Welcome to Plaidswede

Plaidswede is based in Concord, N.H. George Geers is the publisher. Plaidswede publishes books about New Hampshire and New England.

Why Plaidswede? Scottish mother, Viking father, Celtic daughters. Smile.

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George and his Authors Back in April, George and a number of his authors were featured in New Hampshire Magazine (read the story). Photographer Sid Ceaser documented the shoot and posted the video on YouTube.

Books in print:

Fritz Wetherbee: Taken for Granite
by Fritz Wetherbee
$19.95
New Hampshire’s master storyteller Fritz Wetherbee has published his fourth collection of Granite State favorites.
His popular series, which appear on the best-seller lists at New Hampshire book stores throughout the year, heat up town history with Fritz’s take on how people have lived in the Granite State from the first settlers to the present day.
Also available: volume 1, Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire, volume 2, I'll Tell You the Story, and volume 3, Fritz: More Stories from New Hampshire Chronicle

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Bittersweet Beginnings: Sketchbook of a Great Depression Boyhood
by James V. Wyman
$19.95
A newspaper editor's memories of his Depression-era boyhood in New England has been published by Plaidswede Publishing Co. of Concord, N.H. "Bittersweet Beginnings," by James V. Wyman, retired executive editor of The Providence Journal, is a chronicle of a boyhood overshadowed but not overwhelmed by the Depression.
Comprised of 23 essays, with prologue and epilogue, it offers readers insightful reflections, observations and snapshot images of one boy's odyssey through the economic nightmare that was the Great Depression for his family and millions of others.

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Dead Sand: A Lewis Cole Mystery
by Brendan DuBois
$18.95
Plaidswede Publishing has re-published the first novel in the acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series by award-winning New Hampshire author Brendan DuBois. The novel, DEAD SAND, was first published in 1994 by Otto Penzler Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing. Since that first novel in the Lewis Cole series, five more novels have been published. However, for newer readers of the Lewis Cole series, it has been nearly impossible to find a copy of DuBois’ first published novel.
DEAD SAND tells the tale of Lewis Cole, a former Department of Defense research analyst who investigates things mysterious in and around the New Hampshire seacoast. In DEAD SAND, the discovery of a body buried for more than 40 years and the murder of a teenage waitress are connected to a decades-long grudge of death and betrayal.

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Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire's Favorite Son by Peter A. Wallner
Available in Hardback: $29.95 and Paperback: 18.95
The most recent biography of Franklin Pierce was published nearly seventy-five years ago. Yet the nation's least known president is also one of the most charming, charismatic, and interesting men to ever hold the nation's highest office. The first of two volumes on the life of Franklin Pierce, Wallner's thoroughly researched, engagingly written account of Pierce's rise to national prominence will surprise readers with accounts of the many triumphs and tragedies of Pierce's life leading up to his presidency.

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Franklin Pierce, Martyr for the Union
by Peter A. Wallner
Available in Hardback $35.45 and Paperback: $24
This 500-page second volume of the presidential biography examines his life during and after the White House.
Described by his best friend Nathaniel Hawthorne as "deep, deep, deep," with "most of the chief elements of a great ruler."
Pierce is also the greatest trial lawyer in New Hampshire history. A master politician at the state level, Pierce ruled over the most consistently successful state Democratic Party in the Northeast, before he and his supporters devised and executed the plan to capture the national party's presidential nomination in 1852.

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Vermont Seasonings: Reflections on the Rhythms of a Vermont Year
by Steve Delaney. Cover and illustrations by Amelia Fountain.

The voice of Vermont is now in print. "Vermont Seasonings: Reflections on the Rhythms of a Vermont Year" is broadcaster Steve Delaney's affectionate salute to Vermont. Delaney, self-described Recovering Flatlander, writes of Vermont in this weekly and seasonal collection of essays. A Recovering Flatlander, he says, is "a person from Away who has moved to Vermont and believes it is possible to pass as a Real Vermonter. It's not."

Delaney's distinctive voice has been heard on Vermont Public Radio for the past decade. He has won national honors for two NBC White Paper television documentaries, and for radio documentaries and news programs produced for VPR. Delaney is a fifty-year broadcast journalist who has covered politics and other petty crime in Washington, finance and other felonies in New York and wars on three continents. He is the middle link in a five-generation family love affair with Lake Champlain and the state and now calls Milton his home. "Vermont Seasonings" is his first book. In "Vermont Seasonings," Delaney writes of sugaring ("The Fragrant Mists of Fairfield"), mud season ("That Joyant Sucking Sound"), families ("Reunion Season"), foliage ("Flo and Bert Alert") and the weekly pace of life in this well-seasoned collection. His glossary also lists three definitions of a "Real Vermonter" -- loose, strict and ultra-orthodox with an emphasis on seven generations. $21.70 ($18.95 plus s/h $2.75)

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Could Have Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments, and Outright Lies
By Rebecca Rule