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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 ...
The Life of Franklin Pierce — Hawthorne 1825
$12.99
By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Class of 1825 Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869 [Bowdoin Class of 1824]) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857, an American politician and lawyer. To date, he is the only President from New Hampshire. -From the back cover.
The Village Blacksmith — Longfellow 1825
$16.99
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825 A contemporary envisioning of a nineteenth-century poem pairs artwork by G. Brian Karas with the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow classic.His brow is wet with honest sweat;He earns whate’er he can, And looks the whole world in the face,For he owes not any man.The neighborhood blacksmith is a quiet and unass...
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...
Maine, A Love Story — Butterfield '92
$34.00
By Blue Butterfield, Class of 1992 “Can you live in a moment?” This love letter to Maine from artist Blue Butterfield is a book of intimate essays illustrated with her evocative woodblock prints. Life isn’t easy on a farm outside Bar Harbor with her single mom, but they both find solace and joy in the beauty of Acadia National Park and in makin...
Transatlantic Encounters — Greet '93
$60.00
By Michele Greet, Class of 1993 An unprecedented and comprehensive survey of Latin American artists in interwar Paris Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and ’30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of ...
Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98
$35.00
By Elena Jackson Albarrán, Class of 1998 During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the...
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
$15.00
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...
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
$17.00
By Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974 The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they ov...
Angel of the Garbage Dump: How Hanley Denning Changed the World, One Child at a Time
$17.95
By Jacob Wheeler Maine-native Hanley Denning [Bowdoin Class of 1992], the Angel of the Garbage Dump, saw poverty and desperation in its ugliest form, and refused to turn a blind eye. In the Guatemala City garbage dump she launched an educational reinforcement nonprofit called Safe Passage, or “Camino Seguro,” and helped pull thousands of childre...
The Woman's Right — Gould '37
$14.95
By Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937 Tom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of T...
Driving the Green Book — Hall '74
$18.99
By Alvin Hall, Class of 1974 Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentiall...
Africans in New Sweden — Muhammad '73
$19.95
By Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973 Historian Abdullah R. Muhammad examines a previously little-known and virtually untold aspect of Delaware’s history—the hidden role of Africans in the often brutal mercantile expansionism by European colonizers in the 17thcentury. Mr. Muhammad reveals for the first time details of the genesis of America’s...
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...
Flowers for Lisa — Morell '71, H '97
$60.00
By Abelardo Morell, Class of 1971 Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph o...
Hawthorne: A Life
Hawthorne: A Life
$20.00
By Brenda Wineapple Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne [Bowdoin College Class of 1825] was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who se...
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...
A Flick of Sunshine — Hill '62
$31.95
By Frederic Hill, Bowdoin Class of 1962, and Alexander Jackson Hill The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Jo...
Complete Wok Cookbook — Toy '77
$17.99
By Chris Toy, Bowdoin Class of 1977 Master your wok with this comprehensive collection of Chinese recipes A well-seasoned wok can do it all, whether you want to fry, boil, poach, steam, smoke, roast, or braise a delicious Chinese meal. The Complete Wok Cookbook is filled with 125 flavorful recipes that make the most out of your wok, from authent...
Salvage Secrets — Palmisiano & Teare '87
$30.00
By Joanne PalmisianoPhotographs by Susan Teare, Class of 1987 Sustainability and conservation are buzzwords in the construction and renovation of homes today. It's therefore no surprise that salvage design--reusing old building materials and other types of recycled goods--is becoming a popular technique, both for its environmentally friendly fun...