The Contrarian Voice

Ernest Hebert

The author of the critically acclaimed novel series The Darby Chronicles is back with his first poetry collection, The Contrarian Voice.

“Like his novels, Ernest Hebert’s poems are “truthful to the real world,” yet steeped in his own deep, often dark imagination. These are poems about our relationships — with loved ones, jobs, friends, enemies, and, as Hebert has said of his fiction, “that steamy, dreamy on-going nut-case story in our heads.”

–– Scott Edward Anderson, author of Fallow Field: Poems

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A Time to Dance

Richard Nevell

Long before “social capital” emerged as a world-wide term for trust and community building, country dancing had been meeting this need of urban and rural Americans alike for more than three centuries. A Time to Dance explores the evolution of American country dance from Colonial time to the present, taking the reader across the USA in search of the reasons why so many millions of Americans love to share the country dance floor with friends, neighbors, even total strangers, in a celebration of community.

—Lewis M. Feldstein, co-author with Robert D. Putnam of Better Together: Restoring the American Community

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Summer Over Autumn

Howard Mansfield

Howard Mansfield’s essays will delight readers from all walks of life: whether small town or big city, and encourage them to further explore their own homes. Mansfield has an uncanny ability to entice hidden stories from everything around him and it shines through in these essays about neighbors, animals, tractors, trees, yard sales, funerals, money, and fidelity to time itself. Read more/Buy

Albert Duvall Quigley

Artist, Musician, Framemaker 1891, 1961

Albert D. Quigley Exhibit Committee

Albert Duvall Quigley spent most of his life painting the people and landscapes of the Monadnock region.  A self-taught musician, he built and repaired fiddles, wrote dance tunes, and played at local dances. He also made frames known for their beautiful workmanship and originality, and prized by many Monadnock artists. This catalog has been compiled for an exhibition celebrating Quigley’s life and work that will open at  the Historical Society of Cheshire County (NH) in May 2017, and for the 250th anniversary celebration of the town of Nelson, NH, where Quigley lived for many years. Read more/Buy

Louder than Hearts

Poems

Zeina Hashem Beck

2016 May Sarton NH Poetry Prize winner

“I don’t know how Zeina Hashem Beck is able to do this. Her poems feel like whole worlds—potent conversations with the self, the soul, the many landscapes of being, and the news that confounds us all. They weave two languages into a perfect fabric of presence, with an almost mystical sense of pacing and power…”

– Naomi Shihab Nye

A Doubtful House

Poems

Alice B. Fogel

“Challenging, wildly inventive, philosophical, as intense as it is intimate, A Doubtful House reveals and deepens our understanding of the strangeness within the ordinary.”

—John Sibley Williams, author of Disinheritance

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Volcano

an A to Z and Other Essays about Geology,

Geography, and Geo-Travel in the American West

Neil Mathison

Neil Mathison’s writing explores the many ways in which the physical world influences our lives. He muses on heritage, boats, and the sea; ponders how living in the shadow of a volcano shapes a person; and ties the physical world to deeper themes of human life, such as relationships and personal tragedies. Read More/Buy

On the Edge of No Answer

Prose Poems

Joal Hetherington

Reading a Hetherington poem is like examining a fine diamond—each word, each facet, a tiny, shimmering surprise.

—Andy Merton, author of Lost and Found

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Justice Approximated

Dispatches from the Bottom Rung of the Judicial Ladder

L. Phillips Runyon, III

“A young guy came in trying to evict an older woman from an apartment in his house,” Runyon recalls. “While it seemed a little harsh to be pushing for this with two weeks left before Christmas, it turned into Greek tragedy when I realized about 10 minutes into the testimony that the tenant was the landlord’s own mother.”   Read More/Buy

Sheds

Howard Mansfield

Photographs by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

“Sheds are buildings where utility and beauty are one: woodsheds and barns, boathouses and bob houses, covered bridges and summer cabins. Sheds, in addition to holding old tools and broken chairs, hold a few hints about living well.” 

Howard Mansfield draws on material from his recent book Dwelling in Possibility while exploring different types of sheds found around New England and beyond. Sheds shows the connection between the design of these structures and their roles in our lives. Read more/Buy