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4 reviews
Andy Crouch

UPNE, 2006

Exactly what I was looking for....
This book is the best of its type. I also own the "Beer Lovers Guide to the USA" and "On Tap New England". Those books are ancient now unfortunately. This guide is their replacement. I found this guidebook very well organized with very good recommendations. I've been to a few of the pubs in the book and so far, so good. (i.e Vermont Pub & Brewery, John Harvards, Barrington Brewery, Woodstock ...

The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics

11 reviews
Lewis Turco

UPNE, 2000

This book helped me to become a published poet.
I simply cannot recommend this book highly enough. I ordered it in February of 2005, and it has been a wonderful tool ever since. But to start at the beginning: I had written poetry from a very early age, but had mostly written in common modern ballad form, and had never considered trying out the classical forms of the great poets of the past. I joined an online poetic community, and ...

Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth

5 reviews

UPNE, 2009

excellent history book
Massachusetts, being one of the more important states in America's cotton textile history, lends itself to meaningful research of its quilts made in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. 6000 quilts filled the research pool in this state documentation project. What resulted is this book of splendid historical and scholarly text accompanied by beautiful photography. This is a textile and quilt ...

Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains

12 reviews
Casey Sherman

UPNE, 2009

Obviously, this is a MUST READ!!!
After reading some of the other reviews it is obvious to me that there is still so much passion over this story and that is why I feel this book is a MUST read! Casey Sherman has written an extremely unbiased account of the events of 5/11 in New Hampshire's North Country. I am from Florida and knew nothing of the story until reading this book. I am surprised by the comments rating this book as ...

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England

7 reviews
Thomas C. Hubka

UPNE, 2004

Enthralling rural history.
Lets get this straight, this is NOT a coffee table book - if you want lots of colour pictures of old farms and barns - look elsewhere. What it is though, is a well written, brilliantly researched and documented assessment of a largely by-gone way of life in rural New England. Look - I'm even British and I loved (OK - I do have an interest in New England and architecture) If you are vaguely ...

Women's Painted Furniture, 1790-1830: American Schoolgirl Art
Betsy Krieg Salm

UPNE, 2010

In this long-awaited tribute to women's painted furniture, author and artist Betsy Krieg Salm rediscovers a style of early American decorative art still largely unknown to curators, antique dealers, art historians, and the public. She documents the socioeconomic, cultural, and aesthetic history of the form, which includes such items as sewing and work boxes, face screens, and tables. Salm carefully chronicles the process itself, describing a ...

Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy

2 reviews
Andrea Olsen

UPNE, 2004

fantastic!
this book really amazed me. the title alone drew me to it. i am a Pilates instructor and i wanted to learn as much as i could about the body and mind working together. this book breaks down the body into different areas, gives you a little anatomy lesson, and gives activities to connect with that body part. some are meditations and some are hands-on. it gives you a better idea of your own ...

The Vermont Monster Guide

5 reviews
Joseph A. Citro

UPNE, 2009

More than just Champy stories
This collection has been well-received in our household. As fans of Poe, Lovecraft, Twilight Zone, Kolchak, and the X-Files, we enjoy a good cryptid tale. Living in Fair Haven, Vermont, I particularly like the story of the giant, red-eyed rabbits living on an island in the middle of Lake Bomoseen. Perhaps we could mount an expedition! In any event, there are more than lake monsters in The Vermont ...

The Story of Modern Skiing

7 reviews
John Fry

UPNE, 2006

If you like to ski (and read), you'll love this book!
If you are a skier with at least a modicum of curiosity about how the sport you are passionate about evolved and mushroomed, and who the players were along the way, this is a book that tells the whole story, how all the parts fit together, and it reads so well and so easily that at times it seems like a novel, and you wonder what happens next. But the author, John Fry, clearly knows his subject ...

Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change
Charles A. Riley II

UPNE, 2005

A journalist's passionate expose of the media's portrayal of the disabled.

Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape

6 reviews
Thomas Rinaldi, Robert J. Yasinsac

UPNE, 2006

Excellent local history
Ruins (mainly abandoned buildings): eyesores or "romantic embodiments of a historical past"? The authors, in this superbly written and magnificently illustrated book, argue passionately for the latter, and have chosen 85 sites found in the Hudson Valley between Albany and Yonkers to prove their point. Old mansions, mills, manufacturing plants, railroad stations, even Sing Sing prison are ...

A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context

3 reviews
Mark Gelernter

UPNE, 2001

A clearly written interesting history.
This is easy reading with appropos illustrations. Just the right amount of detail for the traveller who is interested in architecture.

The Lobster Gangs of Maine

2 reviews
James M. Acheson

UPNE, 1988

It's So True!
I live here in the midst of the coast of Maine, and this book is factual, absorbing, entertaining (to me, anyway), and historically significant. The world of the independent lobsterman is rapidly changing, but these guys are competent, tough, and they have their own code of discipline. If you want to understand better this unique part of America, this book is for you.

Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology

3 reviews
Peter J. Marchand

UPNE, 1996

A Thorough Explanation of Winter Adaptations
Thorough and scientific, this a good companion volume to Jim Halfpenny's excellent book on the same subject. Whereas Halfpenny's book is an excellent introduction for students and teachers of ecology, Marchand's book goes into more detail on physiological, behavioral, and biochemical adaptations to winter. It is therefore best suited to biology majors, graduate students, and naturalists with ...

Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850

3 reviews
Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, ...

UPNE, 2009

Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850
This book represents a significant body of research with respect to eighteenth/nineteenth century American furniture. It is superbly produced both for its photography and written content and contains a meticulously chosen collection of the finest examples of early American craftsmanship. This is a "must have," for those who appreciate history, fine American antiquities, and desire an ...

The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards (Library of New England)

3 reviews
Francis J. Bremer

UPNE, 1995

An insightful look at a noble people
The Puritans are often maligned today as a 'narrow minded' 'intolerant' group of religious 'extremists' who hanged people they believed to be Witches and actually banned Christmas This book shows them in a more honest light. A people who as a group did their flawed best to form a just and honest society. They actually managed to achieve it. This is the story of the people whose ideology ...

Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the *Nottingham Galley*

4 reviews
Kenneth Roberts

UPNE, 1995

a good book
This is a must read book for those of you who like historical novels. It is about a ship that has wrecked on an island off the coast of Maine and how the crew survives. This book is written with the historical preciseness that Arundel and Northwest Passage are written with. This is one of the greatest historical novels

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

4 reviews
Roxana Robinson

UPNE, 1999

A Beautiful and Engaging Tribute to a Brilliant Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe's life was one lived with courage and beauty and Robinson does her justice by writing this beautiful and engaging biography. The author delves into O'Keeffe's life and the passion of her work by describing her family history, her evolution as an artist, and perhaps more important to O'Keeffe, her evolution toward becoming her true self. The extra and vital layer that adds ...

Saber's Edge: A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq

3 reviews
Thomas A. Middleton

UPNE, 2009

The Human Face of the Citizen Soldier at War
Anyone interested in modern American military operations will enjoy this book. But I especially recommend it to the everyday American who wonders what it's actually like to be fighting on the front lines of the Global War on Terror. This story is told straight from the shoulder. It's easy to pick up and read, and you don't have to be a veteran, a techno-geek, or a military historian to ...

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