Author: Stillman Rogers
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762792655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Author: John Irving
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0735279101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Author: Kevin Flynn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101619392
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Their friendship would kill her… Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005, seemed to come from out of the blue. During it, she told Sandy to drop the restraining order and get back together with Ken. Pen was never seen again. One man stood to gain from Pen’s disappearance: Ken Carpenter. But evidence was bleak: no blood, no DNA, no body. Until detectives found notes hidden beneath a leather chair that turned out to be a playbook for murder… INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author: Janice S. C. Petrie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970551009
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Petrie expertly puts details into historical context and annotates each chapter with newspaper and court documentation. Written in 2000 but even more intriguing as the 100th anniversary of the crime approaches, this thorough account will appeal to fans of true crime." --Publisher's Weekly (3-7-2016) "Petrie vividly re-creates the circumstances and aftermath of an early 20th-century murder in this true-crime book. Exhaustive detail and flawless re-creations make for real suspense in this nonfiction tale."--Kirkus Reviews (10-2-2015) This book is the non-fiction account of the events which encompassed a murder and trial at the turn of the century in Ossipee, New Hampshire. When Florence Small's smoldering body rose to the surface of the basement water, local folks immediately suspected her husband of the crime. Frederick Small was an outsider, a Boston man, who had moved to Ossipee Lake to semi-retire. There was a deep distrust of "city fellas up there behind the Ossipees," in 1916 and perhaps this suspicion was warranted. But how could Frederick have been responsible for a murder and a fire that happened 7 hours after he had left for Boston on a business trip? The sensational trial that followed was unlike any previously experienced in Carroll County. And although everybody from the Boston area to Portland, Maine, had an opinion, nobody anticipated the decision the jury would reach. The unrest on the ill-fated property remained even in 1956, when Anna Foley's unsuspecting son and daughter-in-law felt the effects of the events of 1916 one August night while vacationing on the property.

Author: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541788486
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.

Author: Richard Adams Carey
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611687152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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A quiet New England town is shattered by violence--and rises above it

Author: Jeremy Belknap
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: Nicholas S. Howe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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These compelling profiles of 22 adventurous yet unlucky climbers chronicle more than a century of exploration recreation and tragedy in New Hampshire's Presidential Range

Author: Renee Mallett
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764334757
Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In Manchester Ghosts of Portsmouth New Hampshire, Renee Mallett took you on a tour of some of the Granite State's most haunted cities. Now let her show you the other strange people, places, and points in history that New Hampshire has to offer. Covers every region of New Hampshire with more than 50 different locations and stories. Tales of lost treasure, hauntings, abandoned tourist attractions, off-beat travel spots, unusual world records and other oddities. Has both historical and modern-day people, places, and legends. More than 40 photographs. Whether you are on the trail of Marie Antoinette's lost diamond necklace, looking for the strange Blue Lady specter haunting one of Wilton's cemeteries, curious to find out what New Hampshire has to do with Saturday Night Live, or in the mood to visit strange tourist attractions like America's Stonehenge and the haunted High Hut of the state's tallest mountain, Strange New Hampshire is the guide for you.

Author: William Allen Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canaan (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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