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NEW ENGLAND • CONNECTICUT Gone but Not Forgotten: New England’s Ghost Towns, Cemeteries & Memorials. Summer Paradis and CathyMcManus. NewEngland has a long, rich history that can be experienced by visiting historic locations, abandoned villages, monuments, and cemeteries that cover the region. Here are 36 locations, along with a handy picto- rial guide, detailed directions, 180 color photo- graphs, and a history from across NH, MA, ME, CT, RI, and VT. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 180 color images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-4552-4 • PB • $24.99 / £23.99 / 36.99 CAD New England Graveside Tales. T. M. Gray. Explore tales of legendary creatures that haunt New England forests, lakes, sea, and sky. Learn of blazing beaches and strange objects raining down from the heavens. Relive the terror of killer storms, tornadoes, and dead- ly infernos. The region has played host to cryptid crea- tures like sea monsters, Bigfoot, satyrs, thunderbirds, and more. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 34 b/w images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3447-4 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD More New England Graveside Tales. T. M. Gray. This second volume of New England’s Graveside Tales presents a dark cavern of mystery. Includes historic hauntings, ghosts, UFOs, witchcraft persecutions, vampires, and places to visit—if you dare. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 45 b/w photos • 128 pp. • 978-0- 7643-3585-3 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD Campfire Tales: New England. E. Ashley Rooney. With more than 300 years of battles, witches, haunted inns, and curses, it is no surprise that New England has more than its share of eerie events and spooky happenings. Here find 50 campfire tales that are part of New England’s heritage. Featured are tales from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. These stories, and many more, will send chills down your spine . . . so don’t let your campfire go out! • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 21 b/w photos • 128 pp. • 978-0- 7643-4290-5 • PB • $16.99 / £16.99 / 24.99 CAD Curious Creatures of New England. Christopher Forest. New England’s history is explored through 40 stories of people’s experiences, both earthly and super- natural, with wild creatures of unknown origin in the backwoods and hillsides. From the White Mountains, to the lakes of Massachusetts, to the coasts of Maine and Southern New England, tales abound of the odd, the strange, and the sublime. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • Index • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4466-4 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD Spooky Creepy New England. Karen Mossey. This book offers the experience of actual ghost investigations through old colonial homes and notoriously famous haunted locations in historic New England. Step into a private home where the owner hears the voice of an unseen child cry out for “Mommy.” Prepare to be fright- ened as you read about the janitor at the Wilton Theater, who sees an apparition of a man in a tall hat walking the aisle. Hear the talkative ghosts at Hills Cemetery. More than 20 ghostly tales • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 42 b/w photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3540-2 • PB • $14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Pirate Ghosts and Phantom Ships: Haunts of New England’s Shorelines. Thomas D’Agostino. Read the tales of Captain Kid, Blackbeard, Anne Bonney, Black Bellamy, and other burley buccaneers who haunt New England’s land and seas. Learn about Goat Island, where wraiths of hanged pirates rise up seeking vengeance. Hear the Isles of Shoals phantom dory’s oars as it slowly rows in search of its next victim. Ghostly ladies mourn the passing of some of the most ruthless characters history can name. • 6 x 9 (152 x 228mm) • 19 b/wphotos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-2744-5 • PB • $14.95 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Lost Loot: Ghostly New England Treasure Tales. Patricia Hughes. Learn about the lost pirate riches of Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Edward Low, and other das- tardly buccaneers. Consider hidden treasures in the Appalachian, Longfellow, White, and Green Mountains . . . and how you might find the loot. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • Index • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643-2816-9 • PB • $14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD More Lost Loot: Ghostly New England Treasure Tales. Patricia Hughes. Stories of lost treasure sites in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Explore supernatural history that abounds in this region. Visit ghost towns, lost Native American villages, forgotten mines, and valuable gem discoveries. Pirates were welcome, and the legends suggest they left their loot behind.But beware, black dog guardians, wildmen, and pirate ghosts protect these treasures from ever being found. Yo Ho. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 40 b/w photos • 256 pp. • 978-0- 7643-3627-0 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD Treasure Wreck: The Fortunes & Fate of the Pirate Ship Whydah. Arthur T. Vanderbilt. When the pirate ship Whydah went down in a violent storm just off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717, she took a treasury of stolen gold and jewels. Here is the story of this plunder, of the pirates who amassed this horde during one legendary year upon the Spanish Main, and the tragedy of their loss upon the shoals of Cape Cod. It is updated to cover salvage efforts still underway in the Whydah’s deep-sea grave. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 16 b/w photos • 188 pp. • 978-0- 7643-2739-1 • PB • $19.95 / £19 / 29.95 CAD Connecticut by Bicycle: Fifty Great Scenic Routes. Frederick John Lamp. This is the first full-col- or guide to the state of Connecticut by road bike for the moderate level rider. The book covers six diverse geographical regions of Connecticut in fifty rides. Each ride is represented by a four-page spread with color photographs of the sights, a narrative description, and a map. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 160+ color images • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-3794-9 • HC • $39.99 / £38.99 / 59.99 CAD Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut. J. Frederick Kelly. Details house plans, framing, roofs, masonry, windows, entrances, paneling, mantels, cupboards, stairs, and more from houses built during the early 1600s through the 1800s. Line drawings of moulding details. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 193 b/w photos & 242 line drawings • 230 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2664-6 • PB • $29.95 / £28.99 / 45.00 CAD Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley. Darcy Purinton & Dale F. Cahill. Over 200 color photos provide a detailed look at tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. Get a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, person- al, and agricultural perspective. Text explores the construction and unique features of tobacco sheds and how some have been transformed, and given new life and new uses. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 225 color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-3204-3 • HC • $34.99 / £33.99 / 51.99 CAD Tobacco Sheds: Vanishing Treasures in the Connecticut River Valley. Dale Cahill and Darcy Cahill. This important book systematically catalogs tobacco sheds from Putney, Vermont, to Portland, Connecticut. The photographs cap- ture the beauty of these unique farm buildings and serve as a valuable record for these endan- gered barns. The text offers the agricultural history of each town. • 11" x 81/2" (279 x 215mm) •280 color photos •112 pp. • 978-0-7643-4326-1 • HC • $24.99 / £23.99 / 36.99 CAD Connecticut: Scenes Connecticut: Architecture Gingerbread Gems of Willimantic, Connecticut. Michele Palmer, photography by Lori Garris. From tiny cottages to grand mansions, these examples of Carpender Gothic, Queen Anne, Stick Style, Italianate, and Second Empire architecture have made Willimantic, Connecticut, famous. More than 175 color images display high Victorian houses. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 178 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-2603-5 • PB • $19.95 / £19 / 29.95 CAD Connecticut Decoys. Henry C. Chitwood, with Thomas C. Marshall and Doug Knight. One of the most comprehensive studies ever written on Connecticut working decoys with more than 400 photos. A table of carvers is followed by a detailed text covering the decoys produced by more than 82 carvers, discussions on factory decoys, shore birds, and descriptive decoy features. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 406 photos, 2 maps • 192 pp. • 978-0-88740-104-6 • HC • $45.00 / £42.99 / 68.00 CAD Quilts and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut. The Connecticut Quilt Search Project. More than 145 outstanding and diverse quilts from Connecticut dating from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the mid-20th century. Includes stories of the quiltmakers, historical background, and an extensive bibliography. A must for students of quilt history, women’s studies, textile en- thusiasts, and lovers of American history. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •278 color photos •176pp. •978-0-7643- 1472-8 • PB • $29.95 / £28.99 / 45.00 CAD More Connecticut Lore: Guidebook to 82 Strange Locations. Zachary Lamothe. Journey through Connecti- cut using this unconventional guidebook containing 82 odd locations to visit on your next outing. Discover tidbits that will give you ideas to add to your trip and a section highlighting destinations along the way, like restaurants, breweries, and inns. There are 45 images to enhance your tour. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 45 b/w photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-5144-0 • PB • $16.99 / £16.99 / 24.99 CAD Brass Valley: The Fall of an American Industry. Emery Roth II. In this ode to Connecti- cut’s Naugatuck River Valley, vibrant photos and moving poetry relate the region’s legendary in- dustrial history. This elegy captures glowing metal flying at the Ansonia foundry in its final days and abandoned opera houses and train tracks, vestiges of a dying infrastructure and American way of life. • 12" x 9" (304 x 228mm) • 236 color photos • 240 pp. • 978-0-7643-4930-0 • HC • $45.00 / £42.99 / 68.00 CAD Connecticut’s Seaside Ghosts. Donald Carter. Tour Connecticut’s most fascinating seaside hauntings. Near- ly 400 years of spirited tales are covered within, from the ghostly legacy of colonial witchcraft trials to cursed pirate gold, from spectral voices at haunted battlefields to ghost ships that sail stormy skies. There is treasure and much more to entice you along the haunted seaside of Con- necticut, but be prepared to be chilled. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 65 b/w photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-3000-1 • PB • $14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Connecticut: Arts & Crafts Connecticut: Stories, Lore & History Spooky Creepy New England 2. Karen Mossey. Jour- ney through supernatural Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maine to experience 20 real encounters with ghosts and phantasms. Within these pages visit ghostly homes, haunted shipwrecks, businesses, and famous spooky historical places as you witness paranormal situ- ations that defy rational explanation. You are sure to ex- perience some of the spookiest and creepiest encounters from New England in this spooky second volume • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 35 photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-4502-9 • PB • $14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD | 29