New Hampshire Books

The book was a Christmas present for my mom and she loved it. The copy that we first got had some pages that were wrinkled (despite the book being wrapped up) but amazon was great about taking it back and sending her another one. Its a perfect coffee table book.

This book is basically a photographic journal of the White Mountains. Many photos are old historical sepias and the author compares them alongside modern day photos of the same locations. The book is also a written history of the White Mountains.

I liked young Monkman's historic descriptions of the White Mountains, and his use of old sepia-toned photographs to illustrate the changes over time in this mountainous landscape that is such a favorite of all of ours. I thought the photographic reproduction, done overseas, could have been of higher quality. But, I think his writing overshines these great photos of the wilder parts of this mountain range. I am a former AMC Hutboy (Mizpah '65) and a Ridge Runner for the Saco District, USFS, in 1969. Wish I had still the legs to get to these beautiful places at altitude. Now I am a nature writer for the wildlife of this region, featuring ecological profiles on birds, mammals, and trees on the local radio station and in the Mountain EAR. My two brothers have recorded much of the legend and lore of this area in their newspaper work of 30 years. We have grown back to wildness in NH.

A very well written book with lots of detail on how to get to a trail, description/map of the trail, whether it is suitable for snowshoeing or X-country skiing or both, as well as a few bits of trivia and suggestions for a good place to eat after a days outing to replenish. I only wish the book were 5 times bigger to cover more trails.

Yes! This book is very unique in that is written for a few, specific winter activities (x-country skiing or snowshoeing) in a few very specific locations (New Hampshire and Vermont). If you are in the market for such a book, you don't have many choices to begin with. You'll be happy to know that this book does its subject justice.

People in the Northeast will truly enjoy this book as it covers the best winter activity locations primarily in both the Green and White mountains but also in a few other various locations in each state (including Southern New Hampshire and Vermont). The guide includes point-to-point trail directions, specific maps, driving directions, facility information, and the usual historical fun facts that always fill hiking books.

I grew up in New Hampshire and now live in Vermont. To find this book that covers both of my outdoor winter playgrounds was a true find. If you are a big outdoorsy person looking for a guide to places to help you with winter activities, this book by Marty Basch will be a welcome addition to your library or backpack.

Yes! This book is very unique in that is written for a few, specific winter activities (x-country skiing or snowshoeing) in a few very specific locations (New Hampshire and Vermont). If you are in the market for such a book, you don't have many choices to begin with. You'll be happy to know that this book does its subject justice.

People in the Northeast will truly enjoy this book as it covers the best winter activity locations primarily in both the Green and White mountains but also in a few other various locations in each state (including Southern New Hampshire and Vermont). The guide includes point-to-point trail directions, specific maps, driving directions, facility information, and the usual historical fun facts that always fill hiking books.

I grew up in New Hampshire and now live in Vermont. To find this book that covers both of my outdoor winter playgrounds was a true find. If you are a big outdoorsy person looking for a guide to places to help you with winter activities, this book by Marty Basch will be a welcome addition to your library or backpack.

Children have a great imagination, and this book is great to have when you are starting to teach young children how to write. Great ideas are given such as what materials to have in writing centers and how to go about using the writing center. Karelitz pretty much explains that the writing process for children is much like the writing process taken for adults and if you can have the children use this process and make them feel comfortable while using the method, it is a great success. "The Authors Chair" is a must have book for teaching children the essentials to becoming a great writer. This is also a must have book for those of you in the teaching profession and those wanting to become educators. It was fun to read and it fills you with ideas and great teaching techniques used in teaching the writing process.

Children have a great imagination, and this book is great to have when you are starting to teach young children how to write. Great ideas are given such as what materials to have in writing centers and how to go about using the writing center. Karelitz pretty much explains that the writing process for children is much like the writing process taken for adults and if you can have the children use this process and make them feel comfortable while using the method, it is a great success. "The Authors Chair" is a must have book for teaching children the essentials to becoming a great writer. This is also a must have book for those of you in the teaching profession and those wanting to become educators. It was fun to read and it fills you with ideas and great teaching techniques used in teaching the writing process.

Becoming Cape Cod is an indispensable book for anyone who loves this Massachusetts vacation community and wishes to know more about its history. O'Connell's book tells the history of Cape Cod's development as a vacation resort and includes a quite a few details about this magical peninsula. He does a good job blending the historical significance of the Cape and some of the pop culture icons of the area. It is written in a factual manner which sometimes makes reading dry, but O'Connell remedies this with an exquisite collections of post cards used to illustrate the book. For those familiar with the Cape, the post card illustrations provide a nostalgic trip back to yesteryear. Humorous antique postcards poke fun at the stereotype of typical Caper Codders. Some of the classic post cards show well known tourist favorites now gone such as Thompson's Clam Bar, Story Land and the Band concerts in Chatham with Whit Tileston, legendary band leader front and center (actually the concerts still continue, though Mr. Tileston is deceased).

This book will be best appreciated by readers who are familiar with Cape Cod. If it is read while listening to the old Patty Page song, we will certainly believe her words are true and fall in love with Old Cape Cod.

I am the author of Becoming Cape Cod: The Creation of a Seaside Resort, which is the first book to tell the history of Cape Cod's development as a vacation mecca. This book traces Cape Cod's resort history from its discovery by Henry David Thoreau before the Civil War to the present day. It is lavishly illustrated with rare historical postcards.

Becoming Cape Cod has three main sections: 1870-1920, on the early years of the resort; 1920-1950, on the impact of the automobile on creating a tourist region with common marketing, a plethora of attractions, and a strong heritage appeal; 1950-2000, on measures taken to preserve the Cape in the face of overdevelopment.

The decisive moment for the Cape's development was the coming of the automobile during the 1920s. For the first time, tourists were able to explore the entire region. As a result a plethora of cottage colonies, restaurants, antique shops, and historical landmarks appeared. After World War II, a boom ensued that continues to the present day. Cape Cod's greatest challenge has been preserving the natural environment, historic buildings, and cultural traditions that have shaped the Cape's sense of place. Becoming Cape Cod drew upon my experiences working at the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning agency, in writing this book. Part social history, part cautionary tale, Becoming Cape Cod meditates upon how to preserve authentic places against continuing growth pressures.

The Cape Cod Voice has called Becoming Cape Cod "an intriguing combination of historical research, overview and statistics, with a fun visual hook." The Cape Codder said the book is "a welcome and important addition to the Cape Cod history library."

My other publications include three books and numerous articles on Boston, Western Massachusetts, and urban history.

Just finished reading Deadly Kin. As I'm originally from NH, it's always fun to read about places I've been in real life. The author mixes fictional with true life towns in NH but you really get the feel for the lifestyle of small town New England. The writing is fast paced and keeps your interest until the very end of the book. Strongly suggest that you read Tom's first book so you know the history of the main characters and can delve right into this book.

He is suave, sexy and sweet but that doesn't stop his significant other from dumping him with no explanation after two years together. So when Laurie ask Will Buchanan to escort her niece to Zealand Falls in the New Hampshire White Mountains so she can meet her brother Josh who is hiking the Appalachian trail, he agrees to do it hoping this is the first stop towards a reconciliation.

When the two siblings meet, Will is shocked to see them make love, but also hears another person close by. When Josh's body is found at the bottom of the Cliff, Will knows instantly that he was murdered and thinks of the stranger in the woods. Will becomes involved in Laurie's family troubles, which lands him in jail, accused of raping and beating Erin. When he makes bail, Erin disappears and Will tracks her down only to find himself the prisoner of Josh's killer. It will take some very clever planning and execution on Will's part if he wants to get himself, Erin and Laurie (who was also kidnapped) out of their predicament and in one piece.

DEADLY KIN is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller that will have readers turning the pages to see what happens next. There are so many twists and turns and red herrings that readers will be hard pressed to figure out what is really happening to Erin. It is difficult to understand why Will wants Laurie back after the way she treated him and the trouble he gets into because of her. Inside all this action, Tom Eslick brings to life the beauty of the White Mountains to life.

Harriet Klausner

ENEMY IN THE FORT provides a vivid glimpse of life on the New England frontier during the French and Indian War. The action begins in 1752, when Rebecca and Selinda are left homeless after an Indian raid on their family's farm. Their parents and baby brother are taken captive and their home is burned down. The girls are taken in by a sickly widow who lives inside the nearby fort. By 1754, Selinda has become indentured to another family living in the fort. At this time, the widow takes in Isaac, a settler boy who has been recaptured after being raised by the Indians. As the story develops, the family Selinda is indentured to decides to move to Connecticut. They insist on taking Selinda with them. Further, things have been disappearing from settler homes inside the fort, and some of the settlers are openly hostile towards Isaac. Rebecca's effort to prevent her sister from being taken away becomes entangled in the series of thefts. Is Isaac responsible for the thefts? Can Rebecca keep Selinda from being separated from her?

As with other tales in the "History Mystery" series, the reader is drawn into a genuine historical setting. The problems faced by the young protagonists are real and their resolution requires courage and resolve. This particular story also has a rather involved plot and requires the main character to re-examine some deeply held feelings and beliefs. In short, there's plenty here to hold your attention.

I read this book with my daughter. She pushed to keep reading, so I know it caught and held her interest. When we finished it, however, her comment was that she didn't like it as much as some other books in the series, mostly because she didn't like the ending. I can understand her feelings. Some aspects of the story aren't tied up as neatly as a young reader might wish. For example, no immediate price is paid for the theft of Rebecca's spoons, nor does she recover them. The outcome is realistic, given the circumstances, but not entirely satisfying. I, on the other hand, thought the involved plot, complex characterization, and realistic ending made this one of the best books in the "History Mystery" series. You be the judge. At the least, I think you'll find this story isn't easy to put down.

All ten-year-old Rebecca Percy and her younger sister Selinda could do was watch in horror from their hiding place as Abenaki Indians captured their parents and baby brother and burned their New Hampshire frontier home to the ground one dark night in 1752. Two years later, the sisters live with the kind Widow Tyler at a nearby fort. Rebecca helps with chores, and Selinda has hired herself out as a maid to the cruel Cutter family. At the same time that the sisters learn that the Cutters plan to return to civilization before Selinda's contract is up, and plan to take Selinda with them, the soldiers bring a boy rescued from captivity among the Abenaki to the fort. Widow Tyler takes the boy, Isaac, in. But after spending most of his childhood in captivity, Isaac is more Indian than English, and seems to want to return to the Abenaki family that adopted him after he was captured. Rebecca doesn't understand how Isaac, torn from his home to live among the people who killed his family, would chose to remain with his captors rather than return to the society he was born into. After a series of thefts in the fort, Rebecca is quick to suspect Isaac, especially after the one thing that she may be able to sell to buy back Selinda's contract is stolen. To find out what happens next, and to discover who the real thief is, and to find out if Rebecca can save Selinda, read this book! It's a wonderful new book from the History Mysteries series that I recommend to readers who enjoy historical fiction. In fact, it is one of my favorites from the series.

This was a truly wonderful and accessible book about Native American educational achievment. The story of Dartmouth College and its relationship to Native American education is captivating. The honesty of the students is at time heartbreaking and yet is continually inspiring.

Garrod & Larimore's First Person, First Peoples is a fine collection of personal accounts of leaving home. The stories are at once unique and universal. They are expressive of an experience to which Native Americans can truly relate, and yet, set on the campus of one of America's most selective colleges, the stories are from a elite few who may be speaking of an experience that is virtually impossible to share. This is valuable as an oral history, and perhaps more importantly, as a voice of the Native American which remains too infrequently captured. Still, we must find those voices which are seldom heard, rather than continuing the habit of letting the elite culture speak for us all.

Good source of information, but...has absolutely no photos! It's pretty hard to want to travel somewhere when you have no idea what the place looks like. Still, while traveling this book is quite useful.

i believe this book to be very useful. it not only gives you a variety of accomodations but many price ranges as well. the list of attractions is always accurate and explained very well. i recommend this book to anyone traveling anywhere! i have also used this good for Europe and it was fabulous. dates and times that sights were open was very accurate which made planning my trip very easy.

We have just returned from our trip to the 3 states and we found the guide helpful, more in the planning than in the actual trip itself. I would suggest this and one of the other guides, like Froemmer, as well as searching the net for options. One negative-the map that is included in not of a scale that is helpful to the driver. Too many missing roads. The maps in the sections, as well as the numbering system for attractions, are a plus. They also left a few note pages in the back, thoughtfully, so you may keep them with the book easily.

FODOR'S MAINE, VERMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 10TH EDITION is a great book about New England's northern section. In addition to where the best lodging, shopping, and dining are, it also describes plenty of outdoor activity ideas for anyone trying to look good for their significant other and/or their favorite celebrity. If any of those things are important to you, you need this book.

I checked this out from the library and my 3 year old son LOVES this book! I have found myself pulling it out to read to my 6 month old because it is so much fun to real aloud. The language is "downhome" and I can hear my Texan drawl come out as I read about Lil Fella to my children. My three year old smiles and doesn't take his eyes off the pages. Wonderful illustrations, although Ruby is a bit odd.

Folks who like this book will also like MORE, MORE, MORE by Vera B. Williams, which has the same kind of nurturing flow to it.

The pictures in this book were pretty good. And the text was OK. They worked well together. I had a little trouble keeping the names of the five sisters straight. And the concept of a "granite baby" threw me for a loop for a bit. I expected the granite baby to be like a statue. Instead this one moved and cried a lot. There are 16 scenes in this book, almost all of which are two pages wide.

The story is a Paul Bunyan type tall tale set in Paul Bunyan land (upper New England). It is about 5 giant sisters who decide to create a son out of rock. The story is about how they learn to take care of their son.

I would have liked the book better if one of the sisters had given birth to the kid. And I would have liked it better if the illustrations had been done in a different style so I could have remembered the names of the sisters more easily. 4 stars!