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Lebanon
Police Department
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The City of Lebanon, NH
Sponsored
by:
The Book
'Em Foundation
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used for increasing literacy rates, decreasing crime, and helping
police solve unsolved crimes
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Alan E. Foulds
from Reading, Massachusetts |
Alan E. Foulds is editor of a national
magazine and is also town moderator for Reading, MA. A native
New Englander, his first book combines two of the regions
passions: history and sports. “Boston’s
Ballparks and Arenas” tells the story of the
region’s professional sporting past through the venues where the
teams played. Beginning with the South End Grounds in 1871 –
original home of the Boston Braves – through to the
five-year-old Gillette Stadium, the book covers 42 locales in
all.
Foulds is currently working on a book
called “Summer Capital,”
chronicling the four summers when Beverly, MA essentially hosted
our federal government.
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Ernest Hebert
from West Lebanon, New Hampshire |
I
am a New Hampshire native, the author of eight novels and one
non-fiction book, and a professor at Dartmouth College. In 2006,
The New England Booksellers Association named me their fiction
author of the year. In 2005, my novel
Spoonwood received an IPPY
(Independent Book Publishers) award for best regional novel in
the Northeast. Mad Boys (1993) and
The Old American (2000) named
"outstanding fiction" by New Hampshire
Writers' Project. Live
Free or Die was New York Times "notable book" for 1989. My first
novel, The Dogs March (1979), was cited for excellence by the
Hemingway Foundation and remains in print after more than 25
years.
Forthcoming in the summer: NH Patterns, photographs by Jon
Gilbert Fox, personal essays by yours truly. |
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Betty Johnson
from Haverhill, New Hampshire |
Singer Betty Johnson's extraordinary
voice lifted her from the arduous cotton fields on North
Carolina to the luxury of Park Avenue. From the sweet
sounds of the Johnson Family Singers, America's first
family of gospel, to the elegant rhythms of her solo
career in top venues around the globe, music was the
saving force in a difficult life filled with personal
hardships and devastating secrets.
The Cinderella tale of the
hard-working, determined woman leaves you cheering as
the triumphs of her later life overshadow the pain of
her early life. This is a story of tremendous faith and
even greater, but above all, it is a story of music,
told by the author in her still beautiful voice, with
actual recordings spanning over seventy years of her
career.
Fast forward 50 years and Betty is
well into her third career in music. If you ask her how
it's going, she's likely to respond..."Life is good and
it just keeps getting better."
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