Setting off from the ghost town of Cloverdale, New Mexico on March 17, 1996, the author picked his way north for seven months until arriving at the ghost town of Almota, Washington near his home on the Snake River. He travelled in the same simple manner as the mountain men of yore, and introduces the reader to the fiber of the differing backcountry cultures through the spirits of those he meets along the journey, as well as the life stories of the ghost towns he stumbles upon. He gracefully shares his fears and struggles as he solves the challenges presented by nature, people and the modern world from the saddle.

Between Pricked Ears: The true story of a solo horse journey from a Mexican ghost town to an American one...

Science & Math

May, Greg

Biological Sciences

RiverRun Select

On Snow Island, a remote community off the New England coast, sixteen-year-old Alice Daggett struggles to come to terms with her father's death while managing the family store. George Tibbits, a loner in his forties and owner of the island's twin houses, returns each year in an act of homage to the women who raised him there. While George tries to make peace with his troubled past and Alice befriends the twenty-six-year-old who tends the island lighthouse, both characters learn the hard lesson of what it means to love. This tender tale about the power of place and memory plumbs the depths of two unique and uncharted lives. As the country is drawn into World War II, George and Alice find their fates shaped by events that occur far from the island home that defines them.

Snow Island (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Towler, Katherine

Literary

Katherine Towler returns to Snow Island with "Evening Ferry" - the second installment of her multigenerational trilogy about family bonds, unexpected love, and the threat of war. Thirty-two-year-old Rachel Shattuck grew up on Snow Island but left at the age of eighteen, anxious to escape the confines of the isolated community. Living on the mainland, just a short ferry ride away from Snow, she struggles to adjust to being divorced while grieving the recent death of her mother. In the summer of 1965, she returns to Snow Island to care for her injured father and discovers her mother's diaries hidden in a closet. Reading Phoebe Shattuck's account of her life as a wife and a mother, Rachel learns the truth about her family's history, her mother's death, and her own aspirations to lead a new life. In elegant prose and inspired storytelling, Towler gives us a moving portrait of two women and the island they come to call home, at a time when the world is changing, and the country faces war once again.

Evening Ferry

Island Light

Nick Daggett, a Vietnam veteran in his early forties, has returned to Snow Island to live year-round and run a pirate radio station from the abandoned mansion. Nora Venable, a lesbian in her seventies and owner of the decaying mansion, comes to the island after a fifty-year absence and decides to stay. Ruth Lambert, a photographer from New York, arrives to see what is left of the old Snow Inn, which she has inherited from her aunt. This unlikely trio finds their lives unexpectedly linked after a fire sweeps through the old mansion. Set in the fall of 1990, as the United States prepares to go to war in the Persian Gulf, the final volume of the Snow Island trilogy (after Snow Island and Evening Ferry) brings together characters from the previous volumes with new arrivals in a moving conclusion that completes the saga of island life. This taut tale of love and perseverance evokes the isolation and connection at the heart of every community.

Contemporary

"No one else seems to have thought of telling the story of a boy's life with so great a desire to show what a boy's life is, and with so little purpose of teaching what it should be; certainly no one else has thought of doing this for the American Boy." -- William Dean Howells, 1870   This humorous, poignant yarn of one lad's adventures became the inspiration for Twain's Tom Sawyer and many others.  This newly typeset, highly readable edition includes over 60 illustrations by A. B. Frost, the foremost illustrator of Aldrich's time.  This IS NOT a facsimile!

The Story of a Bad Boy

ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY

Earle Whitcher charts his wife's journey through cancer as chronicled through essays and emails to friends and relatives

Judy's Journey

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Earle, Whitcher

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Tennyson once said, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Tennyson was an idiot. Because heartbreak sucks. If you're breathing, at some point in your life, love has probably bashed you over the head ... and then continued to kick you while you were down until you thought you might die. That's better?! Feeling like your heart has been shredded with a cheese grater and then set on fire - that's better? The pain of heartbreak is so massive and all-encompassing, most people believe the torment they experience over love is exclusive to them. But The Sorrows of Young Werther realistically attests to the fact that heartbreak began occurring way before you confessed your love for someone, only to have him or her remove you as a Facebook friend.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Classics

In this intimate look at life on the Autism spectrum a mother reveals the touching, exhausting, and, ultimately rewarding details of raising a child with Autism. From the earliest signs that John was somehow different, to his triumphant High School graduation and transition into adulthood, Ellen Walker details the pitfalls and tribulations of parenting in uncharted territory, while at the same time presenting the reader with an inspiring profile of a boy struggling to make sense of his world with bravery and intelligence.

Bringing Up John

Biographies & Memoirs

Walker, Ellen

Community & Culture

"On that night my friend Derek Reardon and I went to a bar in Atkinson to start drinking before we moved the partying to an old friend's house. I have no memory of being there, but for some odd reason I decided to drive home. This is still a mystery to me. I wasn't a habitual drunk driver, but that doesn't matter because I know now that one time is all it takes." Jim Scott tells an intense story of Traumatic Brain Injury and the long, grueling journey that follows. A cautionary tale for young drivers, and a source of inspiration for others suffering from a TBI.

More Than a Speed Bump

Scott, Jim

A city where magic can lead to murder. A company of adrenaline-addicted motorcycle couriers. A dark occult conspiracy. These threads converge in Blessed and Cursed Alike, an occult murder mystery set in a mythic urban landscape. Kiarna Boyd is a practicing Geomancer, a certified Permaculture Designer, and a Systems Administrator. Kiarna received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. While developing her style of performance art and storytelling at the SMFA, she also studied Celtic Literature and Languages at Harvard University Extension School. She is a founding trustee of Liminal Nation, an international online community of esoteric researchers and practitioners of magic.

Blessed and Cursed Alike

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Boyd, Kiarna

Fantasy

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