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Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly (Golden Gryphon Press, 1997)Another book by James Patrick Kelly recently received the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Book of Fiction. At the award reception I asked Mr...
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen (NY: Henry Holt and Co., 2009)Harriet Reisen will be at Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, NH on Thursday, November 19 at 7pm. Ms. Reisen will be joined by Nancy Porter, the director of the American Masters film on PBS based on the book...
Center for the Book at the NH State Library Tomorrow night is the 2009 New Hampshire Literary Awards Reception -- a great opportunity to celebrate great NH writers!
Source: www.nhwritersproject.org
To celebrate the rich and varied literary talent in the Granite State, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project will present the 2009 New Hampshire Literary Awards on November 14, 2009, at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. The ceremony will be hosted by NHPR's Virginia Prescott.
The Weight of the Ice: The Northeast Ice Storm of 2008 by Dave Eisenstadter (Keene, NH: Surry Cottage Books, 2009) On December 11, 2008 an ice storm hit New England and left 1.3 million households without electricity, many for weeks...
Pennies for Elephants by Lita Judge (New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2009)This book by Peterborough author Lita Judge was chosen to receive the 2009 NH Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Children’s Literature. ...
Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook by David M. Carroll (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) It has been an eventful month for writer, naturalist, and artist David M. Carroll, a resident of Warner, NH. ...
Tupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers by Bob Kealing (University Press of Florida, 2008)I love books about the history of a specific thing -- Salt, Olives, Aprons, etc. -- and this volume is part of that literary set...
The Lost Constitution by William Martin (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2007)I seem to be developing a bit of an American history theme with recent Books of the Week...
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995)Most weeks I choose the "Book of the Week," but this time I am going with the book that was chosen by the Merrimack Public Library for its One Book, One Town community-wide reading program...
Numerous Granite State libraries are participating in Browsing Through the Leaves: The New Hampshire Statewide Library Book Sale Tour on Saturday October 10, 2009...
The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. (New York: Collins, 2009)"One of the most widely read American anthropologists, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has observed dogs, cats, and elephants during her half-century-long career...
On Sunday 4 October at 2pm, Portsmouth Historical Society presents JEFFERSON’S DREAM, a concert and reading presented by former Portsmouth Poet Laureate, John Perrault. ...
To My Countrywomen: The Life of Sarah Josepha Hale by Muriel L. Dubois; illustrated by Lisa Greenleaf. (Bedford, NH: Apprentice Shop Books, 2006)This Saturday is the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC...
Here is a sampling of events taking place this week at local bookshops...
Either tomorrow or Monday between 5:30 and 9am WGIR (AM 610) will be running a short piece about our Granite State Reads grant project. We appreciate their efforts to spread the word about this grant opportunity for NH's literacy projects!
