Dwelling in Possibility

Searching for the Soul of Shelter

by Howard Mansfield

What qualities are missing in our homes? How can we regain them?
The mystery that attracts Howard Mansfield’s attention is that some houses have life—are home, are dwellings, and others aren’t. Dwelling, he says, is an old-fashioned word that we’ve misplaced. When we live heart and soul, we dwell. Read More/Buy

The Next Hunger

Poems by Kimberly Cloutier Green

The title of this lovely and masterful collection, The Next Hunger, refers to the spiritual hunger that grows out of a “world of craving.” The lyric forms of these poems shift and change as the poet traces the links between the beautiful and tragic, the grace-filled and desolate, in all our daily devotions—the apprehension of Mystery in every worldly thing leading, finally, to self-forgetfulness. Read more/buy

Like a Bird Flying Home

Poetry and Letters to his Daughter from New Hampshire

by Walter Clark, Edited by Francelia Mason Clark and Alison Clark

“Plows to the left and plows to the right! Tired men sipping coffee in the cabs of their pickups, state plows with eight tons of sand on board, men making the best of their snowblowers, old women crossing the road to church wrapped in white clouds like Venus calling on Aeneas.”

These are the voices of the late Walter Clark, serious prose writer of both close descriptions and idiosyncratic depictions of landscape he loved.

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Snowball, The Dancing Cockatoo

by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Judith Oksner

The true story of how an unwanted cockatoo named Snowball achieved international fame as a YouTube sensation, television star, and scientific study subject, all by rocking out to the beat of his favorite tunes.

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World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down

by Christian McEwen

World Enough and Time focuses on the positive effect of deliberately simple living on creativity. McEwen juxtaposes religious traditions of both the East and West, and intertwines words of wisdom from writers ranging from Montaigne to Ralph Waldo Emerson and from Virginia Woolf to Jack Kerouac to Adrienne Rich, artists and musicians from John Ruskin to Meredith Monk, and myriad psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and scholars. In so doing, she creates a unique combination of history, spirituality, and practical advice about how to incorporate slowness and its benefits into everyday living.

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Waltzing With Bracey: A Long Reach Home

by Brenda Gilchrist 

Were you to cross George Howe Colt’s recent classic, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, with John Grogan’s beloved Marley & Me, you might end up with what Brenda Gilchrist has created in Waltzing With Bracey: A Long Reach Home. In this brave and thoughtful memoir, Gilchrist tells the story of learning to claim her place in the world—Deer Isle, Maine—and the wonderfully bossy little corgi, Bracey, who helps her to do so.

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Opening the Window:

Sabbath Meditations

Leaf Seligman

Why do we do what we do? What happens as a result? How do we make sense of, and find meaning in, our lives and in the world that contains us? How do we render wholeness out of brokenness, creating mosaics of beauty and functionality from the rent pieces of our lives? This collection of Sabbath meditations invites readers to inhabit the questions with intention and joy.

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Another Language: Portraits of Assistance Dogs and Their People

by Jeanne Braham, with photographs by Robert Floyd

The profiles in Another Language celebrate the healing bonds between service dogs and their people. Through these oral histories, and backed by the power of photographs, sixteen people who have worked with the NEADS/Dogs For Deaf and Disabled Americans program in north-central Massachusetts tell their own stories in their own words.

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It’s Not About the Hike

By Nancy Sporborg

For the past two years Nancy Sporborg and Pat Piper have enthralled audiences across New England with the stories and lessons learned on their five-year journey up and over 190 mountains in New England, both in their presentations and with the hike reports on their website its-not-about-the-hike.com. Now by popular demand, Nancy has turned it all into this wonderful book.

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Sharing Housing: A Guidebook

for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates

by Annamarie Pluhar