The Bookshelf: The Little-Known History Of Violence At New England's African American Schools
The history of school desegregation in America has long been centered around the southern United States.
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0000017a-15d9-d736-a57f-17ff8a330001The Bookshelf features authors from around New Hampshire and the region, as well as books about New Hampshire by authors from anywhere. Covering mostly fi...
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20 episodesThe Bookshelf: Monadnock Literary Journal Brings Regional Writers Together
The second issue of the literary journal Monadnock Underground is set to release next week. The collection brings together more than a dozen...
The Bookshelf: Meredith Tate Takes On The Difficult Subject of Rape
In Concord-native Meredith Tate’s new novel, a young woman is kidnapped after a drug deal goes badly. To summon help, she has an out-of-body...
The Bookshelf: A Sexual Assault Survivor Learns to Thrive in Lisa Gardner's New Novel
One day, while hiking in the Georgia mountains, a couple finds the bones of a human body buried many years ago. The discovery prompts a sear...
The Bookshelf: N.H. Poet Laureate Will Be Your Reader
Alexandria Peary is New Hampshire’s new poet laureate, and she’s ramping up her work as the state’s official advocate for poetry and the lit...
The Bookshelf: Keene Author Recalls 'Cub' Reporting Days in Graphic Memoir
When Cindy Copeland was in seventh grade in the early 1970s, an English teacher encouraged her to become a writer. Shortly after that, the K...
The Bookshelf: Author John Brighton Remembers the Sullivan County of the 1960s
When New Hampshire author John Brighton was six years old, his family bought a lakeside farm in Washington, a small town in New Hampshire's...
The Bookshelf: Poet Marie Harris and 'Desire Lines'
If you've ever been on a college campus or a public park, you may have seen desire lines. Those are those well-worn paths carved by traveler...
The Bookshelf: N.H. Writers Face the National Novel Writing Month Challenge
This November, writers across the world are participating in National Novel Writing Month. Organized by a non-profit, its goal is to encoura...
The Bookshelf: Author Alex Myers Challenges Gender Norms in New Novel
Novelist Alex Myers came out as transgender in the mid-90s, when society's understanding of what it means to be transgender was less clear t...
The Bookshelf: Nelson's Stacia Tolman On Her Debut Novel
Writer Stacia Tolman worked for many years as a high school English teacher at a private school in New Hampshire’s Monadnock region.
The Bookshelf: Joe Hill on Collaboration: 'Story is Our Family's Private Language'
When Joe Hill launched his career as a writer, he didn't want anyone to know about his famous writer parents, Stephen and Tabitha King. Rath...
The Bookshelf: The 'People's Book' Showcases New Hampshire Writers, Artists
This week marked the launch of the second annual edition of The People's Book, a collection of literary works and visual art created by New...
The Bookshelf: Enfield Author Marko Kloos on War and Human Nature
For much of human history, human beings have waged war against each other. In the new novel by Marko Kloos, that tendency to wage war remain...
The Bookshelf: In Debut Memoir, Jennifer Militello Upends Time
In Jennifer Militello's debut memoir, Knock Wood, time moves in more than one direction. The relationship between cause and effect is upende...
The Bookshelf: Miriam Levine's Poetry of 'Loss and Consolation'
Miriam Levine's new collection of poetry is, as she describes it, a book about loss and consolation. In Saving Daylight, poems recall small...
The Bookshelf: New Sources and New Liberties in Volume II of Civil War Graphic Novel
Freeman Colby was a young schoolteacher from New Hampshire who joined the Union Army during the American Civil War. For the first nine month...
The Bookshelf: The U.S. Confronts a Future Health Crisis in Wheelan’s Political Satire
Imagine there's a virus living inside you. This virus is harmless. Most of the time. But then, something causes it to change and it could ki...
The Bookshelf: Trans Girl Navigates Middle School in Exeter Author's New Novel
For many kids, middle school is a fraught time. Friendships are forged and broken; bodies begin to change in sometimes uncomfortable ways. F...
The Bookshelf: A Story About Two Pairs Of Sister Years Apart
In a small New Hampshire community two sisters, Henrietta and Jane, grow up under the shadow of a folk tale about the ruins of a house near...