The 2020 Fall book selection is Heart Spring Mountain by Robin MacArthur It’s August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away—while tending bar in New Orleans—Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement […]
Tremendously powerful and lushly romantic, The God Of Small Things effectively shifts between two time periods: Rahel's present-day trip home to see her mute, haunted twin brother, Estha, and a December day 20 years before — the tumultuous day that tears the family apart. With mesmerizing language and lyrical descriptions of place that draw the […]
Now in-person! Join Deputy Director, Beverly Shadley, as she guest hosts the Summer 2021, SELT Book Club! Let’s talk about Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers alongside the Squamscott Rive in Exeter’s beautiful Swasey Parkway. Local goodies will be provided from the Exeter Farmer’s Market, which will be wrapping up as the book […]
Join SELT Deputy Director, Beverly Shadley, for snacks, drinks, and a lively discussion on Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in […]
A lifelong NH resident, Mary Magnusson lives in Kingston where she gardens, reads, and hangs out with family and friends. She teaches English at Bedford High School, and is currently teaching an elective focused on nature/environmental writing. “From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about […]
Join guest host and Master Naturalist Roanne Robbins for a discussion of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with […]
Join SELT, local Epping author Phil Primack, and Water Street Bookstore for a book club meeting for ‘Put It Down On Paper’: The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, A Fifty-Year Search by Phil Primack at the new Nan & George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms! Phil Primack was a […]
We have postponed this Book Club session until May. Join SELT’s Deputy Director, Beverly Shadley, for a hopeful discussion around Douglas Tallaway’s second book, Nature’s Best Hope- A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard. “Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. […]
