Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat by Mike Pride (Bauhan Publishing, 2024) Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat, tells the story of journalist, Mike Pride’s relationships with several. poets who lived and worked in New ...
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Book of the Week (3/18/2024) and more...


Book of the Week (3/18/2024)

Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat by Mike Pride (Bauhan Publishing, 2024)

 

   
 

Upcoming Local Author Events!

"BOOKport" Local Author Celebration in Newport

The Richards Free Library is having a local author celebration this Saturday, March 16th, 2024 from 10-2:00 pm. They will be hosting 11 authors from around the Newport, NH area and throughout NH. The featured authors write everything from poetry to children's books, and more!

Derry Author Fest
1 2 3 Grow!


Saturday, April 6, 2024 from 10 am to 4 pm at the Derry Public Library 

Derry Author Fest is a day of writing workshops, panels and networking for aspiring authors, dreamers and dabblers alike. As an attendee, you can stay all day, half day, or just drop in for a session. Book sales and signings are interspersed in between workshops, so you will have time to buy books, support local artists and get some face time with teachers.

This year’s keynote speaker is Virginia Macgregor: Virginia was brought up in Germany, France, and England by a mother who never stopped telling stories. Her early years were those of a story-scribbling, rain-loving child. Her debut novel What Milo Saw was published to great acclaim and has so far been translated into 12 languages. She is also the author of The Astonishing Return of Norah Wells, Before I Was Yours, Wishbones, You Found Me, As Far As the Stars, and The Children’s Secret.


See the schedule and register to attend at: www.derryauthorfest.wordpress.com

   
 

Book of the Week (3/11/2024)

Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees: A Celebration of New England's Eccentrics and Misfits by Stephen Gencarella (Globe Pequot, 2018)

Incredible Stories of the Prophets, Vagabonds, Fortune-Tellers, Hermits, Lords, and Poets Who Shaped New England.

New England has been a lot of things—an economic hub, a cultural center, a sports mecca—but it is also home to many of the strangest individuals in America. Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees explores and celebrates the eccentric personalities who have left their mark in a way no other book has before. Some folks are known, others not so much, but the motley cast of characters that emerges from these pages represents a fascinating cross-section of New England’s most peculiar denizens. Look inside to find:

  • Tales of the Leather Man and the Old Darned Man, who both spent years crisscrossing the highways and byways of the northeast, their origins and motivation to remain forever unknown.
  • The magnificent homes of William Gillette and Madame Sherri, famed socialites who constructed enormous castles in the New England countryside.
  • William Sheldon’s apocalyptic prophecies and wild claims including that the American Revolution had hastened the end of the world and that he could—through his mastery of the “od-force”—prevent cholera across the eastern United States.
  • The mysterious fortune-teller Moll Pitcher whose predictions, some say, were sought by European royalty and whose fame made her the subject of poems, plays, and novels long after her death.
Stretching back to the colonial era and covering the development and evolution of New England society through the beginning of the twenty-first century, this book captures the rebel spirit, prickly demeanors, and wily attitudes that have made the region the hotbed for oddity it is today. --Publisher's blurb

   
 

Book of the Week (3/4/2024)

The Dog Who Ate the Vegetable Garden & Helped Save the Planet by Margaret Hurley (Guernica World Editions, 2019)

Using idiosyncratic broken sentences, a cross-genre stream-of-consciousness
narrative told by a cheeky vegan dog named Dori—a
real dog—whose zany and opinionated take on humans’ treatment
of animals is ironic, quirky, funny, sad, maddening, and deadly
relevant. Autobiography, history, and science are woven into the
narrator’s adventures to reveal and explain the destructive effects of eating animal flesh and secretions on humans and animals, and on the planet--that farming and slaughtering trillions of animals for food, annually, is the leading cause of environmental destruction (including Global Warming) and that eating animals causes the vast majority of debilitating and deadly illnesses in humans.-- Publisher's blurb

About the author:

Margaret (Meg) Hurley is an eco-feminist, animal-rights activist and vegan. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, and lives in New Hampshire with her husband (retired attorney), who is also an animal-rights activist and vegan.


   
 

3 on a Theme: Song

Strange Sweet Song by Adi Rule

Sing and Other Stories by Dan Szczesny

Sing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. Olson

   
 

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