More »
Books: Poems, Birds, Gardens
In his typically smart and funny introduction to Bright Wings, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins cheerfully admits... Read More »
Excerpt from Poet Donald Hall’s Memoir
New Hampshire resident Donald Hall was America’s Poet Laureate for 2006-2007. His memoir, Unpacking the Boxes, (Houghton Mifflin... Read More »
Family Day-Trip: Book Barn, Niantic, CT
Nestled in a wooded corner of Niantic, Connecticut, is a playground like no other. Little girls pick through... Read More »
In Review: The Man Who Wasn’t ‘Sully’ Sullenberger
Why is it that so many writers of spooky stories–Edgar Allen Poe (Massachusetts), H. P. Lovecraft (Rhode Island),... Read More »
Jodi Picoult Interview
AUDIO: Jodi Picoult discusses her March 2007 book Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult’s newest book,”Change of Heart,” deals with... Read More »
Ken Gloss, Antiquarian Bookseller, Boston, Massachusetts
Family lore has it that Ken Gloss’s first spoken word was “book.” How could it be otherwise? His... Read More »
Local Treasure: Open Books, Open Minds
The waist-high bookshelves that line the reading room at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art are... Read More »
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