2010
CATALOG
The Weight of the Ice: The Northeast Ice Storm of 2008
By Dave Eisenstadter
The December 2008 ice storm devastated a swath of land from Maine to Upstate New York, leaving millions without power for nearly a month. Dave talked with hundreds of survivors and tells their stories of the adventures, tragedies and heroics that characterized Yankee reaction to the storm. With over 100 photos.
"If you lived through the ice storm, you should have this book." Fritz Weatherbee
"Deftly told." - New Hampshire Magazine
"I think it is wonderful that you have taken the time to chronicle the events..." NH Gov John Lynch
192 pages, over 100 photos, perfect bound paper with index.
ISBN 978-0-979056772 $16.99
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Monadnock: More Than a Mountain
By Craig Brandon
Everything you could possibly want to know about the most-climbed mountain in America. From the literary associations with Thoreau and Emerson to the secret caves and the stories of the 100,000 people who hike it each year. Along the way you can learn about all of the painters, poets and mystics who made the mountain part of their life's works and the century of efforts to preserve it for future generations.
"A sweeping and colorful history" -- Boston Globe
Now in its second big printing!
415 pages, 6X9 quality paperback, over 100 photos, many in full color, ISBN: 978-0-9795067-0-1 $24.95
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Murder on Mount Monadnock
By J.S. Winter
When the daughter of vaudeville star Lily Langtree turns up dead at the bottom of the Black Precipice on Mount Monadnock in 1910 it looks like a terrible accident, but retired Boston Police detective Robert de la Tour is not so sure. Join him and his journalist brother, Eugene, as they interview the guests at the Half Way House hotel including boxer Joe Jackson, Red Sox pitching ace Smoky Joe Wood, Mark Twain, Robert Frost and Franklin Roosevelt searching for clues to solve the mystery,
275 pages, 6X9 quality paperback $12.99 ISBN 978-0-9795067-5-8
Book of the Week #6 at NH Center for the Book
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Blood Club
A novel by Walt Schnabel
A quaint New England town has a secret that hides behind the white clapboard houses and tall church steeple. The secret is as deep and dark as the lake that has attracted visitors for two centuries. Brian Barrett followed his wife Sarah and young son there to repair their shattered marriage and escape his romance with the bottle.
One early spring morning, Barrett gazes through the rear window onto the school grounds which border his property. His attention is drawn to an aberrant ritual about to unfold on the play set. Barrett intervenes but soon realizes that this event is merely the opening volley of a battle he must wage with an ancient and unlikely evil that seeks to consume his family. Available Nov. 15, 2009
180 pages, 6X9 quality paperback ISBN 978-0-9795067-8-6 $14.99
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Monadnock Region Odysseys
By Dick Jenkins
The oudoors columnist for the Monannock Shopper News shares his favorite hikes, bike rides and canoe trips with his fans. Take Dick along on your next adventure as he explains not just the trail and where to go, but also the history and folklore of the beautiful Monadnock Region. A must for visitors as well as long-time residents, this book can lead to many wonderful escapes right in your own neigborhood.
285 pages, 6X9 quality paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9795087-4-1 $19.99
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The Heart of Monadnock
By Elizabeth Weston Timlow
Out of print for nearly 70 years, this Monadnock classic tells the tale of a visitor to the Halfway House who has a mystical experience whole climbing the mountain. She actually hears the mountain speak to her in Latin.
Timlow was the principal of a school for girls in Washington DC and a children's book author who visited Monadnock every summer from 1900 until her death in 1930. She became so attached to Monadnock that after her retirement she moved to Fitzwilliam and is buried in the village cemetery.
Complete with the original photos and the vintage map that allows readers to follow in Timlow's footsteps around the old trails.
192 pages, 25 vintage photographs 4 1/2 by 5 paperback. ISBN 978-0-9795067-2-7. $17.99
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The Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette
Edited by Jack Sherman and Craig Brandon
Nearly a century after his death in the electric chair, the diary that Chester Gillette kept in his cell in Auburn Prison has been made public by his surviving relatives. Beginning after he has settled in to prison life and ending just minutes before his execution, the diary reveals Gillette's innermost thoughts about a variety of topics as he slowly begins to realize that his life will soon come to an end.
Published by Richard W. Cowper Press, 193 pages, 5 1/2 X1 8 1/2 paperback, ISBN 9780979644818, $25. Published December, 2007. Available by mail order from Surry Cottage Books.
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Edited by Craig Brandon
Every word of the correspondence between Grace Brown and Chester Gillette during 1905 and 1906, the year he was convicted of killing her at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. The author of Murder in the Adirondacks, the best-selling account of the case, guides readers through the hidden references in the letters.
A Surry Cottage Books original. 80 pages, large format 8 1/2 by 11, paperback ISBN: 978-0-0795067-0-3 $15. Published in May 2006. Available from Amazon.
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Murder in the Adirondacks
An American Tragedy Revisited
By Craig Brandon
Now in its 12th printing! The definitive book about Upstate New York's most famous murder case. In 1906, Chester Gillette was convicted of murdering Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. The trial attracted national attention and Theodore Dreiser used it as the basis of his most famous novel, An American Tragedy. The story has been re-told in two feature films, including "A Place in the Sun" with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Television programs, popular songs and even an opera have been composed about it. This book tells the real story.
380 pages, hardcover 6 by 9 ISBN: 0-932052-43-6 Published by North Country Books. Over 100 illustrations, indexed $32.95 Available from Amazon.
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An Unnatural American History
By Craig Brandon
Invented by a Buffalo dentist as a humane means of disposing of stray animals, the electric chair was adopted by New York State in 1888 as a more humane way of disposing of capital criminals. Along the way the chair became a pawn in a high-stakes marketing competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, who had patents controlling the means of electrical distribution. Before the chair was fist used in 1890 the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on whether its use was cruel and unusual. A strange story of a strange invention and about how the best of intentions can go astray.
279 pages,. 6 by 9, quality paperback , published by McFarland and Co. $35. ISBN: 978-0786406869 Available from Amazon.
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