Cultural Region/New England
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AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
$14.95 Add to cartIn 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along t
- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1935597191
- Language: English
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The Soul of Vermont
$29.95 Add to cartArguably the consummate collection of quintessential Vermont images, Richard Brown’s now-classic, eminently collectible The Soul of Vermont is back in hardcover.
For more than 40 years, Brown has been… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Richard W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 088150467X
- Language: English
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A Day No Pigs Would Die
$7.99 Add to cartOriginally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck … [more below]
- Series: Day No Pigs Would Die
- Author: Peck, Robert Newton
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0679853065
- Language: English
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The Hub of the Gay Universe: An LGBTQ History of Boston, Provincetown, and Beyond
$24.95 Add to cartThis LGBTQ history of Boston and Provincetown begins with the coming of Europeans to Massachusetts in 1620 and ends with the victory over the referendum to overturn transgender rights in 2018. It incl
- Author: Lopez, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0578410869
- Language: English
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Deep Water: Murder, Scandal, and Intrigue in a New England Town
$31.58 Add to cartA gripping tale of murder in quiet Jaffrey, New Hampshire in the waning days of World War I.
- Author: Sheldon, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 168475027X
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of New England: Thirty-Two Locations Lost to Time
$19.95 Add to cartA fascinating tour of long-abandoned towns and villages throughout New England.
- Author: Plumb, Taryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750164
- Language: English
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
$18.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventee
- Author: Warren, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1631493248
- Language: English
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Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, Revised and Expanded
$27.95 Read moreAs recent years have seen alarming declines of insect and bird populations in many states, more gardeners have discovered the importance of including native plants in order to nurture these pollinator… [more below]
- Author: Summers, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: February 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1978833636
- Language: English
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Rail-Trails Northern New England: The Definitive Guide to Multiuse Trails in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
$17.95 Add to cartThe experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present 60 of the best rail-trails and other multiuse pathways in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
- Series: Rail-Trails
- Author: Conservancy, Rails-To-Trails
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0899978975
- Language: English
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Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation
$40.00 Add to cartWritten by Donald J. Leopold, expert in horticulture, botany, forestry, and ecology
No other single volume on native plants has such comprehensive horticultural coverage as Native Plants of the North- Author: Leopold, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0881926736
- Language: English
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Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries
$15.95 Add to cartAimed at adults, teenagers, and tourists, this is the most comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories and strange-but-true facts ever assembled about Vermont and the surroundi
- Author: Citro, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1881527506
- Language: English
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Spooky Massachusetts: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
$17.95 Add to cartWhat better locale to consider for spooky happenings than the home of the Salem witch trials? From mysteries at sea to ghosts and unexplained footprints, you’ll shiver your way through these mesmerizi
- Series: Spooky
- Author: Schlosser, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493044877
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Boston: Haunts of the Hub
$19.99 Add to cartIt should come as no surprise that one of the nation’s oldest cities brims with spirits of those who lived and died in its hundreds of years of tumultuous history.
Boston, Massachusetts, boasts countle
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Baltrusis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1609497422
- Language: English
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The Lobster Gangs of Maine
$19.95 Add to cartJames Acheson’s detailed account of lobstering in Maine quickly dispels notions that the lobstermen is the eastern version of the cowboy, struggling alone for survival against the elements. In reality… [more below]
- Author: Acheson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: June 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0874514517
- Language: English
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
$18.95 Add to cartSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history–the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Sal… [more below]
- Author: Ocker, J. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1581573391
- Language: English
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Nantucket Ghosts
$16.95 Add to cartNantucket Island has just more than 10,000 year-round residents – and a sizeable population of very real ghosts. The 44 tales in this book were collected as oral history. Some of these spirits are ben… [more below]
- Author: Balliett, Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0892727179
- Language: English
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Maine Ghosts & Legends: 30 Encounters with the Supernatural
$14.99 Add to cartMaine has a rich supernatural history and ghost stories from the state are as varied as they are prolific. Freelance writer and reporter Tom Verde first became interested in such eerie occurrences whi… [more below]
- Author: Verde, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1608932427
- Language: English
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Haunted Maine: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Pine Tree State
$26.83 Add to cartTales of pirates, witches, and other amazing denizens of the state of Maine.
- Series: Haunted
- Author: Stansfield, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493045806
- Language: English
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Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry
$32.95 Add to cartFrom the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the industry eventuall
- Author: Hillard, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501753150
- Language: English
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
$26.95 Read moreThey believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin’s haunting account of the women of Camp Etna–an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generat
- Author: Ptacin, Mira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1631493817
- Language: English
