3/31/25
2025 Dublin Award Shortlist
Book of the Week (3/31/2025)
"Reflections" is a comprehensive compilation of history and reminiscences of the iconic Appalachian Mountain Club Cold River Camp in North Chatham, NH, just south of Evans Notch. The book includes remembrances from many longtime Cold River visitors, photographs, annual reports, poetry and songs, and much more, including an historical retrospective by longtime CRC volunteers Robert and Emma Crane. Included are more than 280 photos along with memories contributed by veteran CRC campers as well as newer members of the "family." This volume also pays tribute to the dedicated staff and volunteers who have managed CRC through the years. --Publisher's blurb
3/28/25
Ladybug Finalists for 2025
The 2025 nominees for the Ladybug Picture Book Award are:
- The Bakery Dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz
- The Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed and Hatem Aly
- Buffalo Fluffalo by Bess Kalb and Erin Kraan
- Flat Cat by Tara Lazar and Pete Oswald
- I'm Sorry You Got Mad by Kyle Lukoff and Julie Kwon
- Millie Fleur's Poison Garden by Christy Mandin
- No Cats in the Library by Lauren Emmons
- We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang
- The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
3/24/25
Book of the Week (3/24/2025)
'Grenier Air Base: A Beacon on the Home Front' tells the story of Grenier Field, a military air base in Manchester, N.H. that had a major impact close to home, but also played a role in global events.
From World War II through the Vietnam era, Grenier Field was a bustling military hub, hosting tens of thousands of troops and support staff who were part of the nation's air defense system.
Time has not been kind to Grenier. Today, almost all traces of the base are gone from what is now Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. Nothing remains to remind us of the people, both military and civilian, whose service helped define life in mid-20th century America and around the world.
This book is a project of the Aviation Museum of N.H., and its goal is to trace the history of Grenier Field through the stories of those whose lives intersected with it.
From World War II fighter pilots transiting through Grenier on their way to combat in Europe, to special squadrons in the 1950s that launched top secret high-altitude balloons, 'Grenier Air Base: A Beacon on the Home Front' is composed of a range of first-hand tales as told by people who were part of the Grenier experience. --Publisher's blurb
About the author:
Leah Dearborn is the associate director of the Aviation Museum of N.H. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a master’s degree in International Relations from the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She worked as a staff writer at the Lynn Daily Item and has contributed to the Boston Globe, SOCO Magazine, The Town Common, The Chelsea Record, and other publications. As a writer, her goal is to tell stories from the past that would otherwise be lost.
3/17/25
Book of the Week (3/17/2025)
A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung’s wife and collaborator.Emma Jung (1882–1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, yet she kept most of her creative and personal life private. Dedicated to the Soul brings together previously unpublished materials from Jung’s private archive, introducing her voice into the literature of the early psychoanalytical movement and revealing a vibrant inner life and a glowing presence that until now was known only to her family and a handful of patients, students, and friends.This fully annotated collection features journal entries, dream accounts, drawings, paintings, and lectures. It sheds new light on Jung as an early collaborator in the creation of analytical psychology who may have originated the concept of the animus, one of C. G. Jung’s central constructs. It paints a riveting portrait of a dynamic woman who, determined to break free of the conventional world of her upbringing, fearlessly interrogated her social environment and developed her own systems of meaning.With introductory essays that chart Jung’s personal, intellectual, and psychological development, Dedicated to the Soul brings the creative work of this boldly imaginative and irreverent spirit to a wider audience and offers new perspectives on the role of women in the early history of analytical psychology. --Publisher's blurb
About the author:
Ann Lammers is a local scholar and editor living in Keene, N.H. She is known for her work on the life and writings of Emma Jung. She has dedicated her career to bringing forward previously unpublished material by Jung, offering new perspectives on her contributions to analytical psychology. Lammers is particularly focused on uncovering the intellectual and creative legacy of women in the field of psychoanalysis. Through her editing of Dedicated to the Soul, she has introduced Emma Jung’s personal and professional work to a wider audience, enriching the understanding of this significant yet often overlooked figure in psychoanalytic history.
3/10/25
Book of the Week (3/10/2025)
During this time of attacks on public education, teacher layoffs and funding crises, it's crucial to understand why some schools struggle for lack of resources while others flourish. Why is education funding in America so embattled and so unequal?
In The Last Bake Sale, Andru Volinsky tells this story as no one else can, using New Hampshire as the example of the most unfair and regressive state in the nation in terms of how it funds its schools. In New Hampshire, taxpayers in the state's poorest communities pay the highest education taxes yet raise the lowest revenues for their kids’ schools.
As the lead lawyer in the Claremont, New Hampshire, school funding case, Volinsky waged a twenty-year battle to make access to education fairer for all children in the state, not just the wealthy, white, and privileged. Volinsky offers not just a history of how we got here at the state and national level, but also how to find a better path forward.
Combining litigation with public engagement and direct political action (including holding office) is our best hope to change public policy on education and advance the public good. Change can happen, and The Last Bake Sale shows us how. --Publisher's blurb
About the author:
Andru Volinsky is an attorney, a former NH Executive Councilor and 2020 candidate for governor who is currently flunking retirement by writing his first book, teaching a graduate course in public policy and practicing law on a limited basis. He was the lead lawyer in the Claremont School Funding case for twenty years. Andru earned his BA from the University of Miami in psychology in 1976 and a Certificate in Conflicts Resolution Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He earned his law degree from George Washington University in 1980. He lives with his wife, Amy, in East Concord, NH.
Join Andru Volinsky in conversation with Becky Rule about his new book at Gibson's Bookstore on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 6:30 pm.
3/3/25
Book of the Week (3/3/2025)
Your enchanted guide to 50+ magical activities for everything from finding hidden flower fairies in your own backyard and making a special wizard staff to creating a tiny woodland village and making your own forest potions.
Come discover the wild magic tucked into the nooks and crannies of forests, thickets, and meadows. Search for fairy dusted glow-in-the-dark mushrooms. Find secret worlds hidden in trees and uncover the tunnels, trails, and dens of gnomes and trolls, and mice and moles. Learn to listen to the forest, make sun-warmed pine tea, and wear an evergreen crown to an elf picnic.
Look inside to learn how to:
- Keep a secret notebook filled with maps, notes, and pockets for all your discoveries
- Go on a quest for wild treasures
- Follow a queen bumblebee to her castle
- Make your own forest teas and potions
- Become best friends with a tree
- Create tiny gnomes and build cozy gnome homes
- Seek where mushrooms grow after a fairy dance
- Carve a walking stick wizard staff
- Build your own hidden forest fort
--Publisher's blurb
About the Author:
Susie Spikol is a naturalist at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, New Hampshire. A lifelong animal lover, Susie now helps people of all ages connect with the natural world. She is the author of The Animal Adventurer's Guide (Roost Books, 2002).
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