The Chester Gillette murder case of 1906 shocked the nation and inspried Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy." Among the important pieces of evidence were the victim's letters to her murderer. They are included here along with extensive footnotes and an introduction by the leading expert on the case.

Grace Brown's Love Letters

Craig Brandon

Surry Cottage Books

The most climbed mountain in North America, Mount Monadnock in southern New Hampshire has a long and interesting history from visits by Thoreau and Emerson to the 100,000 people who hike it each year. This books includes the literary and artistic impact it has had on artists for more than a century and the efforts to preserve it.

Monadnock: More than a Mountain

History

Americas

The Heart of Monadnock

Elizabeth Weston Timlow

Religion & Spirituality

The 2006 edition of the final writings of the victim in the 1906 Chester Gillette murder case are augmented by her recently found 1902 diary. The complete correspondance between Grace Brown and Chester Gillette are included here, just as they were read at the trial. Included are photos of the original letters and many of the people mentioned in the letters.

Grace Brown's Love Letters Second Edition

Dick Jenkins, the outdoors columnist for the Monadnock Shopper News, has collected his favorite columns for this book. The adventures are broken down into sections for hiking, paddling, cycling and observing. These are easy adventures that anyone can participate in, natives along with tourists. Or readers can follow along from home.

Monadnock Region Odysseys

Sports & Outdoors

Dick Jenkins

Hiking & Camping

When the 20-year-old daughter of vaudeville star Lillie Langtry turns up dead at the bottom of the Black Precipice on Mount Monadnock in the summer of 1910, the local police call it an accident, but residents of the Halfway House hotel are not so sure. They call on Robert de La Tour, a retired Boston detective and his brother, Eugene, a newspaper reporter, to investigate. Their investigation takes them to Pumpelly Cave, the Dublin Art Colony and the Halfway House hotel where they meet famous people like Mark Twain and not-yet-famous people like Franklin Roosevelt and Robert Frost.

Murder on Mount Monadnock

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

J.S. Winter

Mystery

First published in 1970, The Monadnock Guide has helped millions of hikers explore the most-hiked mountain in North America. This new guide has been completely updated and revised by the people who know the mountain best: park managers and rangers and the Monadnock Advisory Commission, which protects the mountain. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the Monadnock Advisory Commission

The Official Monadnock Guide

Henry I. Baldwin

On the morning of Dec. 12, 2008 residents of the Northeast United States woke up to a devastated landscape and a terrible beauty. Over the night an inch of ice had fallen throughout a wide area that included Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Upstate New York. Much of the area was pushed pack into the 19th century as electricity and phones failed and water pumps and televisions stopped working. Tens of thousands of trees and utility lines blocked highways creating damage that took months to repair. In New Hampshire alone there was $75 million in damage to the electrical system. But the ice storm turned into an opportunity for neighbors to help each other out. Perfect strangers were welcomed into neighbors' homes and the ice-coated landscape became a photographer's paradise. This book, written by a reporter who covered the storm for months, captures every aspect of this unique storm. With 109 photos.

The Weight of the Ice: The Northeast Ice Storm of 2008

Science & Math

Dave Eisenstadter

Environment

Membership has its price! A quaint New England town has a secret that hides behind the white clapboard houses and tall church steeple. The secret is as deep and dark as the local lake which has attracted visitors for two centuries. Brian Barrett followed his wife Sarah and young son Sam to Barlow to repair their shattered marriage and escape his romance with the bottle. One early spring morning, Barrett gazes through the rear window onto the school grounds which border his property. His attention is drawn to an aberrant ritual about to unfold on the play set. Barrett intervenes but soon realizes that this event is merely the opening volley of a battle he must wage with an ancient and unlikely evil that seeks to consume his family.

Blood Club

Walt Schnabel

Literature & Fiction

With three authors covering three states, 300 interviews and 250 pictures, Good Night Irene is the most complete book about the Aug. 28, 2011 disaster. The book features incredible stories about what the survivors lost and how their neighbors helped them through the experience. Read more about it on the Surry Cottage Books web site.

Good Night Irene: Stories and Photos about the tropical storm that devastated Vermont, the Catskills and the Berkshires

Politics & Social Sciences

MICHAEL RYAN

Nicole Garman

Sociology

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