The myths and mysteries of Emily Dickinson's life have long dominated the popular culture surrounding this icon of American poetry. The questions persist: Who was this closeted genius who dressed in white and live the circumspect life of a New England spinster while secretly writing sublime erotic poetry that was discovered in a locked box in her room after her death? Lea Newman's Emily Dickinson, Virgin Recluse and Rebel uses thirty-six of Emily's key poems to reveal the facts behind the myth. Newman juxtaposes each poem with a background essay about the people and life-altering events that shaped the poet's experience and fueled her imagination. Ranging from the ecstasy of sexual fulfillment to the bitter-sweet acceptance of renunciation; from the rejection of religious dogma to the celebration of nature's beauty; from the terror of death, madness and despair to the fun of being nobody like a frog, her amazing poems reflect her life even as the life illuminates the poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Literature & Fiction

Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

History & Criticism

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"Mending Walls." "The Road Not Taken." "Birches." Many of Robert Frost's poems have become part of modern American culture. Frost used the pleasures and trials of rural New England life to create poetry of universal meaning and appeal. Lea Newman's Robert Frost: The People, Places, and Stories Behind His New England Poetry is a fascinating exploration of the world of Robert Frost. Concise essays accompanying each of thirty-six of Frost's early New England poems invite readers to discover the life and work of America's favorite poet.

Robert Frost

Newman, Lea

Poetry

This comprehensive history of the Town of Manchester, Vermont, was originally published in 1961 as a component of the towns Bicentennial celebration; a paperback reprint edition was published in 1981. Our 2008 Northshire Press paperback edition was produced using the revolutionary Espresso Book Machine at the Northshire Bookstore, a family-owned, award-winning independent bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont, that is committed to excellence in booksellingand now book making.

Manchester, Vermont: A Pleasant Land Among the Mountains, 1761-1961

History

Edwin L. Bigelow

Nancy H. Otis

Americas

The modern conflict between science and religion had its origins in ancient Greek astronomy.  The discovery that the heavenly bodies were subject to natural laws challenged the early myths about the gods and shook the foundations of the world's religions.  Religion is as old as man but science was born in Greece just 2,500 years ago. Science originated with the discovery of causal relationships that explained occurrences in the natural world such as the predictable transit of the heavenly bodies across the skies, regular seasonal changes in weather, natural disasters, and many other events of major importance in the daily life of people.  Science irrevocably changed the way man thought about himself and his world.  With each new discovery, the power of the gods was diminished and the stature of man was elevated.

The Origins of the Conflict Between Science and Religion In Ancient Greece

Religion & Spirituality

Leisy, Craig A

Religious Studies

An intimate expression of passion, through poetry, essays, and letters, this collection reflects Sheri Lindner’s deepest relationships: with her children, their lives, their growing up, with the world and its aching needs, and with ancient ideas, exposing to us, the very breath of humanity. Ultimately, you the reader, step deeper and deeper into her luminous vision of the human condition; through her profound connections to your own perhaps as-yet unarticulated experience, you will find yourself wondrously in the cradle of your very soul. From her unique, uncluttered style springs forth the rich essences of experience. Every word carefully rendered, whether in a 20 word poem, or a 20 page epic story, Lindner brings into sharp focus biblical meanings, family transformations, fairy tale resonances, and original insights, opening to us a new consciousness, to grasp what has been hidden from view before this. By experiencing the familiar refracted through her brilliant lens, we glimpse the “Sea of Truth” within us and are privy to a human clarity we did not previously know. This is like reading nothing else. We are privileged to be escorted through a full body of thought, a lifetime of exploration, and the capture of one writer’s centering of the compass in a deeply humane trip, like no other. Find a quiet corner, turn off your cell phone, hire a baby sitter, close the door, and will the world away as you journey through this intimate collection. By sharing herself, Lindner will give you the “you” you love most dearly.

Opening Eden's Gate

Lindner, Sheri

Literary

As persons read A Different Kind of Joy and are brought along on one professional's journey, they may find themselves seeking answers to similar questions of meaning and fulfillment for their own lives.

A Different Kind of Joy

Johnson Siebold, Judith

"Help For The Trolley" is a delightful story about a trolley named Dolly and her travels through Ogunquit,Maine by author Judith Johnson-Siebold. The author, who has many publications to her credit, is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). The book is illustrated by Jeff Boyer, an editorial artist for the Times Union newspaper in Albany, NY. He is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC).

Help For The Trolley An Ogunquit Tale

Children's Books

Omar Khayyam (1048-1123 CE), an astronomer and mathematician famous in his own time, is best known today as the author of remarkable verses of poetry on a variety of philosophical subjects including: the meaning of life and death, the existence and nature of god, free will and predestination, and the problem of evil.  A collection of his verses was translated by the nineteenth century English poet Edward FitzGerald and published in 1859 as the, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia.  The freethinker philosophy of Omar Khayyam, as expressed in his verses, was out of step with his society in the medieval Islamic world.  However, his thinking was consistent with that of other freethinkers in the Middle East and may be traced to materialists in ancient Greece such as Democritus (atomism), and Epicurus (341-271 BCE). This book explores evidence that the Persian poet Omar Khayyam, and other poets in the medieval Islamic world, were influenced by the freethinkers in ancient Greece, the source of the conflict between science and religion.

Influence of Epicurean Thought on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

All the Law in the World Won't Stop Them is the story of the darker side of Saratoga Springs. For over one hundred years Saratoga Springs experienced a battle between the forces of law and order and the forces of vice, crime and corruption. The Saratoga Springs of yesteryear would hardly be recognizable today. Gambling, violence, crime and the most blatant forms of corruption allowed gamblers and gangsters to take over the town and run virtually untouched by the law. Local criminals and national organized crime figures ran the town, often with the support of the local citizenry. These are their stories. Stories of crime, gambling and corruption in Saratoga Springs through 1921, and they are all true.

All the Law in the World Won't Stop Them

Veitch, Greg

This is the story of Sergeant Phillip McHugh, a veteran Indian fighter and career regular Army cavalryman during the second half of the Nineteenth Century. McHugh served on the frontier for his entire career except during the Civil War (Virginia) and Reconstruction (South Carolina). He fought Comanche in Texas, Cheyenne on the Plains (Kansas, Nebraska), Sioux in the Montana Territory, and Nez Perce in Wyoming Territory. McHugh enlisted in several cavalry regiments over his thirty-year career in the Army: the Second, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth. He also spent one enlistment in a volunteer regiment during the second half of the Civil War – the First District of Columbia Volunteer Cavalry. McHugh was an enlisted man and served variously as a private, corporal and sergeant. As a cavalryman, he fought Indians in hand-to-hand combat and was wounded twice. He fought in numerous engagements with hostile Indians including the most famous of all, the Battle at the Little Big Horn River in 1876, between the Seventh Cavalry and about 2,500 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors.

Sergeant Phillip McHugh, U. S. Cavalry Indian Fighter

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