High Time
$28.95In “HIGH TIME,” Abigail Trafford masterfully braids two worlds: the culture and history of an accomplished East Coast family well anchored in time and place, and the life of an adventurous journalist navigating her way through new territories—professional and personal in diverse locales including Paris, Washington, D.C., Houston and Australia’s Northern Territory.
Loaded With Dynamite: Unintended Consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s Idealism
$28.00“LOADED WITH DYNAMITE,” was the prescient reaction of Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of state when he heard the president promote national self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920. Wilson’s call became a rallying cry to the many rather than the select few for whom it was intended.
The Perfect Assignment: A Memoir of Journalism in the Golden Age
$28.00WRITTEN WITH GRACE, intimacy, candor, insight, and humor, Jonathan Larsen’s The Perfect Assignment is a timely, first-hand account of the ascendancy and decline of print journalism over the better part of the twentieth century.
My City of Dreams
$28.00IN THIS CAREFULLY RESEARCHED and hauntingly written memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder.
Closer to Home
$48.00FOR OVER 70 YEARS, Tony King attentively observed the world around him, capturing it with rare artistry as a photographer and elevating the ordinary in a way that can make anyone see their everyday world with fresh eyes. Known particularly for his iconic pictures of wildlife and the New England landscape, King’s greater breadth is definitively clear in Closer to Home.
Beating the Odds: University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History, 1962-2012
$55.00SINCE ITS INCEPTION fifty years ago, the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, has kept true to its original mission of training family doctors while defying the odds in becoming one of the nation’s leading centers of biomedical research.
Tower Hill: The First Twenty-Five Years
$28.95NO TYPE OF BUILDING—pyramid, skyscraper, palace—presents so many challenges as the design, construction and sustenance of a botanic garden. John Trexler’s Tower Hill: The First Twenty-Five Years traces the metamorphosis of a venerable urban horticultural institution, the Worcester County Horticultural Society founded in 1842, into the ever-evolving Tower Hill Botanic Garden, which opened in 1986.
Fake Smiles: A Memoir
$26.95FAKE SMILES IS A GRACEFUL, moving and reflective memoir of a contentious father-son relationship set against the backdrop of the Eisenhower and Nixon eras.
Living at the City’s Green Edge: Bancroft Heights a Planned Neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts
$42.00
TAKING AS HER CANVAS forty-plus acres on the west side of Worcester, Massachusetts, Susan Ceccacci has created a rich tableau that captures the city’s cultural and industrial development over the past two centuries.
The Inventive Life of Charles Hill Morgan: The Power of Improvement in Industry, Education and Civic Life
$27.95
WHEN CHARLES HILL MORGAN learned how to use specialized drafting tools in the 1840s, his professional-grade compass precisely centered measurements for foundations and steam engines. His mastery of these tools led to a future of vast new possibilities.
Driving Backwards
$24.95GILMANTON WAS BRIEFLY the most famous town in America. Today the town, nestled amongst the hills of Central New Hampshire and along the curve of the Suncook River, is a microcosm of the changing ways and enduring values of rural life in the twenty-first century.