Bauhan Publishing
In 1959, William L. Bauhan purchased Richard R. Smith Inc., a Rindge-based publishing company founded in New York City in the 1930s. Bauhan ran R.R. Smith, first under its original name, then as Noone House, named for the family home across from Peterborough’s Noone Falls, and finally, after the Bauhans moved to neighboring Dublin, as William L. Bauhan Inc. After Bauhan’s death in 2006, local writer and editor Ian Aldrich shepherded the company through a transitional phase. Bauhan’s daughter, Sarah Bauhan, who worked with her father for years as a book designer and ultimately managed the company, reincorporated as Bauhan Publishing LLC in 2009.
The company continues to focus on New England regional books in the areas of history, art, nature studies, and poetry, as well as venturing into thoughtful books that explore sustainability of both the earth and the spirit, and a few fiction titles.In 1959, William L. Bauhan purchased Richard R. Smith Inc., a Rindge-based publishing company founded in New York City in the 1930s. Bauhan ran R.R. Smith, first under its original name, then as Noone House, named for the family home across from Peterborough’s Noone Falls, and finally, after the Bauhans moved to neighboring Dublin, as William L. Bauhan Inc.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780872333864
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2024
Illustrations: Photographs
Description:
As They Were offers an inciteful and evocative glimpse of France during the “phony war” period between the September 1, 1939, German invasion of Poland and the Nazi attack on the Netherlands, Belgium, and France in May 1940. A. Peter Dewey, a young reporter for the Chicago Daily News, deftly chronicled the daily routines of life in Paris as its citizens, suspended between the world that they knew and an inevitable war ahead, tried to maintain the equilibrium of the French capital.
Dewey spoke fluent French and considered the country the home of his heart: his parents had purchased the abandoned Abbaye de Sainte-Marie on the coast of Normandy in 1931 and restored it; the abbey was seized by the Nazis during the war and was later reclaimed by the family.After Dewey was killed while on an OSS mission to Saigon in 1945, his friends and family gathered the writings he left behind and published them as a book in 1946. As They Were describes his experiences in France working as a reporter and a member of the Polish-American Volunteer Ambulance Service in the time leading up to the Nazi invasion. He managed to escape to Spain twelve hours before its border was closed.This new edition of the book includes Peter’s photographs and an introduction by his daughter, Nancy Dewey Hoppin.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780872333482
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2024
Illustrations: Illustrated
Description:
In Essays from Essex, Sydney M. Williams III shares new musings on family, nature, and the miracles to be found in everyday life. The nearly two dozen entries in this, his third collection, range from stories of growing up in the 1940s and '50s, Christmases past, and remembrances of friends, to observations on the joys of motherhood and the return of Atlantic sturgeon to the Connecticut River.
The book also includes a half-dozen drawings by Williams’s grandson, Alex.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780872333628
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2024
Illustrations: Illustrated
Description:
Following up on his book, Claremont Boy, noted attorney Joseph D. Steinfield offers more thoughtful commentary in this new collection of essays. In Time for Everything, Steinfield first looks back at friends, heroes, family, travel, being Jewish, and, of course, sports.
He then turns his thoughts to the law and offers insight into issues that are particularly relevant today, such as the right to vote, executive power, the internet, and Constitutional issues arising during the coronavirus pandemic.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780872333604
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
Description:
Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize Set in rural England during and after the bubonic plague pandemic of 1348-1349, this verse novel drives to the heart of what we humans are capable of when boiled down to our very core in the struggle to survive - and how, in more ways than one, it’s not our intelligence or our resiliency, but love and the non-human animals that save us.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780872333338
Pub Date: 06 Jun 2022
Description:
In Girl as Birch, Gibson mimics the flexible (adaptable? too pliant? healthily, if secretly, resilient, then, finally, aligned) motion of a birch in strong wind, as it relates to the options seemingly available to her, growing up as a girl.
The poems imitate in form the experiences they evoke. The leitmotifs of red, birches, mirrors, walls enclosing gardens, labyrinths as metaphors for constraint, recur throughout the book. Without being a manifesto, Girl as Birch explores female gender roles with both pliant and uprising imagery and action. Restriction and rebellion, silence and speech, appearance and artifice, passion and repression, the past and being present, buffet and embolden the speaker of these poems. The elastic and varied syntax, pace, music, and the use of rhetoric and wit express deft self-examination. The book moves from serial impressionistic poems of early childhood to discrete lyric poems of memory and experience and on to a sense of emotional, social, spiritual evolution, not resolution.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9780872333574
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Description:
Whiskey Boys: And Other Meditations from the Abyss at the End of Youth is a lively collection of literary essays about bars, booze, and traveling the American West. The book follows the author from small-town Illinois to the West Coast after he abandons a legal career to pursue writing. Much of the narrative concerns growing up and what’s gained and lost with maturity, while considering the challenges of living as a writer in a culture that’s skeptical of the creative arts.
Other threads include travel, wanderlust, the psychological effect of place, and mortality.
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780872333475
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2021
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780872333451
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Description:
Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skeleton of the American Story and amplified both the distinctive regional and the broader national cultures.
Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 photographs,
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780872333505
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2021
Description:
Chasing Eden is about seekers, Americans searching for their Eden, longing for a Promised Land, a utopia somewhere out on the horizon. With his usual deep perception, humor, and grace, Howard Mansfield writes about "a small gathering of Americans" united by longing and devotion in their search for something perfect here on earth, a goal that is ever receding. Mansfield illuminates how this longing – for God, for freedom, for peace – can be found in every era, and gives form and force to our lives in our pursuit of happiness – "the primary occupation of every American.
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780872333390
Pub Date: 10 Aug 2021
Description:
This is a new edition of Birthday Deathday & Other Stories by Padma Perera, first published by The Women's Press, England, 1985, with international reviews from the UK, USA, Europe, and the Commonwealth countries. Additional material now provides more oral history from the first four decades just before and after India's Independence, 1940s-1980s. The story "Doctor Salaam" was included in Salman Rushdie's Mirrorwork, an anthology of the best Indian fiction in English during the fifty years after India’s Independence.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9780872333277
Pub Date: 10 Aug 2021
Description:
Winner of the 2020 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize. In this memoir, written within a collection of essays, Patrick Mondaca deftly threads together stories of his wartime service in Iraq, his pre-war experience, and his postwar efforts to readjust to civilian life. From small-town Connecticut to Baghdad, to Darfur and New York City, Mondaca considers the effects of war on the soldier - what it does to one’s psyche, identity, and morality.
While he is just one of millions who have returned from this country’s ongoing armed conflicts, his moving essays offer a glimpse into the experience of veterans struggling to find their way back to their prior lives and the loved ones trying to understand them. The collection speaks deeply and thoughtfully to many issues of our times.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780872333307
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
Description:
DM Me, Mother Darling pulses with the confusion, elation, and shattering fear of 21st century parenthood. Through the eyes of Peter Pan’s Mother Darling and Doran’s own experience navigating modern motherhood, the struggles so often fought in silence come careening forward, electric as the light that defines them. Through a tangle of casinos, Lizzo, and gravel parking lots, Doran takes readers to a narcotized Neverland where the mire of grief and the desperation of joy burn with the same endless flame.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9780872333420
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2021
Description:
In this entertaining autobiography, the Rev. Patrick Forbes looks back at an exceptionally varied ministry in the Church of England - from being the idiot curate to parish priest, to religious programs producer, to a BBC Radio 2's "Pause For Thought" contributor, to co-founder of the Holy Fools UK, all while asking challenging questions about the future direction of the church. Sometimes known as "Partick Frobes, the well-known clerical error", Forbes often finds and points out the humor and not-so-funny "elephants in the room", after his more than eighty years in the church.
He may be the only ordained minister in the Church of England to have been blessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury as the front end of a pantomime horse. "Imagine just for a moment that most of our discussions in the Church about how we survive into the next generation are starting in the wrong place. Patrick Forbes's irresistibly lively memoir suggests that it wouldn't hurt to stop and open our eyes - not only to a herd of persistently ignored and self-inflicted problems but also to the abundance of gift and newness that he has discovered in his unique pilgrimage." - The Rt. Rev’d. Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (2002-2012)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9780872333178
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2021
Description:
In 2012, McCagg and her husband, Carl built an off-grid, solar-powered house in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. It was to be a weekend getaway for the writer (“what’s this pitchfork for?”) and trombonist (a wannabe farmer).
In December, with two cats and six newly adopted chicks, they drove up to Jaffrey from their home in Providence, Rhode Island, ostensibly just for the winter so their new pipes wouldn’t freeze… But their hen “Rhoda Red” turned out to be “Big Red.” Roosters are outlawed by Providence city regulations, so Big Red couldn’t go back. Thus, writes McCagg, “neither did we. Survival of the fittest. Natural selection. Soul evolution. We named our 193-acre home “Darwin’s View” for a reason.” Chicken kerfuffles lighten the mood, but this story is born of heartbreak, of yearning for the great beauty of the world as it used to be. As she moves from full-time weekender to organic gardener, McCagg interlaces her tale with her mother’s battle with Parkinson’s, braiding both Mother and Mother Nature. Add the sun, the wind, and a cock-a-doodle-do, and you have the recipe for a perfect storm of personal growth rippling out to effect a larger transformation.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872333222
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2021
Description:
Block, Paper, Chisels is a colorful collection of over seventy prints created by artist Kim Cunningham throughout her four decades in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. This wide-ranging exploration of the block print medium includes everything from images of familiar landscapes and local wildlife to more abstract collages celebrating the beauty of trees. Background information on Kim’s influences and technique are included, and her haiku poems accompany two series of prints.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780872333246
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2021
Description:
Following a life-changing accident that left him paralyzed at age 51, Arthur Ullian began to realize that not only did life in a wheelchair make him feel “different,” but he had always felt like an outsider to some degree, having grown up Jewish in the elite WASP world of prep schools, cotillion classes, sailing yachts, and restricted clubs. He also came to see that over the course of his life he had, paradoxically, internalized the prevailing Christian view of the “Jewish character” and unconsciously attempted to replicate the social and material trappings of those who excluded him. In Matthew, Mark, Luke, John… and Me - a thoughtful, historically-grounded, and often humorous memoir - he interweaves personal experience with an exploration of the roots of ethnic stereotypes and antisemitism, ending with reasons to hope that historic Jewish–Christian enmities will fade and brotherhood eventually prevail.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780872333192
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2021
Description:
It’s 1977. A 22-year-old finds herself ensconced in a place of dust and history: the archives room of a second-rate college. She’s re-shelving Victorian etiquette books when the door opens and in walks a fabulous, seductive, larger-than-life writer of historical romances - and the young woman’s life will never be the same.
Set against 25 years of cultural evolution, the love between the two women - the younger librarian and the grande dame of cheesy literature - outlasts a 28-year age difference, romantic dalliances, illness, and the confines of the closet. Along the way, the librarian ponders the nature of life, death, religion, and philosophy with the help of the imaginary counterparts of Socrates, Hildegard of Bingen, and Suzanne Pleshette; samples casseroles with names like Vegetables Psychosis and The Tubers Karamazov; and forges a family with her best friend, Jeff, and assorted quirky characters who wander into their lives.
