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The Bookshelf: The Little-Known History Of Violence At New England's African American Schools Jun 16, 2020

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The history of school desegregation in America has long been centered around the southern United States.

The Bookshelf: Monadnock Literary Journal Brings Regional Writers Together Feb 28, 2020

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The second issue of the literary journal Monadnock Underground is set to release next week. The collection brings together more than a dozen pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, mostly by local writers.

The Bookshelf: Meredith Tate Takes On The Difficult Subject of Rape Feb 14, 2020

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In Concord-native Meredith Tate’s new novel, a young woman is kidnapped after a drug deal goes badly. To summon help, she has an out-of-body experience. Her quest to give her sister clues about where she is and how she got there serves as the central action of the book, which is called The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly. Tate spoke about it with NHPR's Peter Biello.

The Bookshelf: A Sexual Assault Survivor Learns to Thrive in Lisa Gardner's New Novel Jan 31, 2020

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One day, while hiking in the Georgia mountains, a couple finds the bones of a human body buried many years ago. The discovery prompts a search for answers: why was this person killed? Who did it? And how many more bodies are hidden in these hills?

The Bookshelf: N.H. Poet Laureate Will Be Your Reader Jan 17, 2020

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Alexandria Peary is New Hampshire’s new poet laureate, and she’s ramping up her work as the state’s official advocate for poetry and the literary arts more broadly. As part of her work as poet laureate, she’s been reading work sent to her by New Hampshire poets.

The Bookshelf: Keene Author Recalls 'Cub' Reporting Days in Graphic Memoir Jan 03, 2020

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When Cindy Copeland was in seventh grade in the early 1970s, an English teacher encouraged her to become a writer. Shortly after that, the Keene resident landed an internship as a “cub reporter” with a local journalist, following her to public meetings and learning how question people powerful people—most of them men. And Cindy did all this while navigating the tricky minefield of fraught friendships, cliques, and bullying that so often characterize life in junior high.

The Bookshelf: Author John Brighton Remembers the Sullivan County of the 1960s Dec 20, 2019

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When New Hampshire author John Brighton was six years old, his family bought a lakeside farm in Washington, a small town in New Hampshire's Sullivan County.

The Bookshelf: Poet Marie Harris and 'Desire Lines' Dec 06, 2019

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If you've ever been on a college campus or a public park, you may have seen desire lines. Those are those well-worn paths carved by travelers who, for whatever reason, preferred a route that diverged from the ones carefully cured in concrete by city or campus planners.

The Bookshelf: N.H. Writers Face the National Novel Writing Month Challenge Nov 22, 2019

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This November, writers across the world are participating in National Novel Writing Month. Organized by a non-profit, its goal is to encourage anyone who has dreamed of writing a book to just do it...over the course of one month. With a little more than a week remaining, NHPR's Peter Biello spoke with writers from New England giving it a try.

The Bookshelf: Author Alex Myers Challenges Gender Norms in New Novel Nov 08, 2019

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Novelist Alex Myers came out as transgender in the mid-90s, when society's understanding of what it means to be transgender was less clear than it is today.

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