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Little Women (Signet Classics)
Louisa May Alcott
Signet Classics, 2004
The Sticking Together Sisters
Little Women is a story about four sisters who live with their mother. I thought it was a great story because it is really easy to figure out what they are doing in a jiff. The best part of this book is that it shows the characters have feelings and emotions that are ...
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The King James Bible (with book and chapter navigation)
Diana Mecum DianaDoesIt.com, 2008
Fantastic Navigation Feature!
This was one of the easiest books to navigate through that I have ever seen because it emulates the hardcopy. In fact, it's better because I don't have to keep paging and paging to get to where I want to read. Instead, each chapter or individual book is just a click ...
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The Good Thief
Hannah Tinti
The Dial Press, 2008
A wonderful book
The Good Thief is a wonderful, highly readable book about (with a strong tip of the hat to Dickens)a young orphan in New England in the 1800's. He is adopted by a thief, grifter, and learns the trade, garnering sympathy because of a missing hand.
Ren longs to ...
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Brock Clarke
Algonquin Books, 2008
Great fun for a family tragedy
In the interests of full disclosure: Brock Clarke is the brother of one of my coworkers and he came to present at our fledgling Creative Writing conference out of fraternal affection and perhaps a free (steamtabled) dinner. Thus, to counter the really base ad hominem ...
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New England Soup Factory Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Nation's Best Purveyor of Fine Soup
Marjorie Druker, Clara Silverstein
Thomas Nelson, 2007
YUMMY
Great reading and even better cooking. If you are an afcianado of cold soup's this is your cookbook. Interesting and inventive.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2009 (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Old Farmer's Almanac
The Old Farmer's Almanac, 2008
It is what it is!
The Old Farmer's Almanac goes back a long way! On page 206, the 2009 version notes that the weather forecasts go back to a "secret formula" devised by the Almanac's founder, Robert Thomas, in 1792. Now, that's a legacy! I've always found this volume a lot of fun. In ...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson
Anchor, 2006
Great for all ages
My entire family - adults and teenagers, thoroughly enjoyed this book. We even took us with it when we went back east and my daughter INSISTED that we find a portion of the AT so that we could get a feel for the trail. We found it in PA and walked it for about an hour. ...
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A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
Joan Anderson
Broadway, 2000
This book helped me stay in my marriage!
It was the year 2000, I'd been married almost 20 years -- the kids were pretty much grown and I stood at the edge of my marriage - terrified that I'd jump off and terrified that I wouldn't. Okay, maybe terrified is a dramatic term, but that is how I felt. I truly did ...
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The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell
Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
Sarah Vowell Does It Again!
Sarah Vowell is one of my favorite writers. She writes in such a way that makes history fun and interesting, even if you haven't studied it since high school.
THE WORDY SHIPMATES continues this trend. It focuses on the Puritans, the wave of settlers to ...
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The Condition: A Novel
Jennifer Haigh
Harper, 2008
Tonight, when I told my three sons good night, i thought of how...
I thought of how much my sons' childhood differs from mine. I thought back to a time and then came back to this time. That emotion, that knowing that comes from surveying the life of a person and of a family--that is what Ms. Haigh does with much skill in this tale ...
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Maine Atlas & Gazetteer
Delorme
DeLorme Publishing, 2004
The finest map you can buy.
I've been camping in Maine for a few weeks... Mainers expect you to have one of these. They say "get out your DeLorme's" not "do you have a map?" Some people I've met have pointed me to the right page without looking at the back.
The details in this atlas are ...
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New England White (Vintage Contemporaries)
Stephen L. Carter
Vintage, 2008
My own "salon"
Maybe I have "delusions of grandeur" but I really wish I could hold my own, modern day "salon" which is talked about more in Palace Council than Mr. Carter's other two books. You MUST read these books as a trilogy about the lives of some of the most influential ...
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Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon
Hill and Wang, 2003
A seminal work
William Cronon's book was a seminal effort in 1983 that established a new way of thinking about history. It has stood the test of time. The book describes the modes and manner of the ecological impacts that English settlers had on the New England landscape in the ...
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2001
I LOVE THIS AUTHOR
I AM SO ADDICTED TO THIS SERIES OF BOOKS... I love her humor, I can relate to her main characters lives in all of her books.. I can't wait until she comes out with new books I'm always pre-order. TOTALLY ADDICTIVE.. even though I am not a shopaholic I get so pulled ...
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The New Annotated Dracula
Bram Stoker
W. W. Norton, 2008
Cause for international celebration?the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades. In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes , Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula . With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts Stoker's contention that ...
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