Here's a warm and delightful tribute to New England and New Englanders -- what it means to be a Yankee -- by the editor of "Yankee" magazine.

An A-Z compendium of the celebrities comedian and TV personality Kathy Griffin has met over the years and the anecdotes only she can tell about them.

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Home, Town, Community - Government, Politics and War - Ingenuity and Enterprise - Creativity and Culture - Seasons: Work and Recreation - Forests and Mountains - Sea, Lake, Sky - Notes - About the Author

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliantly funny tribute to the simple pleasures of eating” (Parade) from the author of Dad Is Fat
Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry?
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"In May of 2015, Michael Cameron Ward transitioned from a career as a Software Engineer to become the author of his family chronicle. Before he passed, in June 2015 at age 94, his father, Harold, asked him to write the family history. He wanted his nine great-grandchildren to 'know from whence they came.' The first of four volumes in the Sketches of Lee collection, A Colored Man in Exeter, was published in September of 2017. It captured his father's...

"Even More Wicked Newport" is the continuation of the wildly popular, local best seller, Wicked Newport. Local author and historian Larry Stanford, delves even deeper into the once illicit, inner circles of Newport, Rhode Island's high society. What is revealed is a peek behind the formerly forbidden curtains of unthinkable wealth, astonishing historical events as well as scandals so salacious in their day; the details were once considered "Unprintable."...

In March 1841, as townspeople flocked to the Exeter Courthouse to view a state-of-the-art diorama of the Conflagration of Moscow, the courthouse itself went up in flames. What was dubbed the Conflagration of the Courthouse is just one of the intriguing events revisited by historian Barbara Rimkunas in this collection. Exeter was also home to a score of eccentric personalities including Dick the fire horse, whose obituary in the town paper ran longer...

Take a trip with Larry Stanford through 350 years of Newport's hidden, dark history. Founded by a small band of religious freedom seekers in 1639, Newport, Rhode Island, subsequently became a bustling colonial seaport teeming with artists, sailors, prosperous merchants and, perhaps most distinctively, the ultra-rich families of the Gilded Age. Clinging to the lavish coattails of these newly minted millionaires and robber barons was a stream of con...

There's nothing quite like family-for good or bad. But in a world where we sometimes know more about the Kardashians than we do the people sleeping right down the hall, it's easy to forget that walking through life with our family offers all sorts of joy wrapped up in the seemingly mundane. There's even a little bit of sacred sitting smack-dab in the middle of the ordinary. And since time's-a-wastin', we need to be careful that we don't take our people-and...