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Caplan, Sheri J.
Title by this Author:
Old Enough: How 18-Year-Olds Won the Vote & Why it Matters (Heath Hen, 2020), ISBN: 978-1735493008
Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street’s History (Praeger, 2013), ISBN: 978-1440802652
Chapman, Sherry
Title by this Author:
How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
Pirrotta, Paul
Title by this Author:
Hartford Mayor Ann Uccello: A Connecticut Trailblazer
Courage and Sacrifice: The Italian Immigrants of Hartford 1860-1960
Lion, Peter
Title by this Author:
“MERG” The true story of one WWII soldier’s selfless act of valor that one town that never forgot.
“AMERICAN ST. NICK” The true story of how a handful of American soldiers brought Christmas back to a small war-torn town during the darkest days of WWII
Lehmann, Kat
Title by this Author:
Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid Poems (29 Trees Press, 2019); ISBN: 0988492644.
Small Stones from the River: Meditations and Micropoems (29 Trees Press, 2017); ISBN: 154555580X.
Moon Full of Moons: Poetry of Transformation (29 Trees Press, 2015); ISBN: 1096125374.
O’Brien, Caragh M.
Title by this Author:
Birthmarked (2010)
“Tortured” (Birthmarked 1.5)
Prized (Birthmarked #2) (2011)
“Ruled” (Birthmarked 2.5) (2012)
Promised (Birthmarked #3) (2012)
The Vault of Dreamers (2014)
The Rule of Mirrors (The Vault of Dreamers #2) (2016)
The Keep of Ages (The Vault of Dreamers #3) (2017)
Beveridge, MaryEllen
Title by this Author:
After the Hunger: Stories (Fomite Press, January 2020)
Permeable Boundaries: Stories (forthcoming, Fomite Press 2021)
Carroll, Katie L.
Title by this Author:
Pirate Island (2017), Elixir Bound (2018), Elixir Saved (2020)
Burrello, Jotham
Title by this Author:
Spindle City, July 21, 2020
Mattano, Len
Title by this Author:
Celtic Crossing
Bussan, Paul
Title by this Author:
A Rage of Intelligence, 2003
This Is Me, Not Robert Creeley, Speaking, 2017
Towards A New Piety, 2019
Ferruolo, Jeanne Zulick
Title by this Author:
Ruby in the Sky, Farrar Straus Giroux (2019)
A Galaxy of Sea Stars, Farrar Straus Giroux (2020)
Spignesi, Stephen
Title by this Author:
• Mayberry, My Hometown
• The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia
• The Stephen King Quiz Book, Vols 1 & 2
• The Woody Allen Companion
• The Official “Gone With the Wind” Companion
• The V. C. Andrews Trivia and Quiz Book
• What’s Your “Mad About You” IQ?
• The Gore Galore Video Quiz Book
• What’s Your “Friends” IQ?
• The Celebrity Baby Name Book
• The “ER” Companion
• J.F.K. Jr.
• The Robin Williams Scrapbook
• The Italian 100
• The Beatles Book of Lists
• Young Kennedys: The New Generation
• The Lost Work of Stephen King
• The Complete Titanic
• How To Be An Instant Expert
• She Came In Through the Kitchen Window
• The USA Book of Lists
• The UFO Book of Lists
• The Essential Stephen King
• The Cat Book of Lists
• The Hollywood Book of Lists
• Gems, Jewels, & Treasures
• Catastrophe!
• In the Crosshairs
• Crop Circles: Signs of Contact (with Colin Andrews)
• The 100 Best Beatles Songs
• The Weird 100
• American Firsts
• What’s Your Red, White & Blue IQ?
• Dialogues: A Novel of Suspense
• George Washington’s Leadership Lessons
• Second Homes for Dummies (with Bridget McRae)
• From Michelangelo to Mozzarella: The Italian IQ Test
• Native American History for Dummies
• Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies
• The Third Act of Life (with Jerome Ellison)
• The Titanic for Dummies
• Grover Cleveland’s Rubber Jaw
• 635 Things I Learned from The Sopranos
• 499 Facts About Hamilton and the Founding Fathers
• Dr. Bizarro’s Eclectic Collection of Strange & Unusual Facts
• The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures & Truth
• Stephen King: American Master
• Elton John: Fifty Years On
Davis, Cortney
Title by this Author:
The Body Flute (poetry chapbook) Adastra Press 1994
Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (co-editor) University of Iowa Press 1995
Details of Flesh (poetry) CALYX Books 1997
Willy-Nilly: Poems for Children (poetry chapbook) Small Poetry Press 2000
I Knew a Woman: the Experience of the Female Body (memoir) Random House 2001
Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses (co-editor) University of Iowa Press 2003
Leopold’s Maneuvers (poetry) University of Nebraska Press 2004
The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing (essays) Kent State University Press 2009
Conversion / Return (poetry chapbook) Finishing Line Press 2009
When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: a Story in Words and Images (memoir and paintings) Kent State University Press 2015
Taking Care of Time (poetry) Michigan State University Press / Wheelbarrow Books 2018
Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose (co-editor) Kent State University Press 2018
Wasserman, David
Title by this Author:
Tiny Footcrunch
DEALING: tarot poems and pictures (illustrated by Project Runway’s Helen Castillo)
Ross, Susan
Title by this Author:
Kiki and Jacques: A Refugee Story>/em> (Holiday House, 2015)
Searching for Lottie (Holiday House, 2019)
Beck, Jamie
Title by this Author:
In The Cards
Worth The Wait
Worth The Trouble
Worth The Risk
Accidentally Hers
Secretly Hers
Unexpectedly Hers
Joyfully His
Before I Knew
All We Knew
When You Knew
The Memory of You,/em>
Chesbro, James M.
Title by this Author:
A Lion in the Snow: Essays on a Father’s Journey Home
Parlato, Steven
Title by this Author:
The Namesake, The Precious Dreadful
Forbes, Sean Frederick
Title by this Author:
Providencia: a book of poems
Ramirez, Ainissa
Title by this Author:
Newton’s Football
Save Our Science
Farber, Sharon
Title by this Author:
Choosing to be a Medium: Experience & Share the Healing Wonder of Spirit Communication
Choosing to be a Medium Companion Journal
Anderson, Virginia DeJohn
Title by this Author:
New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, American Journey: A History of the United States
The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale and Moses Dunbar
Hays, David
Title by this Author:
Setting the Stage: What We Do, How We Do It, and Why
Today I Am Boy
Collins, Mary
Title by this Author:
At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces, Beacon Press, 2017
American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture(Capital Books, 2013)
Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, National Geographic Books, 2003
Freedman, Deborah
Title by this Author:
Blue Chicken
Shy
The Story of Fish and Snail
This House, Once
Wisnewski, Andrea
Title by this Author:
A Cottage Garden Alphabet
Little Red Riding Hood
Trio, The Tale of A Three-Legged Cat
Grodzicki, Jenna
Title by this Author:
Finn Finds a Friend (Clear Fork Publishing, 2017)
I See Sea Food: Sea Creatures That Look Like Food (Millbrook Press, 2019)
Wild Style: Amazing Animal Adornments (Millbrook Press, 2020)
Harmony Humbolt: Perfect Pets Queen (Clear Fork Publishing, 2021)
Lynch, Patrick J.
Title by this Author:
A Field Guide to Long Island Sound
Web Style Guide, 4th ed.
A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico
A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife, Manual of Ornithology
Albrizio, Eileen
Title by this Author:
The Windsome Tree: a ghost story (novel)
The Box Under the Bed (poetry and short fiction)
Perennials: New & Selected Poems (poetry)
Rain: Dark as Water in Winter (a one-act play, plus poems)
Messy on the Inside (poetry)
Thorson, Robert M.
Title by this Author:
The Guide to Walden Pond: An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of one of America’s Most Iconic Places (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years (Harvard University Press, 2017)
Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth Century Science (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Beyond Walden: The Hidden History of America’s Kettle Lakes and Ponds (Bloomsbury, 2009)
Exploring Stone Walls: A Field Guide to New England’s Stone Walls (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2005)
Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England’s Stone Walls (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2003).
Stone Wall Secrets (Tilbury House, 1998)
Stanizzi, John L.
Title by this Author:
Ecstasy Among Ghosts
Sleepwalking
Dance Against the Wall
After the Bell
Hallelujah Time!
High Tide-Ebb Tide
Chants
Hood, Susan
Title by this Author:
ADA’S VIOLIN: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
SHAKING THINGS UP: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
LIFEBOAT 12M/em>
DOUBLE TAKE
SPIKE, THE MIXED-UP MONSTER
THE TOOTH MOUSE
MISSION: BACK TO SCHOOL
JUST SAY BOO
THE FIX-IT MAN
LEAPS AND BOUNCE
ROOTING FOR YOU
TICKLY TOES
Friend, Natasha
Title by this Author:
How We Roll
Where You’ll Find Me
Perfect, Lush
Bounce
For Keeps
My Life in Black and White
The Other F-Word
Belanger, Michael
Title by this Author:
The History of Jane Doe
Sposito, Mike
Title by this Author:
A Horse Named Thunder 2017
Zagg and the Planetary Defenders 2018
Raposo, Jacqueline
Title by this Author:
The Me, Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness
Whelan, Sarah
Title by this Author:
The Struggle Within: A Novel
Ieronimo, Christine
Title by this Author:
A Thirst For Home, A Story of Water Across the World
Kietzman, Susan
Title by this Author:
It Started in June
Every Other Wednesd
The Summer Cottage
A Changing Marriage
and The Good Life
Leger, Dawn
Title by this Author:
In Flight (2009)
Eagle Scouting (2014)
Embracing the Fool (2017)
Rossiter, Nan
Title by this Author:
The Gin & Chowder Club, Words Get in the Way, More Than You Know, Under a Summer Sky, Nantucket, Firefly Summer, Summer Dance, Rugby & Rosie, The Way Home, Sugar on Snow, The Fo’c’sle: Henry Beston’s Outermost House
Paul Beckman
Title by this Author:
Peek, Come! Meet My Family and other stories, Lovers and Other Mean People, Maybe I Ought to sit in a Dark Room for a While
Strecker, Susan
Title by this Author:
NIGHT BLINDNESS
NOWHERE GIRL
Moore, Jean P.
Title by this Author:
Water on the Moon
Time’s Tyranny
Srinivasan, Dr. Amrutur (Sheenu)
Title by this Author:
Puranas: A Magnifying Glass for Vedic Wisdom
The Bhagavad Gita: A Thread through the Eighteen Gems – A Re-reading
A Hindu Primer: Yaksha Prashna
HINDU WEDDING: The Guide ISBN 978-1-935052-38-8 paperback
CHANTINGS FOR A HINDU WEDDING CEREMONY [CD]
Managing Your Hindu Wedding in North America:The Day Before and THE Day!
A Guide to Couples, their Families and Priest; available in print (Ingram), ebook (Amazon) and audiobook (CDBaby) editions.
Hinduism for Dummies
Your hands-on guide to one of the world’s major religions
A series of nine individual booklets on HOW TO CONDUCT PUJA
to the following gods and goddesses:
Soorya, Shiva, SriRamachandra, SriKrishna, MahaaGanapati, Durgadevi, Saraswati, Mahalakshmi and The Navagrahas (1999 – 2016)
HOW TO CONDUCT SEEMANTAM
Hindu Rites for the Health of the Mother-to-be
Popielaski, John
Title by this Author:
The Hollow Middle (novel–forthcoming from Unsolicited Press)
Isn’t It Romantic? (Texas Review Press)
O, Captain (The Ledge Press)
A Brief Eureka for the Alchemists of Peace (Antrim House)
Contemporary Martyrdom (Birch Brook Press)
Goodwin, R. C.
Title by this Author:
The Stephen Hawking Death Row Fan Club
Model Child
Beeching, Barbara
Title by this Author:
Hopes and Expectations: origins of the black middle class in Hartford
Priebe, Gigi
Title by this Author:
The Adventures of Henry Whiskers
The Long Way Home
Prasad, Chandra
Title by this Author:
Damselfly
On Borrowed Wings
Breathe the Sky
Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
Death of a Circus
Outwitting the Job Market
Weber, Katharine
Title by this Author:
Still Life With Monkey, Paul Dry Books, 2018
The Memory of All That, Crown, 2011/Broadway 2012
True Confections, Shaye Arehart Books, 2010, Broadway 2011
Triangle, FSG 2006, Picador 2007
The Little Women, FSG 2003, Picador 2004
The Music Lesson, Crown 1999, Picador 2000
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Crown 1995/Picador 1996
[all available as e books]
Firestone, Carrie
Title by this Author:
The Loose Ends List
The Unlikelies
Littman, Sarah Darer
Title by this Author:
In Case You Missed It (2016)
Charmed, I’m Sure (2016)
Backlash (2015)
Merritt, Donna Marie
Title by this Author:
No Winter Maintenance
We Walk Together
Her House and Other Poems
Teensy Meensy Mice
Hush That Hullabaloo
Too-Tall Tina
Kayne, Sheryl
Title by this Author:
Immersion Travel USA
Volunteer Vacations Across America
Queen of the Kisses
Wyss, Robert
Title by this Author:
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club
Brimfield Rush
Marchi, Jason
Title by this Author:
The Legend of Hobbomock: The Sleeping Giant
The Growing Sweater
Allison, Susan
Title by this Author:
Down by the Riverside Wyas
Lehman, Eric
Title by this Author:
Insiders Guide to Connecticut
Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London
Shadows of Paris
Nawrocki, Amy
Title by this Author:
Reconnaissance
Four Blue Eggs
A History of Connecticut Food
Crandall, Melissa
Title by this Author:
Tricks and Treats: A Collection of Spooky Stories by Connecticut Authors
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Forgiveness
Quantum Leap: Search and Rescue
Barrett, Karoline
Title by this Author:
Bun for your Life
Raisin the Dead
Fitzpatrick, David
Title by this Author:
Sharp: My Story of Madness, Cutting, and How I Reclaimed My Life
Israel, Susan
Title by this Author:
Over My Live Body
Student Bodies
Connors, Ginny Lowe
Title by this Author:
Toward the Hanging Tree: Poems of Salem Village
The unparalleled Beauty of a Crooked Line
Under the Porch
Radda, Chuck
Title by this Author:
Dark Time
Absolute Truth
Grodin, Elissa
Title by this Author:
Death By Hitchcock
Physics Can Be Fatal
D is for Democracy
Monagan, Charles
Title by this Author:
Carrie Welton
Connecticut Icons
The Neurotic’s Handbook
Hartwell, Sadie
Title by this Author:
Yarned and Dangerous
A Knit Before Dying
Eastman, Cindy
Title by this Author:
Flip-Flops After 50: And Other Thoughts On Aging I Remembered To Write Down
Bulion, Leslie
Title by this Author:
Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse
The Universe of Fair
At the Sea Floor Cafe: Odd Ocean Critter Poems
Rau, Dana Meachen
Title by this Author:
Robot, Go Bot
Who Was Marie Antoinette?
Dessert Designer
Sutcliffe, Jane
Title by this Author:
Will’s Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
The White House is Burning: August 24, 1814
Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and how he Came to Be
Stengel, Joyce
Title by this Author:
The Disappearance of Amanda Wrenn
St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice
Mystery at Kittiwake Bay
Staubach, Suzanne
Title by this Author:
Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element
Guy Wolff: Master Potter in the Garden
Rafferty, Charles
Title by this Author:
The Smoke of Horses
Saturday Night at Magellan’s
The Unleashable Dog
The Man on the Tower
Huber, Sonya
Title by this Author:
Opa Nobody (2008)
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (2010)
The Evolution of Hillary Ridham Clinton (2016)
Hilts, Elizabeth
Title by this Author:
Getting in Touch with Your Inner Bitch (2004)
The Bitch in the Bedroom (2006)
Every Freaking! Day with Rachell Ray: An Unauthorized Parody (2008)
Mozer, Stacy
Title by this Author:
The Sweet Spot (2016)
The Perfect Trip (2017)
Basch, Rachel
Title by this Author:
Degrees of Love
The Passion of Reverend Nash
The Listener
Gray, Karlin
Title by this Author:
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still
White, Michael
Title by this Author:
Soul Catcher (2007)
Beautiful Assassin (2010)
Resting Places (2016)
Schoenberger, Susan
Title by this Author:
A Watershed Year (2013)
The Virtues of Oxygen (2014)
Vermilyea, Peter
Title by this Author:
Hidden History of Litchfield County
Wicked Litchfield County
DeKeyser, Stacy
Title by this Author:
One Witch at a Time
The Brixen Witch
Jump the Cracks
Buller, Jon
Title by this Author:
Travels of TheloniousToad on the Road
No Tooth, No Quarter!
Sharnick, Mary Donnarumma
Title by this Author:
Thirst
Plagued
Orla’s Canvas
Lawler, Janet
Title by this Author:
Fright School (Albert Whitman)
Winter Cats (Albert Whitman)
Mirabel’s Missing Valentines (Sterling Children’s Books)
Rain Forest Colors (National Geographic)
Ocean Counting (National Geographic)
If Kisses Were Colors (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Snowzilla (Two Lions Press)
Love Is Real (HarperCollins)
The Prehistoric Games (Pelican Press)
Mattison, Alice
Title by this Author:
When We Argued All Night
The Book Borrower
Leff, David K.
Title by this Author:
Deep Travel
Hidden in Plain Sight
The Last Undiscovered Place
Speart, Jessica
Title by this Author:
Winged Obsession
Unsafe Harbor
Blue Twilight
Gauthier, Gail
Title by this Author:
My Life Among the Aliens
Saving the Planet & Stuff
Happy Kid!
Andersen, Jonathan
Title by this Author:
Augur (Red Dragonfly Press, 2018)
Stomp and Sing (Curbstone/Northwestern, 2005)
Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other U. S. A. (Smokestack Books-UK, 2008)
Olson, Karen E.
Title by this Author:
Hidden
Shadowed
Ink Flamingos
Samberg, Joel
Title by this Author:
Some Kind of Lonely Clown: The Music, Memory, and Melancholy Lives of Karen Carpenter
Grandpa Had a Long One: Personal Notes on the Life, Career and legacy of Benny Bell
Reel Jewish: A Century of Jewish Movies
Blowin’ in the Wind
Remember Me to Herald Square
Smack in the Middle: My Turbulent Time Treating Heroin Addicts at Odyssey House
Carpenters: An Illustrated Discography
Deitz Shea, Pegi
Title by this Author:
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl’s Story
Noah Webster: Weaver of Words
The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee’s Story
Horning, Sandra
Title by this Author:
The Giant Hug
Chicks!
The Biggest Pumpkin
Nolan, Patrick
Title by this Author:
CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why US Agens Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
Johnston, Marilyn E.
Title by this Author:
Silk Fist Songs
Weight of the Angel
Wortman, Marc
Title by this Author:
The Millionaire’s Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power
The Bonfire: The Seige and burning of Atlanta
1941: fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War
Rodriguez, Cindy L.
Title by this Author:
When Reason Breaks
Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
McBrier Morrison, Page
Title by this Author:
Beatrice’s Goat
The Chicken and the Worm
One Cow and Counting
Many more!
Dicks, Matthew
Title by this Author:
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Something Missing
Unexpectedly, Milo
The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs
Mugavero, Liz
Title by this Author:
Kneading to Die – A Pawsitively Organic Mystery
A Biscuit, A Casket – A Pawsitively Organic Mystery
The Icing on the Corpse – A Pawsitively Organic Mystery
Murder Most Finicky – A Pawsitively Organic Myster
Stelzer, Alice Plouchard
Title by this Author:
Female Adventurers: The Women Who Helped Colonize Massachusetts and Connecticut
Lamb, Wally
Title by this Author:
She’s Come Undone – Fiction
I Know This Much Is True – Fiction
Couldn’t Keep It To Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters – Non-Fiction
I’ll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison – Non-Fiction
The Hour I First Believed – Fiction
Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story – Fiction
We Are Water – Fiction
Beck, Christine
Title by this Author:
Blinding Light, Grayson Books 2013
I’m Dating Myself, Dancing Girl Press 2015
McQuilkin, Rennie
Title by this Author:
An Astonishment and an Hissing,
North Northeast
We All Fall Down
Counting to Christmas
Learning the Angels
Passage
Getting Religion
Private Collection
First & Last
The Weathering: New & Selected Poems
Visitations
Going On: New & Collected Poems
Granucci, Tarn
Title by this Author:
Legendary Locals of Wallingford
Scrimgeour, James R.
Title by this Author:
Scholarly
Sean O’Casey (Twayne English Authors Series) Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978 — selected by
Macmillan for inclusion on a full text searchable and browsable CD-ROM, June 1997
Poetry
Balloons Over Stockholm, Fine Tooth Press, Waterbury, CT, Spring 2005
Brushstrokes of the Millennium, WCSU Foundation, Danbury, CT, February 2004
We Are What We Have Loved, Hanover Press, Newtown, CT, March 2001
The Route and Other Poems, Pikestaff Publications, Normal, Illinois, November 1996
Dikel, Your Hands and Other Poems, Spoon River Press, Peoria, Illinois, 1979
Chapbooks
On Thacher Island, The Last Automat Press, Patterson, NY, 2008
Monet in the 20th Century, Pudding House Press, Johnstown, Ohio, July 2002
Entangled Landscapes (with John Briggs) Pudding House Press, November 2002
James R. Scrimgeour: Greatest Hits, Pudding House Press, March 2001
