New England Books


A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman Best Price: $2.97 I could identify with many of the issues that Joan Anderson was facing; the life changes, my...	Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir Best Price: $7.89 I can tell you that this author has embellished little. I avoid four letter words in my books...	Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea Best Price: $0.15 It's rare to find such a sweet, satisfying read on the topic of midlife changes and detours....	Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster Best Price: $7.37 Southie was never an easy neighborhood. The D Street projects, where my mother grew up, may be...	Rat Bastards: The South Boston Irish Mobster Who Took the Rap When Everyone Else Ran Best Price: $4.34 John "Red" Shea spends his life making sure he is a "man." To him, this...



The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island Best Price: $0.87 In her debut memoir, The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw recounted a monthlong swordfishing expedition...	Working the Sea: Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobster Fisherman Best Price: $1.94 A real "Down East" book about a real Down East fisherman, his life, trials, and...	Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family Best Price: $16.64 Written by the great-great-grandson of Cadwallader Washburn, Remarkable Americans: The Washburn...	The Maine Woods: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) Best Price: $10.50 In 1848, 1853,and 1857, Henry David Thoreau travelled to the wilderness -- forests, lakes,...	Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground Best Price: $5.47 It is a rare day when you remove a treasured book from the bookcase and sit down, with memories...



Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History Best Price: $2.00 I vascillated between really loving parts of this book, and being annoyed at others. The book...	Remembering Denny Best Price: $7.44 Calvin Trillin starts out writing that anyone who speaks at a funeral wants to speak about...	A New England Girlhood Best Price: $12.45 In 1835 Lucy Larcon went to work in the Mills in Massachusetts. Lucy spent ten years working in...	A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres Best Price: $0.99 I bought this book several years ago from the bookstore at Winterthur Gardens and Galleries, the...	My Own Cape Cod Best Price: $4.95 After reading this book, you feel as though you've just spent a summer on the Cape and can't...

A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor Best Price: $140.46 I had some spare time and was browsing through Amazon when I ran across this book. I have owned...	More than Petticoats: Remarkable Maine Women (More than Petticoats Series) Best Price: $3.65 This book recreates the life-and-times of thirteen inspiring and independent women in...	Zeb: Celebrated Schooner Captain of Martha's Vineyard Best Price: $2.49 This is a wonderful book that chronicles one of the last coastwise schooners on the East coast...	The New Hampshire Century: Concord Monitor Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It Best Price: $5.25 The absence of Lisa Carver is a glaring and disappointing omission in this otherwise fine book....	Stillmeadow Sampler Best Price: $11.24 I am so glad that I've discovered Gladys and that this is only one of many more books she wrote....

Maine's Golden Road: A Memoir Best Price: $12.49 As always, John Gould's dry-as-a-bone wit made me laugh out loud while reading. This memoir of...	My Neck of the Woods After two wonderful books (1942 & 1946) largely about herself and her relationship with the...	Good Morning Midnight: 6 Best Price: $3.50 This book is great. I literally could not put it down. A great insight to what might go on...	Diary of an Early American Boy: 1805 Best Price: $12.93 Hailed by Library Journal as "informative and nostalgic," this unique book was based...	House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) Best Price: $12.79 Makes a person think about education, urban planning and the cost of suberbia.

An Upriver Passamaquoddy Best Price: $8.99 This excellent book tells the moving story of growing up Passamaquoddy. (I live near where this...	Confessions of a Baseball Purist: What's Right--and Wrong--with Baseball, as Seen from the Best Seat in the House Best Price: $2.44 I got this book for Christmas and read it Memorial Day weekend. I love Jon Miller's voice and...	Vacationland: A Half Century Summering in Maine Best Price: $4.31	A Stone Bridge North: Reflections in a New Life Best Price: $5.74 I'm another reader of this book who is not a Quaker, nor do I play one on TV. That said, I was...	The Newton Boys Best Price: $15.39 I thouroughly enjoyed reading this book. In it it gave a fascinating first hand view into how...

A Mug Up with Elisabeth Best Price: $10.72 Here at last is the essential reference for fans of Elisabeth Ogilvie's books--and a wonderful...	Amateur Sugar Maker Best Price: $10.62 When he wrote this account, Noel Perrin (1927-2004) was an English professor at Dartmouth. He...	Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family Best Price: $3.58 I am a city person, and the closest I have been to a small farm is buying apples in the autumn...	Away Happens Best Price: $8.15 I'm not even qualified to be from "away", as an occasional guest of an official...	The Doryman's Reflection: A Fisherman's Life Best Price: $1.99 Molyneaux is a beautiful writer, and tells his story so honestly that it is a prize in my...

Happy The Land	Swimming at Suppertime: Seasons of Delight on the Wrong Side of Buzzards Bay Best Price: $5.76 As someone who lived on the island of Nantucket for 10 years, as one of the working people who...	The Tiffany Fortune, and Other Chronicles of a Connecticut Family: And Other Chronicles of a Connecticut Family Best Price: $24.95	The Widow Down by the Brook: A Memoir of a Time Gone By Best Price: $2.88 I've just finished reading this wonderful book a few days ago. It was sweet and simple, yet...	Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees Best Price: $0.45 Beeing is about learning to deal with life, from the big problems down to the little ones. It...

Eight Kids Living In A Chicken Shack In Maine Best Price: $13.95	Chatham Sea Captains in the Age of Sail Best Price: $13.86 I AM STILL WAITING FOR THE PROMISED FULL REFUND INCLUDING SHIPPING FEES FOR THIS BOOK. BOOK WAS...	Amber, a Very Personal Cat and Conversations With Amber and anyone who isn't "owned by a cat", as Taber puts it, will want to be. In these two...	A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod Best Price: $5.00 I had the pleasure of meeting Gessner at a bookstore he made an appearance at. I bought two of...	Handy to Home Best Price: $12.95 For all of you out there who have a special place in your heart for Maine hunting and fishing...

Revere Beach Elegy Best Price: $3.97 This book is a "Must Read," one of the very best novels I have read in the last...	By Monomoy Light: Nature and Healing in an Island Sanctuary Best Price: $6.00 "[P]eople on the move are always fleeing a fate that no longer suits them for the unknown...	Kate Furbish and the Flora of Maine	Fly Rod Crosby: The Woman Who Marketed Maine Best Price: $18.05 This is a very interesting book about a colorful woman who put Maine on the map with her...	The Education of A Schoolmaster: My Years at St. Paul's School Best Price: $11.95 The humorous and poignant memoir of a Cuban-Canadian who taught for 35 years at one of America's...

The Hardscrabble Chronicles Best Price: $1.99 This is the kind of book that more people in America need to read. I vastly enjoyed it for what...	"A Good Poor Man's Wife": Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-Century New England Best Price: $2.94 A shrewd observer of 19th-century America, Harriet Hanson Robinson's participation in important...	An Accidental Novelist (Softcover) Best Price: $14.36 Richard S. Wheeler's literary memoir, _An Accidental Novelist_, is an unassuming book by an...	Eminent Bostonians Best Price: $6.00 The history of Boston is inseparable from the life stories of its people--from the Puritans and...	Notorious & Notable New Englanders Best Price: $2.90

A Horse in the Ladies' Room Best Price: $12.99 A book that bares the facts and foibles of operating an Early American Inn while simultaneously...	A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837 Best Price: $26.69 I bought this book due to the fact I am a direct descendant of the family that is the topic of...	Remains: Non-Viewable: A Memoir Best Price: $1.99 It's hard to remember that it's been so long since the Viet Nam war. Half the people in the...

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