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Outpost — Hill '74
Outpost — Hill '74
$17.00
By Christopher Hill, Class of 1974 A “candid, behind-the-scenes” (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He ...
Neighborhood Heroes — Rielly '18
$15.95
By Morgan Rielly, Class of 2018 Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women who served in World War II. All of these veterans taught him something, not just about how to fight a wa...
Seed of Sarah — Isaacson G'67
$20.95
By Judith Magyar Isaacson, Graduate Degree 1967 This gripping and highly acclaimed account of a young woman's experience in concentration camps now includes a final chapter, "A Time to Forgive?" detailing the author's trips back to her former forced labor camp in Germany. -From the publisher.
I Promised You Daisies — Benjamin '66
$15.00
By Robert A. Benjamin, Class of 1966 For all of us who came of age during the time of Woodstock, hippies and Vietnam, our paths into adult life were more perilous than they might have been a few innocent years earlier. In 1966, although I had never heard a gun fired in anger, I was among the walking wounded of those days of political, intellectu...
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 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...
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...
Without a Map: A Memoir — Hall '93
$14.00
By Meredith Hall, Class of 1993 Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giv...
Charles's Tell-Tale Diary of 1899 — Rich
$18.99
By Janet Hall Rich The unforgettable diary of Charles Brown's [Bowdoin Class of 1900] junior year at Bowdoin in 1899, with research and commentary by its discoverer, Janet Hall Rich.
Song for an Unsung Hero — Lund '57
$25.00
By Erik Lund, Class of 1957 Diane Theis Lund belonged to that generation of women who came of age in the 1950s and '60s, just on the threshold of the highly vocal, sometimes radical, feminist movement. As a young woman, Diane learned that the barriers to women were high—but this represented a challenge, and against all odds of the time, she exce...
Dogging It — Wagner
Dogging It — Wagner
$19.95
By Jonathan Wagner, Bowdoin Alumnus This book of self-discovery is about much more than a failed marriage. Author Jonathan Wagner shares his journey of moving on and discovering the divine presence in the world with the help of his dogs. A testament that dogs are truly man’s best friend, Dogging It Through Divorce and Beyond is a wonderful explo...
The Forgotten Longfellow: The Saga of Alexander Longfellow, Sr.
$25.99
By Richard Shain Cohen A provocative biography of one of the country's first explorer-topographers, [Bowdoin College alumnus] Alexander Longfellow, Sr., the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]. With humor, self-effacement, grace and touching affection, this man wrote letters to his family, drew map...
Sarah Jane Foster — Reilly '67
$19.95
Edited by Wayne Reilly, Class of 1967 Sarah Jane Foster of Gray, Maine, was one of the hundreds of northerners who headed South to teach former slaves after the Civil War. In addition to seven months of her 1866 diary, this volume includes 23 letters she wrote while in West Virginia and South Carolina to a Portland, Maine, newspaper between 1865...
Bah Hahbah — Dyer '56
Bah Hahbah — Dyer '56
$12.99
By LeRoy Dyer, Class of 1956 With a snippet of history here and there to offer a perspective as to the growth of the town itself, my wish is that this book, in some small way, has contributed to the lore and history of our small island community. -From the back cover.
Iron Jaw: A Skipper Tells His Story — Bamforth '51
$15.00
Edited by Richard Bamforth '51 and Charles Bamforth The extraordinary life of Captain Charles N. Bamforth spanned most of the twentieth century, beginning with his childhood at the turn of the century and continuing through his retirement and death during the Cold War era. During his sixty years at sea, Captain Bamforth experienced the Depressio...
An Outlier's Tribe — Edwards '22
$18.99
By Morgan Edwards, Class of 2022 In his quest to reflect upon and grapple with his experiences straddling the divergent environments of Appalachia and a New England private liberal arts college, Morgan Edwards provides a window into not only his life, but also many of the polarizing political and social challenges of our time. Exploring themes o...
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
$15.99
By Paul Tough What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led hi...
No Rules Rule — Hastings '83
No Rules Rule — Hastings '83
$28.00
By Reed Hastings '83with Erin Meyer Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companiesThere has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of...
Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
$37.50
By Nicholas A. Basbanes In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work–the soul–of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, transla...
The Fact of a Body — Marzano-Lesnevich
$17.99
By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Assistant Professor of English Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley’s face flashes ...
The Passion of Perfection — Vail
$18.95
By June VailProfessor of Dance Emerita The edelweiss pin at Gertrude’s throat signifies her Swiss-American heritage and her autonomy as a woman activist. Gertrude’s “life’s work” is perfecting humankind, morally and socially. Confronting Gilded Age double standards, she advocates for sex education, marriage equality and “voluntary motherhood.” A...
Until There Is Justice — Scanlon
$34.95
By Jennifer ScanlonProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Phi...