Jim Henry Tate is a county constable in the virtually brand new cotton mill village of Boiling Springs, North Carolina. His job has been, he says, mostly to "just walk around and let people see they's some law in the lower part of the county." However, when the village's first ever murder occurs in 1908, things change. Jim Crow, always a village resident, struts through town cawing with feathers ruffled. For the murder victim is white and there is wide spread suspicion that the murderer is black. This means Jim Henry must not only solve a murder, he must deal with racial tension that threatens to boil over into a full-fledged race riot.

The Linthead Murders: Death in a Mill Village

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bailey, Don

Mystery

Mill Hill Press

Quaker Nantucket: The Religious Community Behind the Whaling Empire

Based on original research in records long thought lost, Quaker Nantucket explores the spectacular growth of Quakerism on the Island and its equally astonishing decline amidst the collapse of the whaling industry a century later.

History

Gow, Peter

Leach, Robert J.

Americas

This elegantly written and lavishly illustrated volume brings to life an extraordinary Nantucket artist whose story and work is richly deserving of wider recognition. While making her mark in the competitive New York art world, Elizabeth R. Coffin (1850-1930) preserved in her canvases the people, landscapes, and rural lifestyles that were fading from the island.

Nantucket Spirit: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin

Booker, Margaret Moore

There has long been recognized a special relationship between a skipper and his (or her) boat. In this book Alfred "Alfie" Sanford, with nearly three quarters of a century of sailing beneath his keel, broadens that bond of affection and understanding to include the land and the sea which washes it, in this tribute to the art of cruising in general and cruising the waters of Nantucket, his home port, in particular. 
"Cruising is the art of exploring the interaction of land with the sea,"; he writes. Sometimes his book recounts that interplay in the broadest terms, describing how harbors open up the land to the sea, enabling sailors to connect places and cultures. But he also tells us in meticulous detail to tack over to starboard just past the green can marking the end of the second dry shoal entering Eel Point channel. Do it. He has been there, and knows.
It is an account of how the tides deposit sands in fanlike patterns and how to guide your boat through them, and how at the end of the day to drop your anchor in a small harbor that's been used hundreds of times over the years but is still quiet and nearly empty, protected from the ocean by a thin strip of land, hearing the "ceaseless sea seething against the sands of a resort of utter tranquility, decorated by stars emerging from a dying twilight."

Sailing Around Nantucket: A Guide to Cruising the Island

Alfred F. Sanford

This book is a record of Nantucket's beauty, kept intact by its inhabitants wisdom, generosity, and tenacity. Those of us who live on Nantucket or spend much time here have come to know unique natural places on the island. It has a collection of them, and they change through the seasons and the Grey Lady's moods. You Can see them on these pages. In 1963 some wise islanders, knowing the richness and fragility of what we've got here and sensing the velocity of change that was coming, established the Nantucket Conservation Foundation to preserve those places. THat's what this book does too. Mostly in color photos but also in words, it captures the look of natural Nantucket and the views that brighten our memories. It tells about the people who, through the Foundation, saved a third of the island and are intently preserving the wild things of all kinds that live on it. Some of the best photographers on the island contributed to this book. Thoughtful Nantucket writers produced essays and expert descriptions of the natural places that have been preserved. "For Love of the Island" is testimony to Something That Went Right. It is a feast to the eyes, a comfort to the mind, and an inspiration to this generation and those that will follow.

For Love of the Island

VARIOUS

For more than a century the forces that shaped Nantucket Island have played themselves out in the beautiful neighborhood of Monomoy Heights. As the island has evolved from a sleepy seaside community to a bustling summer resort to a coveted vacation destination, Monomoy Heights remains one of Nantucket's most cherished and representative communities. In A Nantucket Enclave, C. S. Lovelace tells a tale that only one who cares deeply for its subject can tell: the stories of the men and women who have built and loved Monomoy Heights, from sheep commons, to cottage colony, to Gold Coast.

A Nantucket Enclave: Monomoy Heights, 1852-2005

C. S. Lovelace

Originally published in 1931, Smuggler's Luck recounts the adventures of a Nantucket boy during the American Revolution. Nantucket in those lean and hazardous years lay between the devil and the deep blue sea, with the British navy ready with ruthless retaliations against the islanders for any favor shown the Patriot cause. The Patriots, on the other hand, threatened to cut off supplies to the islanders if they sided with the British. 
In this story Edouard Stackpole, the late dean of Nantucket Historians, chronicles that exciting and perilous era through the experiences of young Timothy Pinkham and the Stormy Petrel. In a yarn that has entertained and inspired traders for over seventy years, Timothy's adventures, afloat and ashore, involve a voyage to the Caribbean, mysterious doings in the hideouts of secertive islander Keziah Coffin, and high-steaks politics involving Tories, Patriots and even the Continental Congress.

Smuggler's Luck

Edouard A. Stackpole

You Fight for Treasure

Few avenues of high achievement were open to American women in the mid-nineteenth century, but a young librarian on Nantucket Island, off the coast of Cape Cod, sent a startling signal through the male-dominated world of science when she emerged as a world-class astronomer. Maria Mitchell, from the roof of the family's home overlooking Main Street, peering into the heavens with a rudimentary telescope, showed that she could not only discover a comet, but compute its orbit and exchange scientific observations with the world's leading astronomers. She became an admired figure on the international scene, then a much-beloved professor at Vassar College, and finally a leader in the emerging women's rights movement. In her mind, these achievements seemed all part of a logical whole: the education and expansion of women's minds far beyond the stereotypes of the time and the projection of this new power into modern society. Not a radical, not an establishment figure, but a unique and innovative force in her time, Mitchell is meticulously and expertly portrayed by Margaret Moore Booker in this first comprehensive biography.

Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell

Biographies & Memoirs

Margaret Moore Booker

Community & Culture

Quarterboards explores the tradition of naming Nantucket homes and adorning them with replicas evocative of naming boards once found on sailing ships. 'Sconset's 1680 house Shanunga, for example, takes its name from the quarterboard salvaged from the wreck of a schooner in 1852. Striking photography throughout captures the unique charm of Nantucket's historic homes, bringing the deftly woven narrative filled with colorful characters and fascinating anecdotes to life.

Quarterboards, A Unique Art Form

Arts & Photography

Sharon Hubbard

Photography by Dan Driscoll

Photography & Video

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