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This New Hampshire Bookstore Is Packed With Mountain Gear, Maps, Books And Local Treasures
Hiking guidebooks, detailed trail maps, and mountain-themed treasures all packed into one little shop? That’s a combination I can appreciate, especially when planning an outdoor adventure involves figuring out where to go first. The New Hampshire bookstore specializes in resources for exploring the White Mountains, with guidebooks, maps, and...
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This Maine Butcher Shop Serves Fresh Meat That Beats Anything At The Supermarket
Sausages get made right behind the counter here, sometimes while shoppers stand there watching. That’s my kind of grocery trip. This Maine butcher shop works with whole animals from local farms. That means the steak, pork, and chicken have a short trip from pasture to counter. The shelves go...
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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is a fine writer, and novels such as The Burgess Boys and My Name Is Lucy Barton are very good. Still, Olive Kitteridge, her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of interrelated stories, has an immediacy and fierceness that one finds in only the very greatest books. Sequels nearly always disappoint, and it cannot be said that Olive, Again has quite the range and power of its predecessor. Nevertheless, the book does an excellent job of revivifying the ill-tempered, truth-telling Olive and her neighbors in and around fictional Crosby, Maine.