Book of the Week (9/25/2023) and more...

A mysterious tablecloth becomes a portal to adventures beyond imagining, transporting three ordinary teenagers into Yther, the dimension of living dreams. Joining forces with fantastic fantasy creatures and acquiring incredible powers, Abby, Cayla, and Matt must travel through many wondrous realms in the chimeric dream world, confronting and battling terrifying nightmare monsters in their quest to defeat an evil wizard and restore power to Yther’s true king, who lies trapped in slumber at an unknown location. The quest will take all their courage, resourcefulness, and imagination, and the fate of all of Yther, and perhaps their own world as well, hangs in the balance. -- Publisher's blurb

Join NH author Ellwyn Hayslip IV when he visits Gibson's Bookstore on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 6:30 pm to talk about his new book!

   

NH children's author Adi Rule is back with a funny and fantastical middle grade reader!

The Netherbeast, a slinking creature with an overwhelming stench, impossibly charms young Nell. Befriending this shapeshifter propels Nell into an unforgettable summer. A beast, a haunting, a fire, and a basement that should be avoided at all costs are just part of the adventures Nell didn’t ask for. This story is equal parts heart-pounding and heartwarming.

Twelve-year-old Nell Stoker loves animals. She’s been working toward becoming a junior volunteer at her local animal shelter for what feels like forever. But now it’s summertime, and her parents are making her go to her Aunt Jerry’s old bed and breakfast in Deer Valley with her older sister Lulu. When Nell crosses paths with the Netherbeast (a creature that is decidedly not a cat), his hijinks leave her wondering if she’s made a new best friend or if Netherbeast will destroy the whole B&B (not even by accident). It's up to Nell to help save her aunt's B&B and solve the mystery of what might be in the basement. Between the mysteries of Rose Cottage and the creepy Netherbeast—Nell is in for an unforgettable summer adventure.-- Publisher's blurb

   

  The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice and the rules are simple:

• Grab a book, any book 
• Turn to Page 56 or 56% in your Ereader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
• Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
• Post the snippet to your blog and add your post url to the Linky at the host site

 Here on NH Book Notes I am adding the rule that the book has to be by a NH author.

 "A parade snaked its way through Dublin, white-starched hospital nurses waving to the crowd. Containers of hundreds of thousands of tickets received hearty cheers on their way to the Mansion House for selection. Sweep Day in Dublin was like St. Patrick's Day in New York."

   

Candid and poignant, humorous and heart-wrenching, in nomadic fashion, the directionless Butt Family chaotically relocated throughout the city of Laconia, New Hampshire, like a ship, adrift and lost at sea without a captain.

Encumbered by night terrors, hauntings, and scraps of memories that spoke to a cruelty beyond her mother, Becky sneakily devoured her way into young adulthood and developed a crippling, yet all too comforting, binge-eating disorder.

Morbidly obese, visited often by a seething presence, and drowning under the smothering symptoms of childhood trauma, Becky is sure she’s the defective link in her broken family-until her ghost relative provides her a life jacket of hope that may just keep her afloat. --Publisher's blurb

About the author:

As a young child, Rebecca escaped into books, and wrote happy stories accompanied by bright and cheerful pictures with houses, trees, flowers, and birds, that were a contradiction to her real-life circumstances. Her childhood love for reading and writing endured, and she eventually wrote and published her short stories and poetry in a literary journal in college. Lipstick on a Pig is her lengthiest writing endeavor. A licensed Speech Language Pathologist with a master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders, she is the Director of Special Education for a school district in New Hampshire, where she resides.

Join Rebecca Butt as she discusses and launches her new book, "Lipstick on a Pig" at Bookery Manchester on Sep. 24, 2023 from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm.

   

  The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice and the rules are simple:

• Grab a book, any book 
• Turn to Page 56 or 56% in your Ereader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
• Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
• Post the snippet to your blog and add your post url to the Linky at the host site

 Here on NH Book Notes I am adding the rule that the book has to be by a NH author.

We took the summer off from this series, but are ready to resume them!

"But the woman in the photo was not family. She was old--eighty, ninety, he couldn't remember anymore. She sat in a rocking chair, birdlike frame nearly lost in a pile of voluminous hand-me-down clothes: man's dark blue flannel shirt, belted around brown corduroy pants, nearly covered by an old Army jacket. The woman was smiling the large, gleeful smile of the elderly, like she had a secret too, and hers was better than his."