3 on a Theme: Dinosaurs

• When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach and illustrated by David Small (NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007) 
• Born to be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World by Lita Judge (NY: Roaring Brook, 2010)
• Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly (Golden Gryphon Press, 1997)

3 on a Theme: School

• Big Nate: From the Top by Lincoln Peirce (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2010) 
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles (New York : Macmillan, c1959)
• Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School by Shamus Rahman Khan (Princeton University Press, 2010)

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3 on a Theme: Baseball

• Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King (NY: Scribner, 2004)
• Making it in the Minors: A Team Owner's Lessons in the Business of Baseball by Arthur P. Solomon with Allyn I. Freeman (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2012)
• The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream by Jim Collins. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2004)

FNV: Maxine Kumin and Wes McNair

For this month's installment of Friday Night Videos we present a poetry reading with Maxine Kumin and Wes McNair. This is from the video archive at the Library of Congress and requires Real Player (a free video player you can download).

The Library of Congress 2006 Literary Season continued with poetry readings from poets Maxine Kumin and Wesley McNair, two New England poets, who through the magic of poems, style takes the listener on a joyful ride through non-urban America.

The plan for this series is to point our readers one Friday each month to an online video featuring New Hampshire authors and their work. If you have a suggestion for a video we should include please let us know in the comments.

3 on a Theme: Summer

•  The Summer Visitors by Karel Hayes (Down East Books, 2010)
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott: A Novel by Kelly O'Connor McNees (NY: Amy Einhorn Books, 2010)
• July and August: A Novel by Nancy Clark (NY: Pantheon Books, 2008)

Ladybug Voting Materials

Voting materials for 2014 have now been posted at
http://ladybug.nhbookcenter.org/ 

There is a picture ballot suitable for kids to use when voting (or you can have them vote whatever way works for you); a link to the online tally sheet (trying this out for the first time this year) and a paper tally sheet you must use if you will be sending in votes rather than using the online tally sheet.

FNV: Eric Pinder

For the first installment of our new monthly series Friday Night Videos we present Rebecca Rule interviewing Eric Pinder on her NHPTV program NH Authors. This episode originally aired on November 4, 2013.

Eric Pinder was born in upstate New York, attended college in western Massachusetts, graduated, and some time later drove to northern New Hampshire in a rusty Chevy Nova packed with a few clothes, almost no furniture, and about a dozen boxes of books. For seven years he lived and worked as a weather observer atop Mount Washington, the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather.”

The plan for this series is to point our readers one Friday each month to an online video featuring New Hampshire authors and their work. If you have a suggestion for a video we should include please let us know in the comments.

Upcoming Book Events

Wednesday 6/11/2104 (Tonight!)

• There will be Open Mic Poetry at Water Street Bookstore beginning at 6:30pm Tongiht's featured readers are Nancy Jean Hill and Bill Burt. After the featured readers share their poems, an open mic is available for any and all who want to read. Come early to sign up. One or two poems only please. 

Thursday, 6/12/2014

• Gibson's will host Robert Begiebing talking about his book A Berkshire Boyhood at 7pm

Friday, 6/13/2014

• There will be a YA author panel, with local authors Joyce Ray and Amelia Faith presenting their novels at Gibson's at 6pm

 Saturday, 6/14/2014

•  Toadstool Bookshop, Milford is hosting Nashua teacher Rick Lydon who will be discussing and signing his memoir about becoming an educator, In the Roundest of Places: One Teacher's Journey, beginning at 2pm

Tuesday, 6/17/2014

•  At 7pm National Book Award finalist George Howe Colt will be at Gibson's to talk about his new book, Brothers: What the Van Goghs, Booths, Marxes, Kelloggs--And Colts--Tell Us about How Siblings Shape Our Lives and History.

Wednesday, 6/18/2014

• The Poetry Society of New Hampshire meets at Gibson's Bookstore at 7pm on the third Wednesday of every month. The headliners this month are Donald Wellman and Stephen Scaer. An open mic follows their readings (arrive early to ensure a spot on the sign-up sheet). All are welcome, newcomers are encouraged!  

Thursday, 6/19/2014

• Manchester author Kurt Springs will be at Toadstool Bookshop, Milford at 6pm discussing and signing copies of his new science fiction debut, Price of Vengance: A Dreamscape Warriors Novel.
• Wounded Warriors: A Soldier's Story of Healing through Birds is a story of healing, from a veteran who found peace by working with wounded animals. Author Robert Vallieres will be at Gibson's at 7pm to talk about his book.

Friday, 6/20/2014

• Elizabeth Murray will be discussing and signing Living Life in Full Bloom: 120 Daily Practices to Deepen your Passion, Creativity and Relationships beginning at 4pm at Toadstool Bookshop, Peterborough.

Saturday, 6/21/2014

• Beatriz Williams will be discussing and signing her latest novel, The Secret Life of Violet Grant at 11am at Toadstool Bookshop, Peterborough.  
  
• Kevin Martin will be at Toadstool Bookshop, Milford at 2pm with a slide presentation on how to find the Big Trees of New Hampshire: Short Hikes to the Biggest Trees in New Hampshire from the Seacoast to the North Country.

Wednesday 6/25/2014

• Novelist Julie Wu will be at Gibson's at 7pm to talk about The Third Son, now available in paperback.
    
   

Rob Wright Reading on June 12

News from Hyla Brook: 

Frost Farm Prize Winner Reads at Hyla Brook Reading Series

Philadelphia Poet Rob Wright Appears June 12

The Robert Frost Farm’s 2014 Hyla Brook Reading Series Season continues on Thursday, June 12, 2014, 6:30-8:30pm with special double feature by the 4^th Annual Frost Farm Prize Winner Rob Wright of Philadelphia and celebrated judge of the contest, Rhina P. Espaillat. 

The Reading Series, held in the Frost Farm located at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), is free and open to the public. An Open Mic follows the readings and all audience members are invited to share their work. 

Wright’s poem “Meetings With My Father” won the prestigious prize out of nearly 600 entries from around the world.  The Frost Farm Prize – one of the only metrical poetry contests – is organized by the Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm and the Hyla Brook Poets.  In addition to being a featured reader at The Hyla Brook Reading Series, Wright won $1,000 and his winning poem will be published in The Evansville Review. 

Wright is an assistant fiction editor to the magazine Able Muse. He was awarded Fellowships in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2005 and 2007, and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His writing has been published by Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Big City Lit, and Able Muse. 

Joining Wright is award-winning poet and translator Rhina Espaillat, who judged the contest.  Espaillat has published poems, essays, short stories and translations in numerous magazines and over sixty anthologies, in both English and her native Spanish, as well as three chapbooks and nine full‐length books, including four in bilingual format.  Her most recent honors are the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club, a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from Salem State College, and an award in recognition of services to Dominican letters, from the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic. 

Upcoming 2014 Hyla Brook Reading Series events include:

• Joshua Mehigan, July 10, 2014
• Kim Bridgford, August 14, 2014
• Sydney Lea, September 11, 2014 

The Hyla Brook Poets’ monthly writing workshop meets on the third Saturday of the month at 10am at its summer home at the Frost Farm.  The next workshop meets Saturday, June 21. For further information, email Robert Crawford at bobik9@aol.com or please visit http://www.robertfrostfarm.org/hyla.html or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets or Twitter at https://twitter.com/HylaBrookPoets

Suggestions for Summer Reading

Yesterday The Exchange hosted their annual summer reading show with Dan Chartrand of Water Street Bookstore and Michael Herrmann of Gibson's Bookstore. There are a lot of great suggestions for your summer reading, a link to listen to the show, and quite a few book trailers at The Exchange.