SEACOAST BOOKS

Jane Porter offers the final word on Piscataqua lighthouses – over 500 pages worth. This definitive volume, the last in the Portsmouth Marine Society collection, is everything you need to know about the early history of navigation aids along America’s Smallest Seacoast (sm) and South Coast Maine.

SEACOAST BOOKS

Kate Bickford's 11-year-old son Tomas was with her one moment. Then suddenly he was gone. The kidnapper, however, has no intention of returning Tomas. Kate strikes back by hiring an expert in child abduction. Then the action begins in what Publisher’s Weekly calls an "emotionally rewarding thriller" by a local Seacoast author.

NH Gallery
GAIL ROUSSEAU 

Stateman Daniel Webster called his Franklin, NH farm the sweetest spot on earth.  Judging by these images by Gail Rousseau, we are inclined to agree. This gallery was collected through the seasons as environmentalists, farmers and preservations battled to preserve this unique land along the Merrimack River from condo development.

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The workplace can be a battleground. Your work mates are out to lunch, the customer isn’t always right and your boss doesn’t have a clue. You can fight back, or you can – breathe – and direct all that energy in more positive directions. Judy Ringer’s new book applies the principals of the ancient martial art of Aikido to conflict management. You should read this one, Grasshoppper.

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Back Channel Press just keeps on trucking with six new books its first six months. Now comes the most useful guide to Kittery ever published. We already own the 1925 and 1947 guides, but this is the one we’ve been waiting for. Bygone days, things to do, shopping and dining index too.

SEAOCOAST NH FILM

It seems only fair. Seacoast filmmaker Alfred Thomas Catalfo has created a spoof of Seacoast author Dan Brown’s novel "The Da Vinci Code". The movie version of the best selling novel in history hit a few critical speedbumps upon release. But "The Norman Rockwell Code" is everything it was cracked up to be. We hear that the Catholic Church prefers this Portsmouth-based version, although lobster fishermen are up in arms.

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Portsmouth has always been about its buildings. Thanks to a few twists of Fate the Old Town by the Sea managed not to grow too big and to preserve many of its early homes. We have possibly more public house museums per capita than any city in the nation. This handy guide by BU emeritus professor Candee covers it all. An ideal reference for builders, buyers, restorers, owners, tourists and historians.

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Full time lawyer, part time beer writer, Andy Crouch takes on the top 100 craft beer makers in the six New England states. It’s a tough job, but someone had to do it. Now you can see how NH and South Coast Maine beers stack up against the rest.

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A new book looks deeply into the life of the wife of New Hampshire’s Civil War governor. It is written, in a sense, by Sarah Goodwin herself because it includes much of her 19^th century journals. Also the author has portrayed Mrs. Goodwin (1805-1896) for years as a re-enactor at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. This rare look into the mind of 19^th century woman is available in paperback from Back Channel Press.