Books
It Rhymes with Truth — Miller '96
$17.99
By Rich Miller, Class of 1996 Sometimes the truth sets us free. Other times it’s a life sentence for a crime we never committed. Which is why, when an eight-year-old homeless boy and an eccentric elderly woman trapped in a retirement community forge a fragile bond and become each other’s unwitting family, they only have one rule: never speak abo...
Devolution — Clenott '73
Devolution — Clenott '73
$15.99
By Peter Clenott, Class of 1973 "What does it truly mean to be 'Human'?" Chiku Flynn wasn't raised to be human. Born in the Congolese rainforest, she spends her first eleven years as part of an experiment. For her, the aboriginal-the primitive-is 'normal.'Just after her eleventh birthday, Chiku witnesses the horrifying death of her mother, and h...
Book of the Mandolin Player — Oleson '87
$15.95
By Anne Britting Oleson, Class of 1987 Meg Cross lives in a small Maine town with a family that is too big, too loud, too everything. Life in a small Maine town: where everyone is related by blood or marriage, where everyone knows everything there is to know about everyone else, and where there is no anonymity. So it seems for Meg Cross, living ...
Amelie and Ali — Cammille '07
$12.99
By Emily Cammille, Class of 2007 On the surface, Amelie and Ali couldn't be more different. He was born in Paris and she grew up in the southern United States. But after a chance meeting on a flight to Paris, the two quickly discover that they are looking for the same thing--love. From the moment she meets him, Amelie views Ali as the type of ma...
Retsbol Rises: An Abenaki Lobster Tale — Jones '86
$23.95
By Jayne Rowe Jones, Class of 1986 An action adventure book in which a tribal covenant in Maine is stolen, disrupting the harmony of Mount Desert Island and calling the lobsters back to take over the land. Three children go on an exciting, and at times harrowing, journey to find Abenaki amulets to restore the peace and save the surrounding harbo...
Justice Justice — Maxfield '41
$17.95
By Henry S. Maxfield, Class of 1941 Newly elected President, Walter Whitredge, due to the assassination of Supreme Court Associate Justice Eliot Shapiro, by persons unknown, has the opportunity to appoint his successor. In the firm belief that Law alone is not and cannot be a substitute for Justice and legal ethics are woefully inadequate, Whitr...
A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction — Fulton '70
$15.95
Translated by Bruce Fulton, Class of 1970 A Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of settings, voices, styles, and thematic concerns, and the ...
Elements of Mind — Hunt '81
$7.95
By Walter Hunt, Class of 1981 In Victorian India, a Scottish doctor, Dr. James Esdaile, finds a way to use the power of mesmerism to aid him in performing surgeries, using a remarkable artifact that enhances his abilities. The revocation of the promise to bring the artifact to Rev. William Davey, the head of the secret Committee of English mesme...
The Book of Lost Fathers — Wilson '57
$22.50
By Robley Wilson, Class of 1957 "Why is it the worst things happen when you're most relaxed and your head's empty of everything serious?" These words, from the narrator of the story "Grief," are at the heart of "The Book of Lost Fathers, " the new collection of short fiction by Robley Wilson. These stories depict ordinary, recognizable people d...
Spreading Ashes — Cooney '91
Spreading Ashes — Cooney '91
$14.95
By Shaun Cooney, Class of 1991 Sometimes, the journey you least want to take becomes the most wondrous of all. Bound by his older brother's dying request, an apathetic and parochial 32-year-old man grudgingly endeavors to backpack across Europe, spreading his brother's ashes and discovering it is never too late to participate in life. -From the ...
Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings — Longfellow 1825
$40.00
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825 No American writer of the nineteenth century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over twenty-five years, The Library of America offers a full-sc...
Spindle's End — McKinley '75
Spindle's End — McKinley '75
$15.00
By Robin McKinley '75, H'86 The New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award-winning author tells a "brilliant tale of a sumptuous world" (New York Times Book Review) All the creatures of the forest and field and riverbank knew the infant was special. She was the princess, spirited away from the evil fairy Pernicia on her name-day. But the curse...
Rose Daughter — McKinley '75
Rose Daughter — McKinley '75
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By Robin McKinley '75, H'86 The New York Times bestselling author of Sunshine and Hero and the Crown presents a beautiful retelling of Beauty and the Beast.When their father’s business fails, a young woman named Beauty and her two sisters leave their fine house in the city and move to a tiny cottage far away from everything they’ve ever known. T...
The Hero and the Crown — McKinley '75
$16.00
By Robin McKinley '75, H'86 Discover the classic story that has captured hearts for decades...Aerin could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it. It was the story of her mother, the witchwoman who enspelled the king into marrying her, to get an heir that would rule Damar; and it was told that she turne...
Deerskin — McKinley '75
Deerskin — McKinley '75
$16.00
By Robin McKinley '75, H'86 “A fierce and beautiful story of rage and compassion, betrayal and loyalty, damage and love...A fairy tale for adults, one you'll never forget.”—Alice Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic The only daughter of a beloved king and queen, Princess Lissar has grown up in the shadow of her parent...
State of the Union — Kennedy '76
$29.99
By Douglas Kennedy, Class of 1976 “Kennedy is such a nimble storyteller... the pages fly.”—Entertainment WeeklyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes the compelling story of a woman whose one choice, made decades ago, comes back to haunt her. America in the 1960s was an era of radical upheaval–of civil rights prote...
Lazarus Jones — Johnson '71
Lazarus Jones — Johnson '71
$18.95
By Robert Johnson, Jr., Class of 1971 Lazarus Jones, a native of Boston and a Vietnam War veteran, travels to Mt. Kenya, East Africa to escape from his haunting war demons and the racism of 1970's Boston. On his journey, Lazarus meets Mukuria who has led a life of privilege in Nairobi, and now seeks out her Kikuyu traditional roots on the mounta...
The Commisioner — Hardy '70
The Commisioner — Hardy '70
$16.99
By Stephen Hardy, Class of 1970 Commissioner Ben Towne grieves the suicide of his brother, the end of his marriage, and the gnawing recognition that his world of high-level college hockey is as crooked as the war he saw in Kuwait. But on this February weekend, on the eve of another war, he chases a chance for redemption—a chance to take down Rye...
Cloud Cuckoo Land — Doerr '95
$20.00
By Anthony Doerr, Class of 1995 From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land. Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades f...
An Unexpected Guest — Korkeakivi '82
$15.00
By Anne Korkeakivi, Class of 1982 Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband’s career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter w...
It's Me — Hickey '07
It's Me — Hickey '07
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By Kate Hickey, Class of 2007 It’s the fall of 2003 and Perry Walsh is entering her freshman year of college. She quickly meets the handsome Ben Brown, a chance encounter that will forever alter the course of her life. As if navigating her connection with another human being isn't hard enough, throw in the realities of campus living: a roommate ...
Alice Bliss — Harrington '76
Alice Bliss — Harrington '76
$25.95
By Laura Harrington, Class of 1976 When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has le...
Meet Me in Paradise — Hubscher '01
$17.00
By Libby MacKenzie Hubscher, Class of 2001 Marin Cole has never: Seen the ocean Climbed a mountain Taken a risk on love ....But if her sister's plan works, she just might do all three. Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child younger sis...
Temptation — Kennedy '76
Temptation — Kennedy '76
$16.00
By Douglas Kennedy, Class of 1976 Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television. Suddenly, he's the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit serie...