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Quarters of the Mind The Write Intentions (Nancy Ambercrombie, Lee Glantz, Nancy Messinger, Ada Jill Schneider) Paperback $7.00		The Write Intentions is a writer's group made up of four women from different backgrounds, who have been meeting since 1993 to critique each other's work. The women describe themselves as writing "from the heart, exploring the inner and outer worlds with a sense of celebration and adventure." All of this comes through in this collection, which is mostly poetry, but includes Messinger's prose work. The women tackle topics as diverse as the continental drift, converted Portuguese Jewish sailors, nuclear war, and swimming the icy waters of Naragansett Bay. The language is honest and vital, the emotions sincere, and the musings thought-provoking. Well worth the price of admission. The writers live in Bristol, Barrington, Seekonk, and Somerset.

Museum of My Mother Ada Jill Schneider Paperback $10.00 Order now		This is a deeply personal, relevant collection of poems from one of our area's favorite poets. In works with titles such as "Definitely Not the Glaucoma" and "New Hands," Ms. Schneider presents provocative and insightful meditations on the process of growing old. With never a hint of disingenuousness, the poems explore aging as a process both generous and giving as well as miserly and deleterious. The poems also explore the speaker's relationship to her aging, ailing mother, particularly from the point of view of primary care giver. Without being sappy, sentimental, or dishonest, they are vital expressions of the complexities of the mother/daughter bond - at times praising and cherishing the connection, and at others being brutally frank about the resentment and mess that often comes with the caretaker role. As gerontologist David Greer points out in his introduction, "The Museum of My Mother is a remarkable, insightful and inspiring contribution" to the understanding of ourselves as aging human beings." Ada Jill Schneider lives in Somerset, MA.

The Babe In Red Stockings Keene, Sinibaldi, Hickey Hardcover $22.95 Order now		With this year marking Babe Ruth's 100th birthday, the Bambino seems to have seeped into the forefront of the American consciousness once again. Not that he has ever been very far away. No one can dispute that he is the most celebrated and legendary baseball player in the history of the game, and that he has transcended the sport in a way few athletes have, to become an American icon. Much has been written and said about Ruth, most of it going back to his days as a Yankee. And thought it is common knowledge that the Babe started his career in Boston, there are very few detailed accounts of his days there. This book provides such an account. An in-depth chronicle of Ruth's years in red stockings (1914-1919), the book, takes the reader back to Ruth's earliest days, a time when his reputation as baseball's number one drawing card, pre-eminent slugger, and the game's best southpaw pitcher was just beginning to assert itself. A valuable resource for devotees of the great American past time, and an important chronicle of a seminal moment in American sporting history. The authors live in Whitman and Raynham, Ma and Manatee County, FL.

My Grandfather, Thornton W. Burgess Frances B. Meigs Hardcover $21.95 Order now		As readers, we are very often disappointed when a favorite author or public personality is revealed to us, in the "tell-all" biography, as someone very different than we expected. The people behind the work we love are often described as more self-absorbed, dysfunctional, and mean-spirited than their words could ever reveal. So it is refreshing to find a biography which reinforces our good feelings about a writer's work by introducing that writer to us as warm, funny, and good-hearted. Frances Meigs has written just such a book, one that reveals Peter Rabbit's creator and her grandfather as every bit as funny, gentle, and intelligent as we imagine him to be. Meigs lovingly portrays this gifted storyteller and naturalist as a strong, wonderful person and reinforces a reader's faith in the humanity of writers. Ms. Meigs resides in Bedford, MA.

Old Mother West Wind, Vols. I & II Thornton W. Burgess Hardcover $9.95 ea.		These lovely little clothbound editions of Burgess classic tales make a wonderful addition to any child's library. Decades have passed since the stores were first penned, but children will still delight at the adventures and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Reddy Fox, and Jimmy Skunk. Lovingly illustrated by Harrison Cady these stories also provide children with a fun and educational introduction to the natural world. Beautiful and timeless children's reading, these books are also great collector's pieces. Thornton Burgess lived on a farm in Hampden, MA.

Sevastopol: On Photographs of War William Allen Paperback $13.95 Order now		This unique collection of poetry has been praised for its "shrewd and passionate interrogation" of its subject (Life, Nov.1995), for its "deep understanding of the inhumane folly of war and its useless, needless sufferings" (Daniela Gioseffi), and for its "moral courage, keen humor, and willingness to seek hope." (Patricia Spears Jones). It is a collection of meditations on, and expressions of, the unfathomable and inexpressible. Allen starts with starkly honest and eerily beautiful photographs of war and, with his brutal, lyrical language, transforms them into touchstones of the horror and violence of human combat. Consider this imagery, "For, as far as you can see,/ the bodies stretch in twos and threes/ across these uninhabited plateaus./ A man on crutches comes to claim his son as clouds roll in, dark as the dirge/ of crows which feed on frozen mulberries/ below in a rutted gulch." Now picture the image that accompanies it. William Allen lives in Newport, RI.

Wind of Time John Dandola Paperback $9.95 Order now		Dandola, a screenwriter and mystery novelist, makes fascinating use of the Norse Saga sources to create this story of history, mystery, romance, and occultism. The story centers around an American teacher, photographer and amateur medievalist who, along with his childhood fantasy woman, embark upon an adventure that takes them back to the time when they first loved. Their 20th-century visit to a mysterious stone tower in Rhode Island leads them back to 12th-century New England, where they discover much about their lives, their love, and their moment in world history.

Germany Caroline Finkelstein Paperback $11.95 Order now		From one of our area's most accomplished poets, comes a volume of poetry written with the linguistic richness and rhythmic power that characterizes all of Ms. Finkelstein's work. Caroline Finkelstein uses language and imagery masterfully, packing in pages worth of observation, contemplation, and emotion in a single word or phrase. At once dense and lyrical, many of the poems center around the horrors of the holocaust, creating moments from the horror that can be used as touchstones for contemplating the grand questions of love and death, God, religion, salvation and damnation. Joseph Parisi of Booklist said of Germany, "Caroline Finkelstein fixes. . .utterly and unerringly the identifying images that make her people palpably real, revealing all one needs to know about their conflicts, besetting character traits, historical and psychological confines." Ms. Finkelstein lives in Rochester, MA.

Shadow Play William Klaber and Philip H. Melanson Paperback $7.99 Order now		For thirty years, the assassination of Robert Kennedy has been considered an open-and-shut-case. Sirhan Sirhan was the guilty party and he acted alone. Claims that there was more to the tragic event of June 4th, 1998 have been dismissed as crackpot. In their latest collaboration, an investigative journalist and a UMass Dartmouth political science professor, team up to demonstrate that these claims have foundation. Six years of painstaking research brought the authors face to face with many previously undisclosed facts, leading them to conclude that this case may have been grossly mishandled by the American criminal justice system. A wealth of overwhelming evidence, based on their exploration of long-withheld LAPD and FBI files, as well as interviews with witnesses and Sirhan himself, provide strong backing for the theory that their may have been a larger conspiracy afoot in the murder of RFK. This engrossing and compelling book discloses the evidence and brings into sharp relief the larger and even more disturbing questions about the workings of our criminal justice system. A fascinating and eye-opening book.

Tres Riches Heures: A Memoir Lydia Chamberlin Paperback $14.95 Order now		David McCullough says, "Lydia Chamberlin packs more life into one day than ten people. She paints, she sings, she gardens, cooks, tells a great joke, dances up a storm. Even empty handed, she brings something to a party - always." You may be saying, 'I know who David McCullough is, but who is Lydia Chamberlin?' A fair question because she is, as she points out herself, not famous at all; she is just an ordinary person. Yet, as she points out at the end of her book that her self-proclaimed ordinariness is one of her greatest assets as a memoirist. "I have scoop on them [famous autobiographers], for it seems to me that "normal" people can relate to my life and empathize with, hopefully, some of its situations." This may be stretching the point a bit, for Lydia Chamberlin, though she has not achieved the fame of a Kathryn Hepburn, is a fairly well-known and respected painter with a list of friends and acquaintances that reads like a Washington, DC Who's Who. And though she is an ordinary woman, she has certainly lived a life less ordinary, a life filled with fascinating people, interesting situations, and more than its share of brushes with fame. Still, there is no question that her zest for life and the energy with which she has lived it will be a source of inspiration for even the most ordinary among us.

Spy Saga Philip H. Melanson Hardcover $21.95 Order now		In yet another revealing exploration of the truth behind the "truth" of recent American history, Philip Melanson takes on a topic that will be of interest to anyone with the slightest connection to the other Kennedy assassination: the character of Lee Harvey Oswald. Examining every available FBI, Secret Service, and CIA file, Melanson asks and answers (or at least begins to answer) some of the most crucial questions surrounding JFK's assassin. If you have the slightest interest in hearing the answer to the question, "Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?" look no further than Spy Saga.

... And Riding on an Ass H. Kelsey Bicknell Hardcover $10.00 Order now		For years, H. Kelsey Bicknell presided as minister of the Unitarian-Universalist in Fairhaven, MA. From his pulpit there and at churches throughout New York state, he addressed his congregations with pertinent lessons about the meaning of faith and religion, providing them a contemplative and philosophical framework for the expression of that faith. In this collection of verse, Bicknell posthumously addresses his readers with questions of the same philosophical and theological import. He deftly explores the "human variety" that makes up religious expression, criticizing the evils which exist in the institution, and calling for the building of a true spirit of community within the church. A lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking collection.

You Should Write a Book Walter Owen Hardcover $12.95 Order now		Walt Owen introduces himself as an Artist, Art Instructor, Author, World Traveler, Horse Player, and Charter Member - Human Race. In this lively and entertaining biography, he lets the reader get to know all these characters, and many more. The book takes the reader from this talented caricaturist¹s beginnings as a ³typical midwestern kid,² and follows him through childhood, the depression, the war, marriage, and career, a career which included teaching at the Swain School of Design and in the New Bedford Public Schools. A funny, warm, endearing portrait of a unique and gifted individual. Walt Owen lives in Acushnet, MA.