Drop It, Rocket!, by Tad Hills ’81
Drop It, Rocket! by Tad Hills ’81 Random House Children’s Books, July 2014 Rocket, the beloved dog from the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read and Rocket Writes a Story, is back in a Step 1 leveled reader. Rocket is ready to find new words for his word tree with his teacher, the little yellow bird. He finds a leaf, a hat, and a star . . . but when he finds a red boot, he doesn’t want to let go. What will make Rocket drop it? With predictable patterns, simple words, lots of repetition, and bright,...
read moreAddiction on Trial: Tragedy in Downeast Maine, by Steven Kassels ’68
Addiction on Trial: Tragedy in Downeast Maine by Steven Kassels ’68 AuthorHouse, October 2013 When Downeast local Annette Fiorno is found at the bottom of a ravine, outsider and relapsed drug addict Jimmy Sedgwick is accused of murder. Unassuming Maine lawyer Rob Hanston and big-shot attorney Shawn Marks form an unlikely legal team as they attempt to discredit the overwhelming evidence. Addiction on Trial, the first in a series of Shawn Marks thrillers, sends a powerful message of societal discrimination toward drug addicts and explores...
read moreMagic Marks the Spot The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Book One, by Caroline Carlson ’02
Magic Marks the Spot The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Book One by Caroline Carlson ’02 HarperCollins Children’s Books, September 2013 Hilary Westfield has always dreamed of being a pirate. She can tread water for 37 minutes. She can tie a knot faster than a fleet of sailors. She particularly enjoys defying authority, and she already owns a rather pointy sword. There’s only one problem: The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates refuses to let any girl join their ranks of scourges and scallywags. But Hilary is not the kind...
read moreWaltzing with Bracey: A Long Reach Home, By Brenda Gilchrist ’47
Waltzing with Bracey: A Long Reach Home By Brenda Gilchrist ’47 Bauhan Publishing, 2012 In this brave and thoughtful memoir, Brenda Gilchrist tells the story of learning to claim her place in the world—Deer Isle, Maine—and a wonderfully bossy little corgi, Bracey, who helps her to do so. After a girlhood spent abroad in various world capitals, Gilchrist never felt entirely at home anywhere, or indeed, particularly confident about who she was. Her family’s Deer Isle summer cottage might qualify as an anchor of sorts. But there are so...
read moreThe World of Sicilian Wine, By Bill Nesto ’69
The World of Sicilian Wine By Bill Nesto ’69 and Frances Di Savino University of California Press, 2013 The World of Sicilian Wine provides wine lovers with a comprehensive understanding of Sicilian wine, from its ancient roots to its modern evolution. Offering a guide and map to exploring Sicily, Bill Nesto, an expert in Italian wine, and Frances Di Savino, a student of Italian culture, deliver a substantive appreciation of a vibrant wine region that is one of Europe’s most historic areas and a place where many cultures intersect. From...
read moreIslands of Time: A Novel, By Barbara Kent Lawrence ’61
Islands of Time: A Novel By Barbara Kent Lawrence ’61 Just Write Books, 2013 When Rebecca Grangers falls in love with Ben Bunker, she is only 14. In 1958, a summer girl is not allowed to love a year-round boy, son of a fisherman in Downeast Maine, and yet she does. When her father dies, loss and anger overpower her, and she commits a sin, terrible at the time, that almost destroys her. She hides from her life in fantasies until she returns to Maine as an adult, and struggles to come to terms with the past. Islands of Time is a moving story...
read moreThe Woman Upstairs, By Claire Messud ’83
The Woman Upstairs By Claire Messud ’83 Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 Nora Eldridge, an elementary- school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the “woman upstairs,” a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe of others’ achievements. Then into her life arrives the glamorous and cosmopolitan Shahids—her new student Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and his parents: Skandar, a dashing Lebanese professor who has...
read moreRocket Writes a Story, by Tad Hills ’81
Rocket Writes a Story by Tad Hills ’81 Schwartz & Wade Books, July 2012 A New York Times bestseller, Rocket Writes a Story is the irresistible sequel to the New York Times best-selling How Rocket Learned to Read. A starred review from Kirkus calls it “a perfect choice to inspire new readers and writers.” Tad Hills’s lovable character Rocket loves books and wants to make his own, but he can’t think of a story. Encouraged by the little yellow bird to look closely at the world around him for inspiration, Rocket sets out on a...
read moreRace France to France: Leave Antarctica to Starboard by Rich Wilson ’68
Race France to France: Leave Antarctica to Starboard by Rich Wilson ’68 sitesALIVE!, August 2012 In 2008–2009, Rich Wilson became only the second American to finish the Vendée Globe, deemed the “most grueling and dangerous prolonged competition on the planet.” (Garry Emmons, HBS Bulletin, 2009) The senior skipper at age 58, and a severe asthmatic, Rich finished ninth of 11 finishers, out of 30 starters, racing 29,000 miles over 121 days in his 60′ boat, Great American III. Rich Wilson’s book brings you onto his boat in the...
read moreThe Pocket Guide to Woodstock: An Insider’s Guide by Michael Perkins and Will Nixon ’75
The Pocket Guide to Woodstock: An Insider’s Guide by Michael Perkins and Will Nixon ’75 Bushwhack Books, 2012 Join Michael Perkins and Will Nixon, authors of the best-selling Walking Woodstock, for a personal tour of places they’ve explored on foot for years. Learn about the early Dutch settlers and witches; the bluestone quarries and tanneries; the bohemian arts colony; the historic hotels on Overlook Mountain; the concert that didn’t happen here; the sixties rock ’n’ rollers, including Bob Dylan and Levon Helm; the promoters and...
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