The second edition of "Grand Monadnock" contains 58 color photographs and historical prints. More than 100,000 people a year climb 3,165-foot Mount Monadnock in southwestern New Hampshire. This extraordinary, granite-top peak stands alone against a far-seeing horizon of spectacular panoramas.  Authors and photographers Julia Older and Steve Sherman guide you along the major trails and favorite sites of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, track the story behind the name Monadnock and let you in on the notorious World War One William Dean murder. They write also of the mountain geology, the writers and artists associated with this inspiring mountain and how others view its singular summit.  This much-loved mountain offers a fascinating cultural past as well as hiking, sightseeing, cross-country skiing and self-discovery. The mountain is a pre-eminent example of environmental protection and is known as "the people's mountain."

Grand Monadnock: Exploring the Most Popular Mountain in America

Travel

Older, Julia

Sherman, Steve

Travel Writing

Appledore Books

<p>Poetry, romance, and murder combine in this historical novel based on the life of Celia Thaxter (1835-1894). A group of islands off the New Hampshire coast is the backdrop for Thaxter's stormy separation from her husband and her granite determination to provide for their backward son by writing. Soon her essays appear alongside Longfellow's in The Atlantic Monthly and her stories are published with Louisa May Alcott's. The famous British author Charles Dickens dreams about Celia, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Hawthorne visit the young writer at her parents' resort hotel. Enter bachelor poet John Greenleaf Whittier, and at once Celia throws convention to the wind. Unchaperoned, they linger in her bedroom, dawdle at candlelit croquet, and take long moonlit strolls. A double axe murder and the hottest trial of the 19th century turns this captivating story into a real sizzler.</p>

The Island Queen: Celia Thaxter of the Isles of Shoals

Literature & Fiction

Come on a backroads journey through a north country of hidden glacial ponds and deep pine forests to "the center of town past the one-family store with the awnings pulled down." Continue to the wide tidal flats of the Atlantic where New England began. Snowshoe the wilderness. Crowd into a church bazaar. Watch a great blue heron "hang like a Casablanca fan over the bay." These lyrical poems lead to your own higher latitudes.

Higher Latitudes

Poetry

Celia Thaxter: Selected Writings

Literary

<p>Private investigator Harvard educated Hugh Quint has moved to an idyllic church steepled New Hampshire town where he "has some rugged stubborn New England types to contend with"- as The New York Times reviewer puts it. This "New England Cozy"(in the tradition of the English village cozy) plunks the reader down between feuding landowners of maple sugar orchards. When a neighbor is strangled, sweetness and light fast turns sticky and dangerous as Hugh Quint closes in on suspects.</p>

Maple Sugar Murders (New England Cozy)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

In Steve Sherman's continuing series, this time ex-police detective Hugh Quint drives north to see an old Harvard chum, inventor Miles Cooper, whose schemes are as fluffy as his mother's frosted cupcakes. The sudden murder of the family lawyer and the disappearance (kidnapping?) of Miles' sister Amy draw Quint into the chase of his life through the White Mountains. When a slick trick in Mrs. Sarah Cooper's will is revealed, an extremely valuable Dunlap highboy chest of drawers made in the 18th century turns into a motive for murderous mischief. Once only the seasons changed in sleepy Longfield, New Hampshire, but soon it's Welcome to Psychoville. This back-country mystery with an "Antiques Road Show" twist has suspects popping out of the woodwork like rusty nails.

Highboy (New England Cozy, 3)

Candidates are off and running in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary race. Hugh Quint goes to a coffee to meet front-runner Freddy Foster and lands in the middle of a bizarre murder scene. When backwoods political watchdog Garth Mackey stumbles on a second body, the ex-Boston officer agrees to investigate the fast-talking pack of suspects. Dark-horse Willie Dowd trots his rally up Mount Monadnock, runs into spin-doctor Carla Unger, and springs into the national limelight. Then salacious photographs drag Rebecca Casey and Freddy Foster in the dirt. Boy-on-the-bus Andy Hoyt jockeys for a scoop and bets are on that he'd kill for a Pulitzer. Hugh's running a dead heat nearly to the finish. But with a few tricks of his own, and help from his mole Proctor Hammond, he out-stumps the cleverest of them.

Primary Crime: New England Cozy

From the birth of Hermaphroditus, this booklength poem gets off to a dramatic start. Hermaphroditus' two halves, Herman and Hermione, are forced to go their respective ways. Herman delivers messages to corporate America while Hermione takes to the street as a reporter, stopping at soup kitchens and shelters to interview the homeless. Each explores a variety of American cultural ghettos from Wall Street and the Wild West to ecstatic religious cults and sexual frontiers. The physical and metaphysical trials they endure eventually transform them enough to reconcile their differences and reunite in a joyous grand finale. Through a variety of poetic forms (songs, pantoums, sonnets, parables, prose poems) the poet weaves a saga of and for our time. Hermaphroditus In America begins with a Prologue and is divided into Six Parts (each titled with a quote from Shakespeare's "The Ages of Man"). Five Entre'acts separate the parts and an Epilogue and Notes follow the poem.

Hermaphroditus in America

The second edition of "Grand Monadnock" contains 58 color photographs and historical prints. More than 100,000 people a year climb 3,165-foot Mount Monadnock in southwestern New Hampshire. This extraordinary, granite-top peak stands alone against a far-seeing horizon of spectacular panoramas. Authors and photographers Julia Older and Steve Sherman guide you along the major trails and favorite sites of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, track the story behind the name Monadnock and let you in on the notorious World War One William Dean murder. They write also of the mountain geology, the writers and artists associated with this inspiring mountain and how others view its singular summit. This much-loved mountain offers a fascinating cultural past as well as hiking, sightseeing, cross-country skiing and self-discovery. The mountain is a pre-eminent example of environmental protection and is known as "the people's mountain."

A poetry collection drawing upon the deeper human links to the powerful glories of the natural world where life and landscape become one.

Rolling the Sun

Julia Older

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Grand Monadnock: Exploring the Most Popular Mountain in America

The Island Queen: Celia Thaxter of the Isles of Shoals

Higher Latitudes

Celia Thaxter: Selected Writings

Maple Sugar Murders (New England Cozy)

Highboy (New England Cozy, 3)

Primary Crime: New England Cozy

Hermaphroditus in America

Grand Monadnock: Exploring the Most Popular Mountain in America

Rolling the Sun