Rebecca Warner is a home gardener in Newton, Massachusetts with thirty years’ experience working toward a sustainable ornamental garden. When she’s not gardening, she’s a geriatric psychiatrist. Her book The Sustainable-Enough Garden is the story of her quest to make a beautiful garden that’s environmentally friendly. In the last five years she has overhauled her garden…
J. Dennis Robinson is a local author and revered historian with a number of books to his name. Mystery on the Isles of Shoals is narrative nonfiction that carefully reconstructs a notorious crime in 19th century New England using all of the evidence, the hearsay and conspiracy theories (and their origins) – a crime that is still hotly…
You can spend the entire day here and still not cover everything. Tourists: There are plenty of places to explore in New England, and although you can visit a zoo near any metropolitan area, a stop at York’s Wild Kingdom is highly recommended. The locals bring the family at least once per year. Only open seasonally, it’s a…
The First Vampire is incredibly well-researched historical fiction with a story line from the past that catches up with a story line in present times. Based on the life of Vlad the Impaler and his family lineage, John Davies inserts the paranormal and the supernatural to give birth to a new type of monster –…
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction AND the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2001 as well as a number of other awards. Forgotten in my mountainous pile of to-reads, it was pulled to the front by my reliable book club. This historical and literary fiction begins on the eve…
The Well of Ascension is the second in Sander’s Mistborn series, a high fantasy set of books with a massive following. In this world, some people are born with the powers of allomancy – the ability to ‘burn’ metals and use them in a variety of ways. Each misting can only burn one type of…
Recognize the name? Yes, it’s Dr. House! Well, the actor who played Dr. House in the TV show House – Hugh Laurie. Didn’t know he is also an author? Neither did I, so you’re not alone there. In fact, he has a number of books to his name. The Gun Seller was published long before…
The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True is a saga-style book of poetry about a prank between two dogs, and facing the consequences of those actions with philosophical reflections on the universe and what it could mean to steal a “hole”. But is it for children – or adults? The story begins…
Londonderry resident William R. Gracer has recorded the accounts of 60 U.S. veterans in his new book Veterans’ Reflections: History Preserved. Tell me a little bit about who you are and where you live. I was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the second oldest of seven children. Two of my brothers and one sister served in the…
The Final Empire is the first book in the high fantasy series Mistborn which has a dedicated cult-like following and an incredibly high readership. Six full novels are out in the series with a seventh to be published soon. I’ve seen the number of reads and reviews the series boasts on GoodReads and truth be told,…