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	Eyewitness Guide New England  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES This superb guide to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of the region's attractions. It also devotes a section to Boston. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (USE294, $25.00)
	Writing New England, An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present  •  Andrew Delbanco ANTHOLOGY •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 517 PAGES A wide-ranging anthology of New England writings, from fiction and memoir to natural history and politics. Divided by theme, it features a who's who of American literature, with contributions by Emerson, Twain, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Frost, Updike and Sexton, to name just a few. (USE269, $29.95)
	Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England  •  Tom Wessels  •  Brian Cohen  •  Ann Zwinger NATURAL HISTORY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 200 PAGES In this thoughtful book, Wessels examines the character of the central New England forest through the clues left behind by fires, logging, storms, and economic fads (not to mention beavers, blowdowns and blights). With black-and-white etchings illustrating disturbance patterns, checklist of trees by substrate and glossary. (USE07, $18.95)
	National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England  •  Brian Cassie  •  Peter Alden FIELD GUIDE •  1998 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 448 PAGES A compact, easy-to-use guide to 1,000 of New England's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects, birds and other flora and fauna. It also provides an extensive overview of the area's geology, weather patterns and natural sites. With more than 1,300 photographs and 20 maps. (USE06, $19.95)
	Northeastern United States Map  •   Hallwag MAP A map of the Northeast, from the Chesapeake through all of New England and half of Nova Scotia, at a nice scale of 1:1,200,000. With a gazetteer, national parks, and more detailed insets of major cities. (USE58, $12.95)

	New England Map  •   DeLorme Mapping    •  A road map of all of New England, at a great scale of 1:600,000. (USE270, $4.95)
	Boston's Freedom Trail, A Souvenir Guide  •  Robert Booth  •  Shirley Moskow  •  Jack Frost   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A pocket guide to the Freedom Trail. (BOS05, $6.95)
	Compass Guide New Hampshire  •   Compass American   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Compiled by local writers and photographers, this full-color guide covers the history, culture and character of the state and its attractions. (USE392, $21.95)
	Compass Guide Vermont  •  Don Mitchell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Handsomely produced, illustrated and informative, this guide is an overview of the culture, history and attractions of Vermont. (USE48, $21.95)
	Fodor's Boston's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide to Boston, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights. (USE04, $11.95)
	Fodor's Escape to Northern New England, One-of-a-kind Experiences in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont  •  Patricia Harris  •  David Lyon  •  Peter Guttman   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handsomely produced, insightful collection of 18 essays on traveling New England, featuring 140 full-color photographs by Peter Guttman. (USE257, $20.00)
	Lonely Planet New England  •  Kim Grant  •  Andrew Bender   • GUIDEBOOK  •  (USE376, $21.99)
	Coastal Maine, A Maritime History  •  Roger Duncan   • HISTORY  •  A four hundred year history of Maine, focusing on maritime traditions and seafaring, as well coastal settlement and development. (USE247, $24.95)
	Down East, A Maritime History of Maine  •  Lincoln Paine   • HISTORY  •  Maine's maritime history, from the coastal travel of Native Americans to the Basque fishing industry to the pleasure boating of today, incorporating ecology, culture and art into its well researched history. (USE246, $14.95)
	Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation  •  Joseph J. Ellis   • HISTORY  •  A riveting tale of Washington, Madison, Hamilton, and especially of Jefferson and Adams. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it's a fascinating glimpse into the early days of our country. (USE244, $14.95)
	In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex  •  Nathaniel Philbrick   • HISTORY  •  The seafaring tale of fearsome whales, cannibalism and sturdy 19th-century Nantucketers; a history of the true life events that inspired Melville's "Moby Dick" -- and a fascinating history of 19th-century society in Nantucket. (OCE47, $15.00)
	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War  •  Nathaniel Philbrick   • HISTORY  •  National Book Award-winner Philbrick brings the 17th-century Plymouth colony, in all its gruesome detail, to life through its most interesting characters and events. He digs for the truths underlying the myths. (USE388, $16.00)
	Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647  •  William Bradford   • HISTORY  •  A readable, first-hand account of the early days of Plymouth. (USE291, $13.44)
	The Americans, the Colonial Experience  •  Daniel Boorstin   • HISTORY  •  Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this wide-ranging portrait of colonial America looks to the origins of the American character and its institutions. (USA05, $15.95)
	The Most Beautiful Villages of New England  •  Tom Shachtman  •  Len Rubenstein   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this coffee-table book, New England's most picturesque towns and villages are presented through 240 full color photographs. Accompanying descriptions fill in details about each town's history and architecture. (USE42, $24.95)
	Off the Leash, Subversive Journeys Around Vermont  •  Helen Husher   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An insider's tour of the Green Mountain States's little-known attractions, playfully documented in a collection of essays by a native Vermonter. (USE53, $21.00)
	One Man's Meat  •  E.B. White   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  By the author of "Charlotte's Web," a collection of observant and often humorous essays about daily life on a Maine saltwater farm. A wonderful portrait of coastal small-town life, originally published in 1938. (USE43, $14.95)
	After Frost, An Anthology of Poetry from New England  •  Henry Lyman  •  Robert Frost  •  Wallace Stevens   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of poems from 30 of New England's most notable poets, with selections by Robert Frost, the granddaddy of New England poetry. Other featured poets include Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. (USE52, $22.95)
	Empire Falls  •  Richard Russo   • LITERATURE  •  A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel lovingly set in a fictitious Maine mill town. Russo has composed an entertaining and poignant portrait of what lies beneath the facade of small-town New England life. (USE220, $14.95)
	The Angel on the Roof  •  Russell Banks   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of 32 short stories from the award-winning novelist, Russell Banks. (USE103, $15.95)
	The Bostonians  •  Henry James   • LITERATURE  •  Henry James' satirical novel of the battle of the sexes set in 1870s Boston. (BOS13, $20.00)
	The Maine Reader, The Down East Experience, 1614 to Present  •  Charles Shain   • LITERATURE • COMING IN SEPTEMBER  •  An excellent anthology covering the gamut of the state's culture and history, from early European explorers to the 20th century works of Carolyn Chute, Rachel Carson and John McPhee. (USE57, $20.95)
	Cod, A Biography of a Fish that Changed the World  •  Mark Kurlansky   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A sparkling extended essay on the cod in the tradition of Lopez or McPhee, looking at the importance of the fish to cuisine and commerce, throwing much light on the plight of the Grand Banks and fisheries. (OCE10, $15.00)
	Field Notes from the Northern Forest  •  Curt Stager   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Combining the latest in scientific literature with his own observations, Sager's natural science essays explore the lives of the animals, plants and fungi commonly encountered in the forests of eastern North America. (USE03, $19.95)
	New England Weather, New England Climate  •  Gregory Zielinski  •  Barry Keim   • SCIENCE  •  A scholarly overview by the state climatologists of Maine and New Hampshire, with good coverage of the local seasons: ski season, mud season, beach and lake season, and foliage season. (USE311, $19.95)
	Reading the Mountains of Home  •  John Elder   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Using Robert Frost's poem "Directive" as a companion on a journey through the woods of Vermont, John Elder weaves scholarly analysis with reflections on the cycles of loss and recovery in his own life and in nature. (USE55, $19.50)
	Sightseeking: Clues to the Landscape History of New England  •  Christopher J. Lenney   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A history of New England as seen through human manipulation of the landscape. (USE288, $27.95)
	The Nature of Vermont, Introduction and Guide to a New England Environment  •  Charles W. Johnson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Opening with a discussion of the geologic history of Vermont, Johnson provides an lively survey of major habitats, plants and animals of the state. An excellent survey of natural history. (USE45, $22.95)
	The Outermost House, A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod  •  Henry Beston   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The chronicle of a year spent living alone in a remote Cape Cod beach house in 1925. These beloved essays, first published in 1928, capture the essence of the Cape, the sea, weather and animal life. (USE41, $14.00)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •   National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
	New England Butterflies & Moths, An Introduction to Familiar Species  •  James Kavanagh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This handy plastic card covers 70 familiar species. (USE445, $5.95)

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