The Boothbay region, 1906 to 1960

Clifford, Harold Burton

Cumberland Press

A will to win

Lewis, Dwight

Richard Peabody's first US collection of short fiction including chapbook, Monaural, which appeared in England in 1980, publ by Kawabata Press. Contains 5 s.s. from Monaural plus 12 new stories.

Paraffin days: A collection of stories

Peabody, Richard

Brand New condition paperback book, no marks, no wear. .

Mad Shoes

Literature & Fiction

Gold, Jim

Humor & Satire

The condition of multiple chemical sensitivity has been rapidly growing with the proliferation of new, untested chemicals in our environment. In recent decades, people from many walks of life have developed a new intolerance for the chemicals found in perfume, air fresheners, cleaning products, fabric softeners, diesel and auto exhaust, new carpet, paint, and other products. Their ranks include large numbers of Exxon Valdez cleanup workers, Gulf War veterans, 9/11 First Responders, and FEMA trailer residents. Part I of Amputated Lives analyzes the development of chemical sensitivity in these various groups and its consequences. Part II illustrates with stories from various individuals how this condition can quickly wreck what was once a good life. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine recognized the importance of Alison Johnson s books and documentaries and her Chemical Sensitivity Foundation in 2004 when it gave her its annual Carleton Lee Award for 'exemplary efforts in furthering the principles of Environmental Medicine.' In Amputated Lives, Alison Johnson once again very effectively sounds the alarm about the spread of chemical sensitivity to more and more Americans. Philip Ranheim, M.D. President, American Academy of Environmental Medicine

Amputated Lives: Coping with Chemical Sensitivity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

ALISON JOHNSON

Diseases & Physical Ailments

The Eleventh Hour Can't Last Forever

Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive

Business & Money

Insurance

In this accessible biography filled with fascinating glimpses behind the routine of Wallace Stevens's daily life, Alison Johnson helps readers to understand the man who was not only one of America's leading poets, but also the dean of surety bonds in the American insurance world and a vice president at The Hartford, one of America's leading insurance companies.This biography offers extensive insight into the creative processes of this prolific poet, who jotted down ideas and phrases for many of his poems as he walked the two-mile route between his home and his office in downtown Hartford.In her exploration of the psychology of this very private poet, Johnson delves into his great disappointment in the woman he married, examining three bitter poems he wrote about their failed relationship, poems he chose not to include in his books of poetry. Johnson explores the evidence that after his marriage deteriorated, Stevens included in several of his poems cryptic references to a woman he had loved before he met his wife.Although Stevens generally led a well-ordered and quiet life, Johnson also shows that it was not without an occasional surprising incident. She relates how the executive, whom colleagues remembered as a man who dressed and spoke in a formal manner, once started a fistfight with Ernest Hemingway in Key West.    John N. Serio, former editor of the "Wallace Stevens Journal" and editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens," states in a back-cover endorsement to this biography that it will "reward both the well-seasoned aficionado and the novice. Those familiar with Stevens's life will enjoy the fine synthesis that Johnson presents as well as be challenged by some of her provocative analyses. Those unfamiliar with Stevens's life now have a compact and lively narrative of one of the most significant, yet mysterious, poets of the twentieth century."

Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive by Alison Johnson (2012-08-02)

This new biography of Henry James consisting of a few hundred pages offers an enticing introduction to one of the world's finest novelists for those who do not have time to read one of the multivolume biographies written about him. Henry James was not only a prolific novelist, but also a voluminous correspondent. Over ten thousand of his letters have been found.     To enable readers to experience James's mind and sensibility at work, Alison Johnson includes long quotations from his letters and his autobiographical works. One intriguing section of the biography concerns his very close relationship to the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson (expatriate niece of James Fenimore Cooper). Johnson includes excerpts from Woolson's letters to James that indicate she was deeply in love with him and was saddened that his affection for her was not of a nature to lead to marriage. After Woolson jumped to her death from her apartment in Venice during a period of illness and depression, James rushed there from London and spent a few months helping her relatives close up her affairs, while at the same time availing himself of the opportunity to destroy any letters he had written to her that were still in her apartment.     Some of the passages Johnson includes from James's correspondence also contain evidence about the nature of his infatuations in his later years with several much younger male artists and writers and the extent to which these infatuations may have led to actual sexual experience. Henry James's own words may be the best summation of his struggle to understand his own feelings for those with whom he established intimate relationships: "Never say you know the last word about any human heart!"

Henry James: His Life Revealed Through His Letters

It takes courage to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun! This wise book, filled with surprises, describes a life lived on its own terms. Jim Gold touches our passions, fears, and hopes in ways that reveal us to ourselves with humor and insight. Comfortable in contradiction, its free spirit makes us sing, laugh, dance, and often leap. Jim Gold brings a love of people, music, languages, humor, old cultures, and new discoveries to his life's work. His adventures as author, musician, folk dance teacher, tour leader, and entrepreneur form the basis of this, his fifth book. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in New York City, he studied violin at the Eastman School of Music and spent a year at the University of Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. He returned to earn a B.A. in history from the University of Chicago and, later, an M.A. in music from New York University. A classical and folk guitarist, he has brought his World of Guitar concert program to schools, colleges, and community concerts throughout the United States. He founded the classic guitar department at Montclair State University, has appeared on radio and television, and recorded three classical and folk guitar records. He heads his own company, Jim Gold International, teaching folk dance classes, and organizing folk music and dance weekends. Through his Mad Shoe Tours, Mr. Gold leads travel groups to exotic countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Spain, Romania, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Croatia, and Tunisia to experience history, culture, and folklore. Jim is an avid student of languages, yoga, running, history, the Bulgarian bagpipe (gaida), and mysteries of the human mind-especially his own. In the whirlwind of vicissitudes, he struggles daily to start fresh, turn over a new leaf, and live a New Leaf life.

A New Leaf: Adventures in the Creative Life

Essays & Correspondence

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